Laith Al-Shawaf

I am an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado in the United States of America. I conduct within-culture and cross-cultural research on human cognition and emotion, alongside collaborators based in Germany, the United States, Australia, Croatia, Malta and Finland.

My primary goal in AGYA was to use principles and findings from psychology and neuroscience to improve education in Germany and the Arab world. I was particularly interested in strengthening the way we teach young people science and philosophy. I used my membership in AGYA to contribute to increased exchange between scholars and students from different parts of the world, facilitating cross-border cooperation and cross-cultural collaboration rather than divisions along national and ethnic lines.