Paul Zak: Claremont Graduate University Neuroendocrine Foundations of Trust Department of EconomicsThe traditional view in economics is that individuals respond to incentives, but absent strong incentives to the contrary selfishness […]
Margo Wilson & Martin Daly: McMaster University Department of PsychologyThe future is almost always worth less to organisms than the present, and evolved psychologies and physiologies 'discount' it accordingly. However, […]
Jeffrey Brantingham: UCLA Department of Anthropology How specialized is your average Los Angeles "auto boost"? This talk draws on both new and classic foraging models to examine the search strategies […]
Shinobu Kitayama: University of Michigan Department of PsychologyThere is a general consensus that the history of voluntary settlement in the western frontier constitutes a major element of American individualism. Yet, […]
Gregory F. Grether: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyNormal development depends on specific environmental inputs. Consequently, when a species encounters novel environmental conditions, some traits may develop abnormally. Changes […]
Craig McKenzie: UC San Diego Department of PsychologyFraming effects are said to occur when "equivalent" redescriptions of objects or outcomes lead to different preferences or judgments. For example, a medical […]
Dan Posner: UCLA Department of Political Science
Steven Gaulin: UCSB Department of AnthropologyThough Silverman and Eals division-of-foraging-labor hypothesis cannot explain the cross-species distribution of sex differences in spatial ability, it does make a novel prediction: women will […]
Rafael Nuñez: UCSD Department of Cognitive ScienceHow can we "objectively" share abstract entities with others, in a stable and consistent way? How can we evaluate "Truth" when purely imaginary entities […]
Gail Heyman: UCSD Department of PsychologyThe human capacity to acquire knowledge from others, rather than only relying upon what can be observed or experienced directly, opens vast opportunities for learning. […]
