Aaron Blaisdell: UCLA Psychology and Brain Research InstituteI report a series of experiments showing that rats appear to make causal inferences in a basic task that taps into core features of causal reasoning. (1) They derived predictions of the outcomes of interventions after passive observational learning of different kinds of causal models. After learning through […]

Steve Gangestad: University of New Mexico PsychologyBroad, ambitious conceptualizations of the evolution of human sexuality (and accompanying unique social, developmental, and intellectual adaptations) offered by anthropologists and biologists over the last half century have been, almost universally, rooted in a foundational assumption: That women evolutionarily “lost” estrus—a distinct fertile-phase sexuality—and instead evolved “continuous” sexuality across […]

John Mitani: University of Michigan Anthropology