
About

The 2025 NSF-Jacobs Foundation Workshop on Deconstructing the Universal Mind will take 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 is 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 will be organized around 90 minute symposia.
Remote participation will be available. Please register for the meeting here. The meeting Zoom link will be distributed to registered participants several days before the webinar.
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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