Brian Wood: University of California, Los AngelesHumans think about, explore, and use landscapes like no other species, reflecting our unique biological and cultural adaptations. One of these adaptations, observed in […]
James Liu: Massey University, New ZealandWhat is universal, what is characteristic of national political culture, and what is regionally influenced in the “living memory” of national history for people around […]
Courtney Meehan: Washington State University Throughout our evolutionary history, and in much of the world today, human infancy has been characterized by a host of ancestral traits which include frequent […]
Kotrina Kajokaite: University of California, Los AngelesCoalitionary recruitment offers a window into animal social cognition. However, naturally observed coalitionary conflicts are challenging to analyze because the researcher has no control […]
Kristi Lewton: University of Southern CaliforniaLocomotion, gestation, and childbirth have had a significant impact on human culture and biology, including the morphology of the human hip. One of the most […]
Brooke Scelza: University of California, Los AngelesResearch on human mate preferences has been conducted mainly in industrialized societies, where multiple mating and concurrent partnerships are heavily stigmatized. However, cross-culturally, extra-pair […]
Lynette Shaw: University of MichiganThe cultures we belong to affect far more than our practices and beliefs - they also fundamentally shape how we perceive the world, each other, and […]
Terry Deacon: University of California, BerkeleyAbstract: The concept of human nature has been challenged by social scientists because of its inability to clearly delineate the distinction between the biologically inherited […]
Tao Gao: University of California, Los AngelesTheory of mind (ToM) refers to the attribution of an agent’s motion to its mental states, including belief, desire and intention. Modeling ToM is […]
Johanna Eckert: University of California, Los AngelesIntuitive statistics is the capacity to draw intuitive probabilistic inferences based on an understanding of the relations between populations, sampling processes, and resulting samples. […]
