Cultural Psychology lab

I use the tools of developmental and social psychology - typically: experiments with children (3- to 5-year-olds) and adults - to test the predictions of gene-culture coevolutionary accounts of the origins of human social learning. I'm particularly interested in understanding the psychological underpinnings and sociological consequences of our capacity for learning complex culture and in understanding how young children manage to perform such a complex feat. Topics I'm currently investigating include prestige, norms and memory biases for social information.