The mind and society are inseparable – psychological mechanisms are at the heart of all social phenomena

The Social Mind Center explores how cognition shapes human social lives and illuminates the cognitive mechanisms that support our day-to-day interactions. Both the causes and solutions to the societal challenges that we face today are rooted in the workings of the human mind – our research is vital for understanding how.

Across three labs, we investigate the psychological processes that support decision making (ACES), coordination and cooperation (SOMBY), and communication (LCL). Each lab contributes their own theoretical and methodological approaches – advancing our understanding of these social phenomena. We work at both micro and macro scales (i.e., from individuals to societies) and across multiple levels of description (i.e., from evolution to language).