Winter Term 2008
The lectures are open to all. This series is organized by Stephanie Brown.
Co-Sponsored by EHAP and the Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Peter Ubel (Director)
Thursdays 1:30- 3:00 PM
Location: TBA
Overview
The University of Michigan has been a leader in the study of
interpersonal influences on health and on the evolution of motivational systems.
This lecture series will bring these two areas of research together to ask why
evolved motivational systems cause so much disease, and how and when evolved
motivational systems can contribute to improved health and well-being. We will
expand the discussion to examine the potential moderating role of the broader
social environment to better understand the ways that the social environment and
culture influence and manipulate evolved motivational systems and thus
contribute indirectly to disease. Specifically, to what extent do social
policies, media, and technology represent environmental cues for the expression
of different evolved motivational systems? To what extent does the expression of
different evolved motivational systems have implications that extend beyond
disease to include national/global issu es ( e.g., racial disparities in health
care, obesity, diabetes, environmental protection, over-population, terrorism,
ethnic conflict, etc).
For questions about the series, please send a note to Stephanie Brown at stebrown@umich.edu
To join or leave the list to receive announcements, please send a note to EHAP@umich.edu
EHAP is made possible by the College of LSA,
the Department of Psychology, the Department of Psychiatry,
and the Research Center for Group Dynamics at ISR