Emily Burdett

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• workRoom A15 Psychology
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work+44 (0) 115 84 67346
• Emily.Burdett@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

I am interested in how one's culture and cognition influence our understanding of the world around us. My research has particularly explored the cognitive and social processes that influence the… read more

Recent Publications

• BURDETT ERR, DEAN LG and RONFARD S, 2019. A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture. Review of philosophy and psychology. 9(4), 807-818
• BURDETT, E. R. R., MCGUIGAN, N., HARRISON, R. and WHITEN, A., 2018. The interaction of social and perceivable causal factors in shaping 'over-imitation' Cognitive Development. 47, 8-18
• MCGUIGAN N, BURDETT E, BURGESS V, DEAN L, LUCAS A, VALE G and WHITEN A, 2017. Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 372(1735),
• LUCAS AJ, BURDETT ERR, BURGESS V, WOOD LA, MCGUIGAN N, HARRIS PL and WHITEN A, 2016. The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother. Child development. 88(6), 2026-2042

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Current Research

I am interested in how one's culture and cognition influence our understanding of the world around us. My research has particularly explored the cognitive and social processes that influence the evolution of 'culture.' I explore certain aspects of 'culture' that include the development and spread of skills, tool use, morals, norms, and supernatural ideas. My work uses an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and experimental approach to explore questions about how children and adults form concepts, how they learn and who they learn from, and when they innovate and become creative. These questions motivate current projects exploring the origin and transmission of culture, the cultural and cognitive underpinnings of religion and morality, and the motivations for learning and creativity.

• BURDETT ERR, DEAN LG and RONFARD S, 2019. A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture. Review of philosophy and psychology. 9(4), 807-818
• BURDETT, E. R. R., MCGUIGAN, N., HARRISON, R. and WHITEN, A., 2018. The interaction of social and perceivable causal factors in shaping 'over-imitation' Cognitive Development. 47, 8-18
• MCGUIGAN N, BURDETT E, BURGESS V, DEAN L, LUCAS A, VALE G and WHITEN A, 2017. Innovation and social transmission in experimental micro-societies: exploring the scope of cumulative culture in young children. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 372(1735),
• LUCAS AJ, BURDETT ERR, BURGESS V, WOOD LA, MCGUIGAN N, HARRIS PL and WHITEN A, 2016. The Development of Selective Copying: Children's Learning From an Expert Versus Their Mother. Child development. 88(6), 2026-2042
• BURDETT ER, LUCAS AJ, BUCHSBAUM D, MCGUIGAN N, WOOD LA and WHITEN A, 2016. Do Children Copy an Expert or a Majority? Examining Selective Learning in Instrumental and Normative Contexts. PloS one. 11(10), e0164698
• WOOD LA, HARRISON RA, LUCAS AJ, MCGUIGAN N, BURDETT ERR and WHITEN A, 2016. "Model age-based" and "copy when uncertain" biases in children's social learning of a novel task. Journal of experimental child psychology. 150, 272-284
• BURDETT ER and BARRETT JL, 2016. The circle of life: A cross-cultural comparison of children's attribution of life-cycle traits. The British journal of developmental psychology. 34(2), 276-90
• COHEN E, BURDETT E, KNIGHT N and BARRETT J, 2011. Cross-cultural similarities and differences in person-body reasoning: experimental evidence from the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon. Cognitive science. 35(7), 1282-304
• BARRET, J. L., BURDETT, E. R. R. and PORTER, T., 2009. Counterintuitiveness in folktales Journal of Cognition and Culture. 9(3), 271-287