Dan Posner – Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision in Kampala, Uganda: An Experimental Approach
Dan Posner: UCLA Department of Political Science
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Steven Gaulin – A Real-World Foraging Task Yields a Female Advantage and Significant Content Effects.
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 […]
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Rafael Nu̱ez РEmbodied Cognition, Objectivity, and Truth: Lessons from Mathematics and Spatial Construals of Time in Aymara
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 […]
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Gail Heyman – Children’s Reasoning about People as Source of Information
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. […]
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John Patton – Coalitional Psychology and the Conundrum of Altruism: a case from the Ecuadorian Amazon
John Patton: California State University Fullerton Department of AnthropologyThe search for solutions to the conundrum of altruism is a central focus of evolutionary approaches to the study of human behavior. […]
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Teresa Seeman – Exploring a Bio-Psychosocial Model of Cumulative Risk – Biological Pathways Linking Life Experience and Health Outcome in Aging
Teresa Seeman : UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Division of GeriatricsDr. Seeman will discuss evidence linking socio-economic, social and psychological resources to trajectories of health and aging and the […]
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Leeat Yariv – Conformity In The Lab
Leeat Yariv: Caltech Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA Department of EconomicsIn this talk, I will briefly survey the existing literature on social learning and conformity (both theoretical and […]
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Terrence Deacon – Devo-Devo: How Relaxed Selection Can Contribute To The Evolution And Self-Organization Of Complexity
Terrence Deacon: UC Berkeley Department of AnthropologyAlthough biologists have long recognized examples of regressive processes in evolution as well as a role for regressive processes in the development of brains, […]
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Peter Whybrow – American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
Peter Whybrow: UCLA David Geffen School of MedicineDr. Whybrow poses the question, “Are we Americans becoming the first addicts of the technological age?†Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more […]
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Jeffrey Davis – Fisher’s Sociological Imagination
Jeffrey Davis: California State University Long Beach Department of SociologyFisher is widely known for his extraordinary contributions to population genetics and evolutionary biology. His sociological insights have received far less […]