Georg Striedter – What’s Special About Human Brains?
Georg Striedter: The University of California, Irvine. Human brains are much larger than one would expect for primates of our body size. They also feature more neurons and a proportionately […]
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Scott A. Reid – Perceived Distance Between Accents, Religious Groups, and Attraction to Ingroup-Accented Speakers, is Calibrated to the Costs of Infection Risk
Scott A. Reid: University of California, Santa BarbaraThere is evidence that humans have adaptations to avoid outgroup members who potentially harbor novel pathogens. However, intergroup contact can produce fitness costs […]
Aaron Lukaszewski – The Origins of Heritable Personality Variation: An Integrative Evolutionary Approach
Aaron Lukaszewski: Loyola Marymount UniversityTwo basic questions in the study of personality origins are (1) Why do people vary in their personality trait levels? and (2) Why do distinct trait […]
James W. Pennebaker – Using function words to understand people, groups, and culture
James W. Pennebaker: University of Texas at AustinThe smallest and most frequently used words in English are function words -- pronouns, prepositions, articles, auxiliary verbs, etc. These overlooked words are […]
Mark Handcock – Statistical Modeling of Social Networks
Mark Handcock: University of California, Los AngelesIn this talk we give an overview of social network analysis from the perspective of a statistician. The networks field is, and has been, […]
Ben Karney – Gender Differences in the Importance of Attractiveness and Weight in Established Romantic Relationships
Ben Karney: University of California, Los AngelesAmong strangers, no variable has as much power to predict interpersonal judgments as physical appearance. In particular, more physically attractive people are judged as […]
John Capitanio – Personality in rhesus monkeys: Some proximate, ultimate, and practical considerations.
John Capitanio: University of California, DavisThere has been a growing interest in the study of animal personality, and nonhuman primate research has played a significant role in this field for […]
Lynn Fairbanks – Developmental Programming and Resilience in Vervet Monkeys
Lynn Fairbanks: UCLAThere has been considerable interest in gestational and neonatal influences on developmental trajectories in humans and other mammals in recent years. This presentation reviews results from the Vervet […]
Barry Hewlett – Teaching, Trust, and Social Learning in Aka Forager Infancy
Barry Hewlett: Washington State University, VancouverCultural anthropologists Margaret Mead, David Lancy, and Barbara Rogoff indicate that teaching does not exist or is rare in small-scale cultures. By contrast, recent research […]
Montserrat Soler – Rituals, Adaptions and Exaptations: Integrating Conflicting Perspectives on the Evolution of Religion
Montserrat Soler: University of California, Santa BarbaraIn the last ten years, there has been a surge of work dedicated to the study of religion from the point of view of […]