Peter Todd: U of Indiana Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Psychological and Brain SciencesThe choice of a mate is not only one of the most important decisions in our lives, but […]
Katie Hinde: UCLA AnthropologyLactation represents the greatest post-natal cost of mothering in primates and numerous studies have established that variation in maternal condition is associated with infant growth, development, health, […]
Gyorgy Gergely: Central European University, Budapest, Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral SciencesHuman minds construct cultural products that form part of the environmental niche to which new generations of […]
Brian Skyrms: UC Irvine Department of Logic & Philosophy of ScienceSender-Receiver games are simple, tractable models of information transmission. They provide a basic setting for the study the evolution of […]
Russell Jackson: CSU San Marcos Department of PsychologyDistance perception is among the most ubiquitous psychological phenomena known. Humans utilize distance estimation during all waking hours and even when sleeping. Distance […]
Jessica Lynch Alfaro: UCLA Center for Society and GeneticsDespite growing interest in capuchin monkeys as model organisms for social learning and cultural evolution, comparative evolutionary study of Cebus behavioral traits […]
Gary Charness: UC Santa Barbara Department of EconomicsWe conducted three field experiments to investigate how people schedule and complete tasks, providing some of the first data concerning procrastination and willpower […]
Brooke Scelza: UCLA Department of AnthropologyAustralian Aborigines in the Western Desert have gone through a nutritional transition in the last 50 years; moving from a diet of mainly indigenous “bush […]
John Alcock: Arizona State University Department of Life SciencesI will review why I became an adaptationist and continue to believe that the theory of natural selection as amended by W.D. […]
Noah Goldstein: UCLA Anderson School of ManagementSocial norms can be powerful drivers of human behavior, which means that communicators who can properly harness norms hold in their hands a powerful […]
