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Welcome to Hbes 2008 WELCOME TO HBES 2008 Dear Colleague, It is my immense pleasure to be able to announce that HBES 2008 will be held at Kyoto University, Japan, the first one outside the Western hemisphere in its history. Kyoto, a beautiful ancient city, used to be an old capital of Japan for about 1000 years since the 8th century, and has a variety of interesting and important monuments of Japanese culture. These are now registered as one of the World Heritage sites. We sincerely hope that you will enjoy a pleasant early summer stay in Kyoto along with the HBES conference. HBES- Japan has more than 100 members and all of us are eagerly waiting for your attendance in Kyoto. Certainly it is a bit far from the US and European countries, and inevitably a bit more costly than usual meetings. We shall try our best to set up fascinating scientific programmes and social gatherings to meet up the cost and more! Please contact us through e-mail if you have any questions related to the HBES 2008 in Kyoto. Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa & Toshikazu Hasegawa PROGRAM COMMITTEE Debra Lieberman (Chair), Frank Marlowe & Lisa DeBruine Jae Chun Choe NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD COMMITTEE Martin Daly (Chair), Bobbi Low & Oliver Curry POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARD COMMITTEE Clark Barrett (Chair), Nobuyuki Takahashi & Jim Roney POSTER AWARD COMMITTEE Nick Pound (Chair), Akiko Uchida & Ryo Oda ORGANIZATION STAFF Conference Coordinator and Webmaster: Kikue Sakaguchi Local Hosting Coordinator: Kai Hiraishi Guest Speaker Coordinator: Shinya Yamamoto Oral Session Coordinator: Ryo Tamura Poster Session Coordinator: Hiroki Ozono Food Coordinator: Yuko Morimoto Registration Supervisor: Yosuke Ohtsubo Image Creator and Registration Manager: Koki Ikeda SPONSORS Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan HOPE Project (Primate Origins of Human Evolution) Global COE - Center for the Society of Mind (Hokkaido University) Global COE - Revitalizing Education for Dynamic Hearts and Minds (Kyoto University) Global COE - Formation of a Strategic Base for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Research: From Genome to Ecosystem (Kyoto University) Primate Research Institute (Kyoto University) Kokoro Research Center (Kyoto University) Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences (The University of Tokyo) Contents Quick Timetable . 1 Detailed Timetable . 3 Wednesday . 3 Thursday . 3 Friday . 7 Saturday . 11 Sunday . 15 Poster Session . 17 Keynote and Plenary Abstracts . 20 Session Talk Abstracts . 25 Thursday Morning Sessions (A1-A4) . 25 Thursday Afternoon Sessions (B1-B4) . 32 Thursday Evening Sessions (C1-C4) . 38 Friday Morning Sessions (D1-D4) . 45 Friday Afternoon Sessions (E1-E4) . 52 Friday Evening Sessions (F1-F4) . 58 Saturday Morning Sessions (G1-G4) . 64 New Investigator Competition Finalists . 71 Postdoctoral Competition Finalists . 72 Saturday Afternoon Sessions (H1-H4) . 73 Sunday Morning Sessions (I1-I4) . 79 Poster Abstracts . 88 Index of Authors . 119 Floor Plans . 125 Campus Map . 127 i HBES 2008 1 QUICK TIMETABLE Wednesday, June 4 13:00-21:00 : Registration — Foyer (Centennial Hall 1F Hall) 19:00-21:00 : Welcome Reception — Yoshida Cafeteria Thursday, June 5 09:00-09:15 : Coffee 09:00-17:00 : Registration — Foyer (1F Hall) 09:15-09:30 : Announcement & Welcome — Centennial Hall 09:30-10:30 : Morning Plenary by Tetsuro Matsuzawa — Centennial Hall 10:30-10:50 : break 10:50-12:30 : Morning Sessions (A1-A4) 12:30-13:40 : Lunch Break 12:30-13:40 : HBES Executive Council Meeting — Restaurant La Tour 13:40-14:40 : Afternoon Plenary by Carel van Schaik — Centennial Hall 14:40-15:00 : Break 15:00-16:40 : Afternoon Sessions (B1-B4) 16:40-17:00 : Break 17:00-18:40 : Evening Sessions (C1-C4) Friday, June 6 09:00-09:30 : Coffee 09:00-17:00 : Registration — Foyer (1F Hall) 09:30-10:30 : Morning Plenary by Andrew Whiten — Centennial Hall 10:30-10:50 : Break 10:50-12:30 : Morning Sessions (D1-D4) 12:30-13:40 : Lunch Break 12:30-13:40 : HBES Publications Committee Meeting — Conference Room I 13:40-14:40 : Afternoon Plenary by Wayne Potts — Centennial Hall 14:40-15:00 : Break 15:00-16:40 : Afternoon Sessions (E1-E4) 16:40-17:00 : Break 17:00-18:20 : Evening Sessions (F1-F4) 18:20-20:20 : Poster Session — Intl. Conf. Hall III Saturday, June 7 09:00-09:30 : Coffee 09:00-17:00 : Registration — Foyer (1F Hall) 09:30-10:30 : Morning Plenary by Nicholas Humphrey — Centennial Hall 10:30-10:50 : Break 10:50-12:10 : Morning Sessions (G1-G4) 12:10-13:20 : Lunch Break 12:15-13:15 : Student Bento Box Discussion — Intl. Conf. Hall I 13:20-14:20 : New Investigator Competition Finalists — Centennial Hall 2 QUICK TIMETABLE 14:20-15:20 : Postdoctoral Competition Finalists — Centennial Hall 15:20-15:40 : Break 15:40-17:20 : Afternoon Sessions (H1-H4) 17:20-18:35 : Keynote Address by Richard D. Alexander — Centennial Hall 18:35-19:25 : Transfer by Bus 19:25-21:25 : Banquet — Tokasaikan Sunday, June 8 09:00-09:30 : Coffee 09:00-13:10 : Registration — Foyer (1F Hall) 09:30-10:30 : Morning Plenary by Toshio Yamagishi — Centennial Hall 10:30-10:50 : Break 10:50-12:50 : Morning Sessions (I1-I4) Book Exhibition — Conference Room IV Coffee — Conference Room II, IV Headquarter — Conference Room I Wireless LAN available — Second Floor HBES 2008 3 DETAILED TIMETABLE Wednesday, June 4 1:00-9:00 PM Registration Clock Tower Foyer 7:00-9:00 PM Welcome Reception Yoshida Cafeteria Thursday, June 5 9:00-9:15 AM Coffee 9:15-9:30 AM Announcement & Welcome Centennial Hall 9:30-10:30 AM Morning Plenary by Tetsuro Matsuzawa Centennial Hall Chimpanzee Mind: Studies in the Field and the Laboratory 10:30-10:50 AM Break Thursday Morning Sessions Session A-1: Emotions Intl. Conf. Hall I Chair: Debra Lieberman TH 10:50 Different domains of disgust mediate stigmatization of different groups Debra Lieberman, Josh Tybur TH 11:10 What does domestication of the silver fox have to do with the evolution of theory of mind? James Chisholm TH 11:30 Facial mimicry in understanding other person's emotional states Hisamichi Saito, Tatsuya Kameda TH 11:50 Associations among components of evolved emotion mechanisms Achim Schuetzwohl Session A-2: Kinship I Intl. Conf. Hall II Chair: Heidi Colleran TH 10:50 Reproductive strategizing in a natural fertility population in Poland: a human behavioural ecology approach Heidi Colleran, Ruth Mace TH 11:10 Proximal mediators of kin-based altruism and prosocial behavior: Why objective social con- tact is more important than subjective closeness Gregory Webster, Courtney Rocheleau, Angela Hendricks, Angela Bryan TH 11:30 Parental resemblance of the newborn: Do newborns actually resemble their father? Sevgi Kocaman, Hakan Cetinkaya, Sonia Amado TH 11:50 Trade-offs in modern parenting: a longitudinal study of sibling competition for parental care David W. Lawson, Ruth Mace TH 12:10 Grandparents give more childcare to their daughters' children Ralf Kaptijn 4 DETAILED TIMETABLE Session A-3: Symposium: Precursors of Morality Conference Room III Chair: Farah Focquaert & Katinka Quintelier TH 10:50 Lacking empathy: psychopathological or at the edge of the male empathy distribution? Farah Focquaert TH 11:10 How much of our cooperative behaviour is human? Brian Hare TH 11:30 Sex differences in nepotism Katinka Quintelier TH 11:50 Two roads from empathy to morality Jelle De Schrijver TH 12:10 Imitation, pretence, deception, and altruism in chimpanzees Tetsuro Matsuzawa Session A-4: Vocal Attractiveness Centennial Hall Chair: Benedict Jones TH 10:50 Integrating cues of social interest and voice pitch in men's preferences for women's voices Benedict Jones, David Feinberg, Lisa DeBruine, Anthony Little, Jovana Vukovic TH 11:10 Self-rated attractiveness influences women's preferences for masculine men's voices Jovana Vukovic, David Feinberg, Benedict Jones, Lisa DeBruine, Lisa Welling, Anthony Little, Finlay Smith TH 11:30 How and when do women enhance their vocal attractiveness? Greg Bryant, Martie Haselton, Elizabeth Pillsworth TH 11:50 Facial and vocal attractiveness, masculinity-femininity and sexual orientation in males Jaroslava Valentová, Jan Havlícekˇ TH 12:10 Hormonal contraceptive use and correlated preferences for vocal and facial masculinity David Feinberg, Lisa DeBruine, Benedict Jones, Anthony Little 12:30-1:40 PM Lunch Break 12:30-1:40 PM HBES Executive Council Meeting Restaurant La Tour 1:40-2:40 PM Afternoon Plenary by Carel van Schaik Centennial Hall Alone Among Apes: Cooperative Breeding and Human Cognitive Evolution 2:40-3:00 PM Break Thursday Afternoon Sessions Session B-1: Cooperation I Intl. Conf. Hall I Chair: Frank Marlowe TH 3:00 From Rousseau to Hobbes: more “altruistic" punishment in larger societies Frank Marlowe, Colette Berbesque, Abigail Barr, Clark Barrett, Alex Bolyanatz, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Jean Ensminger, Michael Gurven TH 3:20 Prosocial emotions, conflict and cooperation. A cross-cultural study on shaming-punishments in historical societies Joerg Wettlaufer TH 3:40 Evolution of social contracts in the laboratory Pontus Strimling, Kimmo Eriksson TH 4:00 Revisiting “the evolution of reciprocity in sizable groups." Masanori Takezawa, Michael Price TH 4:20 Stability-dependent cooperation, status, and "upping the threat level" Pat Barclay, Stephen Benard HBES 2008 5 Session B-2: Cognition I Intl. Conf. Hall II Chair: Thomas Suddendorf TH 3:00 The evolution of mental time travel Thomas Suddendorf TH 3:20 Extensive allomaternal care and cognitive evolution Judith Burkart, Carel van Schaik TH 3:40 Does man's mind interpret woman's and man's mindset in a different way?
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