Dr Michelle Kline
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Quad North 129
- Email: michelle.kline@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267806
Summary
Dr Kline studies human behavior and development through the lens of cultural evolutionary theory. Her research focuses primarily on social learning, situated in community contexts using field methods. Dr Kline's has worked from 2008-2017 in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji. As of 2023, she is studying the social learning of spiritual beliefs and practices in the town of Glastonbury, Engalnd. She is also collaborating on projects working with parents and immigrants in the UK, and using online methods to study parental learning in Western societies.
Newest selected publications
Lew-Levy, S., Bombjaková, D., Milks, A., Kiabiya Ntamboudila, F., Kline, MA. and Broesch, T. (2022) 'Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289 (1974). pp. 20220164. ISSN: 0962-8452 Open Access Link
Broesch, T., Lew-Levy, S., Kärtner, J., Kanngiesser, P. and Kline, M. (2022) 'A roadmap to doing culturally grounded developmental science'. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 0 (ahead-of-print). pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 1878-5158 Open Access Link
Lew-Levy, S., Pope, SM., Haun, DBM., Kline, MA. and Broesch, T. (2021) 'Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher–farmer children'. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 211. pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0022-0965 Open Access Link
Lew-Levy, S., Ringen, EJ., Crittenden, AN., Mabulla, IA., Broesch, T. and Kline, MA. (2021) 'The Life History of Learning Subsistence Skills among Hadza and BaYaka Foragers from Tanzania and the Republic of Congo'. Human Nature, 32 (1). pp. 16 - 47. ISSN: 1045-6767 Open Access Link
Kline, MA. (2021) 'Sustainability in a multi-level cultural evolutionary framework'.90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). Online. 4 - 28 April. WILEY. pp. 56 - 56. ISSN: 0002-9483 Open Access Link