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 social learning and community building through the lens of cultural change and human evolution. Her research focuses primarily on how people learn from each other, 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 community building via spiritual beliefs and practices in the town of Glastonbury, Engalnd. She is also collaborating with community partners in the Hillingdon area of London on applied work in community building amongst parents and families.
Dr Kline has also published theoretical work on ethnocentrism and cultural bias in developmental psychology, and acts as Head of the Parent & Carers Staff Support Network and representative on the Universtiy's Athena Swan and Race Equality Charter committee.
Qualifications
PhD in Anthropology - University of California, Los Angeles
MA in Anthropology - University of California, Los Angeles
BA in Political Science and Anthropology - SUNY University at Buffalo
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 (November 2021). 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 on behalf of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA). pp. 56 - 56. ISSN: 0002-9483 Open Access Link