BEC

The Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture (BEC) unites scholars exploring the connections among evolution, culture, the mind, and society. BEC provides a framework to facilitate research and training on the interaction among natural selection, cultural transmission, social relations, and psychology.

Graduate Studies

BEC welcomes the participation of outstanding junior scholars who are currently pursuing graduate studies at UCLA on human behavior and related topics.   In addition to attending the BEC speaker series and inter-campus conferences, (see below), UCLA graduate students can participate in lab group meetings, led by BEC faculty, appropriate to their research area.

Faculty and Postdoctoral Visitors

BEC welcomes inquiries from faculty and postdoctoral scholars interested in visiting UCLA during sabbatical leaves, or in the course of externally-funded postdoctoral fellowships.

Activities

Weekly BEC speaker series brings nationally known speakers together to discuss topics of interest with faculty and students in an informal atmosphere (Website)

Once-a-quarter day-long conference organized jointly with the UC Santa Barbara Evolution, Mind, and Behavior Program (Website).

The UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, & Culture relies on support from diverse academic organizations and contributions from members of the public.  If, like us, you believe that the future of behavioral science lies in a consilience of perspectives united by evolutionary theory, you can join in the pursuit of this goal by making a financial contribution to the Center via our secure web site at https://giving.ucla.edu/bec.  Feel free to contact Daniel Fessler, Director of the Center, if you would like to discuss how you can support the Center's mission.  Dr. Fessler can be reached by email at dfessler "at" anthro.ucla.edu (insert the @ symbol yourself), or by phone at 310 794-9252.

 


Related Programs at Other Institutions

 

Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture; University of British Columbia

Evolution, Mind, and Behavior Program; University of California, Santa Barbara

Evolutionary Studies Program; Binghamton University, State University of New York

Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture; Emory University

Culture and Cognition Program; University of Michigan

Evolution and Human Adaptation Program; University of Michigan

Program in Culture, Language, and Cognition; Northwestern University

Center for Cognition and Culture; Case Western Reserve University

Brain and Creativity Institute; University of Southern California

IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling; Washington State University and University of Washington

Center for Human Evolutionary Studies; Rutgers University

Centre for Culture and Evolutionary Psychology; Brunel University, West London

Institute of Cognitive & Evolutionary Anthropology; University of Oxford

Institute of Cognition and Culture; Queen’s University, Belfast

AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity; University College London

Institute Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris

International Cognition and Culture Institute; London School of Economics and Political Science

Religion, Cognition, and Culture Project; University of Aarhus, Denmark

Center for the Sociality of Mind; Hokkaido University, Japan

Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies; University of Cambridge

Centre for Behaviour and Evolution; Newcastle University

Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution; University of St. Andrews, Scotland

 

 


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