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SUMMARY:William Harbaugh - Competitive preferences across age and gender
DESCRIPTION:William Harbaugh: U of OregonOne potential explanation for some of the differences in incomes between men and women is a difference in preferences for economic competition. In experiments with real effort and cash payoffs men are more likely to select into winner-take-all tournaments\, while women tend to choose individual piece-rate pay or equal payments based on group performance. This talk examines how these relative gender differences vary across age and over the menstrual cycle. With an eye towards possible policy interventions we also examine differences in the demand for feedback information\, and differences in how the effect of feedback on past performance affects choices about competition.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/william-harbaugh-competitive-preferences-across-age-and-gender/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T000000
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SUMMARY:Simone Schnall - Emotions\, Intuitions\, and Morality
DESCRIPTION:Simone Schnall: CambridgeHow do people tell right from wrong? It used to be assumed that moral decisions are based on rational thought\, such that people determine on objective facts and logical analysis what is morally acceptable behaviour. More recently\, however\, empirical findings suggest that decisions about morality and ethical behaviour are far from rational\, but are often guided by emotional and other intuitions. I will discuss my research showing that first\, embodied feelings and intuitions influence moral judgments\, and second\, positive moral emotions can be harnessed to bring about positive behavioural change. These findings suggest that emotions and intuitions play a powerful role in moral considerations
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/simone-schnall-emotions-intuitions-and-morality/
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SUMMARY:James Andreoni - Accidental Altruism: Economic Research on the Social Aspects of Giving.
DESCRIPTION:James Andreoni: UCSDGiving to those in need is inherently a social act.  First\, altruistic giving requires empathy for\, or perhaps simply awareness of\, those who are needy.  Second\, giving nearly always involves a social interaction between the donor and someone seeking a donation.  Third\, those who are generous tend to be admired by others\, and people care both about admiring and being admired.   This presentation will discuss recent research in both the lab and the field on audience effects\, the power of asking\, the coercive nature of empathy over simple awareness\, and how ethnic and religious diversity influences charitable giving.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/james-andreoni-accidental-altruism-economic-research-on-the-social-aspects-of-giving/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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SUMMARY:Joel Sachs - Evolutionary origins and stability of bacterial symbioses
DESCRIPTION:Joel Sachs: UCRBeneficial bacteria improve our health and are crucial to crops plants and fodder animals. However\, symbiosis is evolutionarily unstable: harmful mutants can invade symbiont populations and cause cooperation to collapse. My research encompasses both theoretical and empirical work on the evolution and maintenance of bacterial symbioses with eukaryotes. My theoretical work seeks to understand how symbiotic cooperation is maintained and to predict the conditions in which exploitative / pathogenic mutants invade. This theory has important applications for medicine (maintenance of gut\, oral flora symbioses)\, agriculture (optimization of nitrogen fixing symbioses) and bio-production (e.g.\, selection of bacteria to perform biochemical reactions). My empirical interests are broad and I use a combination of experimental\, molecular and genomic approaches. Currently\, there are two overlapping research programs within my lab. One approach employs wet-lab techniques to study the evolution and breakdown of nitrogen-fixing plant symbioses (rhizobia). Our second and newer research program is mainly bioinformatic and investigates the origins and stability of bacterial symbioses writ large (e.g. across whole bacterial lineages) and thus over deep evolutionary time.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/joel-sachs-evolutionary-origins-and-stability-of-bacterial-symbioses/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111128T000000
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SUMMARY:Alison Gopnik - Childhood dependence and adult intelligence: Children as the Research and Development Division
DESCRIPTION:Alison Gopnik: UCBOne of the most striking generalizations in evolutionary psychology is the correlation between sophisticated and flexible learning-based knowledge in adult organisms and a long protected period of immaturity in the young. In terms of the classic altricial vs. precocial\, or r vs. k distinction in evolutionary biology\, the altricial species are more likely to rely on learned information as adults. Human beings\, of course\, have a particularly extended childhood\, and are particularly marked by their reliance on learning. This fact suggests that there may be a kind of cognitive division of labor between children and adults. Children are\, as it were\, the research and development division of the human species\, while adults are production and marketing. Children are designed to be particularly good at learning and exploration and adults are designed to exploit the information they have learned as children for purposes of planning. I will review a wide range of developmental and neuroscientific evidence that supports this hypothesis\, including some very recent studies in our lab that empirically show that children may be better causal learners than adults.  In particular\, I will discuss this idea in light of recent work on the computational bases of cognitive development using ideas about probabilistic models and Bayesian learning.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/alison-gopnik-childhood-dependence-and-adult-intelligence-children-as-the-research-and-development-division/
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