Beverly Boos

Academic interests
My research brings together perspectives from the fields of cognitive and evolutionary psychology, anthropology and archeology towards a naturalized account of social categorization, groups and alliances. Using eye tracking technology, I am currently investigating social affiliation and kin group intuitions in the cognitive development of infants, and with field experiments explore how these are represented within culture-distinct groups and subgroups, primarily in context of intergroup conflict and adversity.
Research Perspectives
- Cognitive Anthropology
- Cognitive Archeology
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Social Psychology
Interests & Methods
- Adaptive rationality
- Cooperation
- Coalitional psychology
- Social categorization, groups and alliances
- Field psychology
- "Who Said What?" memory confusion paradigm
- Eye tracking and pupillometry
- Violation of expectation paradigm
background
University of Oxford (2014) -Master of Science in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology. Research thesis: "Traumatic Causes of Identity Fusion and the Consequences of Sacred Values and Acts"
Harvard University (2013) -Bachelor of Liberal Arts (Psychology, Archeology and Anthropology). Thesis: The adaptive choice: empathy is the little red pill, all the rest (the altruistic emotions) are blue
Photojournalist and Director of Opening of the Heart: An Exhibit of Israelis and Palestinians
Trained by the Honourable Al Gore as a presenter with The Climate Reality Project
Publications
- Billingsley, Joseph; Boos, Beverly Karen & Lieberman, Debra (2019). What evidence is required to determine whether infants infer the kinship of third parties? A commentary on Spokes and Spelke (2017). Cognition. ISSN 0010-0277. 191, s 1- 5 . doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.013
- Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen; Kimel, Sasha; Obaidi, Milan; Shani, Maor & Thomsen, Lotte (2018). Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 13(1) . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190639
- Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen; Y. Kimel, Sasha; Obaidi, Milan; Shani, Maor & Thomsen, Lotte (2018). Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190639
- Kunst, Jonas R.; Boos, Beverly Karen; Y. Kimel, Sasha; Obaidi, Milan; Thomsen, Lotte & Shani, Maor (2018). Engaging in extreme activism in support of others’ political struggles: The role of politically motivated fusion with out-groups. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190639