HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION SOCIETY MEETING AT UCSB
Laurence Fiddick;x2791
if you are in a department of psychology, biology or anthropology in california
then others in your department may find this of interest so could you please
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thanks in advance,
larry fiddick
center for evolutionary psychology
ucsb
Human Behavior & Evolution Society Program
University of California, Santa Barbara
June 28-July 2
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ednesday, June 28
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4:00-11:00pm Dorm & Conference Registration.
Anacapa Residence Hall, Registration Desk.
7:00-11:00pm Reception.
Anacapa Residence Hall, Recreation Room & Patio.
Everyday:
Breakfast and Lunch in De La Guerra Dining Hall.
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Breakfast 8:00-9:00; Lunch 12:15-1:35
Conference registration will continue Thursday at the nearby UCEN,
where all the talks and sessions will be held.
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hursday, June 29
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Posters on view all day.
9:00 Plenary Address. David Haig
(Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard)
Genetic conflicts in human pregnancy
Morning Sessions. 10:10-12:15
Session 1-A. Evolutionary Ecology & Optimality Analyses.
10:10 Hill, K. The Cost of Reproduction: Is Intermediate
Fertility Ever Optimal?
10:35 Towner, M. A Dynamic Model of Human Dispersal in
a Land-Based Economy
11:00 Abbot, J. & Barrett, L. Women and Fuelwood in
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Malawi: Optimal Foraging?
11:25 Wara, A., Roskaft, E., & Djupvik, A. Reproductive
Success in Relation to Resource-Access in Two
Different Parishes in central Norway During the
Period 1700-1900
11:50 Carey, A. Modernization's Effects on the Mortality
Costs of Reproduction
Session 1-B. Evolution & Cognition I.
10:10 Fiddick, L., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. Does the Mind
Distinguish between Social Contracts and
Precautions?
10:35 Ketelaar, T. Emotion as Mental Representations of
Fitness Affordances I: Evidence Supporting the
Claim that Negative and Positive Emotions Map
onto Fitness Costs and Benefits
11:00 Ketelaar, T. Emotion as Mental Representations of
Fitness Affordances II: Does Anger Make You More
Rational?
11:25 Sugiyama, L., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. Testing for
Universality: Reasoning Adaptations among the
Achuar of Amazonia
11:50 Fetzer, J. Heuristics, Evolution, and Rationality
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Session 1-C. Evolutionary Psychiatry I.
10:10 Eisen, A. Adaptations from Psychiatry and
Psychoanalysis
10:35 Westen, D. Motivation and Affect Regulation: A
Psychodynamic-Cognitive-Evolutionary Model
11:00 Singh, D. Anorexia and Bulimia as Two Different
Strategies for Reproduction Suppression
11:25 Lloyd, A. Evolved Psychic Structure and Dreaming
11:50 Young, E. & Nesse, R. Can Sexual Selection Explain
The Increased Prevalence Of Anxiety Disorders in
Women?
1:35 Plenary Address. Alan Leslie
(Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers):
The understanding of mental states and its natural origins
Afternoon Sessions. 2:45-4:50
Session 2-A. Darwinian Aesthetics: Human Beauty.
2:45 Singh, D. & Suwardi, L. Men's Preference for
Romantic Relationships: Pretty Faces or Beautiful
Bodies?
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3:10 Johnston, V.S. & Oliver-Rodriguez, J.C. Mirror,
Mirror, On The Wall...
3:35 Gangestad, S. & Thornhill, R. Human Sexual Selection,
Developmental Stability, and Indicator Mechanisms
4:00 Palameta, B. & Martin, S. Male Perceptions of Female
Attractiveness: The Importance of Waist-to-Hip
Ratio
4:25 Quinsey, V. & Lalumihre, M. Pedophilia and the
Design of Male Sexual Age and Gender Preferences
Session 2-B. Computational Human Evolution: From Artificial Life to
Artificial Human Evolution. (Organizer: Gessler).
