Winter Term 2008:

How Evolved Motivational Systems Influence Disease and Well-Being

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: East Hall Conference Room #4448

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).

• January 10th -- Motivational Influences on Stress and Health (MISH) Program Symposium
      How evolved motivational systems interfere with health behaviors and national health priorities
      Symposium speakers: Dylan Smith, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine;
      Amanda Dillard, Postoctoral Fellow, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine;
      Amy Canevallo, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Center for Group Dynamics

• January 17th -- Jon Maner, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Florida State University
      Adaptations gone awry: Social Psychological and evolutionary approaches to anxiety

• January 24th -- Jene Decety, University of Chicago
      Social neuroscience of empathy

• January 31st -- Denys deCatanzaro, Professor, McMaster University, Ontario
      Evolutionary limits of self preservation: Expression in human motivation

• February 7th -- No Presentation

• February 14th -- Motivational Influences on Stress and Health (MISH) Program Symposium
      Love is in the air - health implications of the care giving system
  Stepanie Brown, Social closeness causes intra-pair coupling of progesterone in humans
  Amy Canevello, Correlated motivational goals predict support exchanges in roommate relationships
  Michael Poulin, Are perceived relationships with a deity linked to the human caregiving system?

• February 21st -- Oliver Schulthiess, Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany
      Hormones, implicit learning and dominance: A biobehavioral model of implicit power motivation

• March 4th -- Jennifer Crocker, Research Professor, University of Michigan
  Special Presentation: Inauguration lecture for the Claude M. Steele Collegiate Professorship
      The Costly Pursuit of Self Esteem: Student Experiences at UM.
  *Special Date & Time, Location -- Rackham Amphitheatre, 4PM.
  
• March 6th -- David Buss, Professor, University of Texas
  Sexual conflict in human mating

• March 13th -- Cancelled

• March 18th TUES -- Sue Carter, Professor of Psychiatry & Co-Director of The Brain Body Center,University of Chicago
      Molecules and monogamy: What's love got to do with it?
      Stephen Porges, Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Bioengineering, &
      & Co-Director of The Brain Body Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
      Social Behavior: An emergent property of the phylogeny of the autonomic nervous system
  *Special Date & Time -- Starts at 3:30PM
• March 27th THURS -- Doug Kenrick, Professor, Arizona State University
      Evolutionary social cognition: How the mind warps
  *Special Time -- Starts at 3:30PM

• April 2nd WED -- Julian Le Grand, London School of Economics and Political Science
      Motivation and medical professionals: Knights or knaves?
  *special date & Time -- Starts at 3:30PM

• April 3rd THURS -- Michael Numan, Professor of Psychiatry, Boston College
      Brain circuits regulating maternal motivation in mammals
  *Special Time and Date -- Starts at 3:30PM

• April 10th -- Cancelled
• April 15th TUES -- Niall (Jock) McLaren, M.D, Darwin, Australia
  Redefining the biopsychosocial model for the 21st Century: Implications for clinical psychiatry.
  Mike Brown, Pacific Lutheran University
      Evolved motivations for detecting burden: Implications for depression, suicide, and terrorism
  *special Date & Time -- Starts at 3:30PM

• April 17th THURS -- Sheldon Cohen, Professor of Psychiatry, Carnegie Mellon University
      Stress, social networks, social status and susceptibility to the common cold
  Starts at 1:30PM

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