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:20080309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20081102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20090308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20091101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091102T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091102T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004828Z CREATED:20200922T214446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004828Z UID:4115-1257120000-1257120000@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Steve Neuberg - Toward a Functional\, Affordance-Centered Model of Person Perception\, Prejudices\, and Social Interaction: Taking into Account Life History and Ecological Considerations DESCRIPTION:Steve Neuberg: Arizona State University Department of PsychologyTraditional psychological and social science theories fail to account for the complexity and nuance that characterize people’s prejudices and the manner in which\, more generally\, people view and interact with one another. I am developing an alternative\, functional\, affordance-based model\, one positing (1) that our views of others are based on our inferences about their goals\, the behavioral strategies they employ to reach them\, and the tangible threats and opportunities afforded us by those strategies\, and (2) that these goal and strategy inferences are themselves heuristically inferred from others’ life history standing (i.e.\, age X sex categorization) in combination with stereotypes about the behavioral strategies favored by the different physical and social ecologies in which people live (i.e.\, “ecology stereotypes”). This vertically integrative framework-linking life history and ecological considerations to person perception processes-provides a more compelling account for a wide range of psychological and social phenomena related to intergroup stereotypes and prejudices\, within-coalition stereotypes and prejudices\, various social-cognitive biases\, and the general accuracy of person perception and stereotypes. URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/steve-neuberg-toward-a-functional-affordance-centered-model-of-person-perception-prejudices-and-social-interaction-taking-into-account-life-history-and-ecological-considerations/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091109T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091109T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004828Z CREATED:20200922T214446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004828Z UID:4116-1257724800-1257724800@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Katerina Semendeferi - Neuroanatomical perspectives on the evolution of the mind DESCRIPTION:Katerina Semendeferi: UCSD Department of AnthropologyThe organ of the mind\, the brain\, is the focus of several fields of study. This lecture will address the role of neuroanatomy in reconstructions of cognitive evolution. It will present new data on the internal organization of the brain of humans and great apes and will revisit\, in a critical light\, some of the older data sets widely used in primate evolutionary studies. The lecture will address the challenges of reconstructing cognitive evolution based on animals like the apes that cannot be studied invasively\, the significance of including closely related taxonomic groups in studies of human evolution and the issues involved in transferring brain/mind data from animal models to hominids that are characterized by differences in brain size and socioecological adaptations. URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/katerina-semendeferi-neuroanatomical-perspectives-on-the-evolution-of-the-mind/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091116T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091116T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004827Z CREATED:20200922T214453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004827Z UID:4117-1258329600-1258329600@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:John Novembre - Spatial population structure and the genetic basis of adaptation in human populations DESCRIPTION:John Novembre: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Interdepartmental Program in BioinformaticsNovel technological developments are providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the geographic distribution of human genomic diversity. This information has been leveraged to study population structure and interrogate signatures of natural selection. In this talk I will review emerging results from geographic studies of human genetic variation that provide insights into 1) human population structure; and 2) the genetic basis of the response by human populations to recent selective pressures. http://www.bec.ucla.edu/NovembreTalk.pdf URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/john-novembre-spatial-population-structure-and-the-genetic-basis-of-adaptation-in-human-populations/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091123T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004827Z CREATED:20200922T214453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004827Z UID:4118-1258934400-1258934400@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:David Liu - Asking DESCRIPTION:David Liu: UCSD Department of PsychologyMuch research and debate around theory of mind (the ability to attribute mental states to actions) have revolved around whether X have a theory of\nmind. X might be 3-year-olds\, infants\, children with autism\, chimpanzees\, rhesus macaques\, and so forth. I will argue that the better question is what aspects or types of theory of mind are used by X. Numerous studies have shown that children develop different components or aspects of mental-state understanding at different ages\, and nonhuman animals demonstrate some components of mental-state understanding in certain situations. Research in my lab has shown that children with different developmental disabilities and typically-developing children from different cultures have shared and nonshared trajectories in their developmental progression of understanding different mental states. In addition\, we have discovered different neural circuitries associated with reasoning about different mental states. Our findings provide a framework for understanding similarities and differences in mental-state understanding across different human populations and different species. URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/david-liu-asking/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091130T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091130T000000 DTSTAMP:20201013T004827Z CREATED:20200922T214454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T004827Z UID:4119-1259539200-1259539200@bec.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Catherine Reed - The Role of Specialized Body Processing for Embodied Social Perception DESCRIPTION:Catherine Reed: Claremont-McKenna College Department of PsychologySocial psychologists have embraced the tenants of embodied cognition to explain how we understand the emotions of others. They claim that the reinstantiation of previous sensorimotor experience during emotional and social information processing is an essential process for understanding others’ emotions (e.g.\, Neidenthal\, Barsalou\, Winkielman\, Krauth-Gruber\, & Ric\, 2005). In this talk I suggest that current models of embodied emotion are missing the necessary body-processing mechanisms from which the simulations of emotional experience operate. Further\, if one cannot create the basic correspondences between another person’s body and one’s own then one cannot engage in the appropriate simulation process which can lead to social-emotional deficits such as those observed in autism spectrum disorders. URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/catherine-reed-the-role-of-specialized-body-processing-for-embodied-social-perception/ CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR