Past Events
Spring 2006
Date Speaker Event
April 4
Kathleen Kiernan, Professor
University of York, UK
California Center for Population Research; Sociology of Family Working Group
Partnership Status Disparities in Maternal Smoking during Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, and Maternal Depression
April 19
M. Belinda Tucker, Ph.D.
UCLA Psychiatry
California Center for Population Research
Single in the City: Women's Attitudes Toward Marriage Over Time
April 20
Workshop
Ross Lecture Series and Department of Sociology; Race and Ethnicity Working Group; Chicano Studies Research Center; Asian American Studies Department; Center for African American 21 April; Center on Everyday Lives of Families
The Dilemmas of Colorblindness: Racial Privacy, Racial Profiling, and Genetics
April 20
Rena Repetti, Ph.D.
UCLA Psychology
Health Psychology Seminar
Families Reuniting After Work
April 24
Joseph Campos, Ph.D.
UC Berkeley Psychology
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture; Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
On the Epigenesis of Fear in the Human Infant
April 26
Jennifer Glick, Ph.D.
Arizona State University
California Center for Population Research
Academic Performance of Young Children in Immigrant Families:Convergence by Race and Ethnicity
April 28
Noah Friedkin, Ph.D.
UCSB Sociology
The Marschak Colloquium; Sociology Department
Social Influence Network Theory & the Diffusion of Attitudes and Behavior
May 1
Nancy Burley, Ph.D.
UCI Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture
Sexual Imprinting: New Approaches to an Old Problem
May 3
Liana Sayer, Ph.D.
Ohio State University
California Center for Population Research; Sociology of Family Working Group
Economic Resources, Marital Bargains, and Marital Quality
May 5
Greg Herek, Ph.D.
UC Davis Dept. of Psychology
Social Psychology Colloqium; Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
Deconstructing LGB: Social, Psychological, and Demographic Differences and Similarities Among Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexual Women, and Bisexual Men in a US National Probability Sample
May 5
Belinda Campos, Ph.D.
UCLA Dept. of Psychology
Center on Everyday Lives of Families
Close Relationship Contexts, Emotions, and Behavior: The Uniqueness of Familial Bonds
May 17
R. Kelley Raley, Ph.D.
University of Texas
California Center for Population Research; Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
Rating and Dating Revisited: How Social and Formal Organizational Attributes Shape the Formation of Adolescent Romantic Relationships
May 23
Andrea Wong
UCLA Dept. of Applied Linguistics
Center on Everyday Lives of Families
A Neurobiology for the Interactional Instinct
June 5
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D.
UC Berkeley
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture
Evolution's Soul: What Laughter, Smiling, Lip Puckers, and Goosebumps Tell us About the Evolution of Human Goodness
Winter 2006
Date Speaker Event
January 13
Annette Lareau, Ph.D.
University of Maryland Sociology
Sociology of Family Working Group; Sociology of Gender Working Group; Center on Everyday Lives of Families
Unequal Childhoods Grown Up: The Influence of Class and Race on Family Life over Time
January 26
Steven Gaulin, Ph.D.
UCSB Dept. of Anthropology
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture
A Real-World Foraging Task Yields a Female Advantage and Significant Content Effects
January 31
Lotte Thomsen
UCLA Dept. of Psychology
Center for Culture, Brain and Development
What a Psychologist can Learn Among the Inuit of North Greenland: Implicit and Declarative Aspects of Relationships
February 2
Gail Heyman, Ph.D.
UCSD Dept. of Psychology
Culture, Brain and Development; Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
Children’s Reasoning about People as Sources of Information
February 10
Michael Johnson, Ph.D.
Penn State University Dept. of Sociology and Women Studies
Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
Gender, Control, and Domestic Violence
February 10
Sue Carter, Ph.D.
University of Illinois Chicago
Dept. of Psychiatry
Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
Social Monogamy and Oxytocin: A Love Story?
February 22
Ruben Rumbaut, Ph.D.
