Employment
Post-doctoral researcher in Population Health -
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2012 - present
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology - UCLA 2012
M.A. Anthropology - UCLA 2006
B.A. Anthropology and Psychology - UC Berkeley 2003
Fellowships & Grants
Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA Grad Division 2011
Quinn Exchange Fellowship, UBC Psychology Department, 2011
International Cognition and Culture Institute Mini-Grant, 2010
Graduate Student Researcher, NIH Challenge Grant, 2009-2011
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship 2007, 2008
Latin American Center Tinker Field Research Grant 2007
UCLA Anthropology Conference Grants 2005-2009
UCLA Anthropology Research Grant 2006, 2008
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2004-2007
Publications
Moya, C. (2013) Evolved priors for ethnolinguistic categorization: A case study from the Quechua-Aymara boundary in the Peruvian Altiplano. Evolution and Human Behavior. [LINK]
Perreault, C., Moya, C. and Boyd, R. (2012) A Bayesian approach to the evolution of social learning. Evolution and Human Behavior. [LINK]
Fessler, D.M.T. and Moya, C. (2009) Crying. In: The Oxford Companion to the Affective Sciences, Klaus Scherer and David Sander, Eds. [PDF]
Moya, C. (2009) Review of People of the Volcano: Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru. The Historian. [PDF]
Manuscripts
Moya, C. Different ethnic phenomena correspond to distinct boundaries in the Peruvian Altiplano.
Moya, C., Boyd, R. and Henrich, J. (invited for submission) Reasoning about cultural and genetic transmission: Developmental and cross-cultural evidence from Peru, Fiji and the US.
Moya, C. & Boyd, R. Whence ethnic psychology? An evolutionary functionalist reframing of the debate.
Moya, C. & Scelza, B. Essentialism and prejudice are functionally distinct: Evidence from Himba intergroup perception.
Presentations
2013
The evolution of social group essentialism and intergroup prejudice.
Presented at European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012
Have humans evolved adaptations for reasoning about ethnic groups?
Archaeology and Anthropology Research Society, University of Bristol.
2012
How quickly can migrants become group members? Perceptions of identity stability across cultural contexts.
Population Seminar, London School of Economics.
2011
Biases for linguistic group inductive inferences: Developmental test from the Peruvian Altiplano.
Presented at the 110th annual American Anthropological Association Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
2011
La evolución de categorización social. (The evolution of social categorization)
Presented at Anthropology Department, Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Peru.
2011
Verbal cues of language use promote inductive inference in children.
Presented at the 23rd annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meeting, Montpellier, France.
2010
Folksociology explains ethnic reasoning better than Folkbiology does.
Presented at the 109th annual American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2010
Perceptions of trait and identity transmission: Cross-cultural and developmental tests of universal folksociology.
Presented at the 22nd annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meeting, Eugene, Oregon.
2009
Priors for language based predictions: Evidence from the Peruvian Altiplano
Presented at the UCSB-UCLA Human Nature and Society Conference, Los Angeles, California.
2009
Desarollo de categorización social en un contexto trilingüe. (Development of social categorization in a trilingual context)
Presented at the 1st annual Symposium Andean Linguistics and Education, Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, Peru.
2009
Development of inferences based on ethnic and occupational categories.
Presented at the 21st annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting, Fullerton, California.
2008
Cinco misconcepciones de la antropología evolutiva, y un poco sobre los orígenes humanos.
Presented at el Instituto de Lengua y Cultural Aymara, La Paz, Bolivia.
2008
Perceptions of social categories' ingroup homogeneity.
Poster presented at 20th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting, Kyoto, Japan.
2007
Human social evolution and its implications for how and why humans form stereotypes about others.
Presented at the Exploring Darwin Conference, Palomar College, San Marcos, California. [LINK]
2007
Differential inductive reasoning about social categories and their members' traits.
Presented at 19th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia.
2006
Evolutionary and Associationist approaches to inferential reasoning about social categories.
Presented to the Culture Evolution Research Group at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2006
Differences in inferential reasoning about social categories.
Poster presented at MPI Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Berlin, Germany.
2006
A Functionalist Approach to Guilt: How likelihood of a transgression being discovered affects individuals' expression of guilt.
Presented at International Society for Research on Emotions meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
2006
Social Group Essentialism: Inferential reasoning about ethnic, coalitional and occupational categories.
Presented at 18th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2005
Disentangling Coalitional and Ethnic Psychology.
Poster presented at 17th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting, Austin, Texas.
Fieldwork Experience
2007-2011
Six field seasons of ethnographic and psychological research for dissertation, Huatasani, Peru
2003
Primatological fieldwork on handedness in wild howlers, Bocas del Toro, Panama
2002
Archaeological and ethnoarchaeological fieldwork on agricultural subsistence strategies, Khonko Wankane and Chiripa, Bolivia
Teaching Experience
Statistics for Epidemiology and Public Health Practicals, LSHTM
Anthropology 7, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, UCLA, TA
Anthropology 124P, Evolution of Human Sexual Behavior, UCLA, TA
Anthropology 128, Primate Behavioral Ecology, UCLA, Reader
Workshops
2013
Network structure, political hierarchy, & economic inequality
Santa Fe Institute.
2012
Applied multi-level modelling
Southampton University
2012
A modern approach to meta-analysis
Imperial College London
2006
Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics.
Max Planck Institute for Human Development - Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition. Berlin, Germany
Peer Reviewer
Evolution and Human Behavior
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Nature
Current Directions in Psychological Science
Languages (Computer Languages)
Native speaker: Spanish, English
Intermediate: French, Quechua, (R), (Matlab), (Stata)
Novice: Aymara , (Python)
