Dora Costa, Matthew Kahn – Heroes, Cowards, and Beyond
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 […]
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Alyssa Crittenden – The ontogeny of prosocial behavior: foraging and food sharing among Hadza hunter-gatherer children
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 – Cognitive constraints on the understanding and acceptance of evolution
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 – Why Are We So Odd? Explaining the Discontinuity Between Human and Nonhuman Minds
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 – Contextualizing Kinship: A Bio-cultural Study of Families and Health in Jamaica
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 – Competitive preferences across age and gender
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 – Emotions, Intuitions, and Morality
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 – Accidental Altruism: Economic Research on the Social Aspects of Giving.
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 […]
Joel Sachs – Evolutionary origins and stability of bacterial symbioses
Joel Sachs: UCRBeneficial bacteria improve our health and are crucial to crops plants and fodder animals. However, symbiosis is evolutionarily unstable: harmful mutants can invade symbiont populations and cause cooperation […]
Alison Gopnik – Childhood dependence and adult intelligence: Children as the Research and Development Division
Alison Gopnik: UCBOne of the most striking generalizations in evolutionary psychology is the correlation between sophisticated and flexible learning-based knowledge in adult organisms and a long protected period of immaturity […]