Research Interests
Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
I am studying psychological adaptations for processing ethnic and coalitional social categories. These are some of the questions I am addressing through cross-cultural research in the United States and amongst agro-pastoralists in the Peruvian altiplano.
Cristina Moya
UCLA Anthropology Dept
341 Haines Hall
Los Angeles, CA. 90095
cmoya [at] ucla.edu
How do children learn which social categories are useful basis for making prediction?
Which social stereotypes are humans prone to form?
What are the functions of social group inductive reasoning and assortment?
Are humans prone to essentialize certain social categories?