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The Lecture Series, to be held three times per year, consists of important researchers in culture, brain, and development from the United States and around the world. Each year, one of the three lectures will be dedicated to the current topical focus, as this focus intersects with the theme of Culture, Brain, and Development.

The Forum Series consists of social scientists and neuroscientists from UCLA whose work will help to explain how neurobiological processes mediate social relational processes and vice versa.

CBD Forum
Winter Quarter 2008

Forum on Culture, Brain, and Development
Topic: Peer Relationshop

Listed as Anthropology M293, Applied Linguistics M232, Education M285, Neuroscience M293, or Psychology M248

CBD Forum

Instructors: Dr. Marjorie Goodwin, Anthropology
Dr. Jaana Juvonen, Developmental Psychology

Course numbers: Anthro M293, Applied Linguistics M232, Education M285,
Neuroscience M293, or Psychology M248

Course Overview:

This course will examine how diverse disciplines in the social sciences -anthropology, sociology, and psychology -- have analyzed developmental and social processes as well as cultural practices among groups of peers. The peer groups to be investigated will include humans of various ages (from preschool through early adulthood), social class and ethnic backgrounds, as well as nonhuman primates. Topics we will discuss entail the formation of social hierarchies and local “conventions” among primates, the construction of friendship relations and social difference (at work in interaction on the playground as well as via electronic communication), group functions of bullying in early adolescence, neural mechanisms underlying risky behavior among adolescents and involved in reading of social cues.

Tuesdays 12:15 - 3:20, Haines Hall 352.

Week 2: Jan 15
Dr. Susan Perry, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA
Week 3: Jan 22
Dr. Carollee Howes, Dept. of Education, UCLA
Week 4: Jan 29
Dr. Barrie Thorne, Professor and Chair of Gender &
Woman's Studies, Dept. of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Week 7: Feb 19
Dr. Elisheva Gross, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA
Week 8: Feb 26
Dr. Nim Tottenham, Sackler Institute for
Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical
College of Cornell University
Week 9: Mar 4
Dr. Adriana Galvan, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA

Anthropology Reading Room
Haines Hall, Room 352

All are welcome; lunch will be served at 12.15

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Past Forum Schedules