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 […]

Dwight Read: UCLA Department of AnthropologyThe theme of my talk centers on the evolutionary changes that distinguish human social systems from those of our non-human primate ancestors---are we simply the […]

Andy Sih: UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy Over the past decade, a rapidly growing number of studies have shown that animals often exhibit personalities; e.g., where some […]

Jay Belsky: UC Davis Department of Human Ecology, Human Development and Family Studies Program An evolutionary biological perspective on the effects of the extra-familial and familial environment on multiple psychological, […]

Pamela Smith: UC San Diego Rady School of Management, Professor of Management and Strategy I propose that individuals with higher power should view the world in a more high-level, abstract […]

Paul Rozin: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology None Available

Robert Watson: UCLA Department of English Creative arts and humanistic learning allow us to vary, evaluate, and regulate the evolving cultural systems that we empower, at some cost and risk, […]

Dario Maestripieri: University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development; Institute for Mind and BiologySeveral lines of evidence suggest that eveningness is associated with traits that favor short-term mating such […]