Evolution, Cognition, and Culture Bagel Hour
What is it?
Each week we will hear a presentation or read and discuss an article related to evolutionary anthropology.
When? Every
Thursday, 11:15AM - 12:15PM, during the 2011 Fall semester.
Where? Anthropology Graduate Lounge
Who? Any
students or faculty who are interested.
Why? It is an excellent opportunity to keep up with the emerging literature on the topic.
Questions?
Contact Richard Sosis at richard.sosis@uconn.edu
Dates:
September 1: William B. Swann, Jr., Angel Gomez, John F. Dovidio, Sonia Hart and Jolanda Jetten. (2010) Dying and Killing for One's Group: Identity Fusion Moderates Responses to Intergroup Versions of the Trolley Problem. Psychological Science, 21(8) 1176-1183.
September 8: Stefan Koelsch, Kristin Offermanns and Peter Franzke. (2010) Music in the Treatment of Affective Disorders: An Exploratory Investigation of a New Method for Music-Therapeutic Research. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 27, No. 4 (April 2010), pp. 307-316.
September 15: Benjamin Grant Purzycki. "The Minds of Gods: Cognitive Mediation in
Reasoning about Supernatural Minds" (Presentation)
September 22: Elly Power. "Rituals of Distinction: Public Religious Practice in Tamil Nadu" (Presentation)
September 27 (Tues): Jordan Kiper. "Do Human Rights Have Religious Foundations?" (Presentation)
October 6: Barraza, J.A., McCullough, M.E., Ahmadi, S. & Zak, P.J. (2011) Oxytocin infusion increases charitable donations regardless of monetary resources. Hormones and Behavior 60, 148-151.
October 27: Martin Hanselmann and Carmen Tanner (2008) Taboos and conflicts in decision making: Sacred values, decision difficulty, and emotions. Judgment and Decision Making 3 (1) pp. 51-63.
December 1: Amitai Shenhav, David G. Rand, and Joshua D. Greene (2011) Divine Intuition: Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication.
December 8: Ameneh Shahaeian, Candida C. Peterson, Virginia Slaughter, and Henry M. Wellman (2011) Culture and the Sequence of Steps in Theory of Mind Development. Developmental Psychology 47(5), pp 1239-1247.
