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27 Jul

RFG Conference: Emotions in History: Boundary-Crossing Adventures

“Emotions in History: Boundary-Crossing Adventures” is a truly interdisciplinary collaboration between History and Psychology. The symposium features two keynote speakers, Professor Leda Cosmides (UCSB) representing Psychology, and Professor Anna Shields (Princeton) representing the Humanities. The roundtable discussion will occur between three members of Team Psychology...

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Emotions in History - The History of Our Minds Event

08 Feb

Research Focus Group Talk: The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes

Biologically modern humans are more than 200,000 years old. Many scientists have devoted their lives to understanding how architecture, social structure, and language have changed over this history. Yet we know almost nothing about the history of human minds. Behavioral science research has instead focused...

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Consensus without Collaboration? - Rob Boddice Event

05 Dec

Research Focus Group Talk: Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History

In recent years, multiple disciplines have converged on a biocultural understanding of human emotion, sensation and experience, but knowledge production in disciplinary silos remains. This talk is about the discipline of history's positionality in this budding, if unwitting, consensus among social neuroscientists, social psychologists, transcultural...

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Historical statues and sculptures displaying emotion

05 Jul

Emotions in History Research Focus Group

The IHC “Emotions in History” Research Focus Group seeks to create a space where scholars can cross disciplinary lines and together investigate emotions in the human past. Led by a historian and a psychologist, our group aims to bring into dialogue two cutting-edge subfields—the history...

16:18 / Research Focus Groups