Human Behavior and Evolution Society

 

 

1993

 

 

 

 

Abstracts

 

 

NOTE:  This was scanned from a printed program.  There are scanning errors in some of the following abstracts.

 

 

 

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 7:45 AM-S PM. You will need to load your slides into trays and fill out labels that we will provide. Lecture Hall 13 also contains slide projectors and video equipment for you to preview your slides/videos prior to your talk. Please do this as early as nossible on the day of your talk to avoid oroblems. Overhead projectors, microphones, and pointers are available in each lecture hail. A staff member will be present in each Lecture hail to show you how to operate the equipment and trouble-shoot for you if problems arise during your presentation.

 

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

Hall Center on Thursday night 8:00-10:30 PM for general viewing. A 4’x8’ space is available

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 Binghamton University’s Biological Sciences, Anthropology, Psychology and Philosophy Departments. All conference activities are in buildings that are close to each other so you should have little difficulty finding your way about. A map is provided on the back of your folder.

 

REGISTRATION will be in the Hinman College Dining Hall during Wednesday, August 4, and outside Hall 1 of the Lecture Hall Center during the rest of the conference.

 

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

Hinman College complex. The most convenient lodging off campus is the Holiday Inn

(729-6371), located on the edge of campus approximately 0.5 ml from the Lecture Hall

Center.

 

THE CONFERENCE will be in the Lecture Hall Center, across the street from the Hinman College complex. This is a circular building with a wide corridor that surrounds Lecture halls in the core. All sessions, meetings, book displays, posters, refreshments etc. are held in adjacent rooms and the corridor of the Lecture Hall Center.

 

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:

 

07:00-08:30

08:30-09:30

09:30-09:45

09:45-11:45

11:45-01:15

01:15-02:15

02:15-02:30

02: 30~04:30*

06:00-07:00

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 4:30-5:00.

 

SOCIAL EVENTS include the following:

 

Wed. 08:00-12:00

Thu.                    08:00-10:30
Fri                      06:00-07:00
Fri.                     07:00-10:00
Sat.                    06:00-12:00

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, Union)

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DATE TIME RMPG

 

Sat7                          9:45-11:45

Sat7                        9:45-11:45

Sat7                          9:45-11:45

1          13           EVOLUTION AND CULTURE WORKSHOP

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14            SYMPOSIUM: ANIMAL MENTALITY

14            SYMPOSIUM: RELEVANCE OF
                EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY TO
               
PSYCHOTHERAPY

 

 

Sat 7                      2:30-5:00      1                                                                                         15           SYMPOSIUM: EVOLUTION AND MORALITY I

Sat 7                              2:30-5:00 2         15   PAPER SESSION VIII: SEX AND SEX
                                                                
DIFFERENCES

Sat 7                               2:30-5:00 14      15    PAPER SESSION IX: EVOLUTION AND
                                                                 PSYCHIATRY

 

 

Sun8                         9:45-11:45

 

 

Sun 8 9:45-11:45 Sun8 9:45-11:45

1          16           SYMPOSIUM: EVOLUTION AND MORALITY II

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16            PAPER SESSION X: TOPICS IN INDIVIDUAL
                DIFFERENCES AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

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PAPER SESSION XI: EVOLUTIONARY

APPROACHES TO SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND

REPRODUCTION

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Life History and the Age at First Reproduction. KIM HILL, University of New Mexico

 

SYMPOSIUM:    DARWINIAN AESTHETICS I

Lecture Hall 1

Organized by R. THORN7HILL and S. GANGESTAD

 

Darwinian Aesthetics of Human Bodily Form. RANDY THORNHILL, University New Mexico

 

Facial Symmetry and Sexual Selection. KARL GRAMMER, Ludwig­Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology, and R. THORNHTLL, University of New Mexico

 

Facial Beauty: Good Taste, Good Sense, or Both? VICTOR S.

JOHNSTON, DONNA DRIISCOLL, and MELISSA FRANKLIN, New

Mexico State University

 

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, University of Oregon;

GEOFFREY MILLER , University of Sussex, U. K.

 

Evolving Space Representation in Writing and Face Drawings.

