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Acknowledgements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Local Organiser Committee Ulrich Mueller – Chair Klaus Erdt Sabine Groos Annemarie Harms Program Committee Peter M. Todd – Chair Edward H. Hagen Nicole C. Hess Edouard Machery Masanori Takezawa Andreas Wilke New Young Investigator and Postdoctoral Research Award Committee H. Clark Barrett Timothy Ketelaar David Schmitt Poster Award Committee Gary Brase Frank Salter X. T. Wang Organization CTW Congress Organisation Thomas Wiese GmbH Hohenzollerndamm 125 D-14199 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 - 85 99 62-14 Fax: +49 (0)30 - 85 07 98 26 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ctw-congress.de/hbes Sponsored by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Aventis - Branch Marburg Sparkasse Marburg Biedenkopf HBES 04 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Schedule .......................................................................................................................................................4 Quick Timetable...........................................................................................................................................6 Detailed Timetable.......................................................................................................................................7 Thursday, July 22nd, 2004 .................................................................................................................. Morning plenary by Wolfgang Enard – Audimax ...................................................................... Morning sessions .......................................................................................................................... Cooperation in Large Groups (Symposium) – Audimax.......................................................30 Mating Strategies – Lecture Hall A .......................................................................................33 Parental Investment – Lecture Hall B ...................................................................................36 Individual Differences in Life-History Strategies (Symposium) – Lecture Hall C..................39 2D:4D Digit Ratio and Sex-Dependent Behaviors (Symposium) – Lecture Hall D ..............42 Early afternoon sessions .............................................................................................................. Afternoon debate by Gerd Gigerenzer and Keith Stenning – Audimax.................................... Health – Lecture Hall A.........................................................................................................45 Media, Gossip and Human Universals (Symposium) – Lecture Hall B ................................47 Brain and Cognition – Lecture Hall C ...................................................................................50 Kinship – Lecture Hall D .......................................................................................................53 Afternoon plenary and late afternoon sessions ......................................................................... Afternoon plenary by Bernard Comrie – Audimax .................................................................... Remembering What Linda Mealey Said (Symposium) – Audimax.......................................55 Mate Preferences I – Lecture Hall A.....................................................................................57 Media, Gossip and Human Universals (Symposium) / ToM and Culture – Lecture Hall B ..60 Fertility and Fitness – Lecture Hall C....................................................................................63 Personality / Adaptive Functions of Memory – Lecture Hall D .............................................65 Friday, July 23rd, 2004 ........................................................................................................................ Morning plenary by Hans Peter Kohler – Audimax................................................................... Morning sessions .......................................................................................................................... Female Competition (Symposium) – Audimax .....................................................................68 Philosophical Critics (Symposium) – Lecture Hall A.............................................................70 Is Depression an Adaptation? – Lecture Hall B....................................................................73 Mate Preferences II – Lecture Hall C....................................................................................75 Signals and Sentiments (Symposium) – Lecture Hall D.......................................................78 Early afternoon sessions .............................................................................................................. Determinants of Norms of Cooperation (Symposium) – Audimax........................................80 Mutual Mate Preference (Symposium) – Lecture Hall A ......................................................82 New Approaches to Physical Attractiveness – Lecture Hall B .............................................85 Emotion – Lecture Hall C......................................................................................................87 Evolution and Cognition (Symposium) – Lecture Hall D.......................................................89 Afternoon plenary and late afternoon sessions ......................................................................... Afternoon plenary James Carey – Audimax ............................................................................. Consumer Behavior (Symposium) – Audimax......................................................................91 Grandparental Investment (Symposium) – Lecture Hall A ...................................................94 Evolutionary Thinking in Sociology (Symposium) – Lecture Hall B......................................97 New Perspectives in Darwinian History (Symposium) – Lecture Hall C...............................99 Evolutionary Psychology and the Social Sciences – Lecture Hall D ................................. 101 2 HBES 04 Saturday, July 24th, 2004.................................................................................................................... Morning plenary by Richard Dawkins, Peter Hammerstein, David Harper, and Eörs Szathmáry – Audimax............................................................................................................... Morning sessions .......................................................................................................................... Open Problems in Theoretical Biology – Audimax ................................................................... Language and Speech – Lecture Hall A.............................................................................104 Cooperation and Punishment (Symposium) – Lecture Hall B............................................107 Addictive Behavior (Symposium) – Lecture Hall C.............................................................110 Self and ToM (Symposium) – Lecture Hall D .....................................................................112 Early afternoon sessions.............................................................................................................. Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience (Symposium) – Audimax ........................................114 Modelling the Evolution of Cooperation – Lecture Hall A ...................................................117 New Approaches to Facial Attractiveness – Lecture Hall B ...............................................119 Development and Life-History – Lecture Hall C .................................................................122 Sex and Personality (Symposium) – Lecture Hall D ..........................................................124 Afternoon plenary and late afternoon sessions......................................................................... Afternoon plenary by Mark Stoneking – Audimax .................................................................... Cultural Transmission – Audimax.......................................................................................126 Attractiveness – Lecture Hall A ..........................................................................................129 Depression and Psychopathology – Lecture Hall B ...........................................................132 Language Acquisition and Evolution (Symposium) – Lecture Hall C .................................135 Competition and Aggression – Lecture Hall D ...................................................................138 Sunday, July 25th, 2004 Morning sessions .......................................................................................................................... Costly Signaling and Cooperation – Audimax ....................................................................141 Religion, Morality, and Ethnicity – Lecture Hall A...............................................................144 Idiolectical Approach ® – Lecture Hall B .............................................................................146 Attractiveness and Quality – Lecture Hall C.......................................................................147 Art, Literature, and Aesthetics – Lecture Hall D .................................................................150 Poster Session...........................................................................................................................................26 Oral presentation abstracts listed by chronological
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