In the process of a name change! Publications after October, 2021 will be authored as Pope-Caldwell.
I'm a developmental and comparative psychologist studying variation in cognitive flexibility across human cultures and within the primate lineage.
Research Scientist at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
My research explores how familiar strategies block better ones from being used.
Current Research Projects →
Curriculum Vitae →
Cognitive flexibility is the ability to select between familiar solutions and innovated or acquired alternatives to meet the dynamic needs of new or changing environments.
Laureiro-Martínez & Brusoni, 2018; Pope, 2018; Ueltzhöffer et al., 2015
BaYaka boy from the Republic of the Congo and “the animal that changes his clothes…”
Contact Information
pope.sarahmichelle@gmail.com ⋅ caldwell.sarahmichelle@gmail.com ⋅ sarah_caldwell@eva.mpg.de
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ⋅ Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Deutscher Platz 6 ⋅ 04103 Leipzig, Germany
