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HBES 2005 Conference Schedule

June 1 --- June 2 --- June 3 --- June 4 --- June 5

Wednesday, June 1

Check-in and on-site registration.

2:00pm

Library of Social Science / HBES Book Exhibit opens

6:30PM

Reception

June 1 --- June 2 --- June 3 --- June 4 --- June 5

Thursday, June 2

7:30am

Library of Social Science / HBES Book Exhibit opens

8:00AM

Morning Plenary by Martin Daly & Margo Wilson - Gambling on the future

9:00AM

Coffee Break

9:10-10:30AM First Morning Sessions

Cooperation I: Chair, M. Price

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9:10AM

Haley, K. J. & Fessler, D. M.

Nobody's Watching: subtle cues affect generosity in anonymous economic games

 

9:30AM

Delton, A. W.

What counts as free riding? Using intentions -- but not contribution level -- to identify free riders
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

 

9:50AM

Price, J., Price, M. E., & Curry, O.

Guilt-prone people contribute more in the public good game

 

10:10AM

Krasnow, M. M., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J.

Character counts: character information regulates trust in economic games
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

2D:4D, Attractiveness: Chair, N. Pound

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9:10AM

Pound, N., Penton-Voak, I. , & Kempe, V.

Facial masculinity is not associated with digit masculinity
*Submitted for Postdoctoral Research Award

 

9:30AM

Millet, K., Dewitte, S. & Van den Bergh, B.

Second to fourth digit ratio and cooperative behavior

 

9:50AM

Lyons, J., & Mellgren, R.

The 2D4D Ratio and Cyclic Shifts as Predictors of Self-Perception of Quality and Sexual Permissiveness

 

10:10AM

Boothroyd, L. G., & Perrett, D. I.

Father absence, parent-child relationships and facial attraction in women

Modularity and Cognition: Chair, G. L. Brase

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9:10AM

Carruthers, P.

What massive modularity must be

 

9:30AM

Wagner, J. D., & Walker R. S.

Cognitive ontogeny among the Ache of Paraguay as measured by visual evoked potentials and psychometrics
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

 

9:50AM

Brase, G. L.

Disentagling Data Representations in Statistical Reasoning

 

10:10AM

Ermer, E., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., Guerin, S., & Miller, M.

Are computational adaptations for reasoning about social exchange and precautions neurally as well as functionally distinct? An fMRI study

Darwinian Literary Studies: Chair, J. Johnson

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9:10AM

Court, A.

New Darwinism, New Methods: Evolutionary Science and Literary Study.

 

9:30AM

Boyd, B.

Evolution and Fiction

 

9:50AM

Horvath, T.

QWERTYUIOP and EP: Implications of Evolutionary Psychology for the Working Fiction Writer

 

10:10AM

Carroll, J., Gottschall, J., Johnson, J. A., & Kruger, D.

Individual Differences in the Achievement of Evolutionarily Relevant Goals in Victorian Novels

10:40-12:00PM Second Morning Sessions

New Perspectives on the Evolutionary Foundations of Religion: Chair, J. Bering

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10:40AM

Kirkpatrick, L. A.

Adaptationist versus Byproduct Theories of Religion

 

11:00AM

Johnson, D.

Supernatural punishment and the evolution of cooperation

 

11:20AM

Alcorta, C. S., & Sosis, R.

Ritual, Emotion, and Sacred Symbols: The Evolution of Religion as an Adaptive Complex
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

 

11:40AM

Bering, J., McLeod, K., & Shackelford, T. K.

On the Possibility of Adapted Responses to Dead Agents' Minds

Humor and Laughter: Chair, J. A. Thomson Jr.

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10:40AM

Gil Greengross

Costly signaling and humor

 

11:00AM

Thomson, J. A. Jr.

Slapstick Brains: Does The New Neurology Of Humor Shed Light On Humor's Evolution And Function?

 

11:20AM

Makagon, M. M., Owren, M. J., & Funayama, E. S.

Laughter in cogentially deaf versus normally hearing college students

 

11:40AM

Flamson, T.

Evidence for the Encryption Model of Humor

Sex Ratio: Chair, V. Lummaa

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10:40AM

Scheyd, G. J.

Famine, Operational Sex Ratio, and Discriminative Parental Solicitude

 

11:00AM

Gant, L. M. & Heath, K. M.

Low operational sex-ratios, risky sexual behavior, and the spread of HIV/AIDS among African-American women

 

11:20AM

Grant, V.

Adaptive control of the sex ratio in mammals?

 

11:40AM

Lummaa, V., Pettay, J. E., & Russell, A. F.

Sex ratio at birth affects reproductive success in humans

Menstrual Cycle I: Chair, S. A. Rohwer

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10:40AM

Fleischman, D. S.

Dietary changes across the menstrual cycle

 

11:00AM

Li, N., & Durante, K.

The effects of ovulatory cycle on women's clothing preferences

 

11:20AM

Rohwer, S. A.

Cell Phones and Pheromones: Mate Guarding in Humans

 

11:40AM

Roney, J.

