<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Psych Colloquia <<a href="mailto:colloquia@psy.ucsd.edu">colloquia@psy.ucsd.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 19, 2010 7:00:00 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:psych-talks@psy.ucsd.edu">psych-talks@psy.ucsd.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:psych-talks@psy.ucsd.edu">psych-talks@psy.ucsd.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Laurie Santos talk, February 25</b><br></span></div><br><hr> <br> <hr width="100%" size="2"> <br><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><font size="5"></font></font> <div align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><font size="5"><p>The UCSD <a href="http://psy.ucsd.edu/" target="_blank"><font face="times new roman" size="5">Department of Psychology</font></a> is honored to present a talk by</p></font></font><br><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"></font></div><p align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><strong><font size="6">Laurie Santos</font><br></strong><font size="4">Yale University</font><br><br></font></p><p align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><font size="6">"<i><b>The Evolution of Irrationality: Insights from Non-Human Primates</b></i>"</font></font></p> <div align="center"></div><p align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><b><font size="5">On Thursday, February 25, at 4:00 pm</font></b></font></p> <div align="center"></div><p align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><b><font size="5">Location: The Crick Conference Room<br>Mandler Hall, room 3545</font></b></font></p><p align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></p> <div align="center"></div><p align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><font face="times new roman" size="4"><b>For more information about this speaker, please visit:</b></font></font></p> <div align="center"><font face="times new roman,times" size="4"><u><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://info.med.yale.edu/bbs/faculty/san_la.html"><strong>http://info.med.yale.edu/bbs/faculty/san_la.html</strong></a></font></u></font></div><p align="center"><br></p><p align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><font face="times new roman" size="4"><b>For more information about the colloquium series, please visit: </b></font></font></p> <div align="center"><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><font face="times new roman" size="4"><b><a href="http://psy.ucsd.edu/events/" target="_blank"><font face="times new roman" size="4">http://psy.ucsd.edu/events/</font></a> </b></font></font><br></div><p><br></p><p><b><font size="3">Abstract:</font></b></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">My talk will explore the origins of our judgment and decision-making heuristics. Specifically, I will explore the possibility that some aspects of adult human irrational decision-making might be shared with non-human primates and human children. I will then attempt to use a comparative-developmental approach to directly address the origins of several classic human irrationalities, such as cognitive dissonance, loss aversion and reference dependence. I will then discuss why such irrationalities may emerge so early in human development and evolution, with the hope of providing insight into the psychological machinery that drives both accurate and biased decision-making.</font></p><p><font face="times new roman" color="#000000"><font face="times new roman" size="4"><b><br></b></font></font></p> <hr size="2" wid="" th="100%"> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div>____________________________________________</div><div><br></div><div>cory miller phd</div><div>assistant professor | department of psychology</div><div>cortical systems and behavior laboratory</div><div>neurosciences graduate program</div><div>university of california san diego</div></div></span> </div> <br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>