BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture - ECPv6.16.5.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://bec.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20060402T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20061029T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20070311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20071104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20080309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20081102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071008T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071008T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004837Z CREATED:20200922T213916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004837Z UID:4052-1191801600-1191801600@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Mary Towner - Investigating cultural macroevolution and trait transmission in the Western North American Indian database DESCRIPTION:Mary Towner: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyCultural traits are distributed across human societies in a patterned way. Study of the mechanisms whereby\ncultural traits persist and change over time is key to understanding human cultural diversity. For more than a\ncentury\, a central question has engaged anthropologists interested in the study of cultural trait variation—what\nis the source of cultural variation? More precisely\, are cultural traits transmitted primarily from ancestral to\ndescendant populations (through vertical transmission or inheritance) or between contemporary\, typically\nneighboring\, populations (through horizontal transmission or diffusion)\, or do they emerge as independent\ninnovations? In addition\, do traits in different domains\, such as kinship and family\, subsistence and\nsettlement\, or material culture\, show different transmission patterns? Addressing such questions has proven\nto be methodologically challenging. Drawing on a research collaboration with Dr. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder\nand Dr. Mark N. Grote\, I will show how autologistic models can overcome some of the limitations of previous\napproaches by placing the different transmission mechanisms on a more equal analytical footing. These\nmodels can explicitly incorporate the structural links between societies\, with geographical proximity being\nused as a proxy for horizontal transmission\, and linguistic classification being used as a proxy for vertical\ntransmission. I illustrate the method with an application to cross-cultural data from the Western North\nAmerican Indian database\, a sample of 172 societies for which detailed ethnographic surveys were\nconducted in the early 20th century. Alternative autologistic models are estimated through MCMC simulations\nand then compared based on Akaike Information Criterion. The results suggest that the best models will\nalmost always incorporate both vertical and horizontal processes. URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/mary-towner-investigating-cultural-macroevolution-and-trait-transmission-in-the-western-north-american-indian-database/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071015T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071015T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004837Z CREATED:20200922T213917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004837Z UID:4053-1192406400-1192406400@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Gian Gonzaga - Is there an "I" in "We"? DESCRIPTION:Gian Gonzaga: eHarmony.comRelationships are often studied through one of two questions. How does the relationship benefit the individual and/or how does the relationship benefit the dyad? This talk will address the challenges of balancing what is good for me\, what is good for my partner\, and what is good for the relationship. It will then review a series of studies that shows that self-interest is sometimes best served by promoting the success of the relationship\, even at the momentary expense of the self. URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/gian-gonzaga-is-there-an-i-in-we/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071022T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071022T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004837Z CREATED:20200922T213918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004837Z UID:4054-1193011200-1193011200@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Andrew Shaner - Age at onset of schizophrenia: Evidence of a latitudinal gradient DESCRIPTION:Andrew Shaner: UCLA VA HospitalVariation in the age at onset of a multifactorial disease often reflects variation in cause. In this talk\, I show a linear latitudinal gradient in the mean age at onset of schizophrenia in 13 northern-hemisphere cities\, ranging from 25 years old in Cali\, Columbia (at 4 degrees north) to 35 years old in Moscow\, Russia (at 56 degrees north). This striking association has not been previously reported. I consider several explanations\, including the effects of pathogen stress\, natural selection\, sexual selection\, migration\, life-history profiles\, or some combination of these factors\, and I propose a test of competing causal hypotheses.http://bec.ucla.edu/papers/Shaner07.pdf URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/andrew-shaner-age-at-onset-of-schizophrenia-evidence-of-a-latitudinal-gradient/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20071029T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004836Z CREATED:20200922T213919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004836Z UID:4055-1193616000-1193616000@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Rob Kurzban - Morality is (at least) a Three-Player Game DESCRIPTION:Rob Kurzban: Penn PsychologySubstantial debate remains about the ultimate and proximate explanations for why people choose to punish\nthird parties\, individuals involved in interactions that have had and will have no direct effect on the punisher.\nHere\, one particular type of third-party punishment is explored\, moralistic punishment\, enduring a cost to inflict\ncosts on an individual who has violated a perceived moral norm. Results from a series of experiments\nsuggest that 1) third-party punishment\, at least in these cases\, is considerably less frequent and smaller in\nmagnitude than would be expected from existing models\, 2) knowing that one will be observed in meting out\nmoralistic punishment increases individuals’ willingness to do so\, and 3) inducing emotions such as\nempathy has systematic effects on both moralistic punishment and compensating victims of moral wrongs.\nThese findings are discussed in the context of possible evolved functions of moral psychology\, focusing on\nthe centrality of moralistic punishment for understanding the nature of the moral game being played. URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/rob-kurzban-morality-is-at-least-a-three-player-game/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR