Schedule

08:00 – 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 – 08:40 Welcoming remarks

08:40 – 09:15 Dr. Douglas Kenrick, Arizona State University, USA. --- "Evolutionary Economics and the Emergence of Culture: Money, Sex, and Chopsticks"

09:15 – 09:50 Dr. Mark Schaller, University of British Columbia, Canada. ---"How Do Diseases Create Cultures?"

09:50 – 10:05 Break

10:05 – 10:40 Dr. Eva Pomerantz, University of Illinois, USA. --- "Parenting in the United States and China"

10:40 – 11:15 Dr. Toshie Imada, Brunel University, UK. --- "Context-Sensitivity: Culture, Development, and Relation to Executive Function"

11:15 – 12:05 Data Blitz Sessions

Presenters:
11:15 – 11:25 Svetlana Komissarouk, Tel Aviv University
11:25 – 11:35 Meghan L. Meyer, UCLA
11:35 – 11:45 Matt Ruby, Universität Hamburg
11:45 – 11:55 Hyeyoung Shin, University of Maryland College Park
11:55 – 12:05 Brooke Wilken, University of Wisconsin

12:05 – 13:25 Lunch & Poster Session

13:25 – 14:00 Dr. Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow, UK. --- "Modelling the cultural specificity of decoding and representing facial expressions of emotion"

14:00 – 14:35 Dr. Ariel Malka, Yeshiva University, USA. --- "The Psychological Origins of Cultural and Economic Political Attitudes:  A Cross-National Analysis"

14:35 – 14:50 Break

14:50 – 15:25 Dr. Joanna Schug, William & Mary University, USA. ---  "Behavioral ecology of culture: Cultural differences as adaptations to social environments"

15:25 – 16:00 Dr. Patricia Greenfield, UCLA, USA. --- "Social change, cultural evolution, and human development"


16:00 – 16:30 Final Remark, Culture and Human Evolution

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