2:45 Gessler, N. Artificial Culture: Experiments in Synthetic
Anthropology
3:10 Gabora. L. How Could Something Evolve? Comparing
Memetic and Genetic Evolution
3:35 Sims, K. Evolving Virtual Creatures
4:00 Bankes, S. Information and Society: Towards a New
Academic Discipline
4:25 Bragin, J. Evolution, Ethics & Artificial Life
Session 2-C. Evolution & Cognition II.
2:45 Schoenemann, P.T. Is Syntax Simply an Emergent
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Characteristic of the Evolution of Semantic
Complexity?
3:10 Marcus, G. Rules and Statistics: An Evolutionary
Perspective
3:35 Silverman, I., Kastuk, D., Choi, J. and K. Phillips. Sex
Hormone Levels and Cognitive Abilities in Males
4:00 Miller, G. Darwinian Demographics of Cultural
Production
4:25 Knight, C. Syntax Origins: A Darwinian Signal-
Evolution Paradox
Session 2-D. Evolutionary Psychiatry II.
2:45 Sloman, L. & Hilburn-Cobb, C. Attachment Theory
and the Involuntary Subordinate Strategy
3:10 Beahrs, J. Regressive Stabilization in Human
Individuals and Societies
3:35 Gardner, R. & Joiner, T. Basic Plans and the Biology
of Leadership
4:00 Brown, R.M., Dahlen, E. Mills, C., Ricks, J. & Biblarz,
A. Evaluation of an Evolutionary Model of Self-
Preservation
4:25 Keckler, C. Modeling Stress and Arousal as
Adaptations
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5:05 Plenary Address. Vernon Smith (with Hoffman & McCabe)
(Economic Science Laboratory for Research and Education,
University of Arizona):
Behavioral foundations of reciprocity: Experimental
economics and evolutionary psychology
6:15-7:30 Dinner, De La Guerra Dining Hall
8:00 Executive Council Meeting
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riday, June 30
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Posters on view all day.
9:00 Plenary Address. Frank Sulloway
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
Birth order & evolutionary psychology: A meta-analytic
overview
Morning Sessions. 10:10-12:15
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Session 3-A. Status, Competition, & Coalitions.
10:10 Buss, D. Human Prestige Criteria
10:35 Stone, V. & Kussmaul, C. Models of Intraspecific
Competition: Strategies for Social Climbing
11:00 Patton, J. Status, Warriorship, and Alliance in the
Ecuadorian Amazon
11:25 Kurzban, R., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. Detecting
Coalitions: Evolutionary Psychology and Social
Categorization
11:50 Boehm, C. Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior
Session 3-B. Environmental "Mismatch", Stress, & Pathology.
(Organizer: Crawford)
10:10 Crawford, C. The Evolutionary Significance of True
Pathologies, Pseudopathologies, and Pseudonormal
Conditions
10:35 Eaton, B. Old Genes, New Ways and Health:
Reproduction
11:00 Eaton, B. Old Genes, New Ways and Health:
Nutrition
11:25 Bailey, K. Mismatch Theory and
Paleopsychopathology
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11:50 Nesse, R. Evolutionary Explanations for Cognitive
Illusions
Session 3-C. Evolution & Economics. (Organizer: Bergstrom)
10:10 Bergstrom, T. Primogeniture, Monogamy, and
Reproductive Success in a Stratified Society
10:35 Robson, A. A Biological Basis for Expected and Non-
Expected Utility
11:00 Hirschleiffer, J. The Affections and the Passions
11:25 Kaplan, H. Competitive Labor Markets and Modern
Fertility: An Evolutionary Economic Theory
11:50 Miller, E. Policy Implications of Male Status Seeking
12:15-1:35 Lunch
1:35 Plenary Address. Lee Cronk
(Dept. of Anthropology, Texas A&M):
The bathwater and the baby: What the culture concept can
and cannot do for human behavioral ecology
Afternoon Sessions. 2:45-4:50
Session 4-A. New Investigator Award plus Arts & Culture.
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2:45 Fessler, D. The Phylogenetic Development of Shame
and Pride (New Investigator candidate)
3:10 Hagen, E. Delusional and somatoform disorders as
possible examples of intraspecific exploitative
mimicry in humans (New Investigator candidate)
3:35 Allen, W. The Tragedy of the Moderns: From Prudent
PredatorsTo Tragic Despoilers (New Investigator
candidate)
4:00 Steen, F. Literature and Evolution: A Functional
Approach
4:25 Holcomb, H. Ethics: Adaptation or Byproduct?
