Carl Lipo: CSU Long Beach Department of AnthropologyThe monumental statues (moai) of Easter Island represent substantial investment in cultural elaboration by the prehistoric islanders. Constructing explanations of these features requires […]
Stacey Rucas: California Polytechnic State University Department of Social SciencesThis research examines the complexity of women's social behaviors with other women through various modes of evolutionary inquiry and methods. Results […]
Alison Gopnik: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyHow do we accurately infer the causal structure of the world around us? Thirty years of developmental research has shown that human children form […]
Hanna Kokko: University of Helsinki Department of Biological and Environmental SciencesI will present results on both `love´ (sexual selection) and `hatred´ (territorial conflict). In both cases I will investigate the […]
Mark Kleiman: UCLA Department of Public PolicyThe threat of punishment can facilitate cooperation by discouraging defection and aggression. Because punishment is scarce, costly, and painful, optimal enforcement strategies will minimize […]
Mary Towner: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyCultural traits are distributed across human societies in a patterned way. Study of the mechanisms whereby cultural traits persist and change over time is […]
Gian Gonzaga: eHarmony.comRelationships are often studied through one of two questions. How does the relationship benefit the individual and/or how does the relationship benefit the dyad? This talk will address […]
Andrew Shaner: UCLA VA HospitalVariation in the age at onset of a multifactorial disease often reflects variation in cause. In this talk, I show a linear latitudinal gradient in the […]
Rob Kurzban: Penn PsychologySubstantial debate remains about the ultimate and proximate explanations for why people choose to punish third parties, individuals involved in interactions that have had and will have […]
Kerri Johnson: UCLA Communication StudiesIn the 1950s, Doris Troy famously sang, “Just one look...that’s all it took,†implying that attraction can begin with little more than a glance. Contemporary research […]
