Robbie Wilson: University of QueenslandAnimals routinely compete for access to limited resources, including food, territories or mates. Because combat is energetically costly and increases the risk of injury or death, […]
Rose Scott: UC MercedA large part of our daily lives involves interpreting other people’s behavior in terms of their underlying mental states. In particular, the capacity to recognize that others […]
Ed Vul: UC San DiegoHuman behavior is robust, adaptable, and, human behavior often deviates from the utility maximizing "rational" agent. This is usually attributed to people relying on an assortment […]
Jerry Siegel: UCLAHow did humans sleep before the modern era? Because the tools to measure sleep under natural conditions were developed long after the invention of the electric devices suspected […]
Athena Vouloumanos: New York UniversityLike many animals, human infants have biases for the vocalizations of their own species, preferring speech to many non-speech sounds just hours after birth. How do […]
Anne Warlaumont: University of California, MercedHumans use a wide variety of types of vocal signals to communicate with other humans. Some of these sounds, such as crying, shrieking, and laughing, […]
Jessica Lynch Alfaro: UCLANeotropical primates represent one of the most successful mammalian radiations in the Neotropics, and all living platyrrhine monkeys in Central and South America stem from a single […]
Gandhi Yetish: University of New MexicoShort sleep duration is associated with numerous, sometimes severe, negative health outcomes, and yet many people report regularly sleeping insufficiently. Part of the challenge in […]
Michelle Brown: University of California, Santa BarbaraGroup?level competition has important effects on individual fitness and is thought to be a crucial force in the evolution of complex social systems. However, […]
David Lawson: University of California, Santa BarbaraRecent years have witnessed a widening commitment to achieving gender equality at a global scale, with corresponding, and often controversial, shifts in international and […]
