Human Behavior and Evolution Society
1993
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CONTENTS
GENERAL INFORMATION
Registration 1.
Meals I
Box Lunches
Lodging I
Conference location I
Your hosts 1
Daily Conference Schedule 1
Social events 1
Book Display I
Telephones and e-mail 2
Athletic facilities 2
Dining facilities on and off-campus 2
Information for speakers 2
Information for poster authors 2
THE CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
Keynote and Plenary Addresses 3
Symposia, workshops and paper sessions 4
THE CONFERENCE IN DETAIL
Thursday morning 6
Thursday afternoon 7
Thursday evening 9
Friday morning 10
Friday afternoon 11
Friday evening 13
Saturday Morning 13
Saturday Afternoon 14
Sunday Morning 16
Sunday Afternoon 17
ABSTRACTS 18
AUTHOR/ABSTRACT INDEX 71
SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS AND PAPER SESSIONS
DATE TIME RM PG
Thu 5 9:45-11:45 1 6 SYMPOSIUM: DARWINIAN AESTHETICS I
Thu 5 9:45-11:45 2 6 PAPER SESSION I: HUMAN COGNITIVE
AND
PERCEPTUAl ADAPTATIONS
ThuS 9:45-11:45 14 7 PAPER
SESSION II: THEORETICAL AND
PEDAGOGICAL
ISSUES
Thu 5 2:30-4:30 1 7 SYMPOSIUM: DARWINIAN AESTHETICS II
Thu 5 2:30-4:30 2 8 PAPER
SESSION III: EVOLUTION AND
SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Thu 5 2:30-4:00 14 8 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR COMPETiTION
Thu 5 4:00-5:00 14 8 ThTORLAL: NEW METHODS IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTER SIMULATION
Thu 5 8:00-10:30 haIl 9 POSTER DISPLAY*
Fri 6 9:45-11:45
1 10 SYMPOSIUM:
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN
COGNITION
I: GENERAL CONCEPTS
Fri 6 9:45-11:45
2 10 PAPER
SESSION IV: SEX DIFFERENCES
AND
REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES
Fri 6 9:45-11:45 14 11 PAPER SESSION V: THEORETICAL ISSUES
Fn6 11:45-1:15 5 II GRADUATESTUDENTWOpj~5HOp
Fri 6 2:30-5:00
1 12 SYMPOSIUM: EVOLUTION AND HUMAN
COGNITION
II: SEX DIFFERENCES
Fri 6 2:30-4:30
2 12 PAPER SESSION VI: THE REGULATION OF
REPRODUCTION
AND ACCESS TO
RESOURCES
IN HUMAN SOCIETIES
Fri 6 2:30-4:40
14 13 PAPER SESSION
VII: THEORETICAL AND
POLITICAL
ISSUES
*Posters also displayed in lecture hall 4 throughout the conference
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Friday
Evening after the Banquet, Hinman Dining Hall
Dr. George C. Williams
State
University of New York, Stony Brook
Practical Applications of the Study of Human
Evolution
PLENARY ADDRESSES
Lecture
Hall 1
DATE TIME AB#
Thu 5 8:30 1 KIM
HILL, University of New Mexico
Life
History and the Age at First Reproduction
Thu 5 1:15 17 ELLIOTT
SOBER, University of Wisconsin
The
Adaptive Advantage of Learning and A Priori
Prejudice
Fri 6 8:30 32 MICHAEL
BAILEY, Northwestern University
Can
Behavior Genetics Contribute to Evolutionary
Explanations
of Behavior?
Fri 6 1:15 49 LEDA
COSMIDES and JOHN TOOBY, University of
California, Santa
Barbara
Cognitive
Adaptations for Threat,Cooperation and
War
Sat 7 8:30 66 WILLIAM
DURHAM, Stanford University
The Forces of Cultural Evolution: Why Meaning
Matters
Sat 7 1:15 75 HENRY
HARPENDING, STEPHEN SHERRY, ALAN
ROGERS,
and MARK STONEKING, The Pennsylvania State
University
Breeding
Structure of Ancient Human Populations
Sun 8 8:30 91 BOBBI
LOW, University of Michigan
Linking
Our Evolutionary Past and Our Ecological
Future:
A Behavioral Ecological Approach
Sun 8 1:15 108 MARTIN
DALY and MARGO WILSON, McMaster
University
Cinderella
Revisited
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A GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING will be held during the Saturday lunch period
in Lecture Hall 1. You must sign up for a box lunch at the
registration desk 24 hours in advance.
