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, in places and communities beyond Western societies. Dr Kline's current field site is in the Yasawa Islands, Fiji. She is also starting projects working with parents and immigrants in the UK .
Newest selected publications
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, 0 (in press). 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
Broesch, T., Carolan, PL., Cebioğlu, S., von Rueden, C., Boyette, A., Moya, C., et al. (2021) 'Opportunities for Interaction: Natural Observations of Children’s Social Behavior in Five Societies'. Human Nature, 32 (1). pp. 208 - 238. ISSN: 1045-6767
Broesch, T., Crittenden, AN., Beheim, BA., Blackwell, AD., Bunce, JA., Colleran, H., et al. (2020) 'Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287 (1935). pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 0962-8452 Open Access Link