Session 4-B. Birth Order, Investment, & Family Dynamics.
2:45 Davis-Walton, J. Born Too Late?: Parental Investment
and Birth Order in Modern Canada
3:10 Somit, A., Peterson, S. & Arwine, A. Birth order and
Political Behavior: A Sex Related Effect
3:35 McAndrew, F. & Cooley, J. Birth Order and the
Naming of Children: An Examination of Naming as
a Strategy of Parental Investment.
4:00 Daly, M., McConnell, C. & Glugosh, T. Parent's
Knowledge of their Children's Beliefs and Attitudes:
An Indirect Assay of Parental Solicitude?
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4:25 Barber, N. Effects of Parental Divorce on Sexual
Strategies of Children
Session 4-C. Evolutionary Ecology II. (Organizer: Mace)
2:45 Mace, R. Reproduction and Heritable Wealth in
Nomadic Pastoralists
3:10 Abbot, J. Do Children Pay Back Their Own Costs?
3:35 Sellen, D.W. Child Growth as a Proxy for Fitness
Differentials among Polygynous Datoga
4:00 Biran, A. Child Care in a Population of Maasai Agro-
Pastoralists
4:25 Bichakjian, B. The Nature of Language and its
Biological Underpinning
5:05 Plenary Address. Steven Pinker (Dept of Brain & Cognitive
Sciences, MIT):
The Language Instinct
6:00 Poster Session -- Presenters Present.
7:30 Banquet: Faculty Club
Keynote Address. Richard Dawkins (Dept. of Zoology,
Oxford University):
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Animal Models of Past and Present Worlds
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aturday, July 1
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9:00 Plenary Address. John Hartung
(SUNY Brooklyn Medical School):
A Light Unto The Nations: Judeo-Christianity, Morality, &
Group Selection
Morning Sessions. 10:10-12:15
Session 5-A. Love, Female Choice, & Mating Strategies
10:10 Harris, Y.H. The Opportunity for Romantic Love
among Hunter-Gatherers
10:35 Mills, M. Characteristics of Personals Ads Differ as a
Function of Publication Readership SES
11:00 Greiling, H. Women's Mate Preferences across
Contexts
11:25 Gorry, A. Romance Tourism: A Challenge to
Evolutionary Theories of Female Sexual Psychology?
11:50 Wolfe, L. Consensual Nonmonogamy: Challenging
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Evolutionary Directives
Session 5-B. Literature & Arts. (Organizer: Scalise Sugiyama)
10:10 Constable, J. Using Literary Material as Data in
Human Behavioral Studies: Establishing a Right
Relationship between Literary Research and
Evolutionary Psychology
10:35 Scalise Sugiyama, M. Storyteller Bias as a Fitness-
Enhancing Strategy
11:00 Carroll, J. An Evolutionary Theory of Literary
Figuration
11:25 Cooke, B. The Inexhaustible Interest of Verdi's
Rigoletto
11:50 Knutson, M. Female Sexual Jealousy in "The Crime
of Padre Amaro": Evolutionary and Feminist
Approaches
Session 5-C. Evolution & Law I. (Organizer: Goodenough)
10:10 Grady, M. Products Liability and Evolution
10:35 Fisher, H. Human Divorce Patterns: How Neural
Mechanisms in the Brain Influence Divorce and
Interact with American Divorce Law
11:00 Rodgers, W. Deception, Self-Deception and Myth:
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Settlement of Complex Environmental Disputes
11:25 McGuire, M. Comparative Studies of Uncertainty and
the Law
11:50 Masters, R. Kin Recognition, Emotion, and
Ethnocentrism
12:15 Lunch with Garrett Hardin (Dept. of Biology, UCSB)
1:35 Plenary Address. Pascal Boyer (C.N.R.S., Lyon, France):
Adapted Mind, Evolved Ontology, and Acquired Culture
Afternoon Sessions. 2:45-4:50
Session 6-A. Infidelity & Mating Conflict.