An Alternative Explanation for Menstrual Phase Effects on Women's Psychology and Behavior

12:00PM

Lunch

1:00PM

Afternoon Plenary by Douglas Mock - Children Left Behind: Contrarian Views of the Nuclear family

2:10-3:30PM First Afternoon Sessions

No Longer a Cherry But Still a Tomato: Browsing the Salad Bar of Mating: Chair, V. A. Weekes-Shackelford

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2:10PM

Weekes-Shackelford, V. A., Shackelford, T. K., Stone, E. A. & Easton, J. A.

Luring a Mate: An Exploitation of Mate Preferences

 

2:30PM

Stone, E. A., Weekes-Shackelford, V. A., Easton , J. A., & Shackelford, T. K.

How Having a Child Changes Female Mating Psychology

 

2:50PM

Duntley, J.

Adaptations for mating relationships involving single parents

 

3:10PM

Easton , J. A., Stone, E. A., Weekes-Shackelford, V. A., Shackelford, T. K.

After Having Children: Sex-Differentiated Changes in Mate Preferences

Testosterone Research: Chair, R. Thornhill

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2:10PM

Gangestad, S. W., Thornhill, R., Flinn, M. V., Dane, L. K., Falcon, R. G., Garver-Apgar, C. E., Franklin, M., & England, B. G.

Men's Testosterone and Life History in a Caribbean Rural Village

 

2:30PM

Feinberg, D. R, Law Smith, M. J., Jones, B. C., Cornwell, R. E., DeBruine, L. M., Moore, R. E., Sharpe, M., Al-Dujalli, E. A. S., & Perrett, D. I.

Diurnal shifts in testosterone predict diurnal shifts in vocal dominance in men
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

 

2:50PM

Gray, P. B., Yang, C. J., & Pope, H. G.

Fathers have lower salivary testosterone levels than unmarried men and married non-fathers in Beijing, China

 

3:10PM

Archer, J.

Testosterone and human aggression: An evaluation of the challenge hypothesis

Emotional Expression: Chair, A. Sell

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2:10PM

Ozawa, N. & Togawa, T.

Genetic and cultural components of emotional expression observed in movie remakes

 

2:30PM

Sell A., Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L.

Physical strength predicts entitlement, anger, and attitudes about aggression in men

 

2:50PM

Gonzaga, G. C., Haselton, M. G., Smurda, J., Davies, M. S. & Poore, J. C.

Is Love a Commitment Device?  Experimental Evidence that Love Leads to the Foreclosure of Romantic Alternatives
*Submitted for Postdoctoral Research Award

 

3:10PM

Coultas, J. C. & Ho, T. Y.

Emotion Perception and Expression: Developmental and evolutionary aspects of social behavior in adolescents

WHR and Mating: Chair, D. Singh

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2:10PM

Singh, D.

Beauty is in the Eyes of Plastic Surgeons: Waist-to-Hip Ratio is More Important Than Weight

 

2:30PM

Jackson, J. J. & Kirkpatrick, L. A.

The Structure and Measurement of Human Mating Strategies
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

 

2:50PM

Lassek, W., & Gaulin, S.

Does low WHR signal maximal brain-building capacity?

 

3:10PM

Jacobson, A. S., Brown, W. M., & Trivers, R. L.

Preference for Symmetry and Waist-to-Hip Ratio is Influenced by Relative Mate Quality in a Sample of Young Jamaicans

3:30PM

Coffee Break

3:40-5:00 Second Afternoon Sessions

Sperm Competition in Humans: Chairs, A. T. Goetz & T. K. Shackelford

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3:40PM

Goetz, A. T., & Shackelford, T. K.

Forced In-Pair Copulation as a Sperm Competition Tactic in Humans

 

4:00PM

Klusmann, D.

Sperm competition as an explanation for constant male sexual motivation in a long term partnership

 

4:20PM

LaMunyon, C. W., Shackelford, T. K., Goetz, A. T., Quintus, B., & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A.

Mate preferences for a short-term sexual relationship

 

4:40PM

Shackelford, T. K., Goetz, A. T., Guta, F. E. & Schmitt, D. P.

Mate Guarding and Frequent Copulation in Humans: Complementary Anti-Cuckoldry Tactics

 

5:00pm

Pound, N

Commentary

Interpersonal and Media Gossip in Evolutionary Perspective: Chair, C. De Backer

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3:40PM

McAndrew, F. T., Bell , E. K., & Garcia, C. M.

Who do we tell, and whom do we tell on? Explorations in the evolutionary psychology of gossip.

 

4:00PM

De Graeve, T., & De Backer, C.

Bitching to win The Bachelor. An analysis of the use of gossip in reality television dating shows "Temptation Island" and "The Bachelor".

 

4:20PM

Noseworthy, L., Fisher, M. & De Backer, C.

Selective information sharing and intrasexual competition

 

4:40PM

De Backer, C.

"Teachers or Friends?" Two Hypotheses to Explain our Interest in Celebrity Gossip across the Lifespan.

Menstrual Cycle II: Chair, L. M. DeBruine

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3:40PM

Chen, J. Y.

