Paul Rozin – Reflections on Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology
Paul Rozin: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology None Available
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Robert Watson – Conservatism and Creativity in Cultural Evolution: A View from the Arts and Humanities
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 – Understanding human life history variation: sleep patterns, personality traits, relationship status, and hormones.
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 […]
Thomas Plummer – Oldowan Archeology on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya, or what 2 million year old trash tells us about hominin behavior
Thomas Plummer: Queens College Department of Anthropology, member of CUNY graduate faculty and New York Consortium in Evolutionary PrimatologyHumans are odd primates. We have unusually large brains, a diet rich […]
Jacinta Beehner – Changes in female reproductive condition following the arrival of new males in geladas: A physiological trifecta?
Jacinta Beehner: University of Michigan Department of Anthropology The arrival of a new dominant male can be a tumultuous time for females in a primate social group – particularly when […]
Kirk Lohmueller – Discovering Recent Human History and Natural Selection from Genetic Variation Data
Kirk Lohmueller: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyIt is commonly quoted that any two humans are identical at 99.9% of their three billion DNA letters. However, this statement also […]
Morteza Dehghani – #morality in 140 Characters: Examining Moral Rhetoric in Text
Morteza Dehghani: USC Brain and Creativity Institute, ARTIS Research FellowThe availability of vast and seemingly insurmountable volumes of human-related data has provided an unprecedented opportunity to study human cognition with […]
Megan Robbins – The Little Things in Life: An Observational Perspective on Everyday Coping
Megan Robbins: UC Riverside Department of Psychology This talk discusses the potential of a novel naturalistic observation method, the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR), for studying health-relevant social processes. The EAR […]
Peter Todd – Domain-specific mechanisms for decisions about food
Peter Todd: Indiana University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences The need to find nourishing foods is a selective pressure that may have shaped many human cognitive processes, from perception […]
Fei Xu – Towards a rational constructivist approach to cognitive development
Fei Xu: UC Berkeley Department of Psychology, Infant Cognition and Language LabThe study of cognitive development has often been framed in terms of the nativist/empiricist debate. Here I present a […]