Rob Boyd – The Evolution of Contingent Cooperation
Rob Boyd: UCLA Dept. of Anthropology
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Jim Sidanius – Individual and Institutional Congruence in the Reproduction of Group-based Social Hierarchy: A Social Dominance Perspective
Jim Sidanius: UCLA Dept. of PsychologyBased upon ideas borrowed from classical elitism theory, social identity theory and evolutionary psychology, social dominance theory basically assumes that human social systems are predisposed […]
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Greg Bryant – Social and linguistic functions of prosodic cues in speech: an evolutionary approach
Greg Bryant: UCSC Dept. of PsychologyDuring speech communication, conversationalists produce and understand many simultaneous pieces of information through prosodic features of the voice (i.e., pitch, loudness, and duration properties). Prosodic […]
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Alan Dixson – Sperm competition, mammalian reproduction, and human evolution
Alan Dixson: Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San DiegoThis talk focuses upon the structure and functions of the reproductive organs of mammals, as viewed from the […]
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Lynn Stout – Other-Regarding Behavior and the Law
Lynn Stout: UCLA School of LawLegal scholars have become keenly interested in behavioral approaches to lawthat recognize that real people do not always behave in a selfishly rational fashion: numerous […]
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Nancy K. Dess – Violence and Its Antidotes: Promises and Pitfalls of Evolutionarily Aware Policy Development
Nancy K. Dess: Occidental CollegeGlimpses at our primate relatives and diverse human cultures provide prima facie evidence that as a species, we are capable of far more benevolent, just, and […]
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Stephen Stich – Why Moral Philosophers Need LOTS of Help from Psychologists, Anthropologists and Other Social Scientists
Stephen Stich: Rutgers Dept. of PhilosophyThe talk has three parts: In Part I, I will sketch a hotly debated question in moral philosophy. Roughly stated, the issue in dispute is […]
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Christine Harris – Did Men and Women Evolve Different Jealousy Mechanisms?
Christine Harris: UC San Diego Dept. of PsychologyThe specific innate modular theory of jealousy (JSIM) hypothesizes that men are innately prone to upset over a mate’s sexual infidelity and women, […]
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Michael Gurven – Determinants of Time Allocation Across the Lifespan
Michael Gurven: UCSB AnthropologyThis paper lays the groundwork for a theory of time allocation across the life course. It first develops a parametric model of rates of return on time […]
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Shelly Gable – Approaching affiliation and avoiding rejection: A motivational perspective on the formation and maintenance of social bonds
Shelly Gable: UCLA Dept. of PsychologySocial bonds are potent sources of both pleasure and pain; yet despite the precarious balance of interpersonal incentives and threats, across the life span people […]