Julian Jara-Ettinger

My research aims to understand what makes complex forms of human social behavior possible. Our goal is to reveal the representations and computations that underlie how people understand each other, to uncover how this system emerges and develops, and to use this as a blueprint for building machines with human-like social intelligence. To accomplish this, my lab studies a range of social phenomena including fairness, linguistic communication, gesture, moral reasoning, and pedagogy. We tackle these problems through an interdisciplinary program that combines computational modeling, eye-tracking, cross-cultural research, and developmental studies.