Dan Finkel
I am interested in the evolution and neural bases of social
cognition and music, particularly how they relate to cooperation, morality,
and religion. Email: daniel.finkel@uconn.edu
Department of Anthropology
University of Connecticut
I am interested in the evolution and neural bases of social
cognition and music, particularly how they relate to cooperation, morality,
and religion. Email: daniel.finkel@uconn.edu
On the whole, my interests in anthropology centralize around the interdisciplinary endeavor to bridge the cognitive and behavioral studies of religion, morality, and cooperation. As such, my particular interests include: cognitive evolution, phenomenology, moral behavior, collective action problems, religious signaling, and agency detection. Email: jordan.kiper@uconn.edu
For the past few years, I have been researching the cognitive science of humor, agency-detection, and religious beliefs. Presently, most of my attention is devoted to understanding the interactions between our evolved cognitive mechanisms, the socioecological contexts in which they operate, and how these interactions inform religious traditions. Email: benjamin.purzycki@uconn.edu
My main interest is the evolution of cooperation and the role that different
institutions play in influencing human cooperation. I am also interested
in social learning, cultural evolution, child development, and human reproductive
ecology. Email: john.shaver@uconn.edu
I am interested in applying Darwinian theory to religion.
I want to understand the origin of religious beliefs and behaviors, their
possible adaptiveness, and their effects on cooperation and group cohesion. Email: paul.swartwout@uconn.edu