Social Math

Advisory Panel, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, August 1, 2007:
"...a documentary exploring the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and culture and specifically trying to determine if these fields can help us bridge the cultural divides that are currently a major problem for the United States. Jared Hanson has pulled together an impressively diverse and interesting team to produce the proposed documentary."
"This is a unique effort to finish a documentary that attempts to be a corrective to insufficient application of mathematical techniques in the social sciences."
"If successful, the film could expose a broad public to the utility of mathematics and science for cultural understanding, and engender a greater appreciation of how closely connected scientific thinking is with the basis of human cognition and perception (embodied thinking)."
"I think the net effect may be a great deal of excitement by the viewer for scientific approaches to behavior."
"The documentary itself will be useful to a wide range of viewers."
"The impacts of good science documentaries on the broader public are undisputed. I am quite supportive of this broad approach and of individuals who can take scientific findings and publicize them in a way that makes them exciting, appealing and relevant."
Director, Johann Wolf filming in the outskirts of Riyadh, KSA.