Evolution and the Sociality of Mind

February 23-24, UCSB

Joint Conference by

Center for the Sociality of Mind

Hokkaido University, Japan

Center for Evolutionary Psychology

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Saturday, February 23

University Center (UCEN), Flying A Studio

9:30 a.m.          Taiki Takahashi: “Neuroeconomics of Intertemporal and Probabilistic Choice”  

10:00 a.m.        Andy Delton and Max Krasnow: “A Cue-Theoretic Approach to Cooperation”

10:30 a.m.        Coffee break

11:00 a.m.        John Tooby: “Kin Detection, Internal Regulatory Variables, and the Evolution of Motivation”

12:10 p.m.        Lunch break

1:30 p.m.          Aaron Sell: “The Computational Structure of Human Anger”

2:00 p.m.          Mizuho Shinada: “Punishing Free-riders: Direct and Indirect Promotion of Cooperation”

2:30 p.m.          Daniel Sznycer: “Recalibrational Emotions and Welfare Tradeoff Ratios”

3:00 p.m.          Coffee break

3:30 p.m.          Tatsuya Kameda: “"To eat or not to be eaten?": Collective Risk-monitoring in Human Groups”

4:40 p.m.          Break

Mosher Alumni House, Third Floor

5:30 p.m.          Catered Poster Session- by invitation only


Sunday, February 24

University Center (UCEN), Flying A Studio

9:30 a.m.          Dave Pietraszewski: “Ancestral Conditions Make Modern Day Predictions: Sex, Race, Coalitions & Accent”

10:00 a.m.        Kunihiro Yokota: “Adaptive Psychological Mechanisms to Various Types of Intergroup Threats”

10:30 a.m.        Coffee break

11:00 a.m.        Mike Gurven: “Cooperation Among Hunter-Gatherers”

12:10 p.m.        Lunch break

1:30 p.m.          Kosuke Takemura: “On the Default Assumption of Monitoring and Sanctioning Behind Japanese Collectivism: A View from the Social Institutional Analysis and Error Management Theory”

2:00 p.m.          Chris VonRueden: “Health and Fertility Correlates of Male Social Status among the Tsimane of Bolivia”

2:30 p.m.          Rie Mashima: “How Do We Treat Givers to Free-Riders in Indirect Reciprocity Settings? An Experimental Study to Examine Strategies in Indirect Reciprocity Settings”

3:00 p.m.          Coffee break

3:30 p.m.          Masaki Yuki: “The "Openness" of a Society Determines the Relationship between Self-Esteem and Subjective Well-Being: A View from the Socio-Ecological Perspective”

4:40 p.m.          Break

Faculty Club

6:00 p.m.          Banquet- by invitation only

7:30 p.m.          Keynote Address- Toshio Yamagishi: “In-group Favoring Behavior as a Reputation Device”