A BOOK DISPLAY will be in Lecture Hall 3 for the duration of the conference
TELEPHONES AND E-MAIL. Phones for calling on campus are available in each dormitory room. Pay phones are available in the dormitories and Lecture Hall center. A computer terminal is available for e-mail during 12:00-1:00 every day. Contact the registration desk for details.
ATHLETIC FACILITIES: If you walk south from the Hinman College Complex you will enter a 117-acre nature preserve that offers trails for walking and running. Maps available at the registration desk will direct you to a par course (fitness trail), tennis and basketball courts and the West Gym for indoor facilities that include a weight room, an indoor track, racquet ball courts and swimming during specified hours. Contact the registration desk for details.
DINING FACILITIES ON AND OFF CAMPUS include the Chenango Room (Science I, open 11:30-1:30 for lunch), the Susquehanna Room (University Union, open 7:30-2:30) and the Commons Cafe (Fine Arts Building, open 9:00-1:00 for coffee and pastries). Off campus, you will encounter more restaurant franchises than you could possibly desire if you turn left at the main entrance of the University (e.g., Denny’s, MacDonalds, TGI Fridays, Olive Garden, etc. etc.). A list of more interesting bars and restaurants is available at the registration desk.
INFORMATION FOR SPEAKERS: Slides and video taoes are ODerated from
the core of the building and must be ready at least one hour before your talk.
Take your slides/videos to Lecture Hall 13, where a conference staff
member will assist you from
INFORMATION FOR POSTER AUTHORS: Posters will be on display in lecture hall
4 for the duration of the conference and will be brought into the outer corridor of the Lecture
for each poster, which may be put up in Lecture Hall 4 at any time.
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WELCOME TO HBES ‘93, which is sponsored jointly by
REGISTRATION will be in the Hinman College Dining Hall during
Wednesday, August 4, and outside Hall 1 of the
MEALS will be in the Hinman College Dining hall, with the exception of the Saturday night barbeque, which will be held in the Susquehanna Room of the Student Union and in the Courtyard on the east side of the Union.
BOX LUNCHES are available for those attending the graduate student
workshop (Friday lunch) and the general business meeting (Saturday lunch).
To obtain a box lunch you must sign up at the registration desk 24 hours in
advance.
LODGING will be in Hughes Hall and and Lehman Hall, both of which are part of the
(729-6371), located on the edge of campus approximately 0.5 ml from the Lecture Hall
Center.
THE CONFERENCE will be in the
YOUR HOSTS are David Sloan Wilson (Biological Sciences) and Eric Dietrich (Philosophy). We have a staff that includes Bent Rightmire (The Biology Department s building manager) and student volunteers to assist you during the conference. Please talk to any one of us or call the conference telephone number (x4768) if you have any questions.
THE DAILY SCHEDULE for the conference will be as follows:
Breakfast at the Hinman Dining Hall
Morning Plenary lecture
Refreshments in corridor outside lecture rooms
Organized symposia and Paper Sessions
Lunch at the Hinman Dining Hall
Afternoon Plenary lecture
Refreshments in corridor outside lecture rooms
Organized symposia and Paper Sessions
Dinner at the Hinman Dining Hall
* Actual end times for afternoon
sessions vary between
SOCIAL EVENTS include the following:
Wed.
Thu.
Fri
Fri.
Sat.
Welcome for registrants (Hinman dhing hail)
Poster viewing (Lecture Hall Complex)
Reception for Banquet (Hinman Dining Hail)
Banquet and keynote address (Hinman Dining Hall)
Barbeque and Dance (Susquehanna Room,
1
DATE TIME RMPG
Sat7
Sat7
Sat7
1 13 EVOLUTION AND CULTURE WORKSHOP
8
14
14 SYMPOSIUM: ANIMAL MENTALITY
14 SYMPOSIUM: RELEVANCE OF
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sat 7
Sat 7
DIFFERENCES
Sat 7
PSYCHIATRY
Sun8
Sun 8
1 16 SYMPOSIUM: EVOLUTION AND MORALITY II
2
14
16 PAPER SESSION X: TOPICS IN INDIVIDUAL
DIFFERENCES AND HUMAN
EVOLUTION
17
PAPER SESSION XI: EVOLUTIONARY
APPROACHES TO SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND
REPRODUCTION
5
Life History and the Age at First
Reproduction. KIM HILL,
SYMPOSIUM: DARWINIAN AESTHETICS I
Lecture Hall 1
Organized by R.
THORN7HILL and
Darwinian Aesthetics of Human Bodily
Form. RANDY THORNHILL, University
Facial Symmetry and Sexual Selection.
KARL GRAMMER, LudwigBoltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology, and R. THORNHTLL,
Facial Beauty: Good Taste, Good Sense, or Both? VICTOR S.
