Dear all,
It is only a few days until we will be welcoming you to the 2nd Nordic Evolutionary Psychology meeting. It is a pleasure to host the NEPM2013 at Tartu University, and we look forward to hours and days of new ideas, unexpected syntheses and new collaborations. We are delighted to especially welcome undergraduate students, graduate students and postdocs to the meeting – we hope that you will find the event valuable and stimulating.
Thanks to all who submitted their abstracts, it is shaping up to be an excellent programme. We have a good-sized meeting (ca. 150 participants from 11 countries) and a great mix of topics. We have finalised the programme, and here you can download a copy of the abstract booklet and programme.
We would like to remind the participants about presentation formats: the computer is a PC, so please check that your presentation is compatible with that format, and that you bring it on a USB stick. The posters will be wide and high enough for A0 size (portrait orientation).
We look forward to meeting you in Tartu,
Indrikis Krams, Raivo Mänd, Jüri Allik and Markus J. Rantala.
Detailed Programme
Thursday 12. September
08:50 Welcome
09:00 Prof. Peeter
Hõrak, University of Tartu:
Psycho-neuro-immuno-ecology
10:00 Prof. Boguslaw Pawlowski, University
of Wroclaw: Evolutionary consequences of body height preferences in modern
humans
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Prof. Raine Kortet, University of
Eastern Finland: Animal personalities from evolutionary ecology
perspective
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Prof. Karl Grammer, University of
Vienna: Move Me - the nature of embodied communication
15:30 Poster session & Coffee
15:30 Poster session & Coffee
16:30 Dr. Kees van Oers, Netherlands
Institute of Ecology: Behavioural ecology meets psychology: evolutionary
ecology of animal personality
17:30 Prof. Jüri Allik, University of Tartu: Towards human universals
The meeting ends at 18:30
Friday 13. September
9:00 Dr. John Quinn, University College
Cork: The Evolutionary ecology of cognition and personality in the wild
10:00 Prof. Jaap M. Koolhaas, University of
Groningen: Animal personality: changing views and developing concepts
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Dr. John Loehr, University of Helsinki: All is fair in love and war? What male faces can tell us about human evolution
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Dr. Fhionna R. Moore, University of
Dundee: Sex, stress and attraction
15:30 Poster session and coffee
16:30 Dr. Markus J. Rantala, University of
Turku: What do women want?
The meeting ends at 17:30
Agnieszka Zelazniewicz, Bogusław Pawlowski. Sensitivity to disgust in pregnancy – longitudinal study.
Triin Raud, Anneli Kolk, Mari-Liis Kaldoja. Social competence and cognitive function in children with epilepsy.
Sanita Kecko, Markus J. Rantala, Vinet Coetzee, Fhionna R. Moore, Ilona Skrinda, Tatjana Krama, Inese Kivleniece, Indrikis A. Krams. Does facial attractiveness in women signal immune responsiveness?
Urszula Marcinkowska. Sexual imprinting on facial traits of opposite-sex parents in humans.
Anna Ziomkiewicz, Magdalena Babiszewska, Szymon Wichary. Cheerful infants of their energetic mothers.
Tatjana Krama, Hanna Kokko, Jolanta Vrublevska, Mikus Abolins-Abols, Markus J. Rantala, Indrikis A. Krams. The excuse principle can maintain cooperation through forgivable defection in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game.
Jitka Lindová, Marek Špinka. Vocalization of preverbal human infants in different socio-physical contexts can be distinguished on the basis of simple sound characteristics.
Kadri Moks. Simulated predator presentation affects provisioning behaviour of the neighbours.
Inese Kivleniece, Indrikis A. Krams, Aare Kuusik, Raivo Mänd, Marika Mänd, Todd M. Freeberg, Markus J. Rantala, Tatjana Krama, Sanita Kecko. Consistent individual differences in energy metabolism underlie consistent individual differences in behaviour.
Ilona Skrinda, Indrikis Krams,Tatjana Krama, Sanita Kecko, Markus J. Rantala. Non-linearity in relationships among body height, vocal attractiveness and testosterone in men.
Killu Timm. Polymorphism in dopamine D4 receptor gene associates with personality variation in wild great tits (Parus major).
Raivo Mänd. Never trust men!
Accommodation: we have pre-booked a number of rooms at Pallas Hotel. This hotel is in 7 min walking distance from the venue and in 5 min walking distance from Tartu downtown. Please, visit http://www.pallas.ee/en/ and ask for a special discount price. There are many other hotels in Tartu: www.booking.com. But, please, remember that this is not only a beautiful spot but also a very busy town! Therefore, we encourage the participants to book their accommodation as soon as possible.
See maps:
Poster presentations
Rainer
Benz. Social Contract Theory and evolutionary adapted Cheater Detection Module
as an explanation of reasoning performance in Wason Selection Tasks: facilitation
and suppression of content effects.
