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SUMMARY:No BEC This Week -
DESCRIPTION:No BEC This Week:
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/no-bec-this-week/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Meg Crofoot - Collective Decision-Making in Complex Societies: Lessons From Tracking Wild Baboons
DESCRIPTION:Meg Crofoot: UC DavisAnimals living in stable social groups may often disagree about where to go\, but must reconcile their\ndifferences to maintain cohesion and thus the benefits of group living. Although theory predicts that\nshared (democratic) decision-making should be widespread in nature\, in species that form long-term\nsocial bonds\, considerable asymmetries in dominance and social power often exist\, and some have\nproposed that these differences give high-ranking individuals increased influence over group decisions.\nDetermining how consensus is achieved in stratified societies remains a core challenge for\nunderstanding the evolution of social complexity. To investigate how differentiated social relationships\nshape the collective decision-making process\, we captured simultaneous high-resolution GPS tracks\nfrom 26 members of a wild olive baboon troop (Papio anubis; ~ 80% of adult and subadult members\,\nsampled at 1hz). We then used these data to explore the relative importance of individual relationships\nvs. majority rule in driving group movement decisions in this highly structured society.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/meg-crofoot-collective-decision-making-in-complex-societies-lessons-from-tracking-wild-baboons/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Rick Dale - Adaptiveness of Language: From Real-Time Processes to Linguistic Typology
DESCRIPTION:Rick Dale: UC MercedHuman language is a flexible behavioral repertoire that may be finely tuned to our cognitive processes and social circumstances. I present evidence from three timescales that language may be shaped by a number of social and cognitive variables. These timescales include (i) how language is used in real-time human interaction\, (ii) how language use may relate to the structure of social groups\, and (iii) how slower-changing aspects of language\, such as grammatical structure\, may relate to large-scale demographic variables. I will then examine whether these relationships at different timescales provide hints of selection processes operating over language\, and end with a new study demonstrating that\, indeed\, we can detect “echoes of selection” in large-scale vocabulary data.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/rick-dale-adaptiveness-of-language-from-real-time-processes-to-linguistic-typology/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Emma Cohen - Social Bonding in Movement and Exercise
DESCRIPTION:Emma Cohen: University of OxfordIn this talk\, I’ll present some ideas and preliminary data on the links between exercise and social bonding. Exercise\, broadly construed\, is a cultural universal – from ceremonial rituals to team sports\, people everywhere get together to move together. Our research investigates whether and how such activities serve a social bonding function\, as has been long claimed in the social scientific literature. Specifically\, we explore the social bonding effects of behavioural coordination and exercise ‘highs’. We are also interested in the effects of social bonding on exercise ability and performance\, particularly on pain perception and fatigue thresholds. The research attempts to reveal mechanisms underlying the links between coordinated movement\, pleasure and pain\, and bonding and wellbeing and thereby to contribute new data on a pervasive feature of everyday life that cross-cuts cultural domains as varied as religion\, sport and play.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/emma-cohen-social-bonding-in-movement-and-exercise/
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