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Evolutionary Psychology THE HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION SOCIETY Meeting for the Year 2000, June 7-11 at Amherst College Note: Abstracts are after the Program listing. To view the abstract of a particular presentation or poster, do a search for the author’s name. Printing: If you plan to print this document, use Microsoft Internet Explorer. Netscape does not format the paper properly during printing. If you only have access to Netscape, and have Word for Windows 2000 (or higher), you may open this file with Netscape, save it to your local hard drive as a web (.htm) file. Then, read the file into Word for Windows 2000, and print it from there. PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, June 7 7:30 AM to 12 AM, check in/ registration/HBES desk open in Valentine Lobby. People arriving after 12 AM must get their packet, dorm key and information at the Security and Physical Plant Service Building, which is building number 59 at position C1 on the Amherst College map at http://www.amherst.edu/Map/campusmap.html. 5 to 9:45 PM, Opening Reception, Valentine Quadrangle & Sebring Room (dinner available at Valentine Hall, 5 to 7 PM). THURSDAY, June 8 7 to 8:30 AM Breakfast served at Valentine 8:00 AM Poster presenters may set up in Sebring Room, Valentine Hall (room open all day). Morning Plenary (Kirby Theater) 8:25 AM Welcome, Introduction: Jennifer Davis 8:35 AM Plenary Address: Paul Sherman, Spices and morning sickness: Protecting ourselves from what eats us. 9:25 AM Break Morning Paper Sessions 9:50 to 11:50 AM (6 talks) 1.0 Cognitive architecture and specializations, 6 1.1 Cory G. Consilience and the predictive value of the reciprocal modular brain. 1.2 Lieberman D, Tooby J, Cosmides L. In search of cues governing kin recognition and incest avoidance. 1.3 Brown WM, Moore C, Humphrey T. Has subtle cheating influenced the adaptive design of altruist-detection cognitive architecture ? 1.4 MacDonald K, Geary DC. The evolution of general intelligence: Domain-general cognitive mechanisms and human adaptation. 1.5 Pereyra L. Function variation of the hazard management algorithm. 1.6 Hammond M. Arouser-arousal conversion rules: The neurophysilogy and evolurion of diminishing marginal utility. 2.0 Parental Investment, menopause. Chair: Elizabeth Hill, 6 2.1 Hill EM, Craig AS, Hannah ME. Variation in parental economic investment among a midlife U.S. cohort. 2.2 Bereczkei T. Maternal trade-off in treating high-risk children. 2.3 Holden C. Matriliny as female-biased parental investment: a comparative African study. 2.4 Sear R, Mace R. Matrilineal kin improve the nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia. 2.5 Friedman BX. Reduced paternal investment and the evolution of menopause 2.6 Marlowe F. The patriarch hypothesis: An alternative explanation of menopause. 3.0 Mate attraction I: General, symmetry, waste-hip ratio. Chair: Elizabeth Cashdan, 6. 3.1 Kniffin K, Wilson DS. What is good is beautiful 3.2 Gangestad SW, Thornhill R, Quinlan RJ, Flinn RV. Men’s fluctuating asymmetry, attractiveness, and reproduction in a rural Caribbean village. 3.3 Gray PB, Marlowe F. Fluctuating asymmetry among a foraging population: The Hadza of Tanzania. 3.4 Phelan J. Heterozygosity decreases fluctuating symmetry: evidence from fruit flies and humans. 3.5 Campbell L, Stewart M, Manning J, Simpson JA. Men behaving dominantly: Intrasexual competition, emergent leadership, and the male waist-to-hip ratio (WHR). 3.6 Cashdan E. A woman’s view of waist-hip ratios: Trade-offs in androgen and estrogen- dependent traits. 4.0 Cultural evolution I: models and memes, 6. Chair: William Irons 4.1 Irons W. Three models of culture 4.2 Burnham TC. Genetic evolutionary economics: would natural selection favor a selfish Homo economicus. 4.3 Keckler CNW. Evolution of traits related to population density in a heterogeneous metapopulation: an application of the “cornucopia principle” to changes in human political propensities 4.4 Brody J. Active Darwinism offsets mismatch. 4.5 Aunger R. The meme is not the message. 4.6 Beahrs JO. Meme transmission: mutual suggestion as the default presumption. Luncheon Meeting, lunch served at Valentine, 11AM to 1:15 PM 12:00 to 1 PM, Publication Committee, Valentine Hall, Terrace Room (downstairs) Afternoon Plenary (Kirby Theater) 1:10 PM Introduction: David Buss 1:15 PM Plenary Address: Douglas Kenrick, Can one ever be too wealthy or too chaste? Laboratory experimentation and the search for psychological mechanisms. 2:05 PM Break Early Afternoon Paper Sessions, 2:30 to 3:50 PM (4 talks) 1.0 Symposium: Providing evidence for psychological mechanisms. Organizer and Chair: Jeff Simpson. 1.1 Simpson JA, Gangestad SW. Validation of special design and selective history: Theoretical terms and “damn funny coincidences”. 1.2 Li NP, Bailey JM. Trade-offs and psychological mechanisms: Experimental methods and mate preferences. 