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The Cognition in Collectives Lab investigates how cognition manifests in ways influenced by social contexts. The lab focuses on (1) how conversational interactions reshape memory, promoting shared remembering and shared forgetting, and (2) the socio-cognitive processes that facilitate the formation of collective memories and beliefs. Exploring these issues while maintaining high ecological validity, the lab integrates a wide range of methodologies, including laboratory experiments, field studies, social network analysis, manipulation, and agent-based simulations. Taken together, this research shows how macro-level social phenomena emerge from psychologically informed micro-level local dynamics.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.