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  • November 2013

  • Mon 4
    November 4, 2013 @ 12:00 am

    C. Randy Gallistel – The Perception of Probability

    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 […]

  • Mon 18
    November 18, 2013 @ 12:00 am

    Dwight Read – How Culture Makes Us Human: From Experiential-Based to Relational-Based Forms of Social Organization

    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 […]

  • Mon 25
    November 25, 2013 @ 12:00 am

    Andy Sih – Three Frontiers in the Study of Behavioural Syndromes (aka Animal Personalities)

    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 […]

  • December 2013

  • Mon 2
    December 2, 2013 @ 12:00 am

    Jay Belsky – Childhood Experience and the Development of Reproductive Strategies: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization Revisited

    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, […]

  • January 2014

  • Mon 6
    January 6, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    Pamela Smith – The Social Distance Theory of Power

    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 […]

  • Thu 9
    January 9, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    Paul Rozin – Reflections on Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology

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

  • Mon 13
    January 13, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    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, […]

  • Thu 23
    January 23, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    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 […]

  • Mon 27
    January 27, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    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 […]

  • Fri 31
    January 31, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    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 […]

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