Joseph Henrich: University of British Columbia Departments of Psychology and EconomicsThis talk will first develop an evolutionarily-informed, cognitively-grounded approach to culture, and then apply this approach to explain patterns of […]
Naomi Eisenberger: UCLA Department of PsychologyNumerous languages characterize ‘social pain,’ the feelings resulting from social rejection or loss, with words typically reserved for describing physical pain (“broken hearts,†“hurt feelingsâ€) […]
Barbara König: University of Zurich Institute of ZoologyIn addition to sexual selection, selection resulting from social interactions in contexts other than mating can be a potent evolutionary force. Such social […]
Edouard Machery: University of Pittsburgh Department of History and Philosophy of ScienceThat morality evolved is a commonplace among evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and anthropologists. In this talk, I will however argue […]
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 […]
