Tom Griffiths: UC Berkeley Department of Psychology and Group Major in Cognitive ScienceLearning a language, a concept, or a social norm all require making an inductive inference, going beyond the […]
Justin Wood: USC Department of PsychologyAs social creatures, we wake up every morning to a dizzying array of actions from allies and competitors, in contexts that include cooperation, resource competition […]
Dario Maestripieri: University of Chicago Professor of Comparative Human Development, Evolutionary Biology, Neurobiology, and PsychiatryPost-copulatory sexual selection operates through two main mechanisms: sperm competition and post-copulatory female choice. Little is […]
Edward Slingerland: University of British Columbia Department of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied CognitionCalls to "vertically integrate" (Tooby & Cosmides) or achieve "consilience" (E.O. Wilson) […]
Eric Alden Smith: University of Washington Department of AnthropologyCollective action with low relatedness (large-n, low-r cooperation) is a common feature of human societies, in marked contrast to patterns in other […]
Doug Kenrick: Arizona State University Department of PsychologyThe human mind processes information in a famously selective and shockingly biased way. Who and what do we select for attention, encoding, and […]
Elizabeth Pillsworth: CSU Fullerton Department of AnthropologyDarwin's theory of sexual selection emphasizes the role of female mate choice in shaping male morphology and behavior. In evolutionary psychology, the model of […]
Carlos Navarrete: Michigan State University Department of Psychology & Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior ProgramIntergroup aggression perpetrated by men has been a persistent feature of human societies for centuries, and may […]
Quentin Atkinson: University of Oxford Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary AnthropologyLanguages, like species, evolve. Words and phrases compete for our favour in a struggle for existence that is analogous to […]
Aaron Blackwell: UCSB Department of AnthropologyThe Shuar are a large and semi-autonomous indigenous group from the Amazonas region of Ecuador. Most Shuar subsist on a mixture of foraging and horticulture, […]
