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Carlos Navarrete – Sexual Selection and the Psychological Architecture of Race Prejudice

Carlos Navarrete: Michigan State University Department of Psychology & Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior ProgramIntergroup aggression perpetrated by men has been a persistent feature of human societies for centuries, and may have been common enough over evolutionary time to have allowed selection to shape the neural circuitry underlying the psychology of prejudice. Because intergroup aggression poses […]

Elizabeth Pillsworth – Is Female Choice Overemphasized in the Evolutionary Psychology of Human Mating? Evidence from the Shuar of Ecuador

Elizabeth Pillsworth: CSU Fullerton Department of AnthropologyDarwin's theory of sexual selection emphasizes the role of female mate choice in shaping male morphology and behavior. In evolutionary psychology, the model of female choice has served as one organizing feature of research on human mating. However, in many human societies women are reported to have very little […]

Doug Kenrick – How the Mind Warps: Evolution and Social Cognition

Doug Kenrick: Arizona State University Department of PsychologyThe human mind processes information in a famously selective and shockingly biased way. Who and what do we select for attention, encoding, and retrieval, and how, why, and when do we distort certain kinds of information in certain ways and not others? My colleagues and I have been […]