Brian Lickel: University of Southern California Department of PsychologyIn this talk, I’ll present data examining how people think about and react to the wrong-doing of ingroup members. In particular, I’ll describe affective reactions of self-blame (shame, guilt, ingroup directed anger) that people sometimes experience when a member of their ingroup harms an outgroup. I argue […]

Jennie Pyers: UC Berkeley Department of PsychologyFalse-belief understanding is the non-egocentric ability to recognize that one's own thoughts and beliefs can be different from others', and different from real-world events (i.e., mistaken). Research on early child development suggests that false-belief understanding is contingent upon language development. Recent findings from an emergent sign language in Nicaragua […]

Piotr Winkielman: UC San Diego Department of PsychologyMy talk explores the relation between emotion and conscious experience. Conscious feelings are typically viewed as a central and necessary ingredient of emotion. In contrast, I will argue that emotion also can be genuinely unconscious (i.e., occur without the accompanying subjective experience). Theoretically, my argument is anchored in […]

Douglas Wallace: UC Irvine Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyThe investigation of human origins and migrations has been greatly advanced by the analysis of human genetic variation to determine the relationships between different human populations. Such studies have permitted demonstration of the recent African origin of humans, the reconstruction of ancient migrations, and the correlation […]