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Evolution, Culture, and the Social EmotionsEHAP / Culture and Cognition Lecture Series for Winter Term, 2004 This lecture series was a component of a Winter Term Psychology Graduate Seminar (Psych 689/Anthro 760).
This speaker series will attempt to synthesize an evolutionary understanding of the origins and functions of the social emotions with cultural and developmental frameworks that illuminate cross-cultural consistencies and differences in emotions and social relationships. The series is organized around three central issues. First, it examines evolutionary underpinnings of social emotions (e.g., attachment/love, guilt/shame) by asking about the social situations in which these emotions offer a selective advantage, how they helped individuals to meet the adaptive challenges of those situations, and what cues and mechanisms are involved in regulating these emotions. Second, we try to identify specific cultural functions of social emotions. That is, we seek to identify social psychological situations in which certain social emotions (e.g., anger and violence) might be aroused to regulate certain specific cultural systems (e.g., the culture of honor in the American south) while at the same time these emotions are in part constituted by the attendant cultural systems themselves. The third aim of the series is to locate the first two issues in an overarching developmental framework. That is, we seek to answer the question of how evolutionarily prepared programs of social emotions might be elaborated and transformed through socialization and enculturation to yield the consistencies and variations in social life that are observed among cultural, ethnic, and religious groups.
Evolution, Culture and Social Emotions
Epigenesis
of social emotions
Gary
Marcus, Department of Psychology, New York University
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LECTURE, seminar only
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LECTURE, seminar only ---No Seminars on February 20th or 27th due to Spring Break---
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LECTURE, seminar only
Batja
Mesquita, Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University
Brenda
Volling, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
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Special Symposium on the Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology of Honor [click for more information]
Donald
Munro, Department of Philosophy and Chinese Studies, University of
Michigan
Paul
Rozin, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel
Fessler, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los
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