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SUMMARY:Adam Sparks - Who takes risks\, and why?
DESCRIPTION:Adam Sparks: UCLAWho takes risks\, and why? Does risk-taking in one context predict risk-taking in other contexts? Attempting to answer these questions\, I present a general conceptual model of decision-making under risk that integrates two inter-related pathways to risk-taking. The need-based pathway describes strategic response to competitive disadvantages; the ability-based pathway exploits competitive advantages. This broad model may help to reconcile long-standing disagreements regarding the etiology of risk-taking\, especially debates between advocates of domain-general or domain-specific approaches to risk. Further\, collaborators and I have applied this model to generate and test novel predictions about individual differences in diverse psychological/behavioral phenomena: pathogen avoidance\, mating preferences\, moral judgment\, and cooperation/conflict decisions. There remain many opportunities for integrating the evolutionarily-informed study of risk-taking with the study of putatively domain-specific psychological mechanisms (e.g. emotions) and behaviors.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/adam-sparks-who-takes-risks-and-why/
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SUMMARY:Marco Del Giudice - A unifying framework for evolutionary psychopathology
DESCRIPTION:Marco Del Giudice: University of New MexicoEvolutionary approaches to psychopathology have generated many innovative models of specific mental disorders\, as well as a growing empirical literature. However\, the field as a whole remains highly fragmented\, and has not yet produced a biologically grounded alternative to existing classification systems. In this talk I introduce a unifying framework for mental disorders based on life history concepts. The updated classification model I present distinguishes between fast spectrum conditions (e.g.\, antisocial/conduct disorders and schizophrenia)\, slow spectrum conditions (e.g.\, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and a variant of autism)\, and defense activation disorders (e.g.\, depression and phobias). I illustrate how this approach can be used to draw functionally important distinctions within single diagnostic categories and make sense of broad patterns of comorbidity\, developmental patterns\, and epidemiological risk factors. Finally\, I present simulation results showing that the life history model successfully reproduces the observed structure of mental disorders\, including the internalizing-externalizing distinction and the emergence of a “p factor” of generalized susceptibility to psychopathology.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/marco-del-giudice-a-unifying-framework-for-evolutionary-psychopathology/
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