Uri Gneezy: UCSD Rady School of Management Arthur Brody Endowed Chair in Management Leadership, Professor of Management and StrategyIn this talk I will discuss some recent findings regarding gender differences in economic experiments. The discussion will focus on gender differences in competitiveness, but will also touch on differences in risk preferences and social preferences. I […]

Erol Akcay: University of Tennessee National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)There is extensive work on the evolutionary causes of social behaviors, but integration of this theory with the proximate mechanisms of behavior has lagged behind. Here, I will present a new modeling approach to achieve such integration. The model rests on goal-oriented motivations, […]

Thomas Flamson: Santa Monica College Department of Earth Science / UCLA Department of AnthropologyThe Encryption Theory of Humor proposes that humor evolved as a means of signaling similarity in locally variable personal features in order to facilitate assortment with the most compatible peers within the local group. It claims that a necessary component of humorous […]

Robert Wayne: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyThe domestic dog is one of our most remarkable inventions. The behavioral and functional diversity of the dog far surpasses that of its wild progenitor, the gray wolf. Similarly, in size and proportion, dogs exceed the diversity of the entire carnivore order. The dog genome project and […]