Dr Emma Cohen
Associate Professor in Cognitive Anthropology
I am an anthropologist with interdisciplinary research interests in the evolution and psychology of bonding behaviour in humans. Using laboratory experiments and field methods, my current primary research explores psychological and physiological links between collective movement and exercise, social bonding, and cooperation and wellbeing.
For my lab website, see see The Social Body Lab
After completing my PhD in Anthropology (Queen’s University Belfast, 2005), I held post-doctoral positions at the Institute of Cognition and Culture (Queen’s), the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology (Oxford), and the Research Group in Comparative Cognitive Anthropology (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands).
Contact
Email: emma.cohen@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: + 44 (0)1865 274704
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Religiosity and resource allocation in Marajó, Brazil
2018 |Journal article -
The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies
2018 |Journal article -
Synchrony and social connection in immersive Virtual Reality.
2018 |Journal article -
The Effects of Social Support on Strenuous Physical Exercise.
2018 |Journal article -
Interpersonal movement synchrony facilitates pro-social behavior in children's peer-play.
2018 |Journal article -
'Caution, this treatment is a placebo. It might work, but it might not': why emerging mechanistic evidence for placebo effects does not legitimise complementary and alternative medicines in sport.
2017 |Journal article -
Group exercise and social bonding
2017 |Chapter -
Hearing in color: How expectations distort perception of skin tone.
2016 |Journal article -
Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project.
2016 |Journal article -
Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality.
2016 |Journal article
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