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The 2025 NSF-Jacobs Foundation Workshop on Deconstructing the Universal Mind took place June 12th and 13th, 2025 on the campus of The George Washington University on the third floor of the Media & Public Affairs (MPA) building located at 805 21st Street, N.W. 20052.
The goal of the workshop was to discuss cross-disciplinary approaches to universality and variability in the behavioral, neural, and cognitive sciences. Of particular interest is how to balance theory-building with situated models of development and behavior, and in the practical and methodological obstacles to making progress on these questions. The workshop was organized around 90 minute symposia and included remote participation.
Workshop Agenda
Workshop Co-chairs
Workshop Speakers
Karen Adolph
New York University
Lucia Alcala
California State University
Clark Barrett
UCLA
Damian Blasi
Pompeu Fabra University
Stephanie Carlson
University of Minnesota
Marisa Casillas
The University of Chicago
Nicholas Coles
University of Florida
Alex Cristia
École Normale Supérieure
Jacob Foster
Indiana University
Richard Futrell
UC Irvine
Michele Gelfand
Stanford University
Tom Griffiths
Princeton University
Joe Henrich
Harvard University
Matthew Jukes
RTI International
Evan Kidd
Australian National University
Shinobu Kitayama
University of Michigan
Jen Lansford
Duke University
Victoria Leong
Nanyang Technological University
Casey Lew-Williams
Princeton University
Sebastian Lipina
UNA, CEMIC-CONICET
Asifa Majid
Oxford University
Cristina Moya
UC Davis
Jelena Obradovic
Stanford University
Geoffrey Saxe
UC Berkeley
Iveta Silova
Arizona State University
Manvir Singh
UC Davis
Cathie Tamis-Lemonda
New York University
Julian Thayer
UC Irvine
Felix Warneken
University of Michigan
Phil Zelazo
University of Minnesota
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