Jenessa Shapiro: UCLA Department of PsychologyConformity to a perceived norm is a common strategy used to gain the approval of one's interaction partners. Identifying a group norm is ordinarily relatively […]
Paul Mellars: University of Cambridge Department of ArchaeologyResearch over the past ten years in both DNA studies and archaeology has provided some remarkable new insights into the origins of biologically […]
Scott Johnson: UCLA Department of PsychologyMental rotation (MR) is the process by which people imagine how an object would look when rotated into a different orientation in space; it may […]
Joseph Manson: UCLA Department of AnthropologySeveral studies have shown that, following brief interactions among strangers, subjects perform better than chance at predicting whether their co-subjects will defect in a one-shot […]
Daniel Geschwind: UCLA Departments of Human Genetics, Neurology, and PsychiatryWe are interested in understanding how genes influence human cognition and behavior, leading to unique human cognitive specializations, such as language. […]
Nina Jablonski: Penn State Department of AnthropologyHumans are distinguished from other primates by being functionally hairless over most of their bodies. This condition evolved because hairlessness facilitated cooling of the […]
Athena Aktipis: University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyModels such as Maynard Smith’s Haystack model have shown that high rates of movement (i.e., migration, mixing, dispersal) undermine the […]
Ruth Mace: University College London Department of AnthropologyA behavioural ecological approach to human birth rates suggests they should vary according to the costs of raising children to adulthood. Demographers and […]
Devesh Rustagi: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich - Department of Environmental Policy and EconomicsRecent research suggests that the power of conditional cooperation norm and punishment of norm violators in […]
Aaron Sell: UCSB Department of PsychologyAnger can be understood as a cognitive mechanism designed by natural selection to negotiate conflicts of interest in ways similar to, but distinct from, non-human […]
