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: 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: 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: 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: 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 […]
Cristine H. Legare: University of Texas at AustinHumans display a wide repertoire of socially acquired and transmitted behaviors that vary substantially across populations. Information is accumulated and transferred within and […]
Kevin Langergraber: Arizona State UniversityMany animals carry out activities together because the benefits derived from collective action exceed those that can be achieved individually. But how can collective action evolve […]
Claudia Valeggia: UC DavisThis talk will be about change and how we experience it. Humans go through several transitions during the course of their life. The transition from one life […]
Anita Stone: California Lutheran UniversityThe primate juvenile period has been considered a “limbo phase” with few evolutionary consequences, a view that has been challenged. In addition, it has been proposed […]
Adrian Bell: University of UtahMost evolutionary ecological outcomes are highly sensitive to the nature of migration. The when, where, and how of migration are fundamental to evolutionary questions that anthropologists […]
