APS

30th APS Annual Convention

Evolutionary Insights on Adaptive Cognitive Systems

Friday, May 25, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · Cognitive

This symposium focuses on how selection pressures during human evolutionary history have shaped cognitive systems generating adaptive behaviors in the context of recurring challenges. We present four examples related to social cognition in critical aspects of the human lifecourse.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Daniel KrugerChair
    University of Michigan
  • Daniel KrugerDiscussant
    University of Michigan

Presentations

  1. Neoteny Cues Attention Among Non-Neotenous Distractors in Visual SearchKarin Machluf, Amanda Hahn
  2. Development of the Animacy Memory EffectDouglas Sellers
  3. The Psychology of Disease Avoidance: Physiological and Situational Antecedents of Implicit Social BiasAnastasia Makhanova, E. Plant, Lisa Eckel, Larissa Nikonova, Joshua Ackerman, Jon Maner
  4. Alcohol and Sex-Specific Cognitive VulnerabilitiesLiana Hone, David Geary, Bruce Bartholow