Richard McElreath: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyCultural evolution is driven in part by the strategies individuals employ to acquire behavior from others. These strategies themselves are partly products of natural […]
Dwight Read: UCLA Department of AnthropologyA long standing issue in human societies has been the relationship between culture and behavior. One extreme position views culture as arising primarily out of […]
Neil Tsutsui: UC Irvine Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyCultural evolution is driven in part by the strategies individuals employ to acquire behavior from others. These strategies themselves are partly […]
Joanna Mountain: Stanford University Department of Anthropological SciencesIn the 1960's linguist Joseph Greenberg classified all languages spoken primarily in Africa into four families. One of those families, Khoisan, includes not […]
Kang Lee: UC San Diego Department of PsychologyIn this talk, I will present three sets of studies that examined children’s lying: (a) to conceal their own transgression, (b) to be […]
Mark Kleiman: UCLA Department of Public Policy1. Dominance hierarchies help resolve conflicts over resources with a minimum of actual combat by giving the higher-ranking individual priority. To some extent, then, […]
Daniel M.T. Fessler: UCLA Department of AnthropologyCross-cultural comparisons can a) illuminate the manner in which cultures differentially highlight, ignore, and group various facets of emotional experience, and b) shed light […]
Raymond Gibbs: UC Santa Cruz Department of PsychologyMetaphor is traditionally viewed as a special use of language. But recent research from cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics suggests that metaphor is ubiquitous […]
Sang-Hee Lee: UC Riverside Department of AnthropologyIncreased longevity, expressed as number of individuals surviving to older adulthood, represents one of the ways the human life history pattern differs from other […]
Brian Lickel: University of Southern California Department of PsychologyIn this talk, I’ll present data examining how people think about and react to the wrong-doing of ingroup members. In particular, I’ll […]
