http://why.id.au/home/ 2010-06-27T03:27:25+02:00 http://why.id.au/home/ http://why.id.au/home/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-06-24T19:03:08+02:00 Maciek Chudek http://why.id.au/home/doku.php/about_me?rev=1277398988&do=diff [Photo of Maciek Chudek] Doctoral Student Department of Psychology University of British Columbia Interests I'm interested in humans, what they are and how they came to be that way. I'm particular taken by notions that we are a species that has been domesticated by our culture - a system of replicating information which has adapted to our minds, which have in turn adapted to it. In short, our brains and culture have coevolved, we are adapted (in part) to be a vessel for evolving cultura… text/html 2010-06-24T19:00:09+02:00 Maciek Chudek http://why.id.au/home/doku.php/manuscripts?rev=1277398809&do=diff Chudek, M., Heller, S., Birch, S., Henrich, J. (Under Review) Prestige-Bias: Developmental Evidence for Biased Cultural Learning Cognition Chudek, M., Zhao, W., Henrich, J. (Forthcoming) Culture-Gene Co-Evolution, Large-Scale Co-Operation and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology. Book Chapter text/html 2010-06-24T18:44:03+02:00 Maciek Chudek http://why.id.au/home/doku.php/what_i_do?rev=1277397843&do=diff Modern Evidence for the Origins of Culture This is my main line of inquiry. I devise, carry out and (ideally) publish studies of modern psychology that test theories about our ancient history and the evolutionary pressures that made us cultural. Typically but not exclusively I use the tools of Social Psychology, in which I'm receiving my training. More details are available on my lab's website. text/html 2010-02-11T01:42:37+02:00 Maciek Chudek http://why.id.au/home/doku.php/software?rev=1265848957&do=diff I tend to make small bits of software that do specific tasks I need. Some of these might be useful and I'll provide them here. Unless otherwise specified they're available under the GPLv3 license. ---------- [Bary_manipulate] - When formally modelling dynamic systems with three interacting strategies, sometimes it is useful to plot the trajectory of the system on a triangle, the distance from each vertex representing the proportion of each strategy. This is a Mathematica function which will d…