Maciej (Matthew, Maciek) Chudek

Doctoral Candidate

Department of Psychology

University of British Columbia

I couple the empirical toolkits of developmental and social psychology with culture-gene coevolutionary models to understand how humans evolved, and why they behave in such peculiar ways.

On the ground that means that I develop formal mathematical models of the evolutionary processes that turned run-of-the-mill primates into culture-sharing, language-using homos like us. I draw predictions from these models about the traces those ancient processes should have left on modern psychology, and then I observe the behaviour of children (usually 3 to 5 year olds) and adults (usually undergraduate students) to see whether those predictions bear out. See my lab's website or the what I do page for more details.

I also like cycling, kayaking, wind surfing, brewing beer and have recently been learning to unicycle.

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Maciek Chudek

Department of Psychology

University of British Columbia

2136 West Mall

Vancouver, B.C.

Canada, V6T 1Z4