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SUMMARY:Wendy Treynor - Are the Most Mistrustful the Least Trustworthy? Studies of Unethical Behavior
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Treynor: USC Institute for Creative TechnologiesIs one who believes that unethical activity is common unlikely to act ethically? To test the hypothesis that cynical beliefs predict unethical behaviors\, actual unethical activity was examined by developing two laboratory techniques. In the American History Aptitude Test cheating technique\, participants were told they would be rewarded with 10 cents for each question on a test that “accidentally” had the correct answers already marked on it\, whereas in the Weight Perception Task stealing technique\, participants estimated the weight of objects using coins from a bowl\, which they sat alone with\, containing $71.00 of coins. Regardless of technique used\, cynicism—the belief that\nothers are engaging in unethical acts or that unethical behavior is common or normal—was found to positively predict unethical behavior.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/wendy-treynor-are-the-most-mistrustful-the-least-trustworthy-studies-of-unethical-behavior/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Andreas Wilke - The adaptive problem of finding resources
DESCRIPTION:Andreas Wilke: UCLA Department of AnthropologyWhen resources are distributed in patches animals must decide when to switch from a depleted patch. The optimal policy is given by the Marginal Value Theorem\, which has successfully predicted animal behaviors\, but as a mechanism it becomes problematic when each patch contains few discrete prey items. Biologists have proposed simple alternative decision mechanisms and calculated in which environments each works well. We tested whether the decision mechanisms evolved to direct animals when to leave a food patch also underlie human decision making in the same context\, and whether humans in an internal-search task (e.g. information in memory) use the same mechanisms as in an external-search task (e.g. physical objects).
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/andreas-wilke-the-adaptive-problem-of-finding-resources/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20061023T000000
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SUMMARY:Colin Camerer - Status\, ethnicity\, and wealth in Vietnam: Evidence from experimental games
DESCRIPTION:Colin Camerer: CalTech Department of Business EconomicsWe conducted economic experiments to investigate interethnic discrimination with the members of three ethnic groups\, i.e.\, Vietnamese\, Khmer and Chinese\, in southern Vietnam. Vietnamese are the major ethnic group\, and Khmer and Chinese are main minority groups. Chinese are the richest and Khmer are the poorest among the three ethnic groups. \nWe found that 1) Khmer (poor minority) show the strongest solidarity. 2) Vietnamese (majority) do not show solidarity when they are matched with Khmer (poor minority)\, but demonstrate ingroup bias when they are matched with Chinese (rich minority). 3) Vietnamese often comply with the social norm of fair allocations\, choosing equal splits both in Dictator Game and Third Party Punishment Game. 4) Khmer send much more in Third party Punishment game than in Dictator Game\, while Chinese reduce the amount sent when the third party is introduced (crowing-out effects). 4) Both minorities punish Vietnamese more severely when Vietnamese violate the norm. 5) Both minorities protect ingroup victims more than they do outgroup victims.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/colin-camerer-status-ethnicity-and-wealth-in-vietnam-evidence-from-experimental-games/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20061030T000000
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SUMMARY:Mark Changizi - Letters from nature
DESCRIPTION:Mark Changizi: CalTech Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical NeurobiologyReading pervades every aspect of our daily lives\, so much so that one would be hardpressed to find a room in a modern house without words written somewhere inside. Many of us now read more sentences in a day than we listen to. Not only are we highly competent readers\, but our brains even appear to have regions devoted to recognizing words. A Martian just beginning to study us humans might be excused for concluding that we had evolved to read. But\, of course\, we haven’t. Reading and writing is a recent human invention\, going back only several thousand years\, and much more recently for many parts of the world. We are reading using the eyes and brains of our illiterate ancestors. Why are we so good at such an unnatural act? Here I describe new evidence that\, although we have not evolved to be good at reading\, writing appears to have culturally evolved to be good for the eye. More specifically\, new research supports the hypothesis that human visual signs look like nature\, because that is what we have evolved over millions of years to be good at seeing. This ecological hypothesis for letter shape not only helps explain why we are such good readers\, but answers the question\, Why are letters and other visual signs shaped the way they are?http://www.bec.ucla.edu/papers/Changizi_10.30.06.pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/mark-changizi-letters-from-nature/
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