#726 Cristina Moya: Ethnic Categories, and Social Effects on Reproduction
RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 21st 2022.
Dr. Cristina Moya is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is an evolutionary anthropologist interested in how humans respond adaptively to culturally structured social worlds. Two main foci of her research are: intergroup interactions and social cognition; and cross-cultural variation in social effects on reproduction.
In this episode, we talk about ethnic categories, and social effects on reproduction. We start by defining ethnic categories, and we talk about their evolutionary bases; the fact that there is no correlation between “race” and culture; stereotyping, essentialism, and ethnocentrism; how people think about ethnic groups; child development; and gene-culture coevolution in ethnic psychology. We then get into social effects on reproduction, with a focus on the impact of family members. We discuss reproduction in industrialized societies; religiosity; and female-dispersing groups, and age at menopause. Finally, we talk about potential explanations for the demographic transition in industrialized societies.
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Intro
What are ethnic categories?
Have we evolved to distinguish between ethnic categories?
There is no correlation between “race” and culture
Stereotyping, essentialism, ethnocentrism – do they stem from the same psychological basis?
What influences how people think about ethnic groups? Do they think about them as stable?
Child development
Gene-culture coevolution in ethnic psychology
Social effects of reproduction
Reproduction in industrialized societies, and the stigma surrounding teen pregnancy
Religiosity and fertility rates
Female-dispersing groups, and age at menopause
The demographic transition in industrialized societies
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Faculty page: https://bit.ly/38zBPWn
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ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3wAsV35
Twitter handle: @HyperadaptHyrax