Ruth Mace: University College London Department of AnthropologyA behavioural ecological approach to human birth rates suggests they should vary according to the costs of raising children to adulthood. Demographers and […]

Devesh Rustagi: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich - Department of Environmental Policy and EconomicsRecent research suggests that the power of conditional cooperation norm and punishment of norm violators in […]

Aaron Sell: UCSB Department of PsychologyAnger can be understood as a cognitive mechanism designed by natural selection to negotiate conflicts of interest in ways similar to, but distinct from, non-human […]

Greg Hickok: UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences & Center for Cognitive NeuroscienceThere are two ideas regarding how auditory and motor speech systems interact in language processing. A popular view in the […]

Bruce Bridgeman: UC Santa Cruz Department of PsychologyEstimation of slope is an everyday tool for navigating the external world. Previous studies have found that slopes are overestimated more greatly with […]

Steve Frank: UC Irvine & Santa Fe Institute Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyCurrent studies of biological sociality tend to ignore two key factors: the consequences of social traits on […]

Andrew Shaner: UCLA Semel Institute for Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Deputy Chief of Psychiatry and Mental Health, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare SystemIn many species, siblings compete for parental care […]

Steve Neuberg: Arizona State University Department of PsychologyTraditional psychological and social science theories fail to account for the complexity and nuance that characterize people's prejudices and the manner in which, […]

Katerina Semendeferi: UCSD Department of AnthropologyThe organ of the mind, the brain, is the focus of several fields of study. This lecture will address the role of neuroanatomy in reconstructions […]