Boston College Cooperation Lab

We're the BC Cooperation lab, directed by Dr. Katherine McAuliffe. We study the forces that shape and sustain cooperative societies.

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We're looking for children ages 4-13 to participate in short research activities on Zoom! Participants will receive a $5 Amazon gift card. Visit https://t.co/fIDuX3WCqe to sign up, and email us at [email protected] with any questions!

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Congrats to @kmcaulif1 🎉🎉

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Please join us in welcoming our new #JacobsResearchFellow Katherine McAuliffe of @BostonCollege. @kmcaulif1 will translate her work on children’s social learning across diverse contexts to educational policies and systems. #AcademicTwitter https://t.co/epIdRqUiCQ

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One of our fantastic summer interns Emani Sawyer just published her first novel and we couldn’t be more excited! Word of Mouth is available now on Amazon and Kindle.

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We're also looking for a senior research assistant / lab coordinator ☺️.

See below 👇for more information!

[Katherine McAuliffe @kmcaulif1]

Our lab (@cooperationlab) is looking for a senior research assistant / lab coordinator. Please apply if you're interested and/or RT if you know someone who might be. Deadline Nov 1. Ad below and link to application here: https://t.co/4Evt0OVqam

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Our lab is looking for a postdoc!

See below 👇👇for more information--come join us!!

[Katherine McAuliffe @kmcaulif1]

My lab is looking for a postdoc to work on virtue-related projects. Applications due Nov 1. Position would start ASAP. Ad and link below. We’re really excited to add to our team so please share widely. (My last RT request for a while, I promise!).
https://t.co/FNCynHL5HF

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Special thanks to @kmcaulif1 for putting together this amazing #buildingvirtue workshop, to (Twitterless) Aaron Baker for his coordination and organization, to @templeton_fdn for their continual support, & to the wonderful and insightful attendees for the amazing discussions!

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In our final discussion, @LianeLeeYoung led an amazing conversation with the group about our final session of talks on learning from others and virtue acquisition -- such insightful thoughts, discussions, & talks from everyone!

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You can check out related work here: https://t.co/wCJmLw4n4l / https://t.co/L2x73grvt5 / among many others!

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To start off our last session, Alex Thornton discussed his work on the evolution of teaching and its role in cumulative culture. We learned about how teaching evolves when it promotes learning of useful skills that would be otherwise hard to learn #buildingvirtue

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You can read the paper here: https://t.co/XL1QSxghew -- super interesting work!

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In our final talk of today's workshop, Melissa Koenig presented work finding that children are open to surprising info from adults. Interestingly, children were more receptive when info was directly communicated compared to when it was overheard #buildingvirtue

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In the second talk in our "learning from others" session, Aaron Baker discusses some fascinating ongoing work on how norm information and norm source influences children's virtuous behavior in the context of fairness and trustworthiness.

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Next up is @felixwarneken who will be facilitating a discussion about all this interesting work! Stay tuned for more afternoon about this afternoon's session on how we learn virtues from others.

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This morning, we continued our Building Virtue workshop with a session on virtue cultivation across diverse religious and cultural contexts. First, Jane McAuliffe spoke with us today about the concept of virtue in Islam #buildingvirtue

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We finished up this morning's session on religion and culture with a wonderful talk by Frank Clooney on virtue in Hinduism--all fascinating work and discussions!

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In our last talk of the day for #buildingvirtue, @JoHenrich discusses the proximate and ultimate explanations for the origins of norms

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Up next is Richard Ahl discussing his work on replicating incentivized measures of children's virtuous behavior online #buildingvirtue

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Starting off our session on capturing and explaining virtuous behavior is @DorsaAmir who discussed the development of virtuous behavior across five diverse societies

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Finishing out our discussion on punishment and forgiveness was Amrisha Vaish, who shared recent work on the emergence of forgiveness in children. She discussed projects that found forgiveness is related to displays of remorse and transgressor group membership #buildingvirtue

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Next is @abby_mclaugh! She discussed how adults and children perceive the consequences of forgiveness and punishment #buildingvirtue