Models of Collective Problem Solving: Bringing the Individual into Collective Intelligence Cody Moser Cognitive and Information Sciences, UC Merced The field of collective intelligence focuses on how group communication, interaction, and organization shape collective outcomes. Computational models of collective systems have been instrumental in identifying which structures promote optimal group performance. While these models often […]

The adaptivity of children’s search processes Andreas Wilke Clarkson University, Department of Psychology Humans and other organisms must search effectively for the resources they need, whether these are physical (e.g., food or shelter) or informational (e.g., patterns in the world, or concepts stored in memory). Most human search studies have focused on brief (static) laboratory […]

The evolutionary psychology of psychology David Pietraszewski Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB Sciences progress when the perspective-dependence of their inquiry is taken into account and corrected for. This happened in astronomy, physics, and chemistry, but it has not yet happened in the psychological and behavioral sciences. Because human beings have no choice but to use […]

Snark Hunting and Non-Traditional Models for the Biology of Monogamy Nicholas Grebe Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Occidental College Since the 1950s, the field of organismal biology has warned against a single-minded focus on common, easy-to-study animal models—the lab rat being the canonical example—that comes at the expense of understanding both diversity and commonality in […]

Storytelling, sovereignty, and STEM Justin Lund Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology OSU Center for Health Sciences Inclusive and engaged research and education are essential for fostering equity and mutual respect. Yet, academic approaches to culturally appropriate knowledge production and community engagement vary widely. Indigenous communities have long been a focus of research, […]

Lineage Fitness Theory and the Lineage Manipulation and Mutualism Mechanism: Bridging Evolutionary Social Sciences & Cultural Evolution Ryan Nichols Department of Philosophy, California State University Fullerton Lineage fitness theory aims to improve integration of cultural evolution with evolutionary psychological and social sciences by explaining the onset and maintenance of key traditions as products of gene-culture […]

Bridging the data gap between children and AI models Mike Frank Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Stanford University Large language and language-vision models show intriguing emergent behaviors, yet they receive at least three to four – and sometimes as much as six – orders of magnitude more language data than human children. What accounts for […]