Monat: April 2024

Dear all,

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Manuel Bohn (Evolutionary Anthropology MPI, Leipzig) will give a talk at CogSci Colloquium on Thursday, April 11^th.

Title: Grounding socio-communicative development in everyday experience: an individual differences perspective (with an evolutionary addendum)

Abstract: Social cognition and communication are defining aspects of what it means to be human. In this talk, I want to present our research program that studies the driving forces behind socio-communicative development. Our goal is to understand how everyday social interactions influence development. To get there, we will have to overcome numerous theoretical and methodological hurdles. I will present the steps we have taken in recent years towards this goal, which include computational models of the cognitive processes underlying aspects of socio-communicative development, tasks to measure cognitive abilities on an individual level, methods to capture and quantify everyday experiences and international collaborations to probe the generalisability of findings. Much of our work is still in the early phases, so I am very much looking forward to feedback.

Time: 12:15 pm (Thursday, April 11^th )
Venue : room 2.111 Waldweg 26

If you are interested in meeting with him to discuss your own or his research (before or after his talk), please let me know until Monday (April 8th) by sending an e-mail  to (saba.amirhaftehran@uni-goettingen.de).

Best regards

Saba

orga.s2s.coaching@posteo.de

Dear Students,

The Junior Researcher Programme (JRP) is currently looking for Bachelor’s and Master’s students in psychology and/or behavioural sciences to become a Junior Researcher at jSchool 2024. The jSchool enables students from around the world to conduct a 13-month research project under the supervision of early-career researchers, as well as an opportunity to network and meet other students and early-career researchers.

This year’s jSchool will occur from the 7th to the 13th July 2024 in Siena, Italy. This year’s theme will be Economy of Well-Being: Harnessing Behavioral Science for Resilient Societies. Junior Researchers can select from five proposed projects and will help to develop this study idea further in their teams during jSchool and the following 13 months within the structure of the JRP. The Programme finishes with the annual JRP Conference held at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge.

More information on this year’s projects and the application can be found on our website. 

Before you apply, please make sure you have read the application guidance document. If you are wondering if you are eligible to apply, please check out our interactive eligibility checker. Applications are open until 23:59 CEST on May 1st 2024 via this form.

If you have any questions, you are very welcome to contact us (jschool@pscholars.org). We are also hosting two Q&A sessions on Zoom for any questions you might want to ask us directly. We are hosting two sessions to accommodate more people and take time zones into account, but they will otherwise be the same. The first session will be held on Saturday, 13th April, at 5 pm CEST. You can register for it HERE. The second session will be held on Saturday, 27th April, at 11 am CEST, and you can register for it HERE.

Best wishes,
Elisabeth Sievert
JRP Research Officer 2024/2025