1.3 Schaller M, Neuberg S. How social psychologists' minds work: Implications for evolutionary inquiries. 1.4 Cosmides L, Tooby J. Social exchange: Converging evidence for special design. 2.0 Symposium: Evolutionary analysis in law. Organizer and Chair: Owen Jones. 2.1 Jones O. Evolutionary analysis in law: Prospects for applied evolutionary psychology. 2.2 Judge D. When gender-blind law isn't: Demography, sex differences, and legal outcomes for women and men. 2.3 Thomson JA. Darwin goes to court: Principles of an evolutionary forensic psychiatry and psychology. 2.4 McGinnis J. Constitutive law and the human constitution. 3.0 Symposium: The embodied capital theory of human life history evolution. Organizer and Chair: John Bock; discussant: Bobbi Low. 3.1 Kaplan H, Gangestad S, Mueller T, and Lancaster J. Embodied capital and the co- evolution of brains and longevity. 3.2 Lancaster J, Kaplan H, Hill K, and Hurtado A. A theory of human life history evolution 3.3 Bock J, Kaplan H, Johnson S, Lancaster J. Embodied capital and fertility in traditional and modern societies. 3.4 Lam D, Anderson K, Kaplan H. Determinants of educational outcomes among urban Xhosa in Cape Town, South Africa. 4.0 Cultural evolution II: theory and group processes. Chhair: Rick O’Gorman, 4. 4.1 O’Gorman R. Superior recall of normative social information: an evolutionary hypothesis. 4.2 Hilton A. “Group evolutionary strategies” of Anabaptists: distinctiveness, survival, and ethnic relations. 4.3 Thompson NS. The evolution of emergent group properties. 4.4 Kameda T, Nakanishi D. Cost/benefit analysis of “conformity bias” in cultural transmission: an evolutionary game model. Late Afternoon Paper Sessions, 4:10 to 5:50 PM (5 talks) 1.0 Symposium: The organization of literary meaning. Organizer and Cair: Joseph Carroll. 1.1 Scalise Sugiyama M. Food for thought: The role of narrative in human subsistence. 1.2Easterlin N. Archetypes, ambivalence, and literary meaning in Hans Christian Andersen's 'Little Mermaid'. 1.3 Jobling I.The hero story as a human universal: Using evolutionary psychology to understand literary universals. 1.4 Storey R. Evolution of amusement laughter obscured by representation of humorous behavior. 1.5 Carroll J. Scenarios of female mate choice in five novels of female development 2.0 Panel discussion: Evolutionary Demography. Organizer: Kimber Haddix. Participants: K. Haddix, M.Borgerhoff Mulder, H. Kaplan, J.Bock 3.0 Symposium: Homicide and the mind. Organizers: John Thomson and Owen Jones. 3.1 Duntley JD, Buss D. The killers among us: A co-evolutionary theory of homicide. 3.2 Wrangham R. An ape perspective on human intra-specific killing. 3.3 Chagnon N. Most anthropological evidence doesn't support homicide modules. 3.4 Buss D, Duntley JD. Reply and Discussion. 4.0 Mate attraction II: Facial attractiveness. Chair: Robert Montgomerie, 5 4.1 Bullock HL, Montgomery RD. Multiple components of facial attractiveness. 4.2 Cruikshank C, Anderson NK, Johnston VS, Giddon DB. Predicting perceived body from face morphology. 4.3 Franklin M, Johnston V. Hormone markers and beauty. 4.4 Penton-Voak IS, Perrett DI, Little AC, Burt DM, Tidderman B. Male facial attraciveness: correlates of facial symmetry. 4.5 Silverman I, Tombs S, Fisher ML. Pupillomtery: A sexual selection approach. Dinner meetings, 6:15 to 7:30 PM (dinner served at Valentine, 5 to 7 PM) 6:15 to 7:30 Student dinner, Valentine Hall, Mezzanine 6:15 to 7:30 Executive Council, Valentine Hall, Terrace Room (downstairs) Evening Poster Session, Sebring Room, next to Valentine Hall. Presenters set up from 8 AM on. Break down posters by 5 PM Friday (next day). 7:30 –9:30 PM Poster Session FRIDAY, JUNE 9 7 to 8:30 AM Breakfast served at Valentine Hall Morning Plenary (Kirby Theater) 8:30 AM Introduction: Steven Pinker 8:35 AM Plenary Address: Marc Hauser, Why humans are the wrong species in which to study the evolution of human intelligence. 9:25 AM Break Morning Paper Sessions, 9:50 to 11:50 AM (6 talks) 1.0 Symposium: Developmental and evolutionary origins of conceptual knowledge. Organizer: HBES Program Committee. Chair: Steven Pinker. 1.1 Boysen ST “ I before e, except after c”: Pushing the parameters of primate cognition. 1.2 Keil F. Association vs. causation in conceptual development. 1.3 Spelke E. What makes humans smart? 2.0 Evolution of life histories I: theory, risk, reproductive expenditure and birth order. Chair: James Jones, 6. 2.1 Jones JH. Human evolutionary demography: A life cycle analysis. 2.2 Chisholm J, Burbank V. Evolution and inequality. 2.3 Chen YC, Wang XT. Sexual selection and the perception of health and environmental risk. 2.4 Davis JN. Birth order and the effects of maternal age on maternal investment. 2.5 LeGrand E. Enhanced apoptosis of infected cells as a benefit od the anorexia of infection. 2.6 Zvoch K.
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