Laboratory on Complex Thought and Cooperation

Harvard FAS

In this hands-on lab course, students have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of psychological research, including experimental design, data collection, and data analysis. Each student will work closely with a graduate student or post-doctoral mentor. Topics of research are divided across cognitive and social psychology. Cognitive projects focus on the neuroscience of complex thought: Humans can understand and reason about an effectively infinite number of different ideas. How do…