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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Jim Davies interviewed by the Washington Independent Review of Books

Carleton Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies was recently interviewed about his book "Riveted" by Dorothy Reno with the Washington Independent Review of Books. For the complete interview see here.... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Jim Davies interviewed by the Washington Independent Review of Books

Carleton Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies was recently interviewed about his book "Riveted" by Dorothy Reno with the Washington Independent Review of Books. For the complete interview see here.... More

Monday, March 9, 2015

Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies appears on the Gluck Radio podcast

You ever wonder why you like food that's bad for you? Or why we love gossip? Or what we find beautiful (it ain't just symmetry)? There's a science to what it is we're fascinated by, and cognitive scientist Jim Davies joins GluckRadio.com to tell us exactly what it is. What makes a story, a... More

Thursday, March 5, 2015

The Death of Hundreds Is Just a Statistic—But It Doesn’t Have to Be

Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies of Carleton University published a blog entry for the online magazine Nautilus about how our moral judgments tend to be insensitive to numbers--and how we might overcome that. ... More

Monday, February 2, 2015

Why Are You So Smart? Thank Your Mom & Your Difficult Birth

Carleton professor Jim Davies published a blog entry for the popular science magazine Nautilus on the relationship between the evolution of human intelligence and the fact that women need to be able to run.... More

Monday, January 26, 2015

New Year’s Resolutions and the Science of Willpower

Jim Davies of Carleton University has published an essay on the blog of Nautilus magazine on how the relationship between New Year's resolutions and willpower.  http://nautil.us/blog/new-years-resolutions-and-the-science-of-willpower... More

Monday, January 26, 2015

Carleton Cog Sci Students present paper to the CUNY Phonology Forum

Marilou Guillemette, a Master's student in ICS, and Leah Hoiting, an ICS undergraduate student, presented a paper in New York City earlier this month. The paper was presented to the CUNY Phonology Forum and the title of the paper was "Language mixing and the phonetics of vowels". The paper was very well received and... More

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Is Santa Claus a God?

Dr. Jim Davies, associate professor at Carleton's Institute of Cognitive Science, discusses how the idea of Santa Claus fits (and doesn't fit) with what anthropologists consider gods in religion in this blog entry in Nautilus Magazine. Santa Claus occupies a strange place in Christian belief. On the one hand, only children seem to really... More

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Nalini Ramlakhan, a PhD student in Cognitive Science receives $105,000 for research on emotions and morality

Late last fall, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced their graduate student award winners. Nalini Ramlakhan, a PhD student in Cognitive Science at Carleton received $105,000 for her research on emotions and morality. “I am interested in the way in which we use our emotions and the way emotions guide our... More

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Robert Fulford: Cognitive scientist Jim Davies dissects why movies move us (and the Star Wars prequels didn’t)

The National Post's Robert Fulford's Dec. 3, 2014 article on Carleton's Professor Jim Davies (Institute of Cognitive Science) and his book: Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe (Palgrave Macmillan).... More

Monday, December 1, 2014

Instructor I, Term Position Available: Applications close: February 1, 2015

Institute of Cognitive Science – Instructor I, Term Position (Applications Closing Date: February 1, 2015) The Institute of Cognitive Science invites applications from qualified candidates for a one-year term appointment in Cognitive Science at the rank of Instructor beginning July 1, 2015 and ending June 30, 2016. The candidate will be expected... More

Friday, November 28, 2014

Dr. Myrto Mylopoulos Talk: “Is there Phenomenology of Agency: Tues, Dec. 9/14. NOTE Room Chg: DT 2203

Dr. Myrto Mylopoulos (Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Carleton, and Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) will deliver a talk titled "Is there Phenomenology of Agency?" The talk takes place on Tuesday December 9. 3:00pm, NOTE ROOM CHANGE:  DT 2203 It is often held that, just as there is something it is like to smell a rose,... More

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