UCI Dept. of Sociology
California Center for Population Research
The “Second Generation” in Early Adulthood
February 24
Kate Choi
UCLA Sociology

Sociology of Family Working Group
Mexican Migration and Women’s Union Formation in Sending Communities
February 24
Yasamin Kusunoki
UCLA
Sociology of Family Working Group
Characterization of Young Adults’ Nonmarital Sexual Relationships: Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health
February 27
Theresa Seeman, Ph.D.
UCLA, Geriatrics and David Geffen School of Medicine
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture
Exploring a Bio-Psychosocial Model of Cumulative Risk – Biological Pathways Linking Life Experience and Health Outcome in Aging
March 3
Gary Gates, Ph.D.
UCLA Williams Institute
Lee Badgett , Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Economics
Sociology of Family Working Group
Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in the United States and Europe
March 15
V. Joseph Hotz, Ph.D.
UCLA Economics
California Center for Population Research
Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behavior, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfer
March 16
Marjorie Orellana, Ph.D.
UCLA GSEIS
Migration Study Group
Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth as Family Interpreters
Fall 2005
Date Speaker Event
October 3
Joseph Manson, Ph.D.
UCLA Dept. of Anthropology
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture
Father-Daughter Inbreeding Avoidance Reduces Male Reproductive Skew in a Wild Primate Population
October 17
Susan Perry, Ph.D.
UCLA Dept. of Anthropology
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture
Social learning in wild capuchin monkeys
October 18
Alma Gottlieb, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Anthro
Kerri Johnson, Ph.D.
NYU, Psychology
Walking in Grandfather's Spirit: A Local Model of Motor or Dental Development from West Africa Abnormal Brain Development
October 19
Susan Watkins, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
California Center for Population Research
California Center for Population Research
Demography and Ethnography
October 19
Jooyoung Lee, Ph.D.
UCLA Dept. of Sociology
Race & Ethnicity Working Group
You Wanna Battle? Negotiating Peer Relations and Social Order in the Emcee Cipher
October 20
Sarah Algoe, Ph.D.
UCLA Dept. of Psychology
Social Psychology Colloquium
A Relational Model of Gratitude: Evidence for a Positive Emotion that Builds Relationships, and Implications for Well-being
October 26
Kristin Schilt, Ph.D.
UCLA Dept. of Sociology
Sociology of Gender Working Group
Just One of the Guys? Female-to-Male Transsexuals in the Workplace
October 31
Paul Zak, Ph.D.
Claremont Graduate University
Dept. of Economics
Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture
Oxytocin Increases Trust in Humans
November 2
Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D.
UCSB Dept. of Linguistics
Center for Language, Interaction and Culture
Styling, Quoting, and California Youth Identities in Interaction
November 3
Kerri Johnson, Ph.D.
NYU Dept. of Psychology
Social Psychology Colloquium
Interpersonal Metaperception: A New Look at How We Perceive (and Misperceive) People
November 9
Susan Pelka, Ph.D.
UCLA Center for Society and Genetics
Sociology of Gender Working Group
Lesbian Couples Using In-Vitro Fertilization to Co-Mother: A Cultural Study of Biological Ties
November 10
Benjamin C. Campbell, Ph.D.
Boston University Dept. of Anthropology
Center for Culture, Brain and Development
Adrenarche and Human Development
November 15
Ted Hutman
UCLA Dept. of Psychology
Center for Culture, Brain and Development
Maternal Directives in Autism: An Analysis of Mother-Child Interaction
November 17
Sarah Edgington
UCLA Dept. of Sociology
Sociology of Family Working Group
Parenting Styles and Academic Achievement among East Asian and Mexican Americans
November 17
Hongbo Wang
UCLA Dept. of Sociology
Sociology of Family Working Group
Economic Strategies of Immigrant and Non-immigrant Families in Los Angeles
December 9
Vern Bengston
USC Dept. of Sociology
Sociology of Family Working Group
Families, Generations, and Aging
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