A study by researchers from Aarhus University recently published in the Journal of Physiology and Behavior shows that when people build trust, their hearts get in sync and beat as one. When a Public Goods game is used to introduce trust conditions during a cooperative task, participants’ heart rate arousal and synchrony is increased.

In June 2015 IMC hosted a workshop with medical anthropologist Sharon Abramowitz from Center for African Studies, University of Florida. Sharon gave this talk entitled "Culturing Ebola" based on preliminary data from the Ebola 100 Project in Liberia during the ebola outbreak.

One of the Carlsberg Foundation’s two major research awards has been presented to Professor Andreas Roepstorff from Aarhus University. He is the leader of the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, and the award was given in recognition of his cross-disciplinary research into human culture and biology.

"Behavioral Economics: an introduction to why we act the way we do"

by Panos Mitkidis and Andreas Roepstorff

Everybody - or at least a large number of prospective undergraduate students - wants to be a cognitive scientist

Another interesting interview, this time about confidence in a social setting

Wed Aug 5th, 11.30am, IMC meeting room. On the topics of human security, peace building, and Ebola.

Registration is now open for this one-day conference taking place at the University of Birmingham on Monday 6th of July.

"Methodological and Conceptual Challenges to Cross-Cultural Research" is the preliminary title of the speciel issue. Guest editor is Ron Fischer and deadline for submission of the full manuscript is March 1, 2016.

Using Twitter a recently published IMC study shows the complex collective entrainment to the 2012 US presidential debates at different time-scales: people react almost in real time to conflict and turn-taking, but take much longer to process contents.