Alan Dixson: Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San DiegoThis talk focuses upon the structure and functions of the reproductive organs of mammals, as viewed from the perspective of sexual selection and sperm competition. The living collections of the Zoological Society of San Diego contain many rare and unusual species; valuable anatomical […]
Greg Bryant: UCSC Dept. of PsychologyDuring speech communication, conversationalists produce and understand many simultaneous pieces of information through prosodic features of the voice (i.e., pitch, loudness, and duration properties). Prosodic variations provide cues to lexical and grammatical units (linguistic prosody), as well as emotional and intentional information (affective prosody). But prosody may also be used […]
Jim Sidanius: UCLA Dept. of PsychologyBased upon ideas borrowed from classical elitism theory, social identity theory and evolutionary psychology, social dominance theory basically assumes that human social systems are predisposed to organize themselves as group-based social hierarchies. Given this assumption, social dominance theory then attempts to identity the multi-leveled processes that are responsible for the […]
