This funding supports the Atlantic Council in their next Freedom and Prosperity Research Conference.
The epistemic structure of research on polarization in digitally-coupled social networks will be analyzed in order to develop strategies towards cohesive stewardship of collective behavior.
This funding will be used to train a cadre of midwives and nurses that are equipped to meet the needs of communities throughout Somaliland while also ensuring a level of capacity building in the medical field.
Behavioral contagion—the onset of a species-typical behaviour soon after witnessing it in a conspecific—forms the foundation of behavioral synchrony and cohesive group living in social animals. Although past research has mostly focused on negative emotions or neutral contexts, the sharing of positive emotions in particular may be key for social affiliation. This project investigated the contagion of two socially affiliative interactive behaviours, grooming and play, in chimpanzees.
Polar angle asymmetries (PAAs), the differences in perceptual experiences and performance across different regions of the visual field are present in various paradigms and tasks of visual perception. Currently, research in this area is sparse, particularly regarding the influence of PAAs during perceptual illusions, highlighting a gap in visual cognition studies. This work aims to fill this gap by measuring PAAs across the visual field during an illusion applied to test conscious vision widely.