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