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SUMMARY:Pamela Smith - The Social Distance Theory of Power
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Smith: UC San Diego Rady School of Management\, Professor of Management and Strategy I propose that individuals with higher power should view the world in a more high-level\, abstract fashion than individuals with lower power (Magee & Smith\, 2013). As having power makes individuals less dependent on others (relative to lacking power)\, it increases the psychological distance one feels from others\, and this distance (according to construal level theory) should lead to more abstract information processing. Thus\, those with power think in terms of the “big picture\,” focusing more on primary\, goal-relevant aspects of stimuli and moving beyond the details to see patterns and structure\, than those without power. In my talk I will review several studies that demonstrate this effect. Then I will discuss more recent research that has explored the intrapersonal and interpersonal implications of these effects for domains such as perceived power\, forgiveness\, and executive functioning.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/pamela-smith-the-social-distance-theory-of-power/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140109T000000
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SUMMARY:Paul Rozin - Reflections on Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology
DESCRIPTION:Paul Rozin: University of Pennsylvania\, Department of Psychology None Available
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/paul-rozin-reflections-on-cultural-and-evolutionary-psychology/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140113T000000
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SUMMARY:Robert Watson - Conservatism and Creativity in Cultural Evolution: A View from the Arts and Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Robert Watson: UCLA Department of English Creative arts and humanistic learning allow us to vary\, evaluate\, and regulate the evolving cultural systems that we empower\, at some cost and risk\, to protect us from the unique openness of human consciousness. Culture takes over the conservative tasks (performed biochemically in most non-human creatures) of giving shape to the overwhelming data offered by the world and providing coherent instructions for responding. Yet high culture (both artistic and scholarly) helps the broader culture co-evolve with us\, offering a safe setting for experimental innovations\, selecting which latent parts of our epigenetic library should be activated in a particular environment\, and favoring variations that promote long-term diversity over self-serving viruses that commandeer the body-politic into narrowing\, inhumane projects. Universities provide an essential defense both against the reactionary tribalism that resents complexity and multiculturalism\, and against the runaway meme-complexes now often manifest in capitalism and religion.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/robert-watson-conservatism-and-creativity-in-cultural-evolution-a-view-from-the-arts-and-humanities/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140123T000000
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SUMMARY:Dario Maestripieri - Understanding human life history variation: sleep patterns\, personality traits\, relationship status\, and hormones.
DESCRIPTION:Dario Maestripieri: University of Chicago\, Department of Comparative Human Development; Institute for Mind and BiologySeveral lines of evidence suggest that eveningness is associated with traits that favor short-term mating such as higher extraversion\, novelty-seeking\, risk-taking\, and short-term relationship orientation in both males and females. Night owl men also report a higher number of sexual partners than early-morning men\, who instead\, show personality and behavioral traits typically associated with slow life histories. Evidence also exists that autistic-like and schizotypal personality traits reflect opposite sides of a continuum of variation in personality and cognition that are best understood in reference to other slow and fast life history adaptations. Cortisol and testosterone may be some the physiological mechanisms underlying psychological and behavioral traits associated with slow and fast life histories. Both cortisol and testosterone levels differ between individuals who are single and in relationships\, with cortisol being associated with some aspects of personality and stress\, while men’s testosterone is more directly linked to variation in courtship activity and sexual promiscuity.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/dario-maestripieri-understanding-human-life-history-variation-sleep-patterns-personality-traits-relationship-status-and-hormones/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T000000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Plummer - Oldowan Archeology on the Homa Peninsula\, Kenya\, or what 2 million year old trash tells us about hominin behavior
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Plummer: Queens College Department of Anthropology\, member of CUNY graduate faculty and New York Consortium in Evolutionary PrimatologyHumans are odd primates. We have unusually large brains\, a diet rich in hard-to-acquire\, nutrient dense foods\, we practice extensive food sharing\, and we can adapt to a broad panorama of environments through cultural practices and social institutions. Whereas other primates may exhibit culture\, and produce technologies that assist in foraging\, humans are unique in being dependent on cultural practices for survival. But how far back in time does this dependency on culture go? What was the adaptive significance of early stone technologies? In this talk I will describe research on two million year old archeological sites on the Homa Peninsula\, Kenya. This research sheds light on early hominin foraging ecology at the dawn of the genus Homo.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/thomas-plummer-oldowan-archeology-on-the-homa-peninsula-kenya-or-what-2-million-year-old-trash-tells-us-about-hominin-behavior/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140131T000000
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SUMMARY:Jacinta Beehner - Changes in female reproductive condition following the arrival of new males in geladas: A physiological trifecta?
DESCRIPTION:Jacinta Beehner: University of Michigan Department of Anthropology The arrival of a new dominant male can be a tumultuous time for females in a primate social group – particularly when this male is likely to be infanticidal. Females of many taxa where infanticide occurs have developed counterstrategies to this threat. In sharp contrast with the behavioral counterstrategies reported for many primate species\, we discovered that female gelada responses are almost entirely physiological. Using 7 years of demographic and hormonal data from a population of wild geladas living in the Simien Mountains National Park\, Ethiopia\, I will detail two of these strategies – “false fertility” employed by lactating females\, and pregnancy termination (a “Bruce effect”) employed by pregnant females. Completing the trifecta\, I will present preliminary data that adolescent females exhibit yet a third physiological response to the arrival of a new male – the sudden onset of maturation (a “Vandenbergh effect”). I revive a term previously proposed for these same effects (the “hoo haa effect”) because there is likely a singular mechanism mediating all three outcomes.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/jacinta-beehner-changes-in-female-reproductive-condition-following-the-arrival-of-new-males-in-geladas-a-physiological-trifecta/
CATEGORIES:Past Presentation,Presentation
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