Charles Perreault: UCLA Department of AnthropologyHumans adaptive radiation has been explained by our capacity to socially learn information (culture). Culture is an inheritance system that parallels and interacts with the […]
Ralph Adolphs: Cal TechLike most other social neuroscience groups, my lab has been using pictures of faces as stimuli for a long time-- we investigate how people look at them, […]
Dora Costa, Matthew Kahn: UCLAIn Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War we used the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers to discover when people […]
Alyssa Crittenden: UNLVHuman prosociality is one of the defining characteristics of our species, yet the developmental origins of altruistic behavior remain little understood. The evolution of widespread food sharing in […]
Andrew Shtulman: OccidentalEvolution by natural selection is a theory that has unified the biological sciences but divided the general public. In this talk, I shall discuss how early-emerging, essentialist constraints […]
Derek Penn: UCLAHuman animals– and no other– build fires and wheels, diagnose each other’s illnesses, communicate using symbols, risk their lives for ideals, collaborate with others, explain the world in […]
Robin Nelson: UCRIn this talk, I will explore the extent to which variability in the quality of familial and social relationships is correlated to the phenotypic expression of biological indicators […]
William Harbaugh: U of OregonOne potential explanation for some of the differences in incomes between men and women is a difference in preferences for economic competition. In experiments with real […]
Simone Schnall: CambridgeHow do people tell right from wrong? It used to be assumed that moral decisions are based on rational thought, such that people determine on objective facts and […]
James Andreoni: UCSDGiving to those in need is inherently a social act. First, altruistic giving requires empathy for, or perhaps simply awareness of, those who are needy. Second, giving nearly […]
