Dr. Pope-Caldwell is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University, specializing in cognitive flexibility. Her work spans research sites in the Republic of the Congo, Germany, and Atlanta. Dr. Pope-Caldwell blends cross-cultural and developmental psychology, neuroscience, and primatology to understand how both human and nonhuman primates navigate problem-solving challenges across varying contexts.

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Wilson is a PhD candidate in the Department for Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His focus is in cross-cultural psychology. Specifically, his research aims to understand variation in cognitive flexibility in humans. More specifically, his research looks at how environmental contexts and sources of information influence the way humans decide to forego known, working strategies for unknown, alternative ones.

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Collaborative Projects:
1) The Influence of Eco-cultural contexts in shaping the development of Risk-Preferences and Explorative Tendencies
2) The Impact of Eco-Cultural Environment and Information Source on the Ontogeny of Elective Flexibility

Sheina is an Associate Professor at Durham University. Combining research methods from anthropology and psychology, Dr. Lew-Levy conducts research in hunter-gatherer societies to understand the cultural diversity in, and evolution of, social learning in childhood. Her primary research uses behavioural observations to understand social learning. She has also collected biological samples, social network data, and conducted experiments for collaborative cross-cultural projects.

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Collaborative Projects:
Age-based imitation bias throughout development, during daily interactions, and across cultures

Daniel is the director of the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a Professor for Comparative Cultural Psychology at Leipzig University. Daniel ultimately wants to understand how human cognition compares to that of other animals. He believes that understanding differences across animal species requires studying cognitive diversity within those species. That's why his group studies non-human great apes across different communities and humans in diverse cultural and ecological settings across 6 continents.

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Collaborative Projects:
Likouala Community Congo Research Site
NiftyShifty : The development of flexible decision-making and related executive functioning across cultures