Daniel Bernstein, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Research

lifespan false memory social cognition perspective taking hindsight bias theory of mind social cognition, perspective taking, cognitive illusions, lifespan, theory of mind, hindsight bias, cognitive development, false memory Personality

Latest papers

Defining key concepts for mental state attribution
Communications Psychology · 2024
Trivially informative semantic context inflates people's confidence they can perform a highly complex skill.
Royal Society open science · 2022

All 2 publications

Latest funding

False memory and personality across the lifespan
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$45,174
False memory and personality across the lifespan
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$19,760
Confirmation bias for forensic audio evidence
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$48,253

All 9 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Defining key concepts for mental state attribution

Quesque F, Apperly I, Baillargeon R, Baron-Cohen S, Becchio C, Bekkering H, Bernstein D, Bertoux M, Bird G, Bukowski H

Communications Psychology2024113 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00077-6 PMID: W4394713651

02

Trivially informative semantic context inflates people's confidence they can perform a highly complex skill.

Jordan K, Zajac R, Bernstein D, Joshi C, Garry M

Royal Society open science2022

DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211977 PMID: 35308623

False memory and personality across the lifespan

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel

Keywords: False memory; Personality; Lifespan; Development; Memory

$45,174

False memory and personality across the lifespan

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel

Keywords: False memory; Personality; Lifespan; Development; Memory

$19,760

Confirmation bias for forensic audio evidence

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel

Keywords: (1) confirmation bias; (2) cognitive bias; (3) forensic audio evidence

$48,253

Social cognition in children with fetal alcohol syndrome or autism spectrum disorder

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel M.

Keywords: social cognition; fetal alcohol syndrome; FAS; autism spectrum disorder; ASD

$25,000

Lifespan Cognition

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel

Keywords: social cognition; perspective taking; cognitive illusions; lifespan; theory of mind; hindsight bias; cognitive development; false memory

$500,000

Lifespan social cognition

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel M.

Keywords: social cognition; perspective taking; hindsight bias; theory of mind; executive function; fluency; learning; education

$168,630

KPU-Science World Speaker Series: promoting scientific literacy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel M.

Keywords: promoting scientific literacy; public outreach; science meets social science

$13,500

Canada Research Chair in Lifespan Cognition

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel M

Keywords: perspective taking, lifespan cognition, hindsight bias, theory of mind

$500,000

Hindsight bias and theory of mind: perspective taking across the lifespan

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Bernstein, Daniel M.

Keywords: theory of mind; false belief; hindsight bias

$87,590

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Sukhvinder Obhi

Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: lifespan Dear Professor Bernstein, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Defining key concepts for mental state attribution" (2024), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "False memory and personality across the lifespan" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]