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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Jim Davies in Nautilus about Moral Motivations

Lots of studies have looked at moral behavior, but few have looked at moral motivations. In this article in Nautilus magazine, Jim Davies reports on a huge study of almost a million individuals across multiple countries that found that people report being motivated more by helping others than more self-oriented motivations like gaining reputation.... More

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Jim Davies collaborates with musician Dr. Jesse Stewart and poet Jamaal Amir Akbari

Jim Davies participated in a project with musician Dr. Jesse Stewart and poet Jamaal Amir Akbari exploring cross-media improvisation. Over a series of several sessions, the three participants improvised in real time: Davies with calligraphy, Stewart with percussion, and Akbari with poetry. The result was a paper, which includes links to the... More

Monday, July 7, 2025

Is social media good for mental health or not?

The latest two episodes of Minding the Brain are now out. Jim Davies interviews Dr. Kim Hellemans and Dr. Andrea Howard in front of a live... More

Friday, July 4, 2025

PhD Student Brendan Conway-Smith Co-Authors Article in the Hill Times on Canada’s AI Strategy

Cognitive Science PhD student Brendan Conway-Smith recently co-authored an article in The Hill Times addressing Canada’s evolving artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. Here is the link to the article: AI action plan: rewiring government for public good - The Hill... More

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

A.I. Challenge Podcast

Kathleen Fraser of National Research Council and Mary Kelly were invited as panelists at Carleton’s 2025 Challenge Conference on AI on May 13. While at the conference, Fraser and Kelly were interviewed by Carleton’s journalism students as part of the AI Challenge Podcast. Listen to the podcast... More

Monday, June 16, 2025

Congratulations Graduates!

Congratulations to the Class of 2025! Follow this link for details of the Departments' convocation ceremonies... More

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Departmental TA Award Winners

Akshaya Kirithy Baskar is the recipient of the 2024-25 Cognitive Science Teaching Assistant Award! Akshaya was selected "in recognition of her dedication as a tutorial leader for the honours seminar. Her ability to foster  discussions,  explain complex concepts, and provide supportive guidance during office hours significantly enhanced our... More

Thursday, May 22, 2025

NSERC $6,000 Student Research Awards

Congratulations to Leah Marshall, one of two Cog Sci undergrad students who were awarded funding to further their research. Leah, under the supervision of Dr. Jo-Anne LeFevre, investigates how preschool-aged children understand number and quantity. She started this project as part of her honours thesis work and is excited to continue building on... More

Friday, May 16, 2025

New paper published on perceptions of ethics and AI

Zoe Roy-Stang's undergraduate research project has been published as an open access journal article with Jim Davies. This paper looks at a variety of human biases in thinking and explores how these biases might influence people's perception of the risk and dangers of advanced artificial intelligence. It also suggests remedies for these biases to... More

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Carleton Challenge Conference explores the AI Paradox

Read the article published in the Carleton Newsroom where our own Mary Kelly participated in a panel discussion on ethics, policy, bias, governance and risks involved with AI. Left to right: Carleton cognitive science researcher Mary Kelly, Assistant Secretary of the Artificial Intelligence Secretariat in the Privy Council Office Jordan Zed,... More

Monday, May 12, 2025

Contract Instructor Opportunities for Fall 2025 – Winter 2026

Contract Instructor opportunities for Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 are now open for application with a May 30, 2025 deadline. All courses are in-person. CI Ad for Fall 2025 and Winter... More

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

TikTok’s Cookie Challenge–Why do Some Children Share?

Rebecca Merkley and Liza Kawaji have an article published in The Conversation which includes several humourous videos. "The cookie challenge is one of the latest trends to go viral on TikTok. In the challenge, parents test how willing their child is to share a cookie. Typically, two adults and one young child each have... More

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