[BERG] BERG Meeting 19th March

Dear all, I hope you had a great weekend. . In the next BERG/SHAIR meeting this week, Matthew Lomas will present his latest work on the project: How important is Theory of Mind to Human Pedagogy? Matthew will present online but we can all meet in the Psychology Common Room. As usual, we will meet Wednesday at 4pm. Abstract: The ecological dominance of humans has been often suggested as being underlined by our capacity for pedagogy (i.e. teaching), but the mechanisms the enable us to transfer knowledge effectively, as compared to non-human species, are not well understood. Theory of Mind (ToM, i.e. the capacity to consider the minds of others) has typically been framed as human’s “silver bullet”, however empirical research is lacking and is contradicted by evidence of non-human species who do engage in teaching where ToM is absent. Alternatively, human pedagogy might be supported by heuristical behaviours (i.e. rules of thumb) and not necessitate the use of high order cognitive mechanisms such as ToM. In this presentation I will discuss my PhD project in which I seek to evidence questions in these areas about the role of ToM in human pedagogy. I will detail the structure and design of my investigations and (hopefully!) present you with some preliminary findings. link for online attendance: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NTliODBlNDQtMzM1MC00… Best, Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Alejandro Sanchez-Amaro Lecturer in Psychology Cottrell Building Room 3B144c, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling @ Colleagues and Students: Please let me know of any EDI (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) -related issues that you would like me to bring to the attention of our Division's EDI Committee. ________________________________ Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159