Daniel Sznycer – Value Computation in Humans
Valuing things comes naturally to us. But valuing things would be a forbidding task if we lacked the information-processing machinery that enables value computation and that needs to be understood. […]
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Ed Hagen – Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating, increased pathogen pressure, and the constitutive and inducible use of pharmacological plants in Homo
Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating, increased pathogen pressure, and the constitutive and inducible use of pharmacological plants in Homo Edward H. Hagen, Aaron D. Blackwell, Aaron D. Lightner, […]
Gerry Carter – Cooperative Relationships in Vampire Bats
Several birds and mammals form affiliative relationships with both kin and nonkin that involve multiple forms of cooperation. When individuals form these long-term cooperative relationships, both the causes and consequences of […]
Jenny Tung – The social genome and primate evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntV96u3Dr-M Jenny Tung Duke University http://www.tung-lab.org/
Helen Davis – Culture, Cultural Change, and Cognitive Development
What does cognitive development look like in a world without schools or formally educated parents or communities? What if our most fundamental measures of cognitive performance were influenced by small […]
Elizabeth Hobson – Dominance hierarchies, fight decisions, and social support as windows into animal social cognition
Elizabeth Hobson University of Cincinnati http://hobsonresearch.com/
Federico Rossano – Interacting like a human being: a developmental and comparative perspective on calibrating requests
In his paper on the “human interaction engine”, Levinson famously asserted that, in social interaction, people’s responses “are to actions and intentions, not to behaviors” (2006: 45). Indeed human beings […]
Lisa O’Bryan – Communication and the Coordination of Collective Behavior in Non-human and Human Social Groups
Lisa O'Bryan, Rice University In order to obtain social benefits, individuals must remain cohesive, coordinate their behavior, and collectively process information. The field of collective behavior focuses on understanding how […]
Kelsey McCune – Space Use, Exploratory Behavior and Rapid Range Expansion in Great-Tailed Grackles
Humans are rapidly changing the natural world, leading to decreasing native fauna and increasing non-native fauna. Problematic species range expansions are occurring across the globe, but not all species are […]
James Higham – Insights into Life-History from the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaques
We humans come from a diverse order, the primates, which make excellent model systems for studying the interface between the biological and the social. In this talk, I focus on […]