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, […]
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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 […]
Michelle Kline – Human adaptations for teaching: A new theoretical framework and empirical tests from Fiji
Michelle Kline: The University of California, Los AngelesHumans are heavily reliant on cultural adaptation, and have coevolved with culture for millennia. Teaching enhances the fidelity of cultural transmission and should […]
Lucia Jacobs – Chemosensory cognition and the evolution of olfaction
Lucia Jacobs: University of Caliornia, BerkeleyThe chemical senses of vertebrates present some of the most enduring mysteries of brain evolution. First, it is not clear why are there two olfactory […]
Rich Connor – Multi-level dolphin alliances in Shark Bay
Rich Connor: University of Massachusetts DartmouthFor over 25 years we have documented a multi-level alliance structure among male bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Males cooperate in pairs and […]
Nancy Segal – Twins Raised Apart and other Unusual Pairings: Genetics, Personality and Social Relatedness
Nancy Segal: California State University, FullertonAn overview of the origins, methods, findings, implications and controversies from the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart is provided. This study, which took place […]