2:45 Brown, S. & Kenrick, D. Paternal Certainty and
Female Dominance: Should Males Prefer Submissive
Females?
3:10 Shackelford, T. & Buss, D. Cues to Infidelity
3:35 Buunk, B. & van en Eijnden, R. Context Effects on
Willingness to Engage in Extrapair Copulations
4:00 Ast, D. & Gross, M. Status Dependent Sexual
Deception: Which Men Lie?
4:25 Heilmann, M. If We All Want Honest Mates Why Do
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We Deceive Them Constantly?
Session 6-B. Evolution & Ethnology.
2:45 Aunger, R. The Epidemiology of "Selfish" Memes
3:10 Hammond, M. Cheating on Evolution: Emotions and
Anti-Habituation
3:35 Thompson, B. Human Emotional Attachments to Land
4:00 Chagnon, N. Estimating Variance in RS by Sex Among
Tribesmen Using Field Census Data
4:25 Strassman, B. Menstruation and the Comparative Method
Session 6-C. Evolution & Law II.(Organizer: Goodenough)
2:45 MacRae, C. & Goodenough, O. Legal Resources in
Behavioral Research: General Opportunities and
Moot Court -- A Case Study
3:10 Jones, O. Evolution, Value Clarification, and Legal
Policy
3:35 Betzig, L. Law Makers As Gene Replicators
4:00 Tiger, L. The Eternal Triangle and the Moral Missing
Link
4:25 Goodenough, O. Law in a Modular Mind
Session 6-D. Evolution, Politics, & Society.
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2:45 Johnson, G. The Evolutionary Roots of Patriotism
3:10 Page, W. Restructuring Governance Using
Evolutionary Psychology
3:35 Shay, J. Evolutionary Issue Raised by Self-Sacrificial
Military Heroism
4:00 Ziker, J. Detection of Ethnicity and Ethnocentrism:
Natural or Artificial Selection?
4:25 Shermer, M. The Chaos of Human Behavior: Chaos,
Complexity, and the Self-Organization of Human
Behavior
5:05 Plenary Address. Steven Mithen (Dept. of Archaeology,
University of Reading, UK):
From Neanderthal to the Modern Mind
(or How Evolutionary Psychology and Human Ecology Need
Paleolithic Archaeology)
6:30 Barbecue on the Beach.
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unday, July 2
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Early Morning Sessions. 9:00-11:05
Session 7-A. Risk & Violence.
9:00 Dyson-Hudson, R. & Dyson-Hudson, N. South Turkana
Homicide: A Proximate View
9:25 Walker, P. Documenting Patterns of Violence in
Earlier Societies: The Problems and Promise of
Using Bioarchaeological Data Testing Evolutionary
Theories
9:50 Wilson, M. & Daly, M. Risk-taking and Homicide
10:15 Atzwanger, K. Biological Aspects of Aggressive
Driving Behavior
10:40 Lewis, B., Linder, D., & Kenrick, D. Arousal and
Attraction: Reproductive Potential Versus Threat
Assessment
Session 7-B. Development & Parental Investment.
9:00 DeKay, W. Grandparental Investment and the
Uncertainty of Kinship
9:25 Judge, D. Distributing Property at Death: Sex
Differences in Rules or Realities?
9:50 Peters, E. & Hudson, S. Homo ludens loquens: Play as
a Pathway to Speech
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10:15 Molnar, P. & Nagy, E. Homo provocans: The
"Missing Link" toward the Solution of the Domain-
General vs. Domain-Specific Controversy?
10:40 Mann, J. Attachment and Maternal Compensation
with High-Risk Infants: An ethological study
Session 7-C. Evolution of Human Culture.(Organizer: Palmer)
9:00 Palmer, C., Fredrickson, B., & Tilley, C.
"Anthropolgy's Mythology": What Every Group
Selectionist Needs to Know
9:25 Irons, W. Possible Explanations of Maladaptive
Cultural Institutions
9:50 Coe, K. Honing Ockham's Razor: Fundamentals of
Visual Art
10:15 Steadman, L. Traditions are not "r"
10:40 Richerson, P. The evolution of human ultra-sociality
Late Morning Sessions. 11:20-1:25
Session 8-A. Menstruation & Concealed Ovulation / Medicine.
