Dwight Read – Where Does Culture Fit In?
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 […]
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Neil Tsutsui – Genetics and social organization of an invasive ant in its native and introduced ranges
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 […]
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Joanna Mountain – Deep common ancestry of African click-speaking populations
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 […]
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Kang Lee – Little Liars: Development of Verbal Deception in Different Social Contexts
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 […]
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Mark Kleiman – Dominance hierarchies and public policies
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, […]
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Daniel M.T. Fessler – Cringing before others’ eyes: A cross-cultural investigation of the evolution of shame
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 […]
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Raymond Gibbs – Embodied metaphor in language, thought, and culture
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 […]
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Sang-Hee Lee – Old Is Young: Longevity in Human Evolution
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 […]
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Brian Lickel – Affective Mechanisms for Managing Intergroup Retribution
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 […]
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Jennie Pyers – Building belief: The relationship between language and theory of mind understanding in learners of an emerging sign language in Nicaragua
Jennie Pyers: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyFalse-belief understanding is the non-egocentric ability to recognize that one's own thoughts and beliefs can be different from others', and different from real-world events […]