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SUMMARY:Peter Whybrow - American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
DESCRIPTION:Peter Whybrow: UCLA David Geffen School of MedicineDr. Whybrow poses the question\, “Are we Americans becoming the first addicts of the technological age?”  Despite an astonishing appetite for life\, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied in the world’s most affluent nation\, epidemic rates of stress\, anxiety\, depression\, obesity\, and time urgency are now grudgingly accepted as part of everyday existence—they signal the American Dream gone awry.  Drawing upon economics\, history\, evolutionary psychology\, and scientific case studies\, Dr. Whybrow ground the extraordinary achievements and excessive consumption of the American nation in an understanding of the biology of human craving and the reward system of the brain—offering a comprehensive physical explanation for the addictive mania of consumerism. Whybrow shows how human biology is ill equipped to cope with the demands of the 24/7\, global\, information-saturated\, rapid-fire culture we not only have created but also have come to crave. Dr. Whybrow concludes with a discussion of how one may step back from this treadmill to live a healthful life.  But he also offers a cautionary tale:  As a society if we do not learn to curtail our cravings\, we may be entering a self-destructive phase.  Fundamental to change will be an objective evaluation of the laissez-faire market ideology and a reinvigoration of our role as citizens in this driven consumer culture.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/peter-whybrow-american-mania-when-more-is-not-enough/
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Davis - Fisher's Sociological Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Davis: California State University Long Beach Department of SociologyFisher is widely known for his extraordinary contributions to population genetics and evolutionary biology. His sociological insights have received far less attention\, even though five of the twelve chapters of The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection are devoted to developing a theory of the evolutionary consequences of human social organization. For my presentation\, I will review Fisher’s sociology and the parameters of his model of social organization. I also offer some extensions to Fisher’s model. In conclusion\, I contend that Fisher’s insights provide the basis of a rich theoretical research program in evolutionary sociology.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/jeffrey-davis-fishers-sociological-imagination/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Chris Guzelian - Evolution\, Selfish Lies\, and Free Speech
DESCRIPTION:Chris Guzelian: Searle Scholar\, Northwestern University School of LawEvidence increasingly suggests that selection between competing ideas to become a prevailing social belief may be strongly influenced by evolutionarily descended limitations on human sensory and mental capabilities. Scholars posit that these limitations permit many “selfish” ideas to gain social traction and spread epidemically\, driving out and shutting out truth from collective understanding in the selection process. An evolutionary perspective\, combined with settled principles of free speech law\, indicates that the explicit combating of various selfish false ideas through technological\, educational\, legal\, financial\, or other means may be necessary to avoid self-sustaining mass delusions in a globalizing world.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/chris-guzelian-evolution-selfish-lies-and-free-speech/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20060424T000000
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SUMMARY:Joseph Campos - On the Epigenesis of Fear in the Human Infant
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Campos: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyThere is a fascinating paradox about fear of heights in humans and some animal species. Such fear has enormous biological adaptive value\, represents a true life-span emotional reaction\, and constitutes one of the strongest and most reliably-elicited fears in the human. As such\, one would expect fear of heights to be innate\, or under strong maturational control. Indeed\, until recently\, it was so considered. However\, there is now no doubt that fear of heights develops as the result of experience\, more specifically experiences linked to the onset of self-produced locomotion. It is not a maturational or innate event. \nWhat creates fear of heights and how does locomotor experience play a role in its ontogeny? We can rule out three likely candidates as playing a causal role. Depth perception is well established before such fear develops; falling experiences are relatively rare; and maternal emotional signaling has little if any impact at the age of onset of locomotion. What\, then\, may be the process(es) by which such biologically-adaptive wariness comes about? \nIn this talk\, evidence is presented for the role of a discrepancy between sensory systems in the ontogeny of these fears. The discrepancy we propose to be playing a causal role is related to the discrepancy that in adults makes heights “dizzying.” More specifically\, one experiences height vertigo when information reaches the brain that the head and body is moving (even minutely so)\, but visual information discrepantly fails to confirm such self-movement. It turns out that infants have good vestibular and kinesthetic information about self-movement from early in life\, but lack responsiveness to flow in the visual periphery until after the acquisition of locomotor experience. So\, only after “visual proprioception” becomes functional is the infant capable of experiencing the discrepancy that produces height vertigo. \nThe talk will: \n(a) Visually illustrate what visual proprioception is (it is not a phenomenon well-known to behavioral scientists)\, \n(b) Provide evidence for the role of locomotor experience on visual proprioception\, and \n(c) Present results of two studies showing correlations between responsiveness to optic flow and the probability of showing wariness of heights in infants at two different ages.http://www.bec.ucla.edu/papers/Campos_24.4.06.doc
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/joseph-campos-on-the-epigenesis-of-fear-in-the-human-infant/
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