ICCI Home: Pinker on Mind and Media
In a New York Times op-ed entitled "Mind over Mass Media", Steven Pinker (June, 10, 2010) challenges persistent clichés. It begins: "New forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing...
View ArticleICCI Home: The self in 'face' and 'dignity' cultures
Two interesting articles by Young-Hoon Kim and Dov Cohen: "Information, Perspective, and Judgement about the Self in Face and Dignity Cultures" in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2010 36:...
View ArticleICCI Home: A psychological theory of human tool use
An interesting and ambitious article by François Osiurak, Christophe Jarry,and Didier Le Gall: "Grasping the affordances, understanding the reasoning: toward a dialectical theory of human tool use" in...
View ArticleICCI Home: Why do acamedics oppose capitalism?
A few weeks ago, Megan McArdle, the business and economics editor for The Atlantic, wondered why Academia treats its workforce so badly. Academia has bifurcated into two classes: tenured professors...
View ArticleICCI Home: Three Questions for Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Co-Director of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center. He has conducted and inspired research on a...
View ArticleICCI Home: “Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!” A reply to Frans de Waal
I am used to being attacked by fellow anthropologists for having a naturalistic approach and for arguing that cognitive science, experimental methods, and evolutionary theorizing are highly relevant...
View ArticleICCI Home: CFP : Conference on cognitive development, Central European...
Invited Speakers : Ellen Markman (Stanford University), Josep Call (MPI EVA, Leipzig), and the hosts: György Gergely & Gergely Csibra (CEU) The conference will be held on January 14-15, 2011....
View ArticleICCI Home: CFP : Conference on cognitive development, Central European...
Call for symposium and poster submissions - Official website. The conference will be held on January 14-15, 2011. Deadline for symposia: 10th September, 2010Decision notification: 30th SeptDeadline...
View ArticleICCI Home: The sacredness of God
One of the difficulties I run into in expounding Pascal Boyer's theory of the minimal counterintuitiveness of religious concepts ("MCI theory") is that many people feel that the critical feature of...
View ArticleICCI Home: PhD position in Comparative Cognitive Anthropology
A Research position for a Ph.D. student is available in the research group ‘Comparative Cognitive Anthropology’ at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, NL). The successful...
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