Yaniv Hanoch: UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Health ServicesHerbert Simon has warned us that an explanatory account of human rationality must identify the significance of emotions for choice behavior. Customarily emphasizing the cognitive dimensions of decision making, relatively few researchers have paid close attention to specifying the complex ways in which emotion may […]
Andrew Shaner: David Geffen UCLA School of MedicineSchizophrenia should not exist. It crushes sexual relationships and reproductive success and thus should have been eliminated long ago by selection. Yet it persists at a global prevalence far too high to be due to new mutations at a few loci. This has convinced scientists that many loci […]
Ted Bergstrom: UCSB Department of EconomicsAbout 80% of all societies recorded by anthropologists are polygynous (men have many wives). Even our own society is less monogamous than claimed. This paper attempts to explain such mysteries as why bride prices and dowries are not ``opposites'', why polygamous societies are usually characterized by positive bride prices and […]
