Dear All,

The CEU Department of Cognitive Science invites you to the following talk by:

Keith Jensen

Senior Lecturer

Psychology, Communication & Human Neuroscience

University of Manchester

Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Time: 4 pm (to 5:30 pm) CET

Venue: D002-Tiered* (QS Vienna) and Zoom https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/98297897442?pwd=OWg1SXZPeXdUUi9ERjRSOHZ1SnRwUT09
Meeting ID: 982 9789 7442, Passcode: 063901

Chair: Christophe Heintz

Title: Failed studies – Past, present and future

Probing the evolutionary and developmental origins of social behaviour is an ambitious enterprise.  An understanding of the cognitive and motivational processes underlying helpfulness on one hand and spitefulness on the other will give us greater insights into the evolution of human sociality. The work is as challenging as it is ambitious. Comparative and developmental psychologists use a variety of methods to infer cognition in non-linguistic animals and pre- (or unreliably) linguistic humans. These methods don’t always work. In this talk I will open my desk drawer to share studies that did not work, are not working and probably won’t work. My goal is to inspire discussion and perhaps resurrect the most interesting projects on chimpanzees as well as ravens, children and adults.

*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP here to get access to the lecture hall.

Let me know if you would like to schedule a meeting with the speaker.

Best,

Reka