Evolution Science SIG

Evolution Science SIG

Evolution Science SIG          

Affiliated 2012

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What happens in EvoSSIG?

Many things

We have worked to put EvoSci into the day to day thinking of members of ACBS.

For a recent example look at the recommendations of the the ACBS Task Force on the Strategies and Tactics of Contextual Behavioral Science Research (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2021.03.007) which is chock full of EvoSci linked recommendations.
 

Another is that each year for many years we have helped to recruit major speakers from the Evolutionary Sciences to present at the ACBS World Conference. 

Example include Eva Jablonka on epigenetics (Sydney, July 2013). Find some information here==>, Christine Caldwell on cultural evolution (Dublin, 2019), Peter Turchin on cultural evolution (Montreal, 2018); Paul Gilbert on compassion and evolution (Seville, 2017), Frans de Waal on the evolution of cooperation in primates (Seville, 2017), David Sloan Wilson on evolution for everyone (Seattle, 2015; Minneapolis, 2013), Susan Schneider on the evolutionary impact of operant learning (Minneapolis, 2013) and many others.

ACBS is a partner with The mission of the Evolution Institute is to use evolutionary science to improve the human condition and solve real-world problems – bringing together experts from various fields to inform public policy with the latest research.

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Resources:

Please click here to access some EvoS SIG resources.

Graciela

EvoS SIG Resources

EvoS SIG Resources

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science Articles

  • Hayes, S.C., Sanford, B.T., & Chin, F. (2017) Carrying the baton: Evolution science and a contextual behavioral analysis of language and cognition. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, Volume 6: Issue 3, Pages 314-328.
  • Biglan, A., Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2015) Acting in light of the future: How do future-oriented cultural practices evolve and how can we accelerate their evolution? Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 184-195
  • Biglan, A., Embry, D.D. (2015) A framework for intentional cultural change. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, Volume 2, Issues 3–4, Pages 95-104
  • David Sloan Wilson (2012) Consilience: Making contextual behavioral science part of the United Ivory Archipelago. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, Volume 1, Issues 1–2, Pages 39-42.

Books

  • Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups by Paul W.B. Atkins, David Sloan Wilson, and Steven C. Hayes (2019)
  • Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior Edited By David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes (2018)
  • Living Like Crazy by Gilbert Paul (2017)
  • Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson
  • Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) by Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb
  • The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time by David Sloan Wilson

Publications

  • Rehfeldt, R.A., Tyndall, I. & Belisle, J. (2021). Music as a Cultural Inheritance System: A Contextual-Behavioral Model of Symbolism, Meaning, and the Value of Music. Behavior and Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-021-00084-w
  • Gråd, E., Erlandsson, A., & Tinghög, G. (2021). Do nudges crowd out prosocial behavior? Behavioural Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2021.10
  • Van Ryzin, M.J., Roseth, C.J., Biglan, A. (2020) Mediators of Effects of Cooperative Learning on Prosocial Behavior in Middle School. International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 5:37–52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41042-020-00026-8
  • Eirdosh, D., Hanisch, S. (2020) Can the science of Prosocial be a part of evolution education? Evolution: Education and Outreach, 13, 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-020-00119-7
  • Hanisch, Susan & Eirdosh, Dustin. (2020). Conceptual clarification of evolution as an interdisciplinary science. DOI: 10.35542/osf.io/vr4t5.
  • Biglan A, Johansson M, Van Ryzin M, Embry D. (2020) Scaling up and scaling out: Consilience and the evolution of more nurturing societies. Clinical Psychology Review;81:101893
  • Special Issue of Clinical Psychology Review on "Clinical Psychology and Evolutionary Science" (edited by Stephen Hayes, Stefan Hofmann, & David Sloan Wilson)
    • Hayes, S.C., Hofmann, S.G., Wilson D.S. (2020) Clinical psychology is an applied evolutionary science. Clinical Psychology Review Volume 81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101892
    • Biglan, A., Johansson, M., Van Ryzin, M., & Embry, D. (2020). Scaling up and scaling out: Consilience and the evolution of more nurturing societies. Clinical Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101893
    • Schiele, M.A., Gottschalk, M.G., Katharina Domschke, K. (2020) The applied implications of epigenetics in anxiety, affective and stress-related disorders - A review and synthesis on psychosocial stress, psychotherapy and prevention. Clinical Psychology Review Volume 77
    • Hayes, S.C., Hofmann, S.G., Ciarrochic, J. (2020) A process-based approach to psychological diagnosis and treatment:The conceptual and treatment utility of an extended evolutionary meta model. Clinical Psychology Review Volume 82.
  • Wilson, D.S. (2016). Quality of Life from an Evolutionary Perspective. Applied Research Quality Life 11, 331–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-014-9341-3
  • Wilson, D. S., Hayes, S. C., Biglan, A., & Embry, D. D. (2014). Evolving the future: toward a science of intentional change. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 37(4), 395–416. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13001593

Webinars

ACBS World Conference Videos

Podcasts and Youtube

Video Series that accompanies the Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science book

Other Resources

Community

EvoS Resources: featuring Eva Jablonka, invited Speaker at the Wold Conference 11

EvoS Resources: featuring Eva Jablonka, invited Speaker at the Wold Conference 11

Featuring Eva Jablonka, PhD                       

"Each aspect of a human symbolic culture is part of an interacting network of behaviors,
ideas, and the products of behavior and ideas that is shaped by many different forces.
This makes it very difficult to think about any artifact or behavior as anevolutionary
unit in isolation from the culture in which it is historically embedded."

Professor Eva Jablonka is one of our Invited speakers at the next Wold Conference 11, in Sydney in July 2013. She has a Ph.D. in Genetics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Her post-Doctoral studies were in the Philosophy of Science, and in Developmental Genetics. She is a professor in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv. Her main interest is the understanding of evolution, especially evolution that is driven by non-genetic hereditary variations, and in the evolutionary transition to phenomenal consciousness. The co-authored books listed below examine and discuss some of these issues. See her CV below.

Here we have some readings that she generously share with us:

  • Plasticity and canalization in the evolution of linguistic communication: an evolutionary-developmental approach (see Dor Jablonka 2010)
  • The co-evolution of language and emotions (see 2012 language and emotions)
  • Epigenetics and the Embodiment of Race: Developmental Origins of US Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Health (see 2009 Kuzawa and Sweet)
Graciela

Related contributions

Related contributions

 Do you have interesting material related to EvoSciences?

 

  • Kevin Polks gently sent this and you can find the diagram at the bottom of the page.

Update by Kevin Polk on March 25, 2013:

The Prosocial diagram is a combination of the ACT Matrix diagram and Dr. Elinor Ostrom's 8 core design features of successful groups. Dr. Ostrom won the Nobel prize in economics for her work showing that small groups of people could "manage the commons" as she termed them; scarce resources such as water, land, etc. were the commons.

Evolutionary Biologist David Sloan Wilson has been working to apply Ostrom's 8 core design feature to neighborhood groups in the city where he lives and works, Binghamton, NY. The goal is to influence groups to adopt the design features and manage the commons and less tangible resources such as time.

David asked me to use the Matrix diagram to help teach the core design features and influence people toward using them.

The Matrix is an evolutionary process, so the presentation has evolved since I first presented it at the ACT World Conference in June of 2012. It will continue to evolve. Stay tuned.

Graciela