UCLA Behavior, Evolution, & Culture
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Episodes of UCLA Behavior, Evolution, & Culture
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Simone Schnall (1), 11/9/11
How do people tell right from wrong? It used to be assumed that moral decisions are based on rational thought, such that people determine on objective facts and logical analysis what is morally acceptable behaviour. More recently, however, empirical findings suggest that decisions about morality and ethical behaviour are far from rational, but are often guided by emotional and other intuitions. I will discuss my research showing that first, embodied feelings and intuitions influence moral judg...
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Release date
Nov 28, 2011
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Runtime
46:29
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Derek Penn (1) - 10/24/11
"Human animals? and no other? build fires and wheels, diagnose each other?s illnesses, communicate using symbols, risk their lives for ideals, collaborate with others, explain the world in terms of unobservable causes, punish strangers for breaking the rules, worship ghosts and teach each other how to do all of the above. Why are we so odd? In this talk, I will explore what we now know (and don?t know) about the discontinuity between extant human and nonhuman minds. I will argue that this cogn...
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Release date
Oct 25, 2011
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Runtime
49:13
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Derek Penn (2) - 10/24/11
"Human animals? and no other? build fires and wheels, diagnose each other?s illnesses, communicate using symbols, risk their lives for ideals, collaborate with others, explain the world in terms of unobservable causes, punish strangers for breaking the rules, worship ghosts and teach each other how to do all of the above. Why are we so odd? In this talk, I will explore what we now know (and don?t know) about the discontinuity between extant human and nonhuman minds. I will argue that this cogn...
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Oct 25, 2011
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Runtime
32:37
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Andrew Shtulman (1), 10/17/11
Evolution by natural selection is a theory that has unified the biological sciences but divided the general public. In this talk, I shall discuss how early-emerging, essentialist constraints on the conceptualization of biological kinds impedes learning about population-level phenomena like evolution and natural selection. Data from cognitive studies (Shtulman, 2006), developmental studies (Shtulman & Schulz, 2008) and teaching-intervention studies (Shtulman & Calabi, 2011) all suggest that stu...
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Oct 18, 2011
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Runtime
49:50
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Andrew Shtulman (2), 10/17/11
Evolution by natural selection is a theory that has unified the biological sciences but divided the general public. In this talk, I shall discuss how early-emerging, essentialist constraints on the conceptualization of biological kinds impedes learning about population-level phenomena like evolution and natural selection. Data from cognitive studies (Shtulman, 2006), developmental studies (Shtulman & Schulz, 2008) and teaching-intervention studies (Shtulman & Calabi, 2011) all suggest that stu...
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Release date
Oct 18, 2011
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Runtime
35:58
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Alyssa Crittenden (2), 10/10/11
Human prosociality is one of the defining characteristics of our species, yet the developmental origins of altruistic behavior remain little understood. The evolution of widespread food sharing in humans helped shape cooperation, family formation, life history, language, and the development of economies of scale. While the behavioral and ecological correlates of food sharing among adults are widely studied, very little is known about what motivates children to share food. Here, in the first st...
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Oct 17, 2011
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Runtime
27:28
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Alyssa Crittenden (1), 10/10/11
Human prosociality is one of the defining characteristics of our species, yet the developmental origins of altruistic behavior remain little understood. The evolution of widespread food sharing in humans helped shape cooperation, family formation, life history, language, and the development of economies of scale. While the behavioral and ecological correlates of food sharing among adults are widely studied, very little is known about what motivates children to share food. Here, in the first st...
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Release date
Oct 17, 2011
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Runtime
01:00:56
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Alyssa Crittenden (1), 10/10/2011
Human prosociality is one of the defining characteristics of our species, yet the developmental origins of altruistic behavior remain little understood. The evolution of widespread food sharing in humans helped shape cooperation, family formation, life history, language, and the development of economies of scale. While the behavioral and ecological correlates of food sharing among adults are widely studied, very little is known about what motivates children to share food. Here, in the first st...
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Oct 17, 2011
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Runtime
01:00:56
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Dora Costa, Matthew Kahn (1) 10/3/2011
In Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War we used the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers to discover when people are willing to sacrifice for the common good, what are the benefits of friendship, and what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse community. We discuss these themes as well as the role of leadership in eliciting sacrifice, the role of social networks in mediating wartime stress, and the scarring effects of wartime experiences.
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Release date
Oct 4, 2011
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Runtime
54:39
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Dora Costa, Matthew Kahn (2) 10/3/2011
In Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War we used the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers to discover when people are willing to sacrifice for the common good, what are the benefits of friendship, and what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse community. We discuss these themes as well as the role of leadership in eliciting sacrifice, the role of social networks in mediating wartime stress, and the scarring effects of wartime experiences.
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Release date
Oct 4, 2011
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Runtime
30:37
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