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 […]
Caleb Finch: USC Davis School of GerontologyHuman lifespans have increased remarkably from the 20 year life expectancy (LE) of the great apes. The normative 40 y LE of pre-industrial peoples […]
Karthik Panchanathan: UCLA Department of AnthropologyBehavioral economics studies have shown people to have other-regarding social preferences. In the Dictator Game, for example, dictators transfer some portion of their endowment to […]
James Fowler: UCSD Political Science DepartmentSocial networks exhibit strikingly systematic patterns across a wide range of human contexts. While genetic variation accounts for a significant portion of the variation in […]
