Welcome!

Welcome!

We welcome you to the Nordic Evolutionary Psychology Meeting, held in Turku, Finland, 13.-14. September 2012. The theme of the meeting is comparative and multidisciplinary approach to evolutionary psychology.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers and students from diverse backgrounds unified by interest in explaining behaviour in the light of evolution. The speakers include distinguished researchers studying the behaviour of humans, non-human primates and other animals.

The meeting is free of charge for all interested participants and we warmly recommend it to both graduate and postgraduate students in addition to researchers. Registration is required for participation, since we have limited space available.

We look forward to meeting you in Turku. On the behalf of organizers,
Markus Rantala, Katja Valli and Nils Sandman

For further information, please leave a comment below or contact: NEPM2012@Gmail.com

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

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.

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