Edward Legg

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Psychology

University of Rijeka

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Social Cognition and Theory of Mind

People often act based on things they have seen or believe - their mental states. These states are internal and cannot be directly observed. For someone to correctly predict another person's behaviour it would appear necessary to reason about their internal states. My primary research focus relates to the cognitive processes involved in predicting other's actions including how and when people represent others' mental states.

I am interested in whether different cognitive processes are used in different circumstances and why people sometimes fail to accurately assess another's mental state.

2020 -

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Rijeka, Croatia

2015-2018

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK

2011 - 2015

PhD in Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK

2008 - 2011

BA(Hons) in Psychology and Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK

  • Since 2018: Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Fellowship

  • 2015-2018: Economic and Social Research Council Grant, UK. As a named Postdoctoral Researcher.

  • 2015-2018: Leverhulme Research Project Grant, UK. As a named Postdoctoral Researcher.

  • 2011-2014: PhD Bursary from the Department of Education , Sports and Culture: Jersey.

2020

Samuel, S., Legg, E.W, Lurz., R.W & Clayton., N.S.

Egocentric bias across mental and non-mental representations in the Sandbox Task.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 71(11), 2395-2410

2017

Legg, E.W, Olivier, L., Samuel, S., Lurz, R.W., & Clayton, N.S.

Error rate on the director’s task is influenced by the need to take another’s perspective but not the type of perspective.

Royal Society Open Science 4(8)

2016

Ostojić, L., Legg, EW., Brecht, KF., Lange, F., Deininger, C., M Mendl, M., & Clayton, NS.

Current desires of conspecific observers affect cache-protection strategies in California scrub-jays and Eurasian jays.

Current Biology 27 (2), R51-R53

2016

Legg, E.W., Ostojić, L. & Clayton, N.S

Caching at a distance: a cache protection strategy in Eurasian jays.

Animal Cognition 19, 753–758

2014

Legg, E.W. & Clayton, N.S

Eurasian Jays (Garrulus glandarius) conceal caches from onlookers.

Animal Cognition 17, pages1223–1226