Jorja Leap earned her Ph.D in anthropology at UCLA before going on to become an international expert in crisis intervention. Ten years ago she returned to Los Angeles to perform […]
Prof. Silk has found that when female baboons “tend and befriend” one another, the resulting release of oxytocin provides a calming effect that helps reduce stress. Read the whole story here.
UCLA Today has featured Prof. Gupta’s work on the lives of the “virtual migrants” of Indian call center workers. Read the full article here.
Read the full article here.
Prof. Fessler and colleagues’ article on danger assessment was featured in both the Los Angeles Times, The Economist, and the UCLA Newsroom. The study finds that people believe men holding a dangerous object, such as […]
Prof. Donnan’s new book Chotuna and Chornancap: Excavating an Ancient Peruvian Legend tells the story of verifying the legendary tale of Naymlap. UCLA Today spoke to Prof. Donnan about his book; read the article here. More […]
Berghan Books has published a new book in the ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology series called The Anthropology of Empathy: Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies. Co-edited by Professor Doug Hollan and Associate […]
Left Coast Press has published a new book by Distinguished Professor Dwight W. Read. How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies is part of the Left Coast […]
Associate Professor Dan Fessler has been interviewed in a NY Times article about disgust. The article can be read here.
Assistant Adjunct Professor Robert Lemelson’s documentary 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy was featured in a New York Times article about the 1965-66 mass killings of at least a half a million leftists in Indonesia. […]
