H UMAN B E H AVIOR & E VOLUTION S OCIETY Fall 2018 Newsletter In This Issue View From the President’s Window Code of Conduct Call for Nominations New HBES.com website 2018 Conference The 31st annual HBES meeting will be held in Boston May 29-June 1st, 2019. The Speakers conference will be located at the George Sherman Union at Boston University. Competition Winners Dormitory rooms will be available on the conference website ($88/nt; students: Early Career Award $44/nt), as will links to hotels (e.g., Hotel Commonwealth conference rate is $289/ Lifetime Achievement nt). If you plan on staying in a hotel we recommend booking early as there will be Survey Results a lot of competition (graduations, tourism, etc). Conference registration, centralized accommodations (dorms), and links to conference rate hotels will be managed Letter From the EHB Editors through the conference website at: meetatbu.com/hbes19. We anticipate that the call for abstracts and registration will open in January. Please contact us with any The Student Voice questions at [email protected] or tweet us @hbes2019. See you in Boston! Max Krasnow, Danielle Truxaw, Carolyn Hodges-Simeon, Organizers, HBES 2019 View Conference EHB Students From the President’s Window HBES 2018 | Amsterdam Message from the Editors The Student Voice | Nicole Barbaro In this issue, HBES The 2018 HBES Conference There are many changes Student representative president, Doug Kenirck, was held in Amsterdam taking place at Evolution and Nicole Barbaro takes a look and HBES past-president, July 4-7 at the University Human Behavior. The Editors at the breakdown of HBES Elizabeth Cashdan, update of Amsterdam. Thanks to are excited to announce a student presenters and us on the new HBES Code hosts Josh Tybur, Annemie number of new features to conference attendees. She of Conduct and much more. Ploeger, Michal Kandrik, EHB-some already in place discusses new initiatvies, and Mark van Vugt. In this and some coming soon. Read more... like the Stats issue: post- Read more conference about the & Methods survey new editorial Workshop, results and board and focused competition upcoming on student winners. changes. development. Read more... Read more... Read more... © Copyright HBES 2018 - All Rights Reserved | email: [email protected] | web: www.hbes.com Elizabeth Cashdan View From the Presidents’ Window | & Doug Kenrick It has been both a challenging and an exciting year for HBES. as Editor-in- Chief. Debra Lieberman, On the exciting side, we had our 30th annual conference in the one of the former Associate Editors, stepped up to take on lovely city of Amsterdam. Some of our members even learned the job of Editor-in-Chief of the journal (thank you both). how to pronounce Nieuwe Achtergracht, which is the canal on which the conference was held at the University of Amsterdam. Finally, to deal with cybervandalism on the existing HBES website Many thanks to Josh Tybur, Annemie Ploeger, Michal Kandrik, and and to improve functionality, we are migrating to a new website, Mark van Vugt, who did all the behind-the-scenes work so the with the support of Academic Webpages. More than a pretty attendees could listen to inspiring talks and enjoy a canal tour of face -- although it is that -- the new website will be more secure their beautiful city. Thanks also to the program committee (Aaron and will be integrated with the membership list and the society’s Blackwell, Willem Frankenhuis, Mariska Kret, Cristina Moya, social media sites. This means that membership renewal should Gert Stulp, Annie Wertz, Josh Tybur), and to Nicole Barbaro, Dan be seamless and communication with members will be improved. Conroy-Beam, Jaime Palmer-Hague and Amanda Hahn. There A lot of members didn’t receive our updates this past year, which was a great keynote address by Frans de Waal and thought- was frustrating for everyone. We are especially grateful to HBES provoking plenary talks from Daniel Fessler, Patricia Hawley, Executive Councillor Bernhard Fink for taking the lead on this. Toby Kiers, Ruth Mace, Thom Scott-Phillips, and Nancy Segal. Next year, Max Krasnow, Danielle Truxaw, and Carolyn On the challenging side, Rob Kurzban, who was both HBES Hodges will be hosting our meeting in Boston May president and EHB editor-in-chief, resigned early in the year. The 29-June 1. We look forward to seeing you all there. circumstances of his resignation posed organizational challenges Doug Kenrick and Elizabeth Cashdan to the officers and editors, and provoked much discussion. We think and hope that HBES has emerged from this in a stronger position, due to the following changes we have made this year: HBES ELECTIONS The Executive Council approved a revised and expanded Code In 2019, we will be holding elections for new of Conduct, which includes a set of procedures for reporting Executive Council members and officers, and we and responding to members’ concerns. It is described invite nominations from the membership. We seek here in this newsletter. We thank the subcommittee—Todd nominees and will be voting for: Shackelford, Kermyt Anderson, Maryanne