Brian Skyrms: UC Irvine Department of Logic & Philosophy of ScienceSender-Receiver games are simple, tractable models of information transmission. They provide a basic setting for the study the evolution of […]
Russell Jackson: CSU San Marcos Department of PsychologyDistance perception is among the most ubiquitous psychological phenomena known. Humans utilize distance estimation during all waking hours and even when sleeping. Distance […]
Jessica Lynch Alfaro: UCLA Center for Society and GeneticsDespite growing interest in capuchin monkeys as model organisms for social learning and cultural evolution, comparative evolutionary study of Cebus behavioral traits […]
Gary Charness: UC Santa Barbara Department of EconomicsWe conducted three field experiments to investigate how people schedule and complete tasks, providing some of the first data concerning procrastination and willpower […]
Brooke Scelza: UCLA Department of AnthropologyAustralian Aborigines in the Western Desert have gone through a nutritional transition in the last 50 years; moving from a diet of mainly indigenous “bush […]
John Alcock: Arizona State University Department of Life SciencesI will review why I became an adaptationist and continue to believe that the theory of natural selection as amended by W.D. […]
Noah Goldstein: UCLA Anderson School of ManagementSocial norms can be powerful drivers of human behavior, which means that communicators who can properly harness norms hold in their hands a powerful […]
John Mikhail: Georgetown LawScientists from various disciplines have begun to focus renewed attention on the psychology and biology of human morality. One research program that has recently gained attention is […]
Tatsuya Kameda: Hokkaido University Department of Behavioral ScienceFeeling and expressing emotions appropriately in the right context is an essential component of social behavior. It has been suggested that emotional functioning […]
Peter DeScioli: Chapman University, Economic Science InstituteExploration of the cognitive systems underlying human friendship will be advanced by identifying the biological functions these systems perform. Here I propose that human […]
