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SUMMARY:Brian Lickel - Affective Mechanisms for Managing Intergroup Retribution
DESCRIPTION:Brian Lickel: University of Southern California Department of PsychologyIn this talk\, I’ll present data examining how people think about and react to the wrong-doing of ingroup members. In particular\, I’ll describe affective reactions of self-blame (shame\, guilt\, ingroup directed anger) that people sometimes experience when a member of their ingroup harms an outgroup. I argue that these affective reactions exist as a functional response to the problem of group-based or collective responsibility (e.g.\, blood revenge) and I will describe how the behavior that results from feelings of shame\, guilt\, or ingroup directed anger may reduce the extent to which a harmed outgroup engages in retaliation after a provocation.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/brian-lickel-affective-mechanisms-for-managing-intergroup-retribution/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050509T000000
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SUMMARY:Jennie Pyers - Building belief: The relationship between language and theory of mind\nunderstanding in learners of an emerging sign language in Nicaragua
DESCRIPTION:Jennie Pyers: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyFalse-belief understanding is the non-egocentric ability to recognize that one’s own thoughts and beliefs can be different from others’\, and\ndifferent from real-world events (i.e.\, mistaken). Research on early child development suggests that false-belief understanding is contingent\nupon language development. Recent findings from an emergent sign language in Nicaragua suggest that deaf individuals exposed to a less\ncomplex version of the language show deficits in false-belief understanding\, whereas those exposed to a more complex version of the\nlanguage develop normally. Without complex language\, human interaction is insufficient to support the development of a mature social\nunderstanding\, specifically that of false belief.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/jennie-pyers-building-belief-the-relationship-between-language-and-theory-of-mindunderstanding-in-learners-of-an-emerging-sign-language-in-nicaragua/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050516T000000
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SUMMARY:Piotr Winkielman - Unconscious Emotion
DESCRIPTION:Piotr Winkielman: UC San Diego Department of PsychologyMy talk explores the relation between emotion and conscious experience. Conscious feelings are typically viewed as a central and necessary ingredient of emotion. In contrast\, I will argue that emotion also can be genuinely unconscious (i.e.\, occur without the accompanying subjective experience). Theoretically\, my argument is anchored in evolutionary considerations that systems underlying basic emotions originated prior to systems for supporting conscious awareness\, and in functional considerations that consciousness is often unnecessary for emotions to do their job. These considerations are consistent with evidence from neuroscience and psychology. Neuroscience evidence suggests that subcortical brain systems\, including the brain stem and the “limbic system” underlie both basic ‘‘liking/disliking’’ reactions and more complex reactions\, such as fear\, disgust\, or desire. Further\, psychological evidence suggests that positive and negative reactions can be elicited subliminally and remain inaccessible to introspection. Despite the absence of subjective feelings in such cases\, subliminally induced affective reactions still influence people’s preference judgments\, monetary decision and even complex behavior\, such as the amount of beverage they consume. Finally\, I will discuss the interactions of conscious and unconscious components of emotion\, and conditions under which these components become coupled and decoupled.http://www.bec.ucla.edu/papers/Winkielman_16.5.05_b.pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/piotr-winkielman-unconscious-emotion/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20050523T000000
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SUMMARY:Douglas Wallace - Human Origins\, Genes and Myths: A Mitochondrial DNA Journey
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Wallace: UC Irvine Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyThe investigation of human origins and migrations has been greatly advanced by the analysis of human genetic variation to determine the relationships between different human populations. Such studies have permitted demonstration of the recent African origin of humans\, the reconstruction of ancient migrations\, and the correlation of human genetic history with linguistic affiliations. The first component of the human genome to be used in these investigations was the maternally-inherited human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) which codes for key proteins involved in the conversion of dietary calories in into ATP to fuel work and heat to maintain our body temperature. Variation in the human mtDNA has been found to be encompassed in a single dichotomously branching tree with the different branches of the tree correlating dramatically with the geographic distribution of indigenous peoples from around the world. The mtDNA correlation with human populations is much greater than that seen for either the paternally-inherited Y chromosome or the biparentally inherited autosomes. We now believe that this correlation is because variation in the mtDNA permitted our ancestors to adapt to the increasingly cold environments that they encountered as they migrated out-of-Africa and into temperate Eurasia and arctic Siberia. Hence\, selection has stabilized the geographic distribution of mtDNA variation such that mtDNA variation has sustained the distribution of the earliest human incursions around the world. This unique aspect of the mtDNA now makes mtDNA variation a particularly valuable tool for the analysis of deep cultural associations and origins. This is currently proving to be the case in studies on the origins and radiation of Native America languages and myths.http://www.bec.ucla.edu/papers/Wallace_23.5.05_1.pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/douglas-wallace-human-origins-genes-and-myths-a-mitochondrial-dna-journey/
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