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Origins of Human Cooperation
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Origins of Human Cooperation
19 Nov 2020 | 1 Hour 4 Minutes
https://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=791f4140-9098-4b8e-8381-845f36cac1a9
Speaker: Professor Michael Tomasello
Published on: 19 Nov 2020
Humans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing emotions, experience and actions, whereas our nearest primate relatives do not.
Michael Tomasello, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, is one of the world’s leading researchers on social learning, communication and language in human children and great apes.
Sandra Jovchelovitch is a social and clinical psychologist by training and her research focuses on human development under contextual adversity, the social psychology of public spheres, community development and the socio-cultural context of knowledge. Sandra is a Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychologyical and Behavioural Science.”