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Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science episodes
- S4 #50 How can we choose pro-environment and how does it improve our well-being? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Zoé Bollen.
Paper about the carbon emission task:
Berger, S., & Wyss, A. M. (2021). Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the carbon emission task. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 75, Article 101613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101613
Papers about the benefit of being in nature:
Berman, M. G., Jonides, J., & Kaplan, S. (2008). The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting With Nature. Psychological Science, 19(12), 1207–1212. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02225.x
Bratman, G. N., & Gross, J. J. (2026). Why nature contact is good for us. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 30(8), 738–751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.003
Rim, N., Schertz, K. E., & Berman, M. G. (2025). The affective, cognitive, and social benefits of interacting with nature. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 35(3), 495–510. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1456
Attention restoration theory:
Kaplan, S. (1995). The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 15(3), 169–182. https://doi.org/10.1016/0272-4944(95)90001-2
Book recommendation by Zoé:
Zoé’s Papers:
Bollen, Z., Knoch, D., & Berger, S. (2026). How Do Vegetarians Make Pro-Environmental Decisions Unrelated to Food Choice? A MouselabWEB Study. Environment and Behavior, 58(3), 363-395.
Bollen Z., Wyss A. M., Guizar-Rosales E. T., Le Houcq Corbi Z., Knoch D. (2025). The role of attitudes and attention in pro-environmental decision-making: An eye-tracking study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 107, 102776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102776
Papers on Behavioral Psychology with real life consequences:
Lange, F., Berger, S., Byrka, K., Brügger, A., Henn, L., Sparks, A. C., Nielsen, K. S., & Urban, J. (2023). Beyond self-reports: A call for more behavior in environmental psychology. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 86, Article 101965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.10196
1 hr 12 min - Has it been three years already? Bonus-to-brain with Clara, Elisa, Imogen, Sönke and Sophie.
The book Yesteryear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesteryear_(novel)
The slime mold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold
The interview with Chomsky: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xuSPX-2oFM0&pp=ygUWQ2hvbXNreSB1bmkgb3NuYWJyw7xjaw%3D%3D
The "Frisch an die Arbeit" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0eRStmStqFdRjcjX4mYSRU?si=ezAtPo0sRFG4NyucdC23GQ&utm_source=copy-link
Sönke’s favorite paper: Evans, G. (1978). Can there be vague objects. Analysis, 38(4), 208.
Podcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme
Logo by: Annika Richter
Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Write us an email to: [email protected]
Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod
1 hr 14 min - S3 #49 How does playing make birds smarter? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Gisela Kaplan.
Some book publications:
Kaplan, Gisela (2019) Bird Bonds: Sex, mate-choice and cognition in Australian native birds. Macmillan/Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney. (ISBN 978-1-76055-420-0, pbk. 354 pp)
Kaplan, Gisela (2019) Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird. 2nd edition, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. 2nd ed., ISBN 9781486307241, pbk., 270 pp.
Kaplan, G. (2018) Tawny Frogmouth. 2nd ed., CSIRO, Melbourne. ISBN 9781486308163, pbk. 168 pp. (1st ed. 2007, ISBN 9780643092396, pbk. 155 pp.)
Kaplan, G. (2015) Bird Minds. Cognition and Behaviour of Australian Native Birds. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. 286 pp. (incl. a 15-page Appendix on brain size and life history data of Australian birds). ISBN 9781486300181. Reprint with corrections of 2015 publication (epdf: 9781486300198; epub: 9781486300204)
Some relevant papers:
1. Kaplan, G. (2024). The evolution of social play in songbirds, parrots and cockatoos- emotional or highly complex cognitive behaviour or both? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105621
2. Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. (2024) Advances in understanding cognition in animals. Ch.4 in L.Levitt, D. B. Rosengard, J.Rubin (eds.) Animals as Crime Victims: Multidisciplinary implications of moving beyond the property paradigm. (pp.53-66) Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802209884.00012
3. Kaplan, G. (2023). Evolution of human language: duetting as part of prosociality and cognition. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1004384
4. Kaplan, G., Rogers L.J. (2021) Brain size associated with foot preferences in Australian parrots, Symmetry, 13, 867. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13050867
5. Kaplan, G. (2021) Psittacine (Parrot) cognition (10,000 word entry) Encyclopaedic essays (by invitation only)-Encyclopaedia of Animal Behaviour and Animal Cognition. Ed. by Jennifer Vonk, Todd K. Shackelford, Springer International Publishing AG/Nature , 6330 Cham, Switzerland Springer
6. Kaplan, G. (2020). Play behaviour, not tool using, relates to brain mass in a sample of birds. Scientific Reports, 10, 20437. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76572-7
7. Kaplan, G. (2020) Visual recognition (5,000 word entry). Encyclopaedic essays (by invitation only)-Encyclopaedia of Animal Behaviour and Animal Cognition. Ed. by Jennifer Vonk, Todd K. Shackelford, Springer International Publishing AG/Nature , 6330 Cham, Switzerland Springer
8. Kaplan, G. (2020) Of great apes and magpies: initiations into animal behaviour. Animals, 10, 848; Special Issue: 'Encountering Animals', Ed. L. Irvine. doi:10.3390/ani10050848
9. Kaplan, G. (2020) Mimicry (5,000 word entry). Encyclopaedic essays (by invitation only)-Encyclopaedia of Animal Behaviour and Animal Cognition. Ed. by Jennifer Vonk, Todd K. Shackelford, Springer International Publishing AG/Nature, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Springer
10. Kaplan, G. (2020) Long-term attachments and complex cognition in birds and humans are linked to pre-reproductive prosociality and cooperation. Constructing a hypothesis. Annals of Cognitive Science 4 (2), 127-142. https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29577
11. Kaplan, G. (2018). Passerine Cognition. (10,000 word entry): In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Ed. by Jennifer Vonk, Todd K. Shackelford, Springer International Publishing AG/Nature , 6330 Cham, Switzerland.
Podcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme
Logo by: Annika Richter
Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Write us an email to: [email protected]
Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod
1 hr 31 min - S3 #48 What happens in the brain of your cat? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Sevim Isparta and Prof. Nadja Freund.
The study on cat sleeping position that we talked about: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00507-X
The study on cats and problem solving abilities that was mentioned: https://www.bio.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/bpsy/mam/content/papers/isparta_et.al.2020_12072.pdf
The press release (in german): https://news.rub.de/presseinformationen/wissenschaft/2025-07-28-citizen-science-projekt-katzenvideos-machen-fuer-die-forschung
Podcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa PalmeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca SchröderWrite us an email to: [email protected]Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod58 min - S3 #47 Does sign language change your brain? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Karen Emmorey.
Literature:
Emmorey, K. (2023). Ten things you should know about sign languages. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(5), 387-394.The lab of Dr. Karen Emmorey:
https://llcn.sdsu.edu/Podcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa PalmeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca SchröderWrite us an email to: [email protected]Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod1 hr 4 min - S3 #46 Why should we be vigilant when politicians talk? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Nicole Gotzner.
The discussed paper:
Gotzner, N. (accepted). Does it matter what is said and who said it? The interpretation of Trump’s and Harris’ statements in Republican and Democrat voters. To appear in Open Mind. PsyArXiv: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/a4u52_v1References:
Kuperwasser, I., & Shetreet, E. (2025). Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning. Journal of Pragmatics, 242, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.014Sperber, D., Clément, F., Heintz, C., Mascaro, O., Mercier, H., Origgi, G., & Wilson, D. (2010). Epistemic vigilance. Mind & Language, 25(4), 359–393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01394.x
Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In Speech acts (pp. 41-58). Brill.
The mentioned shirt:
https://www.netflix.shop/en-de/products/stranger-things-comfort-colors-t-shirt-beam-me-upPodcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa PalmeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca SchröderWrite us an email to: [email protected]Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod41 min - S3 #45 How do children learn adjectives? Brain-to-brain with Charlotte Uhlemann.
References:
Kennedy, C., & McNally, L. (2005). Scale structure, degree modification, and the semantics of gradable predicates. Language, 81(2), 345-381.Kennedy, C. (2007). Vagueness and grammar: The semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives. Linguistics and philosophy, 30(1), 1-45.Syrett, K. (2024). Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives. Language and Linguistics Compass, 18(6), e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70000Tribushinina, E. (2018). Acquisition of adjectives across languages and populations: What’s wrong with them? Cahiers Du Centre de Linguistique et Des Sciences Du Langage, (56), 259–275. https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2018.257Tribushinina, E., Van Den Bergh, H., Kilani-Schoch, M., Aksu-Koç, A., Dabašinskienė, I., Hrzica, G., … & Dressler, W. (2013). The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition: A cross-linguistic longitudinal study of adjective production in spontaneous child speech and parental input. First Language, 33(6), 594-616.Ricks, S. L., & Alt, M. (2016). Theoretical principles to guide the teaching of adjectives to children who struggle with word learning: Synthesis of experimental and naturalistic research with principles of learning theory. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 47(3), 181-190.Uhlemann, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hilton, M. (2023). Express yourself! Die Diagnostikinstrumente frühkindlicher Sprachentwicklung FRAKIS und SETK-2 im Vergleich. Spektrum Patholinguistik| 15, 107.Podcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa PalmeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca SchröderWrite us an email to: [email protected]Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod51 min - S3 #44 How should machines translate sensitive language? Brain-to-brain with Sabrina Frohn.
Sabrina’s linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrina-frohn/
Papers:not THE implicit bias paper but one explaining implicit and explicit bias:“Social Justice in Our Minds, Homes, and Society: The Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Implicit Bias” by Laurie A. Rudman, 10.1023/B:SORE.0000027406.32604.f6about the implicit association test I mentioned: https://www.projectimplicit.net/nosek/iat/default.html (I was not able to find the study I participated in, but I assume it is similar to this, perhaps was even based on this.)
bias in machine translations:
„Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems“ Stefanie Ullmann et al., isbn: 978-3-030-88615-8“What about em? How Commercial Machine Translation Fails to Handle (Neo-)Pronouns, Lauscher et al., 10.48550/arXiv.2305.16051comparing LLM and MT
“Benchmarking Machine Translation with Cultural Awareness” by Binwei Yao, 10.48550/arXiv.2305.14328„Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation“, Stanovski et al., 10.18653/v1/P19-1164machtsprache:
https://www.machtsprache.de/macht.sprache plugins: chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/machtsprache-for-sensitiv/dichlnekfmanlagciihdnkgiefppilol
firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/macht-sprache/interesting reads:
„The complexities of linguistic discrimination“, Drożdżowicz et al., 10.1080/09515089.2024.2307993“On the Translation of Otherness: The Univocal Case of Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, Badenes, 10.7202/1068906ar“Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes”, Garg et al., 10.1073/pnas.1720347115https://pocolit.com/Sabrina’s paper:
https://publications.waset.org/10014353/bibtexPodcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa PalmeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca SchröderWrite us an email to: [email protected]Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod1 hr 5 min - S3 #43 How do parasocial relationships with chatbots form? Brain-to-brain with Takuya Maeda.
References:
https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.htmlhttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/https://futurism.com/woman-suicide-openai-therapisthttps://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147https://itif.org/publications/2025/05/21/ai-companions-risk-over-regulation-with-state-legislation/https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/companion-ai-emotional-support-chatbots-1.7620087https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/lifestyle/woman-married-to-an-ai-robot/https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/14/married-ai-bot-human-wife-doesnt-mind-23628030/https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.htmlhttps://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-13558-002https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technologyPodcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa PalmeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca SchröderWrite us an email to: [email protected]Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod1 hr 4 min - S3 #42 What does the research say about Science Communication? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Rainer Bromme.
Literature:
Bromme, R. (2025). Objektiv und unabhängig, aber auch wirksam für dasGemeinwohl: Vertrauen im Kontext öffentlicher Erwartungen anWissenschaft. In P. Sandermann & V. Schwenker (Eds.), Trust Issues!? -Vertrauen in modernen Gesellschaften. (pp. 233-243). transcript.https://doi.org/doi.org/10.14361/9783839470879Bromme, R. (2025). Wissenschaftskommunikation. In P. Pasternack, G.
Reinmann, & C. Schneijderberg (Eds.), Hochschulforschung: Forschung überHochschule und Wissenschaft (pp. 511-520). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH& Co. KG. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748943334Bromme, R., & Gierth, L. (2021). Rationality and the public
understanding of science. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook ofRationality (pp. 767-776). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.Bromme, R., Mede, N., Thomm, E., Kremer, B., & Ziegler, R. (2022). An
anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within theCOVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 17(2):e0262823.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262823Bromme, R. & Hendriks, F. (2023). Trust in science: considering whom to
trust for knowing what is true. In R.C. Mayer & B. Mayer (Eds.). AResearch Agenda for Trust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 37-49).Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing.https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-research-agenda-for-trust-9781802200935.htmlBromme, R. (2022). Informiertes Vertrauen in Wissenschaft: Lehren aus
der COVID-19 Pandemie für das Verständnis naturwissenschaftlicherGrundbildung (scientific literacy). Unterrichtswissenschaft, 50(3),331-345. doi:10.1007/s42010-022-00159-6Hendriks, F. & Bromme, R. (2022). Researchers’ Public Engagement in the
Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflectionfrom Boundary Crossing. Science Communication, 44(6), 693-718.doi:10.1177/10755470221137052Wintterlin, F., Hendriks, F., Mede, N. G., Bromme, R., Metag, J., &
Schäfer, M. S. (2022). Predicting public trust in science: The role ofbasic orientations toward science, perceived trustworthiness ofscientists, and experiences with science. Frontiers in Communication,6:822757. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2021.8227572021Bromme, R., & Gierth, L. (2021). Rationality and the public
understanding of science. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook ofRationality (pp. 767-776). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.Podcast Credits:
Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa PalmeLogo by: Annika RichterMusic by: Jan-Luca SchröderWrite us an email to: [email protected]Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod1 hr 21 min
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Kaleidoscience is a podcast interviewing guests across the field of Cognitive Science. We explore questions such as what it means to be conscious, what AI might think, how the brain processes language - and much more. Find the answers to questions you may or may not have asked yourself.
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