Primate Extinction in the Anthropocene and the Tail of Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus Nelson Ting Professor, Department of Anthropology & Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon There have been five mass extinction events in the history of Earth, and it is thought we are in the midst of a sixth. The consequences of […]
Embodiment of Stress and Trauma in the Perinatal Period Kyle Wiley Recent UCLA post-doctoral researcher The associations between adverse social experiences and poor health outcomes are well-documented and consistent across societies. My work interrogates intergenerational patterns of health disparities by combining methods and perspectives across biological anthropology, human biology, psychoneuroendocrinology and -immunology, and public health. […]
How people forage in space and mind Peter M. Todd Provost Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Informatics Indiana University, Bloomington How do we decide when to search for something better and when to stick with what we’ve got? People and other organisms must adaptively trade off between exploring and exploiting their environment to obtain […]
Chimp Empire - A Screening and Panel Discussion with the Filmmakers Featuring Sara Edelson Manager of Original Documentary Programming, Netflix James Reed Director, Chimp Empire John Mitani Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Michigan moderated by Clark Barrett Professor, UCLA Department of Anthropology and Director, UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture and Abigail Bigham Associate […]
How to incite a scientific revolution: A practical framework of converging evidence for behavioral sciences integration Gary Brase Kansas State University If science is about the pursuit of truth, why do so many scientists disagree? Everyone should agree, at least on most things, according to the idea that there is a consistency of sciences. Others […]
Kinship as constraint: Social aging in kin-structured groups Irene Godoy Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB), University of Exeter The dramatic increase in human life expectancy poses new challenges for health care systems. Among those challenges is that social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for mortality are highest among the elderly. We know […]
Models of Collective Problem Solving: Bringing the Individual into Collective Intelligence Cody Moser Cognitive and Information Sciences, UC Merced The field of collective intelligence focuses on how group communication, interaction, and organization shape collective outcomes. Computational models of collective systems have been instrumental in identifying which structures promote optimal group performance. While these models often […]
The adaptivity of children’s search processes Andreas Wilke Clarkson University, Department of Psychology Humans and other organisms must search effectively for the resources they need, whether these are physical (e.g., food or shelter) or informational (e.g., patterns in the world, or concepts stored in memory). Most human search studies have focused on brief (static) laboratory […]
The evolutionary psychology of psychology David Pietraszewski Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB Sciences progress when the perspective-dependence of their inquiry is taken into account and corrected for. This happened in astronomy, physics, and chemistry, but it has not yet happened in the psychological and behavioral sciences. Because human beings have no choice but to use […]
Snark Hunting and Non-Traditional Models for the Biology of Monogamy Nicholas Grebe Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Occidental College Since the 1950s, the field of organismal biology has warned against a single-minded focus on common, easy-to-study animal models—the lab rat being the canonical example—that comes at the expense of understanding both diversity and commonality in […]