Jitka
Fialová, Vít Třebický, Jan Havlíček. Focal length affect perception of human
faces and bodies.
Aleksandra
Gomula, Natalia Nowak, Slawomir Koziel. Parental migration accelerates the
onset of puberty in girls.
Kairi Kiik, Toomas Tammaru, Nadja Kneidinger, Tiit Maran. Behavioural interactions in captive-bred litters of
European mink, Mustela lutreola, –
implications to conservation.
Radka
Kučerová, Kateřina Navrátilová, Jan Havlíček. Mate choice in aging individuals.
Erkki Luuk, Hendrik Luuk. The evolution of syntax:
signs, concatenation and embedding.
Natalia
Nowak, Aleksandra Gomula, Dariusz P. Danel. Comparison of sex differences in
relationship satisfaction between same-sex and opposite-sex couples - pilot study.
Arcady A. Putilov. Evolutionary psychology
perspectives on the spherical cube model of personality lexicon.
Iveta Ruza, Aleksejs Ruza, Aleksejs Vorobjovs.
Gender differences in causal explanations following marital infidelity.
Anna Szala. Sex, gender, and choice of computer games
content from the evolutionary psychology perspective.
Vít
Třebický, Jitka Fialová, Karel Kleisner, Jan Havlíček. Higher facial width to
height ratio predicts fighting performance and perceived aggressiveness in MMA
fighters.
Lea Tummeleht, Nadja
Kneidinger, Kairi Kiik, Tiit Maran. Assessing stereotypic behaviour of European mink (Mustela lutreola) in the conservation
breeding facility at the Tallinn Zoo.
Gerly Kukk, Kairi Kreegipuu, Jaanus Harro. The effect of MAO-B activity and COMT genetic variant on working memory.
Jolanta Vrublevska, Tatjana Krama, Dina Cirule, Sanita Kecko, Mikus Abolins- Abols, Indrikis A. Krams. Boldness towards a novel object is not the same as boldness against a predator in the pied flycatcher.
Gerly Kukk, Kairi Kreegipuu, Jaanus Harro. The effect of MAO-B activity and COMT genetic variant on working memory.
Jolanta Vrublevska, Tatjana Krama, Dina Cirule, Sanita Kecko, Mikus Abolins- Abols, Indrikis A. Krams. Boldness towards a novel object is not the same as boldness against a predator in the pied flycatcher.
Agnieszka Zelazniewicz, Bogusław Pawlowski. Sensitivity to disgust in pregnancy – longitudinal study.
Triin Raud, Anneli Kolk, Mari-Liis Kaldoja. Social competence and cognitive function in children with epilepsy.
Sanita Kecko, Markus J. Rantala, Vinet Coetzee, Fhionna R. Moore, Ilona Skrinda, Tatjana Krama, Inese Kivleniece, Indrikis A. Krams. Does facial attractiveness in women signal immune responsiveness?
Urszula Marcinkowska. Sexual imprinting on facial traits of opposite-sex parents in humans.
Anna Ziomkiewicz, Magdalena Babiszewska, Szymon Wichary. Cheerful infants of their energetic mothers.
Tatjana Krama, Hanna Kokko, Jolanta Vrublevska, Mikus Abolins-Abols, Markus J. Rantala, Indrikis A. Krams. The excuse principle can maintain cooperation through forgivable defection in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game.
Jitka Lindová, Marek Špinka. Vocalization of preverbal human infants in different socio-physical contexts can be distinguished on the basis of simple sound characteristics.
Kadri Moks. Simulated predator presentation affects provisioning behaviour of the neighbours.
Inese Kivleniece, Indrikis A. Krams, Aare Kuusik, Raivo Mänd, Marika Mänd, Todd M. Freeberg, Markus J. Rantala, Tatjana Krama, Sanita Kecko. Consistent individual differences in energy metabolism underlie consistent individual differences in behaviour.
Ilona Skrinda, Indrikis Krams,Tatjana Krama, Sanita Kecko, Markus J. Rantala. Non-linearity in relationships among body height, vocal attractiveness and testosterone in men.
Killu Timm. Polymorphism in dopamine D4 receptor gene associates with personality variation in wild great tits (Parus major).
Raivo Mänd. Never trust men!
Meeting venue: Estonian Biocentre, Riia street 23b, Tartu.
Accommodation: we have pre-booked a number of rooms at Pallas Hotel. This hotel is in 7 min walking distance from the venue and in 5 min walking distance from Tartu downtown. Please, visit http://www.pallas.ee/en/ and ask for a special discount price. There are many other hotels in Tartu: www.booking.com. But, please, remember that this is not only a beautiful spot but also a very busy town! Therefore, we encourage the participants to book their accommodation as soon as possible.
For further information and registration, please, use the following email: indrikis.krams@gmail.com
Conference venue
Hotel Pallas
