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Linnda Caporael is a professor at the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a Private university research university located in Troy, New York, New York, United States. RPI was founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer III for the "application of science to the common purposes of life", and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world....
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rael studied psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public university research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system....
 and received both her B.A. and PhD. She studied human ethology at the Institute of Child Development at the University of London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. She is a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and a visiting scientist in the Dept. of Invertebrate Paleontology and in the Dept. of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History.






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Linnda Caporael is a professor at the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a Private university research university located in Troy, New York, New York, United States. RPI was founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer III for the "application of science to the common purposes of life", and is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world....
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Educational background

Caporael studied psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public university research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system....
 and received both her B.A. and PhD. She studied human ethology at the Institute of Child Development at the University of London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. She is a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and a visiting scientist in the Dept. of Invertebrate Paleontology and in the Dept. of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. She researches culture from a biological persepective and biology from a cultural perspective.

Interests

Professor Caporael is interested and has studied the following topics:

  • Evolution of human sociality.
  • Group coordination.
  • Social identity.
  • Behavioral decision-making.
  • The attribution of human characteristics to animals.
  • Machines and artificial agents.
  • Evolutionary and technological designs.
  • The design of culturally "fit" artifacts.


Published works

  • 1976 - Linnda R. Caporael. Ergotism: the Satan loosed in Salem? Science 1976, 192:21-6.
  • 1985 - Linnda R. Caporael, Peter R. Atherton. A Subjective Judgment Study of Polygon Based Curved Surface Imagery (editors: Lorraine Borman and Bill Curtis). Proceedings of the ACM CHI 85 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference. April 14-18, 1985, San Francisco, California. p. 27-34.


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