Event Category: MindCORE Seminar Series

  • Category MindCORE Seminar Series
  • From January 1, 2018
  • To March 27, 2024

Michael Tomasello Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University   Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny   Humans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing emotions, experience, and collaborative actions (shared intentionality). These motivations and skills first emerge in human […]

Nick Chater Professor of Behavioural Science University of Warwick   The social contract in miniature: Virtual Bargaining and the theory of joint action, meaning and the foundations of culture   How can people coordinate their actions or make joint decisions? One possibility is that each person attempts to predict the actions of the other(s), and […]

Andy Tan Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania   Advancing Communication Science to Address Tobacco-Related Health Disparities   Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable deaths and illnesses in the United States and globally. Sexual, racial, ethnic minorities, young adults, and populations from rural areas and lower socioeconomic positions are disproportionately impacted by […]

Nicole Holliday Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   Kamala Harris and the Construction of Complex Ethnolinguistic Political Identity   Over the past 50 years, sociolinguistic studies on black Americans have expanded in both theoretical and technical scope, and newer research has moved beyond seeing speakers, especially black speakers, as a monolithic sociolinguistic community (Wolfram […]

Jessie Sun MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania   Personality Evaluated: What Do Other People Really Think of You?   What do other people really think of you? In this talk, I highlight the unique perspective that other people have on the most consequential aspects of our personalities—how we treat others, our best and worst […]