Richard Sosis

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