Steven Stroessner: Barnard College, Columbia UniversityMotivations are generally concerned with maintaining safety (prevention) or ensuring advancement (promotion) (Regulatory focus theory; Higgins, 1997). Four experiments examined whether information implying imminent threat […]
Monique Borgerhoff-Mulder: University of California, DavisWhile the causes, transmission and consequences of material and social inequality are well studied in the social sciences, the ways in which people respond to […]
Matthew Gervais: The University of California, Los AngelesExperimental economic games have shed significant light on human population variation in social behavior. However, most of these games have involved anonymous dyadic […]
Lee Cronk: Rutgers University Department of AnthropologyAnthropologists are rarely able to predict when a culture trait will influence behavior and when it will not. The theory of gene-culture coevolution leads […]
Richard McElreath: UC Davis Department of AnthropologyIt's common for evolutionary psychologists to invoke evolutionary mismatch as an explanation for maladaptive human behavior. For example, people eat themselves to death, because […]
David Nolin: Boise State University Department of AnthropologyGeneralized (indirect) reciprocity is characterized by giving to other group members without regard to direct reciprocation from those same recipients, with the costs […]
Andrew Gersick: University of Pennsylvania Department of Animal BehaviorSexual selection is widely understood through the lens of the peacock’s tail – as the evolutionary driver shaping elaborate courtship displays and […]
Eli Berman: UCSD Department of Economics This paper explores the relationship between investment and political violence through several possible mechanisms. Investment as a predictor of future violence implies that low […]
Karen Kramer: University of Utah Department of Human Evolutionary Biology Human life histories differ from those of other closely related species in ways that significantly affect parental care and childhood. […]
C. Randy Gallistel: Rutgers University Department of Cognitive Psychology I present a computational model to explain the results from experiments in which subjects estimate the hidden probability parameter of a […]
