Professor Emma Cohen
Professor Emma Cohen is a cognitive and evolutionary anthropologist with interdisciplinary research interests in the evolution and psychology of human sociality.
Professor Emma Cohen is a cognitive and evolutionary anthropologist with interdisciplinary research interests in the evolution and psychology of human sociality. Her current primary research studies social affiliation in everyday human behaviour, culture and health. Drawing together ideas and evidence across the human sciences, her work develops and tests new hypotheses about how human minds and bodies function in social and cultural context.
All projects are collaborative and use a range of methodologies, from large scale survey and observational analyses to controlled experiments and intervention studies. The ideas and evidence are relevant to a range of major public health concerns, including physical inactivity, loneliness and mental health.