Month: December 2021

1st Person Dies From Omicron Variant in United Kingdom

At least one person has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday, warning that the variant now accounted for 40% of infections in the British capital. Since the first Omicron cases were… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, […]

Published on December 13, 2021

Wartime Trauma Hits Close to Home for Scholar of Dementia

Oanh Meyer was a postdoctoral fellow studying the experiences of caregivers for those with dementia in 2012 when her research took a very personal turn. That year, her mother, a Vietnamese immigrant, began to show signs of dementia and paranoia that seemed to be linked to the trauma she had suffered during the long war […]

Published on December 13, 2021

A Social Interpolation Model of Group Problemā€Solving

Abstract How do people use information from others to solve complex problems? Prior work has addressed this question by placing people in social learning situations where the problems they were asked to solve required varying degrees of exploration. This past work uncovered important interactions between groups’ connectivity and the problem’s complexity: the advantage of less […]

Published on December 12, 2021