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News Events Media         featured: Grudges before gratitude   Retaliation comes naturally to children, while positive reciprocity must be learned, says UCI cognitive scientist Nadia Chernyak   Read on...             featured: Incentives to hire   Economists from UCI and the New York Federal Reserve are teaming up to study whether a key California tax credit for businesses boosts job creation   Read on...           featured: The changing bilingual brain   Environment alters the way Spanish-English speakers process language   Read on...             featured: Uncovering children of immigrants' unseen labor   Sociology graduate student Vanessa Delgado wins a National Science Foundation grant to support her research   Read on...       more news       International recognition   Kai Wehmeier, logic and philosophy of science professor, receives Humboldt Prize for outstanding academic research career       Fall 2019 Werner Fellows   Prestigious fellowship program established through gift from Christian Werner estate funds research pursuits of the school's top graduate students       Is human language efficient?   UCI language scientist uses machine learning to put our common word order patterns to the test; findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences       Feb 7 & 8 | Center for Citizen Peacebuilding 20th Anniversary Conference  Building Sustainable Peace Movements in a Divided World. Learn more...     soc sci in the media   Social sciences faculty and graduate students are consistently sought by media for their expertise in areas ranging from digital play to gender pay. In January alone, 19 soc sci faculty, grad students, and programs were cited in, featured by, or authors of pieces appearing in more than 50 stories run by news outlets worldwide. Check out some of our top hits, self-authored pieces, and on-air interviews below, or visit us online for the full run down.   Emotional currency: How money shapes human relationships Listen in to Bill Maurer, social sciences dean and anthropology and law professor, on NPR's Hidden Brain as he challenges established ideas about the origins of currency, and highlights the connection between money and relationships.     Nachman on Taiwan, elections   CNN     Wang Feng on China birthrate   TIME         Varzi on Iran, experience   Daily Pilot     Neumark on age discrimination   Forbes       Social Sciences Homecoming Pre-Game BBQ Aldrich Park | Feb 29 Join fellow social sciences alumni at the Social Sciences Homecoming BBQ, hosted by dean Bill Maurer, in Aldrich Park beginning 2 p.m. until tip-off. Learn more...     event calendar   Subscribe to our online calendar to get all events delivered straight to your smartphone.     28-29    JAN         Technology and Consumer Thinking: Credit Unions in an Age of Insecurity   9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | Irvine Marriott Hotel Filene Fellows Bill Maurer and Hope Schau join experts from inside and outside the credit union industry to guide the exploration of the insecurities facing credit unions and their members.             29   JAN         Remembering Better and Remembering More: Revealing the Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Quality and Quantity of Human Memory   12:00-1:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Weizhen Xie, Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health             30   JAN         Experimental Philosophy and Moral Cognition: A Review of the Field   2:00-3:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250 | Jessica Maria Gonzalez, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Intern at Ethics Center, UCI             30   JAN         Non-Suffering Work: China's Medical Interventions in Postconflict South Sudan   3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | Yidong Gong, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Irvine             31   JAN         Passing Hilbert's Final Test   3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 777| Jack H. Lutz, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University             03   FEB         The Origins of Social Categorization   12:00-1:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | Zoe Liberman, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara             04   FEB         Migration, Health, Latino Families   12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Jennifer Van Hook, Professor of Sociology and Demography, Director of Graduate Program, Penn State             04   FEB         The Psychology of Political Polarization   2:00-3:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250 |Peter Ditto, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, UCI             05    FEB         NSF Funding for Early Career Scholars   3:00-4:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222             06   FEB         Pit Bull Politics: What a Dog Breed Can Teach Us About Prejudice and Racial Politics   2:00-2:45 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250 | Michael Tesler, Department of Political Science, UCI             06   FEB         Seeing Us in Them: Social Boundaries and the Politics of Group Empathy?   2:45-3:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250 | Nicholas Valentino, Department of Political Science, U of Michigan             06   FEB         Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal   5:00-6:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 | Hanna Garth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego             07-08   FEB         Conference: Building Sustainable Peace Movements in a Divided World   8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Business School Auditorium (SB1) and Continuing Education Building, Yosemite Conference Room | 20th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding             10   FEB         Dynamics of Memory Formation and Control Across the Human Lifespan   12:00-1:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Elizabeth Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley and Wayne State University             10    FEB         Linguistic Diversity Film Screening: Speaking in Tongues   5:00-7:00 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1800             11   FEB         'But What Kind of Gentrification Are You Talking About?' An Evaluation of Gentrification Measures and Birth Outcomes in California   12:00-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Joseph Gibbons, Associate Professor of Sociology, San Diego State University             11   FEB         The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis   2:00-3:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250 | Kyle Stanford, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UCI             12   FEB         Computational Principles of Efficient Human Exploration   12:00-1:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Charley Wu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University             13   FEB         Morality, Emotions and Social Hierarchy   2:00-3:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250 | Paul Piff, School of Social Ecology, UCI             14   FEB         Validity Related Inferential Uncertainty   1:00-2:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Paul De Boeck, Professor of Quantitative Psychology, Ohio State University             18   FEB         What Do We Know about Unsheltered Homelessness and Its Consequences?   12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Randall Kuhn, Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UCLA             20   FEB         Evolutionary Game Theory and the Social Contract   2:00-3:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250 | Brian Skyrms, Logic and Philosophy of Science, UCI             21   FEB         AI, Deep Learning, and Virtualization   1:00-2:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Pierre Baldi, Distinguished Professor of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine             24   FEB         Enhancing Diversity and Equitable Inclusion   10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517             25    FEB         Using Drone Photography to Measure the Physical Conditions of Neighborhoods   12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Danielle Wallace, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University             25   FEB         The Power of Story: Narratives as the Tool of Culture and Ethics   2:00-3:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250 | Helen Haste, Emeritus, Harvard and Bath             26   FEB         William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program Information Session   10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222 | Kim Dumont, Senior Program Officer, William T. Grant Foundation             26   FEB         William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants and Institutional Challenge Grants Information Session   2:00-3:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222 | Kim Dumont, Senior Program Officer, William T. Grant Foundation             26   FEB         Education, Economics and Social Justice: Contexts and Conditions for Developing Non-English Languages in the United States   2:00-3:30 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1030 (also livestreamed) | Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University             27   FEB         National Institute of Justice: Funding Opportunities and Tips for Success   12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112             27   FEB         Change the Narrative, Change the World: Ethics, Explanations and Engagement   2:00-3:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5250| Helen Haste, Emeritus, Harvard and Bath             28   FEB         Information-Theoretic Models of Natural Language   1:00-2:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Richard Futrell, Assistant Professor, Language Science, UCI             28-29   FEB         UCI Homecoming   All day | Aldrich Park, Bren Events Center             about uci soc sci   We are not your standard school. 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