Thomas Flamson
Doctoral Candidate: Anthropology, UCLA, 2005;
MA: Anthropology, UCLA, 2002;
BA: Anthropology, U of Missouri-Columbia, 1999
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Curriculum Vitae
Office: 379 Haines Hall
Phone: 310-825-2055
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
tflamson@ucla.edu
Subfield
Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Interests
Evolution of humor and aesthetics; emotions, cognition, and decision-making; signaling, communication, and pragmatics; social networks and interpersonal evaluations; Brazil
Publications
Flamson, T. & H.C. Barrett (2008), "The encryption theory of humor: a knowledge-based mechanism of honest signaling." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.. Vol 6(4), Dec 2008, pp 261-281
Flamson, T. (2007), "Free Will in a Deterministic Whedonverse" in J. Davidson (ed.), The Psychology of Joss Whedon (pp. 35-49). Dallas: BenBella Books.
D.M.T. Fessler, E.G. Pillsworth, & T.J. Flamson (2004), “Angry Men and Disgusted Women: An Evolutionary Approach to the Influence of Emotions on Risk Taking” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Vol 95(1), Sep 2004, pp. 107-123
Grants and Awards
International Society of Human Ethology Owen Aldis Research Grant, January 2007 - December 2007
UCLA Latin American Center Research Grant, July 2006 - June 2007
UCLA Anthropology Dept. Research Grant, July 2006 - June 2007
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, September 2000 — August 2003
UCLA Summer Research Mentorship Program, June 2002 — August 2002
Advisors
H. Clark Barrett
Rob Boyd
Daniel M.T. Fessler
Martie G. Haselton
Conference Presentations
“Encryption Theory: Conversational Humor and Social Networks in Rural Brazil,” Poster Presentation at Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2009.
“Encrypted Humor and Social Networks in Rural Brazil,” Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, California State University, Fullerton, June 2009.
"Humor, Social Networks and Interpersonal Evaluations in Rural Brazil," Poster Presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 2008.
"Humor, Social Networks and Interpersonal Evaluations in Rural Brazil," Annual Conference of the International Society for Human Ethology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, July 2008.
"Humor, Social Networks and Interpersonal Evaluations in Rural Brazil," Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, June 2008
"I Don't Get It: Further evidence for the Encryption Theory of Humor," Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Penssylvania, PA, 2006
"Evidence For The Encryption Model Of Humor," Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Texas-Austin, TX, 2005
“Why You Had To Be There: Towards a computational model of humor-as-encryption,” Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Free University, Berlin, Germany, July 2004
“How to Make Friends and Influence People: Humor, Mirth and Bounded Rationality,” Poster Presentation at the Summer Institute for Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, Berlin, Germany, August 2003
"When a Chimp Falls in the Forest, Does Anyone Laugh? The Evolution of Humor and Laughter,” Annual Conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Rutgers University, NJ, June 2002
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