11:20 Arthur, C. & Power, C. Female reproductive
synchrony and the emergence of male investment
11:45 Anderson, K. A model to test the paternity confidence
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hypothesis for concealed ovulation
12:10 Power, C. Cosmetic manipulation of menstrual
signals as a protosymbolic strategy
12:35 Jones, M. Pseudoparasitosis, Immunophenotypic
Plasticity, and the Evolution of Autoimmune Disease
1:00 Kumm, J. Gene-Culture Coevolution: Sex Ratio Distorter
Genes and Culturally Transmitted Sex Bias
Session 8-B. Mindreading & Memory.
11:20 Johnson, C. Cognition in the Wild: Gaze-Mediated
Social Interaction in Pygmy Chimpanzees
11:45 Stone, V. Neurological Models of Facial Expression
Recognition
12:10 Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. The Evolution of Memory,
Modularity, and Information Integrity
12:35 Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. Episodic Memory, Theory
of Mind, and their Breakdown
1:00 Schmidt, K. L. & Allen, J. S. Schizophrenia and
Nonverbal Social Behavior in Papua New Guinea
Session 8-C. Behavioral Genetics / Pedagogy.
11:20 Rowe, D. & Vazsonyi, A. Between and Within Sex
Variation: Are the Causes Alike?
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11:45 Burgess, R. & Molenaar, P. Evolution, Development,
& Chaos: The role of nonlinear epigenetic processes
12:10 MacDonald, K. Eugenics as a Component of Judaism
as a Group Evolutionary Strategy
12:35 Squires, A. Selective fosterage, impulse to teach, and
gene/culture interaction
1:00 Shellberg, T. Filling Two Voids with One Clone:
Teaching Freshmen Evolution and Behavior
1:25 Lunch and Business Meeting (De La Guerra Dining Hall)
List of Posters (Alphabetical by first author):
Anderson, J. & Crawford, C. Costs and benefits of female infanticide
in an uncertain world
Anderson, J. & Crawford, C. Socioecological correlates of son and
daughter preference: A cross-cultural analysis
Brown, W. & Palameta, B. Altruism facilitates the formation of social
support networks
Flood, A. & Crawford, C. A re-examination of Singh's waist-hip ratio
figures: A check of validity and generalizability
Gorry, A. Intergenerational female competition: Older women's
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attempts to manipulate the reproductive interests of younger
women
Harms, W. A scheme for formalizing evolutionary epistemology
Hasegawa, T., Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, M., & Kajikawa, S. Chimpanzee
males cry pant-hoots for power
Janicki, M. Detecting helpers and non-helpers: Their importance in
reasoning about social exchange
Kemmerer, D. & McNamara, P. Parent-offspring conflict as a
selection pressure for the evolution of early language
acquisition
LaRue, L. Evolved fur attractiveness
Lindberg, T., Crawford, C. & McFarland, C. The frequentist
reasoning hypothesis: How significant is the effect?
Mealey, L. Evolution of sociopathy
Mills, M. An experimental publication utilizing the Web to facilitate
scholarly communication and peer review: The Journal of
Evolutionary Psychology
O'Meara, T. Causation and the tabula rasa mind
Pound, N. Sexual jealousy and mate retention tactics
Roswell, L., Woods, S. & Bailey, K. Disorder profiling: Anorexia
nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Salmon, C. Closeness, identity, and social relationships
Scheib, J. Mate selection theory: investigating women's choices of
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donors at a Canadian sperm bank
Segal, N. & Blozis, S. Bereavement in monozygotic and dizygotic
twins: An evolutionary perspective
Semeniuk, R. & Crawford, C. The relationship of psychological
health and differential parental investment in humans
Stewart, S., Krajnak, K. & Lee, T. Effects of photoperiod on ovulation
in the female meadow vole
Surbey, M. & Nagata, B. Human mate selection: When big and
brawny isn't always better
Tilley, C. & Palmer, C. Sexual access to females as a motivation for
joining gangs
Walters, S. Fluctuating asymmetry as a measure of human
developmental stability