Fisher, and Martie President Haselton—who combed the codes used by other societies, Communication Officer and gave invaluable counsel to the executive committee. Councillors at large (2) We are also now beginning to collect better data on climate Student Representative concerns because of the Amsterdam meeting survey, the In keeping with past practice, Todd Shackelford results of which are also reported in this newsletter here. The (secretary-archivist) and Catherine Salmon Executive Council in consultation with Conference Hosts (treasurer) will run unopposed for their third and will be continuing to collect similar data going forward. final term. Nominees should be not only respected scholars, but people of good character who can be Communication with members and outreach to the relied upon to get things done. You do not need to broader community will be enhanced because the ascertain whether your nominee is willing to run; the members voted to approve the new position of HBES search committee, which will choose two individuals Communication Officer. Debra Lieberman is now acting in to run for each position, will make those inquiries. that capacity and we are very grateful to her for taking this on. Please send all nominations to [email protected] Steve Gaulin, chair of the Publications Committee, worked with the Evolution and Human Behavior editorial council and Elsevier to ensure a smooth transition after Rob Kurzban resigned HBES | Code of Conduct In order to ensure a collegial and respectful conference membership in the society. The investigative procedure is environment, this Code of Conduct was adopted as a Resolution to described below. the Bylaws of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES). • Respect the rules and policies of the meeting venue, hotels, In accordance with the Society’s mission, HBES will not tolerate and any HBES-contracted facility. behavior that discourages the free expression and exchange of scientific ideas. This includes any form of harassment, as well What is harassment? as unequal treatment of any person based on their age, gender, race, gender identity or sexual orientation, or for any other reason Sexual harassment refers to unwelcome sexual advances, unrelated to scientic merit. Violators will be warned and may be requests for sexual favors, and other unwelcome sexual conduct. subject to further disciplinary actions, as described below. Sexual harassment does not refer to occasional compliments of a socially acceptable nature. The following are examples of behavior Scope that may, when unwelcome, constitute sexual harassment: sexual flirtations, advances, or propositions; verbal comments The HBES Code of Conduct covers behavior while at HBES or physical actions of a sexual nature; sexually-degrading words conferences or HBES-sponsored or HBES-funded events. In used to describe an individual, sexually-degrading jokes, or rare instances, the executive council may respond to egregious unnecessary touching. Those who have positions of authority or violations at other venues with a warning, where these violations higher rank should be aware that subordinates may be reluctant have been properly adjudicated, in order to prevent future to express objections or discomfort regarding unwelcome problems at HBES events. behavior or language. Disparaging remarks and behaviors that HBES officers represent the society and have added refer to individual or group characteristics are also unacceptable responsibilities. If an officer fails to carry these out, or commits to the Society. These include stereotyping, slurs, intentionally serious ethical violations, the executive council may, by a 2/3 derogatory jokes or statements, and any hostile or intimidating acts. vote, ask the officer to step down. Examples of such violations would include criminal behavior, violation of research ethics, and Grievance committee sexual harassment. The Executive Council will appoint a grievance committee Policy summary to serve as a resource and first line of response for people concerned about inappropriate behavior. The committee will Attendees at HBES events must agree to the following as a include both council and non-council members, and ideally condition of registration: some diversity of life experience and discipline. The names and • Treat all participants, HBES staff, and vendors with courtesy contact information of the full committee will be posted on the and consideration. HBES website, and conference organizers will post the names and contact information of committee members who will be at • Be respectful and collaborative, critiquing ideas rather than the conference, together with information about how they can be individuals. identied on site (e.g., by a notification on the nametag). Grievance • Abuse, intimidation, discrimination, and sexual harassment committee members may offer advice and may attempt to are unacceptable. Sexual advances, requests for sexual mediate disputes. They will also assist if a person wishes to favors, or sexually directed remarks constitute sexual make a formal complaint.