{"id":381,"date":"2016-05-13T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T23:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=381"},"modified":"2016-05-13T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T23:30:03","slug":"may-cafe-scientifique-with-steven-heine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2016\/05\/13\/may-cafe-scientifique-with-steven-heine\/","title":{"rendered":"May Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Steven Heine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on <b>Tuesday May 31st, 7:30pm<\/b>\u00a0at<b>\u00a0Yagger&#8217;s Downtown <\/b>(433 W Pender). Our speaker for the evening will be <b>Dr. Steven Heine<\/b>,\u00a0a Professor in the Department of Psychology at UBC. The title of his talk is:<\/p>\n<p><b>DNA is Not Destiny: How Essences Distort how we Think about Genes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>People the world over are essentialist thinkers \u2013 they are attracted to the idea that hidden essences make things as they are. And because genetic concepts remind people of essences, they tend to think of genes in ways similar to essences. That is, people tend to think about genetic causes as immutable, deterministic, homogenous, discrete, and natural.\u00a0 Dr. Heine will discuss how our essentialist biases lead people to think differently about sex, race, crime, eugenics, and disease whenever these are described in genetic terms. Moreover, Dr. Heine will discuss how our essentialistic biases make people vulnerable to the sensationalist hype that has emerged with the genomic revolution and access to direct-to-consumer genotyping services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on Tuesday May 31st, 7:30pm\u00a0at\u00a0Yagger&#8217;s Downtown (433 W Pender). Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Steven Heine,\u00a0a Professor in the Department of Psychology at UBC. The title of his talk is: DNA is Not Destiny: How Essences Distort how we Think about Genes People the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}