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Assistant professor @DukePsychNeuro studying kids & culture. Director of the @DukeMACLab. Mom x3. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
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Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee Dorsa Amir on How Culture Shapes the Mind

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By Dorsa Amir
| Association for Psychological Science Verified
Image above: Dorsa Amir presenting at TEDxCambridge, 2019. Assistant Professor and 2026 Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient Dorsa Amir is the director of the Mind & Culture Lab at Duke University, where she and her colleagues research how culture shapes the developing mind. The Observer’s Digital Content Manager Lou Willwood asked Amir a few questions about her research, her career, and her advice for the upcoming generation of psychological scientists.
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The emergence of cooperative behaviors, norms, and strategies across five diverse societies

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By Lixu Jin, Kaname Uno, Amy C. Pickering, Dorsa Amir
| Science Magazine Verified
Abstract Human cooperation involves a set of interconnected behaviors that develop in conjunction with the cultural environment. Despite recent advances in Western, industrialized contexts, we know far less about how cooperative behaviors emerge across cultures, how normative environments shape their development, and how these behaviors relate to one another.
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We Looked at 100 Years of Research on Perception. What We Found May Surprise You.

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By Dorsa Amir, Chaz Firestone
| Yahoo Verified
Generate Key Takeaways Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It’s one of the deepest mysteries of the human mind: Do we all see the world the same way? In 1956, three social scientists set out to answer this question. From their offices at Northwestern University, Donald Campbell and Melville Herskovits teamed up with Marshall Segall, of Syracuse University, to coordinate an ambitious new investigation.
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