The Nordic Evolutionary Psychology Meeting 2013

We are happy to announce that Nordic Evolutionary Psychology meeting is turning out to be an annual event!

The meeting of 2013 will be held in Tartu, Estonia, 12-13 September 2013. For more information see:

http://nepm2013.blogspot.fi/

Program of the meeting

Thursday 13. September
       
10.20 Welcome

10.30 Prof. Indrikis Krams, Daugavpils Universitate and University of Tartu: "Reciprocity - are you there?"

11.30 Dr. Samuli Helle, University of Turku:"Contrasting life histories of agriculturalists to traditional modes of subsistence in sympatric historical Finnish populations"

12.00  Lunch

13.00 Prof. Raine Kortet, University of Eastern Finland: "Personality and Animal Behaviour from Evolutionary Ecology Perspective"

14.00 Dr. Pauli Brattico, University of Helsinki:"Syntax, evolution and creativity"

15.00 Coffee break

15.30 Prof. Klaus Zuberbühler, University of St. Andrews: "Primate social cognition and language evolution"

The meeting ends at 16:30.


Friday 14. September

9:30 Poster session

10.30 Prof. Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford: "Why Facebook wont increase the size of your social world"

11.30 Dr. Minna Lyons, Liverpool Hope University: "The desirable Dark Triad? Evolutionary psychology and why women fall for bad guys"

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Prof. Petri Ylikoski, University of Helsinki: "Evolutionary scenarios and the problem of Anachronism"

14.00 Dr. Markus Jokela, University of Helsinki:"Evolutionary perspectives on family size in modern humans"

15.00 Coffee break

15.30 Prof David Perrett, University of St. Andrews: "Facial cues relevant to human mate choice"

16.30 Dr. Markus J Rantala, University of Turku:"Immune Defence and sexual selection in humans"

The meeting ends at 17:00.

Posters

The following posters will be on display at the meeting:

Jan Antfolk, Debra Lieberman, & Pekka Santtila, Abo Academi:
Individual Inbreeding Aversion is Predicted by Fitness Costs Irrespective of Self-Involvement: Support for Hypotheses Derived from Inclusive-Fitness Theory

Sue Aitken, Liverpool Hope University:
Fitness-relevance and memory for object features

Sue Aitken & Thomas Platt, Liverpool Hope University:
Cohabiting Psychopaths: All the advantages, no commitment!

Emilia Bergen & Jan Antfolk, Abo Academi: Mating Strategies Online: Compensational Behavior or a Recreational Playground for High Mate Value Individuals

Alyson Blanchard, Minna Lyons, Liverpool Hope University, & Emma Nelson, Oxford University:
Prenatal testosterone and psychopathy

Andrew Dunn & K Wheatley, Nottingham Trent University:
Pathogen load priming influences voice and face compound preferences

Thibaud Gruber, University of Zurich and Fyssen foundation:
How to connect the study of cognition and culture in wild apes?

Monica Ålgars, Maria Finne, Linda Salo, Abo Academi:
Female Intra-sexual Competition and Disordered Eating: Testing an  Evolutionary Hypothesis

Ulvi Piirisalu & Peeter Hõrak, University of Tartu: Do reproductive potentials attract? An analysis of personal ads in Estonian Internet dating site

Urszula Marcinkowska & Markus Rantala, University of Turku:
Experimental testing of Westermarck effect in facial preferences in humans; Intersexual differences in incest avoidance

The posters will be on display during the whole meeting and the authors of the posters are present at the poster session, 14.9 9:30-10:30.

For further information about the posters, contact Minna Lyons, lyonsm2 (at) hope.ac.uk. 

Meeting site

The symposium will be held in University of Turku building Publicum. The address is Assistentinkatu 7 20500 Turku. The lecture hall is Pub3 which is located on the first floor, near the main entrance.

Publicum can be reached easily by foot or by taxi from all major stations of Turku. See the map below to find the easiest route.


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