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 […]
Richard Lippa: Cal State University, Fullerton Department of PsychologyBBC data from 53 nations and from more than 200,000 participants provide new insights into sex differences in: (1) sexual traits (e.g., […]
Russ Poldrack: UCLA PsychologyIt has become common practice amongst neuroimaging researchers to infer the presence of mental processes from activation in particular parts of the brain. The validity of this […]
Michael Arbib: USC NeuroscienceHuman language is far more than speech and its derivatives such as writing. Human signed languages like American Sign Language are fully expressive human languages, and speakers […]
Roger Sullivan: CSU Sacramento, Anthropology, and UC Davis School of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesNeurobiological models of drug abuse propose that drug use is initiated and maintained by rewarding feedback […]
