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SUMMARY:Zaneta Thayer - How social inequities create health inequities: An integration of social and biological mechanisms
DESCRIPTION:How social inequities create health inequities: An integration of social and biological mechanisms\nZaneta Thayer\nDepartment of Anthropology and Ecology\, Evolution\, Environment & Society Program\, Dartmouth College\nA remarkably consistent pattern of human variation is the social gradient in health. This is the observation that\, both within and between societies\, individuals who are socially disadvantaged tend to have poorer health outcomes and shorter life expectancy than individuals who are more socially advantaged. In this talk I will use data from Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States to discuss how exposure to early life stressors in particular can shape disparities in health across the life course. I will also discuss why environmental sensitivity to early life stress may have evolved in the first place. Finally\, I will discuss the potential role of historical trauma in shaping contemporary inequities in health. The results of this work have implications for our understanding of how and why the social gradient in health has emerged. \n  \n[note: there is no video recording available for this presentation]
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/zaneta-thayer-how-social-inequities-create-health-inequities-an-integration-of-social-and-biological-mechanisms/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T120000
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SUMMARY:Samuel Mehr - Representation and understanding in music across cultures
DESCRIPTION:Representation and understanding in music across cultures\nSamuel Mehr\nThe Music Lab and Department of Psychology\, Harvard University\nDiscovering the universal features of human musicality is a prerequisite for explaining the biological and cultural evolution of music. What is universal about our psychology of music\, and what varies? In this talk I will present analyses of the Natural History of Song Discography\, which includes songs recorded in 86 mostly small-scale societies\, and experiments using these songs. We find that acoustical forms of songs are predictive of their primary behavioral functions across cultures. Adult listeners worldwide are sensitive to this fact\, in that they accurately infer behavioral functions even when the songs are from unfamiliar cultures and sung in unfamiliar languages. Such effects are not\, however\, merely a result of musical or cultural experience: both young children and infants show comparable effects\, with little evidence for increases in sensitivity across ages. Moreover\, high-level representations of musical behaviors are apparently enabled by lower-level processing of pitch and duration information into tonal and metrical representations. These cognitive phenomena may form a foundation for a universal psychology of music underlying culturally varying phenomena\, such as musical aesthetics. \n 
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/samuel-mehr-representation-and-understanding-in-music-across-cultures/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T120000
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SUMMARY:Pascal Boyer - Why divination? A salient cultural attractor\, an explanatory model\, and some lessons for how to understand the generation of culture
DESCRIPTION:Why divination? A salient cultural attractor\, an explanatory model\, and some lessons for how to understand the generation of culture\nPascal Boyer\nProfessor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Psychology​ and Henry Luce Professor of Collective and Individual Memory\, Washington University in St. Louis\nDivination is a good example of a cultural attractor – almost all human societies have some documented form of divination\, a procedure that supposedly guarantees the truth of the statements it produces. I propose a model of the strategic interactions around divination that may explain why the practice is so widespread\, with some unexpected commonalities. This is an opportunity to think about cultural evolution\, which so far has produced good models of cultural consumption\, leaving aside why people produce the kind of material that become culturally widespread. \n 
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/pascal-boyer-why-divination-a-salient-cultural-attractor-an-explanatory-model-and-some-lessons-for-how-to-understand-the-generation-of-culture/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T120000
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DTSTAMP:20260506T051450
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SUMMARY:Willem Frankenhuis - Hidden talents in harsh conditions
DESCRIPTION:Hidden talents in harsh conditions\nWillem Frankenhuis\nDepartment of Psychology\, Utrecht University\, the Netherlands\nIt is well established that people living in adverse conditions tend to score lower on a variety of social and cognitive tests. However\, recent research shows that people may also develop ‘hidden talents’\, that is\, mental abilities that are enhanced through adversity. The hidden talents program sets out to document these abilities\, their development\, and their manifestations in different contexts. In this talk\, I present studies of cognitive adaptations to harsh and unpredictable environments. These studies have been conducted among individuals with different levels of exposure to adversity in the Netherlands and the United States. \nNo video is available for this talk. \n 
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/willem-frankenhuis-hidden-talents-in-harsh-conditions/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T120000
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SUMMARY:Hugo Mercier - Impression management as signaling
DESCRIPTION:Impression management as signaling\nHugo Mercier\nEvolution and Social Cognition and Collective Intelligence Teams\, Institut Jean Nicod\, CNRS\, Paris\nI claim that impression management can be usefully understood as signaling. One consequence is that impression management should be mostly honest\, that is\, it should benefit on average both senders (i.e. those who are managing the impression they give)\, and receivers (i.e. those who are evaluating others). This contrasts with the view that self impression is largely deceptive (and thus requires self-deception). I highlight two main mechanisms through which impression management can remain mostly honest. First\, people who attempt to create misleading impressions (e.g. that they are more confident\, smart\, etc. than warranted) are reputationally punished once they are found out. Second\, some impression signals entail inherent tradeoffs that make them costly\, and thus honest (e.g. signaling that one is nice can entail signaling that one is not dominant). I will present experimental evidence demonstrating both mechanisms.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/hugo-mercier-impression-management-as-signaling/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
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