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SUMMARY:BEC - Michael Tomasello – Becoming human: A theory of ontogeny
DESCRIPTION:Michael Tomasello\, Duke University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology \nHumans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing emotions\, experience\, and collaborative actions (shared intentionality). These motivations and skills first emerge in human ontogeny at around one year of age\, as infants begin to participate with other persons in various kinds of collaborative and joint attentional activities\, including linguistic communication. Our nearest primate relatives understand important aspects of intentional action – especially in competitive situations – but they do not seem to have the motivations and cognitive skills necessary to engage in activities involving collaboration\, shared intentionality\, and\, in general\, things cultural. \nThe BEC Speaker Series hosts presentations by renowned scholars from across the social\, behavioral\, and biological sciences whose work sheds light on human evolution\, including issues of cultural transmission\, behavioral ecology\, affect\, cognition\, and health.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-michael-tomasello-becoming-human-a-theory-of-ontogeny/
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SUMMARY:BEC - Dorsa Amir – The development of decision-making across diverse cultural contexts
DESCRIPTION:Dorsa Amir\, Boston College Department of Psychology \nThe human behavioral repertoire is uniquely diverse\, with an unmatched flexibility that has allowed our species to flourish in every ecology on the planet. Despite its importance\, the roots of this behavioral diversity — and how it manifests across development and contexts — remain largely unexplored. I argue that a full account of human behavior requires a cross-cultural\, developmental approach that systematically examines how environmental variability shapes behavioral processes. In this talk\, I use the development of decision-making across diverse contexts as a window into the relationship between the socioecological environment and behavior. First\, I present the results of a cross-cultural investigation of risk and time preferences among children in India\, Argentina\, the United States\, and the Ecuadorian Amazon\, suggesting that market integration and related socioecological shifts lead to the development of more risk-seeking and future-oriented preferences. Second\, I present the early results of a five-culture investigation into the ontogeny of social preferences — namely\, trustworthiness\, forgiveness\, and fairness. Taken together\, these studies help elucidate the developmental origins of behavioral diversity across cultural contexts\, and underscore the utility of interdisciplinary research for explaining human behavior. \nThe BEC Speaker Series hosts presentations by renowned scholars from across the social\, behavioral\, and biological sciences whose work sheds light on human evolution\, including issues of cultural transmission\, behavioral ecology\, affect\, cognition\, and health.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-dorsa-amir-the-development-of-decision-making-across-diverse-cultural-contexts/
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SUMMARY:MMAC - Elizabeth Fein - Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community
DESCRIPTION:MMAC is pleased to be hosting Elizabeth Fein to discuss her book Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (NYU Press\, 2020)\, a two year\, multi-sited ethnographic study of how young people on the autism spectrum negotiate the meanings of their contested condition in their everyday lives\, in places where they live\, learn\, work\, play\, and love.\n\nWhat do autism spectrum diagnoses do? How do they aggregate people around particular sets of tendencies and proclivities\, and what are the consequences of that process? What happens when diagnoses such as Asperger’s Syndrome expand the terrain of neurodevelopmental disorder into new areas\, then constrict back into familiar\, medicalized forms? How do patterns of cognitive\, social\, interpretive\, affective\, and sensory difference shape our shared social worlds? And how do the demands of those worlds shape the set of developmental outcomes which we have come to call “autism”.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/mmac-elizabeth-fein-living-on-the-spectrum-autism-and-youth-in-community/
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SUMMARY:BEC - Paul Smaldino – The evolution of covert signaling in diverse societies
DESCRIPTION:Paul Smaldino\, Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences\, University of California\, Merced \nIdentity signals are common components of communication transmissions that inform receivers of the signaler’s membership (or non-membership) in a subset of individuals. Signals can be overt\, broadcast to all possible receivers\, or covert\, encrypted so that only similar receivers are likely to perceive their identity-relevant meaning. I’ll present an instrumental theory of identity signaling as a mechanism for social assortment\, formalized with both analytical and agent-based models. Covert signaling is favored when signalers are generous toward strangers\, when costs of being discovered as dissimilar are high\, and when the ability to assort only with preferred partners is restricted. Covert signaling should be more common among members of “invisible” minorities\, who are less likely to encounter similar individuals by chance. I’ll also discuss empirical projects underway to test and extend this theoretical framework using online political communication. This work has implications for theories of signaling and cooperation\, social identity\, pragmatics\, politics\, and the maintenance of diversity. \nThe BEC Speaker Series hosts presentations by renowned scholars from across the social\, behavioral\, and biological sciences whose work sheds light on human evolution\, including issues of cultural transmission\, behavioral ecology\, affect\, cognition\, and health.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/bec-paul-smaldino-the-evolution-of-covert-signaling-in-diverse-societies/
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SUMMARY:MMAC - Robert Lemelson - Person-Centered Interviewing and Visual Psychological Anthropology: Complexities and Challenges
DESCRIPTION:MMAC will not meet on 15 February in observance of Presidents’ Day.\n\n \n**(Please follow link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/vD8ewv98SwmCbJF7A)**\n \n***If you are already on the permanent Zoom RSVP list please do not RSVP again.\n\n\nDear All\,\n\nMind\, Medicine\, and Culture (MMAC) is pleased to be hosting Robert Lemelson. His presentation is entitled: “Person-Centered Interviewing and Visual Psychological Anthropology: Complexities and Challenges” (abstract is on the attached/embedded flyer). The chapter we will be reading and discussing is from a soon-to-be published book by Robert Lemelson and Annie Tucker\, Widening the Frame: Visual Psychological Anthropology on Trauma\, Gender-Based Violence\, and Stigma (Palgrave Macmillan\, forthcoming 2021).\n \nWhile a reading of the chapter “Visual Anthropology in the Field” will be enhanced by watching one\, two or all three of the films discussed\, the films are optional as the conversation at MMAC will revolve around the chapter and the presentation. For those who wish to view the films\, they are available on youtube:\n \nStanding on the Edge of a Thorn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFmm0QT28Sc&t=1s\nBitter Honey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maPF9jVWuQM&t=2s\n40 Years of Silence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLT6G8FD3E4&bpctr=1612726008\n \nPlease note that the third film has been edited to conform with youtube policies. Some images of violence have been removed from the original.\n \nAccess to the reading will be provided for those who have RSVPed.
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/mmac-robert-lemelson-person-centered-interviewing-and-visual-psychological-anthropology-complexities-and-challenges/
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SUMMARY:A Book Celebration with Diane C. Perlov - Driving the Samburu Bride: Fieldwork among Cattle Keepers in Kenya 
DESCRIPTION: A BOOK CELEBRATION!  \nThe Department of Anthropology cordially invites you to come celebrate  \na new book by Dr. Diane C. Perlov\, VP of Exhibits at the California Science Center \nUCLA MA Anthropology ’79\, UCLA PhD Anthropology ’87 \nDriving the Samburu Bride  \nFieldwork among Cattle Keepers in Kenya \n  \n Through Zoom \nRegister by February 22\, 2021 https://preview.tinyurl.com/PerlovTalk   
URL:https://anthro.ucla.edu/event/a-book-celebration-with-diane-c-perlov-driving-the-samburu-bride-fieldwork-among-cattle-keepers-in-kenya/
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