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SUMMARY:Robert Kurzban  - Is Moral Judgment Designed to Deter?
DESCRIPTION:Robert Kurzban : University of Pennsylvania Evolutionary psychologists are committed to the view that form follows function. This commitment carries an epistemic corollary: if a mechanism with a proposed function does not have the form that is required to perform that function\, confidence in the proposed function should be reduced. The view that moralistic punishment – imposing costs on those who violate a moral norm – functions to deter harm requires that moralistic punishment have a number of features to implement that function. First\, moralistic punishment should be desired and deployed (only) in cases in which agents intend that harm come about; without intent\, harmful acts can’t be deterred. Second\, the magnitude of punishment desired should relate systematically to the benefits perpetrators receive\, in line with standard decision theory. Third\, and related\, no punishment should be desired when no harm is intended and no harm comes about; there should be no victimless norm violations. Fourth\, whether and how much punishment is desired should depend only on the costs and benefits of perpetrators’ actions/inactions; how violations occur is irrelevant to deterrence. All four of these predicted features of moralistic punishment have been empirically falsified. In this talk\, I will briefly review this evidence and discuss the implications.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/robert-kurzban-is-moral-judgment-designed-to-deter/
CATEGORIES:2017,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171113T000000
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SUMMARY:Tamsin German - Core Intuitions about Persons Co-Exist and Interfere with Acquired Christian Beliefs about God
DESCRIPTION:Tamsin German: University of California\, Santa BarbaraI will discuss research conducted in my lab assessing recent proposals that complex human cultural concepts such as acquired scientific knowledge and religious belief rely on the co-option of early developing psychological mechanisms for representing and reasoning about the world. I will present evidence for this idea from studies showing that a basic intuition that\, for example\, God is a person\, co-exists and interferes with later acquired theological conceptions of God’s omniscience and omnipotence. This pattern of results mirrors those found showing the co-existence of and interference between core conceptions of the world and later acquired knowledge in the domain of science.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/tamsin-german-core-intuitions-about-persons-co-exist-and-interfere-with-acquired-christian-beliefs-about-god/
CATEGORIES:2017,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T000000
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SUMMARY:Anne Pisor  - Extra-Community Relationships in Humans: From Tolerance to Transactions
DESCRIPTION:Anne Pisor : Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyRelative to non-human primates\, humans are heavily reliant on social connections beyond the boundaries of their local communities. However\, individuals vary in the extent to which they exhibit interest in extra-community relationships. How did humans come to have such pronounced tolerance toward extra-community individuals\, and what are the relevant payoffs that modulate interest in extra-community relationships? To address these questions\, I first identify the incentive structures favoring tolerance in inter-group encounters in the Primate order. Turning to ethnographic and ethnohistoric data\, I emphasize how incentives for encounter are even more pronounced in humans\, often with high payoffs to forming enduring social relationships via inter-group encounters. I then focus on the instantiations of these relationships among three populations of Bolivian horticulturalists\, for whom integration to the national economy is changing the affordances of these connections. I discuss the extent to which an individual’s interest in extra-community relationships varies with her opportunities for access to market goods\, experience of resource shortfalls\, and perceptions of the qualities of extra-community individuals as social partners. I conclude by identifying candidate ways forward\, including how we might better document the existence of extra-community relationships in the field and formulate informed hypotheses about the relevant incentive structures favoring\, or disfavoring\, these relationships.https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1090513816303178/1-s2.0-S1090513816303178-main.pdf?_tid=bc376a48-cda7-11e7-ba36-00000aacb361&acdnat=1511150776_c708aab11cea987e2b4481a174afcecbhttps://peerj.com/preprints/3400.pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/anne-pisor-extra-community-relationships-in-humans-from-tolerance-to-transactions/
CATEGORIES:2017,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171127T000000
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Parkinson - Neural Encoding and Cognitive Consequences of Human Social Networks
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Parkinson: University of California\, Los AngelesThe cognitive demands of navigating large groups comprised of many varied and enduring social bonds are thought to have significantly shaped human brain evolution. Yet\, much remains to be understood about how the human brain tracks\, encodes\, and is influenced by the social networks in which it is embedded. The work presented in this talk integrates approaches from social psychology\, cognitive neuroscience\, and social network analysis in order to better understand how the structure of the social world is encoded in the human brain and the cognitive consequences of this structure.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/carolyn-parkinson-neural-encoding-and-cognitive-consequences-of-human-social-networks/
CATEGORIES:2017,Past Presentation,Presentation
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