Presentation
Catherine Salmon – Evolutionary Perspectives on Anorexic Behavior: Ancestral Mechanisms in the Modern World UCLABEC
Catherine Salmon: University of RedlandsA compelling puzzle of our modern world is the disturbing obsession of some women with body image and dieting. Why do so many women in North […]
Eric Schniter – The Long Life of Skill Development among Tsimane Forager Horticulturalists
Eric Schniter: UC Santa BarbaraCollaborative research from the Tsimane Health and Life History Project has investigated whether age profiles of Tsimane skill development are consistent with life history theory predictions […]
Doug Jones – Kinship thinking as core cognition
Doug Jones: University of Utah
Kim Hill – The evolution of human uniqueness
Kim Hill: Arizona State University
Adam Sparks – Who takes risks, and why?
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 […]
Marco Del Giudice – A unifying framework for evolutionary psychopathology
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 […]
Jeffrey Schank – The Evolution of Fairness
Jeffrey Schank: UC DavisThere are many theoretical approaches to explaining fairness, but explaining fairness without leverage (e.g., genetic relatedness, punishment, or retaliation) is especially challenging. The dictator game (DG) is […]
Ketema Paul – The Ability to Recover from Sleep Loss is Regulated by Biological Clocks in Skeletal Muscle Tissue
Ketema Paul: University of California, Los AngelesSleep loss can severely impair cognitive performance, yet the ability to recover from sleep loss is not well understood. Sleep regulatory mechanisms are assumed […]
Chris Dunkel Schetter – Stress and Anxiety in Pregnancy: Consequences and Mechanisms for Birth and Beyond
Chris Dunkel Schetter: University of California, Los AngelesIn this talk, Prof Dunkel Schetter will touch on conceptions of stress, background on birth outcomes, and summarize briefly findings on stress and […]