Changes in Romantic Relationships during the Menstrual Cycle: A Diary Study

 

4:00PM

DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., & Perrett, D. I.

Women's attractiveness judgments of self-resembling faces change across the menstrual cycle
*Submitted for Postdoctoral Research Award

 

4:20PM

Provost, M. P., Troje, N. F., & Quinsey, V. L.

Variations in gait across the menstrual cycle

 

4:40PM

Thornhill, R., & Gangestad, S. W.

Revisiting the Hypotheses for the Evolution of Woman's Concealed Ovulation in Light of Her Recently Discovered Estrus

Mating Strategies I: Chair, C. Apicella

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3:40PM

Apicella, C. L., & Marlowe, F. W.

Men's reproductive investment decisions: mating, parenting and self-perceived mate value

 

4:00PM

Sundie, J.

The Role of Conspicuous Consumption in Mate Attraction

 

4:20PM

Ackerman, J. & Kenrick, D. T.

Cooperative courtship: Facilitating flirtation with friends

 

4:40PM

Conlan, S. K.

Tactics of Mate Expulsion

 

5:00PM

Fisher, M., & Clarke, A.

Why Women Derogate the Competition

Poster sessions

All posters will be displayed from 7:00pm-10:00pm with snacks available as well as a cash bar. Presenters are required to stand by their poster for the hour that they are assigned (see below). For the rest of the time they are free to roam around the room and view the other posters. From 9:00-10:00pm no one is required to stand by their poster and everyone is free to mingle and view all the posters.
Poster Session Diagram

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Poster Session I - Cognition, Cognition and Sex, Philosophy, Politics, Cooperation and reciprocity

8:00pm - 9:00pm

Poster Session II - Prenatal hormones, Hormones and sex, Mating and sex, Mate choice, Mating relationships, Parenting, Evolution and medicine

9:00pm - 10:00pm

Free time to mingle and view all the posters

June 1 --- June 2 --- June 3 --- June 4 --- June 5

Friday, June 3

7:30am

Library of Social Science / HBES Book Exhibit opens

8:00AM

Morning Plenary by Robert Trivers - Selfish Genetic Elements and Social Behavior

9:00AM

Coffee Break

9:10-10:30AM First Morning Sessions

Chagnon Fest I : Chair, R. Hames

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9:10AM

Gerkey, A., & Cronk, L.

Human Behavioral Ecology & Ethnography: Dialogues Between Behavior and Culture

 

9:30AM

Hewlett, B. S., & Hewlett, B. L.

Sex Matters

 

9:50AM

Betzig, L.

Fathers vs Sons: Why Jocasta Matters

 

10:10AM

Allen, W.

Disturbances in the Dreamtime: Evidence for Prehistoric Violence in Subarctic Dene Traditional Oral Narratives

Attractiveness I: Chair, A. Little

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9:10AM

Yuki, M., & Yokota, K.

How Men and Women Live in Groups: Intragroup Cooperation and/or Intergroup Competition

 

9:30AM

Little, A. C., & Jones, B. C.

Strategic preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism
*Submitted for Postdoctoral Research Award

 

9:50AM

Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Little, A. C., & Feinberg, D. R.

How mere is mere exposure? A plausible proximate mechanism for adaptive face preferences

 

10:10AM

Fessler, D. M. T., Haley, K., Lal, R., Nettle, D., Afshar, Y., Pinheiro, I. A., Bolyanatz, A., Mulder, M. B., Cravalho, M., Delgado, T., Gruzd, B., Correia, M. O., Khaltourina, D., Korotayev, A., Marrow, J., Souza, L.S. and Zbarauskaite, A.

Preliminary Evidence that Sexual Dimorphism in Proportionate Foot Size is the Product of Intersexual Selection

Kinship I: Chair, C. Faurie

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9:10AM

Lieberman, D.

Cognitive programs for human kin detection regulate patterns of incest avoidance and altruism
*Submitted for Postdoctoral Research Award

 

9:30AM

Krupp, D. B., DeBruine, L. M., & Barclay, P.

A Cue of Kinship Affects Cooperation in a 'Tragedy of the Commons'
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

 

9:50AM

Faurie, C., & Alvergne, A.

Do children resemble their fathers more than their mothers? A reassessment.

 

10:10AM

Alvard, M.

Kin selection and lineage: Cooperative Hunting Groups in Indonesia

Mating Strategies II: Chair C. Garver-Apgar

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9:10AM

Davies, A. P., Shackelford, T. K. & Hass, R. G.

Human Mate Poaching: How frequent is it and what motivates it?
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

 

9:30AM

Massar, K., Buunk, B. P., & Dechesne, M.

Subliminal Rivals. Unconscious Processes in Jealousy and Rival Evaluation
*Submitted for New Investigator Award

 

9:50AM

Pillsworth, E. G., & Haselton, M. G.

Male mate retention tactics as a function of male sexual attractiveness and female ovulatory cycle phase

 

10:10AM

Garver-Apgar, C. E., Gangestad, S. W., Thornhill, R., Miller, R. D., & Olp, J.