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