亲有余，情不足：利益冲突的家庭关系

More Than Kin, Less Than Kind: Conflict of Interest  of the Family Business

主 讲 人：张雷 教授 香港中文大学  

时     间：7月17日（下周二）下午2:30-4:30

地     点：后主楼1420

邀 请  人：周仁来

内容介绍：

Family life does not  only provide a setting for its genetically related members to cooperate for  mutually beneficial evolutionary goals but also sets the stage for intense  conflicts both between parents and offspring and among the offspring. This talk  presents an evolutionary explanation of family conflict that is derived from  three major theories, namely, Hamilton’s inclusive fitness theory, Trivers’  parent-offspring conflict theory, and recent work by David Haig on genomic  imprinting. Within these frameworks I present evidence from across species on  parent-child conflict, sibling conflict, and the conflict between the parents.  This evidence highlights the evolutionary view that family conflicts are not  temporary perturbations due to certain proximate causes but are rather inherited  from the very functioning of the family as a cooperating arrangement that,  however, serves each member’s own selfish interest. 

主讲人介绍：

张雷教授毕业于美国南加州大学，曾在美国中伏罗里达大学任教，现为香港中文大学教育心理系系主任，教授。研究方向包括儿童社会性发展，心理测量与统计和进化心理学。出版著作6本，在国际期刊发表论文140余篇，并在十多家期刊任编辑或编委。近年致力推动进化心理学在中国的发展。