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The spread of medical innovations 23 Jul 2013 | 12:23 pm
Atul Gawande has an interesting article in the New Yorker about the spread of medical innovations. He points out some striking disparities in the speed at which medical innovations spread -- mere mont...
iCog Cognitive Science Conference, Sheffield, 29 Nov - 1 Dec 20 Jul 2013 | 12:00 am
iCog, An interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate and early-career researchers in cognitive science to take place 29 November - 1 December 2013, University of Sheffield. Deadline for submission o...
Did the Neandertals speak? 10 Jul 2013 | 08:49 pm
In an open access article, "On the antiquity of language: the reinterpretation of Neandertal linguistic capacities and its consequences" published in Frontiers in Language Sciences, that challenges re...
Morality in cognition and culture: A Cerisy colloquium (4th-11th of September, 2013) 16 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
Registration is still open for the conference organized by the Cerisy cultural centre and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Expenses are partially covered (up to 240 euros per particip...
Special issue of Mind and Society on “Cultural and Cognitive Dimensions of Innovation" 2 Jun 2013 | 01:51 pm
In the Volume 12, Issue 1, June 2013 of Mind and Society: Special issue on “Cultural and Cognitive Dimensions of Innovation" edited and introduced by Petra Ahrweiler and Riccardo Viale. From the intro...
Are vervet monkeys truly conformist? (and should we care?) 23 May 2013 | 02:58 pm
A recent paper in Science allegedly showing conformist imitation in vervet monkeys is raising criticism. The study, by Érica van de Waal, Christelle Borgeaud, and Andrew Whiten, shows that vervet monk...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognition and Culture 23 May 2013 | 02:26 pm
The Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion at Masaryk University is looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognition and Culture. The successful candidate will be employed ...
The 'gratitude trap' where Hungarian patients keep falling 18 May 2013 | 04:01 pm
As Rothstein argued at length in his book about the problem of social trust, institutions come in many different flavors: explicitly codified law systems, implicitly taken-for-granted exchange arrange...
Two doctoral fellowships in cognition and culture 30 Apr 2013 | 09:25 pm
These are offered to work with Pascal Boyer as part of a new interdisciplinary project at the University of Lyons, France, starting September 2013. Our new team of one PI and two postdocs will do res...
Post-doctoral position in: human evolution, economics and politics 30 Apr 2013 | 09:23 pm
This two-year post-doctoral position is to work with Pascal Boyer as part of a new interdisciplinary project at the University of Lyons, France, starting September 2013. The goal of this project is t...
