http://why.id.au/home/ 2010-08-22T22:25:52+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 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 2010-08-17T02:48:07+02:00 http://why.id.au/home/doku.php/manuscripts?rev=1282006087&do=diff Chudek, M., Heller, S., Birch, S., Henrich, J. (Under Review) Prestige-Biased Cultural Learning: Developmental Evidence for Selective Cultural Learning Based on Differential Bystander Attention to Models Cognition Cheung, B., Chudek, M., Heine, S. (Under Review) Evidence for a Sensitive Period for Acculturation Psychological Science text/html 2009-11-05T04:28:16+02:00 http://why.id.au/home/doku.php/navigation?rev=1257391696&do=diff About Me What I Do Manuscripts Software text/html 2010-08-17T02:53:06+02:00 http://why.id.au/home/doku.php/software?rev=1282006386&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. ---------- Faux php-based experimental games platform - I've recently developed a web-administrated (i.e. no programming experience required, including complete designing studies) platform for making people believe they're playing experimental, economic games over the internet with other players (t… text/html 2010-06-24T18:44:03+02:00 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.