The Color-Game-o-Scope
It’s been six months since we launched the Color Game App. The project will last for another half year before we make all our hypotheses public. For us, the Color Game is an experiment in cultural evolution: we want to see how communication practices change over the long run. That makes it ...
Cultures of academic (dis)agreement
There is more to being an anthropologist with a strong interest in psychology and natural and cultural evolution than experiencing the imposter syndrome in several disciplines. One of the perks of transdisciplinarity is attending conferences in different fields. While I have very little expertise ...
Governments should more frequently publish CO2 emissions data: Leveraging human psychology to fight climate change
The most recent report by the International Panel on Climate Change (2018) states the danger very clearly: urgent action is required to avoid possible climate disaster. The primary cause of global climate change is greenhouse gas emissions, primarily CO2 emitted into the atmosphere in the burning ...
Scientific aesthetics, sacred values, and interdisciplinary collaborations
Ever since I started working in research, I was lucky enough to work in interdisciplinary settings - starting with small research groups, up to an ERC-funded multi-teams collaboration.
I have thus interacted with researchers from a variety of backgrounds and thought I would make public my two ...