Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has been a partner of the YES! – Young Economic Summit since 2020/2021.
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology unites scientists with various backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) whose aim is to investigate the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings.
Within the institute, the department of Comparative Cultural Psychology combines approaches from developmental, cross-cultural and comparative psychology, to study uniquely human cultural diversity and the universal cognitive mechanisms that enable and constrain it.
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Topics 2021
How should schools contribute to solving the mental health crisis?
by Susan Hanisch and Dustin Eirdosh
Participating Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Dustin Eirdosh is the education development coordinator for the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Dustin works with students, teachers, and researchers around the world on applied classroom projects at the intersection of evolution, behaviour, and sustainability science.
Dr Hanisch is a researcher at the University of Leipzig, Primary School Science Education working group, and guest scientist in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She works with schools and scientists to help develop new directions in science and sustainability education focused on human behaviour.
