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SUMMARY:Edward Slingerland - Why do Humanists Hate Vertical Integration?
DESCRIPTION:Edward Slingerland: University of British Columbia Department of Asian Studies\, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied CognitionCalls to “vertically integrate” (Tooby & Cosmides) or achieve “consilience” (E.O. Wilson) between the sciences and the humanities have\, for the most part\, been received with a great deal of hostility by humanists. This talk explores some of the reasons–good\, bad\, and unavoidable–for this hostility\, and sketches an outline of what might profitably be called a “second wave” of consilience\, one that would help to bring about a more amicable relationship between the “two cultures.”http://www.bec.ucla.edu/EdSlingerland.pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/edward-slingerland-why-do-humanists-hate-vertical-integration/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100510T000000
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SUMMARY:Eric Alden Smith - Large-Scale Cooperation in Small-Scale Societies
DESCRIPTION:Eric Alden Smith: University of Washington Department of AnthropologyCollective action with low relatedness (large-n\, low-r cooperation) is a common feature of human societies\, in marked contrast to patterns in other species. This is particularly puzzling for small-scale societies of foragers and horticulturalists\, where formal social institutions to enforce collective action are weak or absent. There is considerable disagreement regarding the evolutionary basis of such forms of collective action; some are convinced they can be explained via standard forms of mutualism\, reciprocity\, and coercion supplemented by reputation mechanisms\, while others insist that various forms of cultural group selection are required. This debate has been protracted\, and progress in our understanding of the issues appears stymied. I argue that progress can be made\, but will require carefully targeted empirical evidence from naturalistic settings\, particularly concerning the distribution of costs and benefits among collective action participants. I focus here on small-scale societies\, and pinpoint areas in which empirical evidence could be particularly helpful. These include: \n     1) What are the payoff structures for empirically common forms of collective action?\n     2) How great is reproductive skew within groups\, and what are its individual-level and institutional correlates?\n     3) At what frequency do groups with greater amounts of collective action prevail demographically? \nI discuss ethnographic variation in Native North America to explore what patterns these phenomena might take. However\, convincing answers to these questions will require carefully tailored analyses of new or existing data.http://www.bec.ucla.edu/SmithPaper1.pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/eric-alden-smith-large-scale-cooperation-in-small-scale-societies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100512T000000
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SUMMARY:Doug Kenrick - How the Mind Warps: Evolution and Social Cognition
DESCRIPTION:Doug Kenrick: Arizona State University Department of PsychologyThe human mind processes information in a famously selective and shockingly biased way. Who and what do we select for attention\, encoding\, and retrieval\, and how\, why\, and when do we distort certain kinds of information in certain ways and not others?  My colleagues and I have been studying how basic cognitive processes are influenced by activating fundamental human motivations such as self-protection or mating goals.  We’ve found several domain-specific cognitive enhancements\, decrements\, and distortions: we stare at\, but fail to remember\, certain people in certain circumstances\, we look away from\, yet remember\, other people in other conditions\, and sometimes we differentiate members of out-groups who are normally blurred together in our memories. These motivated biases are anything but random and senseless. Instead they predispose adaptive context-sensitive decisions about whether to conform or show off\, whether to fight or flirt\, whether to take financial risks\, and so on.  At a deeper level\, these biases make functional sense when considered in light of broader theoretical developments at the interface of evolutionary biology\, comparative anthropology\, and cognitive science. http://www.bec.ucla.edu/KenrickPaper1.pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/doug-kenrick-how-the-mind-warps-evolution-and-social-cognition/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100517T000000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Pillsworth - Is Female Choice Overemphasized in the Evolutionary Psychology of Human Mating? Evidence from the Shuar of Ecuador
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Pillsworth: CSU Fullerton Department of AnthropologyDarwin’s theory of sexual selection emphasizes the role of female mate choice in shaping male morphology and behavior. In evolutionary psychology\, the model of female choice has served as one organizing feature of research on human mating. However\, in many human societies women are reported to have very little influence over their own mating decisions; rather\, parents or other kin often control the marriage decisions of daughters. This has led to the claim by some that female choice has been overestimated as a selective force in human evolution\, based upon the evolutionarily novel context of modern Western sexual practices. I will present data from the Shuar\, a hunter-horticulturalist society in the Amazon basin of Ecuador\, to highlight the ways in which women exert mate choice within a paternalistic and highly controlling environment\, and demonstrate that choice need not be “free” to have an evolutionary impact.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/elizabeth-pillsworth-is-female-choice-overemphasized-in-the-evolutionary-psychology-of-human-mating-evidence-from-the-shuar-of-ecuador/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20100524T000000
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SUMMARY:Carlos Navarrete - Sexual Selection and the Psychological Architecture of Race Prejudice
DESCRIPTION:Carlos Navarrete: Michigan State University Department of Psychology & Evolution\, Ecology\, and Behavior ProgramIntergroup aggression perpetrated by men has been a persistent feature of human societies for centuries\, and may have been common enough over evolutionary time to have allowed selection to shape the neural circuitry underlying the psychology of prejudice. Because intergroup aggression poses different adaptive challenges for men and women\, the psychological adaptations that operate to cope with such threats may differ between the sexes as well. Because racial categories are often mentally represented as group-like entities\, modern race bias should be understandable within this general framework. Results from several studies are consistent with this perspective\, and show that (a) race bias is primarily directed at male exemplars of racial-outgroups\, (b) men are more likely to be aggressively prejudiced than women\, and (c) women are more likely to be fearfully prejudiced than men\, particularly during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle.  Illustrations of how these systems may be operative in political attitudes and voting preferences for Barack Obama are presented.  These results are consistent with the notion that the psychology of intergroup prejudice is generated by different psychological systems between men and women.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/carlos-navarrete-sexual-selection-and-the-psychological-architecture-of-race-prejudice/
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