About
Alin Coman is a Professor at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, leading the Cognition in Collectives Lab. His research explores how cognition emerges and evolves within social contexts, focusing on collective memory, belief dynamics, and emotion regulation through interactions.
- Education: Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research
Research Focus: Integrating laboratory experiments, field studies, social network analysis, and agent-based simulations, his work demonstrates how macro-level phenomena like collective memories and synchronized beliefs arise from micro-level cognitive processes. Key themes include memory convergence, belief propagation in networks, and socially triggered prediction errors.
Article Trends: His recent publications address vicarious memory frameworks, emotion regulation contagion, moral narratives, political belief change, pandemic-related belief dynamics, and the role of social norms in cognitive processes. Methodologies often involve network science and experimental paradigms.
Advising: Mentors graduate researchers including Ari Dyckovsky, Gracielle Li, and Naomi Vaida.
Lab: The Cognition in Collectives Lab employs a social-interactionist approach to study emergent psychological phenomena across groups and networks.
