Transcript Lecture 2 final lec 4.20.15

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Contemporary Social Psychology 2015:
Week 2
Monday 1PM to 4PM
Lynn E. O’Connor
+ Business:
Potential
 Each
Schedule
group presents one article
 Each student presents on his/her “real
most important question” and the
answers found
Schedule
will vary –tentative
 Lecture
& Discussion
 Student
Presentations & Discussions
 Videos
 Break
 Small
group discussion
 Whole class discussion
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Evolutionary Perspective
We’re
allowed to ask the “why”
question, what is the adaptation
–to what
We’re
allowed to ask the “how”
question, what is the
mechanism, what is the stimulus
+ How and Why Questions
Ultimate
Why
Explanation (Why)
a behavior exists (adaptation)
Why it evolved and survived the
hammer of evolution (adaptation)
Proximate
 How
Explanation (How)
a behavior works
 What is the mechanism
 Stimulus that activates adaptation
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Two levels of analysis:
Ultimate Explanation
Proximate Explanation
+ Elephants
have long-lasting social bonds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ektLT7VjwYc
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Are Chimps or Bonobos Closer?
+ The Bonobo Solution:
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And solution to man/woman issues: Wild Wives of Africa 3.
2.40 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82GUjPConiE&list=RDBg3u8
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Bonobo’s solution to conflict 3. 4.27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3u806w9h0&list=RDBg3u
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Bonobos: Make love not war: (with Frans de Waal) 4.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2_9imihJbk&index=6&list=RDBg
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Girls Rule: 2. 1.17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlqsaxLwCw&list=RDBg3u806w9h0&index=5
+ The Chimpanzee Study
Chimpanzee
study
Findings
Would
Is
we find same in Bonobos
it culture, or is it biology
Zoo-keepers
Guilt
descriptions of guilt
and depression
+ Chimpanzees: Males/Females on
Depression in 5 year intervals
+ Chimpanzees: Male/Female on
Antisocial Personality
+ Subjective Wellbeing in Chimps
+ Why are females more depressed?
Is
it “male dominance?”
 Social
status/ranking effects levels of
serotonin
Is
it hormones?
Is
it how animal metabolizes serotonin?
Is
it cultural or genetic inheritance?
Would
Why
it look different in Bonobos?
female dominance? (Cultural or
genetic inheritance?
+ Is it culture or genetics?
Culture-Gene
Cultural
Coevolution
traits adaptive
Spread
by social learning (imitation),
one generation to the next
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Evolve & influence social and physical
environments under which genetic
selection operates.
 In
line with personality and traits
(group function)
Cultural
trait: IndividualismCollectivism?
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End Lecture #2
April 13, 2015
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Isolated:
A Forager Culture of Equality
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wj6b
vn_Hpc
 The
Zo-e Tribe in the Amazon
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%27%C3%A
9_people
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END OF CLASS 2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=1Wj6bvn_Hpc
Isolated
To
discuss in your groups:
 Social
characteristics
 How do they appear in our culture
 Look for “universals”
 Look for differences (culturally
unique)
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Coevolution
Obligatory
Interdependence
Evolutionary
history is story of
coevolution
Genetics
Social structure
Culture
Epigenetics
Central
Problem is evolution of
coordination in groups