JOHNSTON, DONNA DRIISCOLL, and MELISSA FRANKLIN, New
Discussion
PAPER SESSION I: HUMAN COGNITIVE AND
PERCEPTUAL ADAPTATIONS
Lecture HaIl 2
Human Perceptual Adaptations for Entraining, Tracking, and Predicting
Animate Motion. JENNIFER 1. FREYD,
GEOFFREY MILLER ,
Evolving Space Representation in Writing and Face Drawings.
ANNELIESE A. PONTIIJS,
Facial Expressions that Influence Subjects’ Postural Erectness. ELAINE
S. KAHN and GLENN WEISFELD,
Requirements for a Human Habitat: Discrepancies between Planners’ and
Users’ Feelings for Design. ULLICA SEGERSTRLE, Illinois Institute of
Technology
The Frame/Content Theory of the
Evolution of Speech. PETER F. MACNEILAGE,
6
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5 TIME
AB#
PLENARY ADDRESS
Lecture Hall 1
THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5
TIME AB#
PAPER SESSION H: THEORETICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL
ISSUES
Lecture
HaIl 14
Selection.
TIMOTHY SHANAHAN,
Psychological
Science. TIIvIOTHY KETELAAR,
Social
Sciences. CHARLES ELWORTHY,
Wartin and
Otto Subr Institute, Free
Evolution.
DENNIS P. WATERS,
Pedagogy.
JUDITH SAUNDERS and VICTORIA INGALLS, Marist
College
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5
PLENARY
ADDRESS
Lecture
Hall 1
SOBER,
SYMPOSIUM: DARWINIAN AESTHETICS II
Lecture
Hall 1
Organized by R.
THORN7HILL and
of
and
Female Attractiveness. DEVENDRA STNGH,
University
of California-Santa Barbara
7
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5
TIME AB#
PAPER SESSION III: EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY
Lecture
Hall 2
Literatures.
DAVID C. NEAR, DAVID SLOAN
MILLER,
Boltzmann
Institute for Urban
M.NESSE,
CLAUDETTE
HASTIE BEAHRS,
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR COMPETITION
Lecture
Hall 14
California-Santa
Barbara
ROBERT
AUNGER,
TUTORIAL
Lecture
HaIl 14
to Introduction,
with Applications for Research and Teaching.
8
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5 TIME AB#
to . Lecture
Hall Hallway
109 “Hard Altruism:” Strategies of Social Influence and Remote Causation.
JOHN 0. BEAHRS,
110 Direct and Indirect Stress in the Study of True Pathologies, Pseudonormal Behaviors, and Pseudopathologies. CHARLES B. CRAWFORD and JUDITH L. ANDERSON,
111 The World is Not Enough: The Evolution
of Expanded Affect. MICHAEL HAMMOND,
112 Selfishness in Social Exchange: An Exploratory
Investigation. MARIA JANICKI, CHARLES CRAWFORD, and DENNIS KREBS,
113 Sex Roles Do Not Lead to Gender Differences in Personality. JOHN A. JOHNSON, The Pennsylvania State University-DuBois Campus
114 Resource Appraisals among Self, Friend, and Leader: Toward an
Evolutionary Perspective on Personality and Individual Differences. JON
LUSK, KEVIN MACDONALD, and J. ROBERT NEWMAN,
115 Breasts, Their Evolutionary Origins. EDWARD M. MILLER,
116 Testosterone Induces Rapid Onset of Anxiolytic-Like
Behaviors in Mice. R. E. OSBORNE,
117 Kinship Ties: Who Knows About Them and What Do They Really
Know? CATHERINE SALMON,
118 Behavioral Markers of Endogenous Depression and Recovery.
TYGE SCHELDE,
119 The Co-Evolution of Sexual Jealousy and Strategic Jealousy Induction:
An Evolutionary Psychological Approach.
WILLIAM TOOKE, KIM CLINE, and JAMES DAILEY, State
9
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6 TIME AB#
PLENARY
ADDRESS
Lecture
Hall 1
Behavior?
MICHAEL BAILEY, Northwestern University
SYMPOSIUM:
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN COGNITION I:
GENERAL CONCEPTS
Lecture
HaIl 1
Organized
by
A. REAL,
LEDA
COSMIDES. University of California-Santa Barbara
University
COSMIDES,
University of California-Santa Barbara
PAPER SESSION IV: SEX DIFFERENCES AND
REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES
Lecture
Hall 2
THORNHTLL,
Increasing
Per Capita Paternal Investment. EDWARD M. MILLER,
HIRSCH and
LUCI PAUL,
Benedict; PETER
THEIS,
10
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6
TIME AB#
PAPER SESSION V: THEORETICAL ISSUES