ANNELIESE A. PONTIIJS, Harvard University

 

Facial Expressions that Influence Subjects’ Postural Erectness. ELAINE

S. KAHN and GLENN WEISFELD, Wayne State University

 

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, University of Texas

 

11:25 10                 Displaced Culpability, and the Evolution of Social Identity. JOHN 0. HEAl-IRS, Oregon Health Sciences University

 

 

 

 

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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5 TIME AB#

 

PLENARY ADDRESS

Lecture Hall 1

      8:30 1

      9:45 2

 

 

10:15 3

    10:45 4

 

 

 

11:15

      9:45 5

     10:05   6

    10:25 7

    10:45 8

    11:05    9

THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5

TIME      AB#

 

PAPER SESSION H: THEORETICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL

                                ISSUES

                                Lecture HaIl 14

      9:45   11             Culture and Natural Selection. LYLE B. STEADMAN, Arizona
                                State University

    10:05   12             Evolutionary Biology and the Ontological Status of the Units of
                                Selection.
TIMOTHY SHANAHAN, Loyola Marymount University

    10:25   13             Meta-Theory and Metaphors: Basic Assumptions of an Evolutionary
                                Psychological Science. TIIvIOTHY KETELAAR, University of
                                California-Berkeley
, and BRUCE ELLIS, University of Michigan

    10:45   14             Homo Biologicus: Linking Evolutionary Psychology to the Conventional
                                Social Sciences. CHARLES ELWORTHY, European Academy, Schloss
                                Wartin and Otto Subr Institute, Free University of Berlin, Germany

     11:05 15              Applying the Genetic-Linguistic Metaphor to Models of Cultural
                                 Evolution.
DENNIS P. WATERS, Princeton, NJ

     11:25 16              Biosocial Studies for Undergraduates: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary
                                 Pedagogy. JUDITH SAUNDERS and VICTORIA INGALLS, Marist
                                 College

 

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5

                                PLENARY ADDRESS

                                Lecture Hall 1

      1:15   17             The Adaptive Advantage of Learning and A Priori Prejudice. ELLIOT
                                SOBER, University of Wisconsin

 

SYMPOSIUM:    DARWINIAN AESTHETICS II

                                Lecture Hall 1

Organized by R. THORN7HILL and S. GANGESTAD

      2:30   18             The Perfect Face: Does It Exist? STEPHEN MARQUARDT, University
                                of California
-Los Angeles

      3:00   19             Sexual Selection and Relationship Dynamics. STEVEN GANGESTAD,
                                University of New Mexico

      3:30   20            Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR): A DefinThg Morphological Feature of7IIealth
                         
and Female Attractiveness. DEVENDRA STNGH, University of Texas

      4:00   21             Beauty Is in the Adaptations of the Beholder. DONALD SYMONS,
                                University of California-Santa Barbara

 

 

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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5

TIME      AB#

 

PAPER SESSION III: EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL

                                PSYCHOLOGY

                                Lecture Hall 2

      2:30   22             Machiavellianism: A Synthesis of the Evolutionary and Psychological
                                Literatures. DAVID C. NEAR, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, and RALPH
                                MILLER, Binghamton University

      2:50   23             Social Reciprocity and Success. KLAUS ATZWANGER, Ludwig­-
                                Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology, Austria

      3:10   24             Evolution of Altruistic Ethical Rules for Siblings. TED BERGSTROM,
                                University of Michigan

      3:30   25             Social Emotions as Strategies in the Reciprocity Game. RANDOLPH
                                M.NESSE, University of Michigan

      3:50   26             Reconciliation Behavior: Applications in Human Groups and Subgroups.
                                CLAUDETTE HASTIE BEAHRS, Portland, OR

      4:10   27             Chimpanzee Conflict Resolution (Video). CHRISTOPHER BOEHM,
                                University of Southern California

 

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR COMPETITION

                                Lecture Hall 14

      2:30   28             Folklore and the Adapted Mind. MICHELLE SUGIYAMA, University of
                                California-Santa Barbara

      3:00   29             The Bio-Cultural Evolution of Food Avoidances among Suda~nics.
                                ROBERT AUNGER, University of Chicago

      3:30   30             The Evolution of Human Sexual Styles. DAVID P. SCHMITT,
                                University of Michigan

 

TUTORIAL

                                Lecture HaIl 14

      4:00  31             New Methods in Evolutionary Computer Simulation: A Basic

to                             Introduction, with Applications for Research and Teaching. 5:00 GEOFFREY MILLER, University of Sussex, U. K.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5 TIME AB#

      8:00                   POSTER DISPLAY
    to .                                                                                                Lecture Hall Hallway
   
10:00                    Refreshements available

 

109          “Hard Altruism:” Strategies of Social Influence and Remote Causation. JOHN 0. BEAHRS, Oregon Health Sciences University

 

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, University of Toronto

 

112          Selfishness in Social Exchange: An Exploratory Investigation. MARIA JANICKI, CHARLES CRAWFORD, and DENNIS KREBS, Simon Fraser University

 

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, California

State University Long Beach

 

115          Breasts, Their Evolutionary Origins. EDWARD M. MILLER, University of New Orleans

 

116          Testosterone Induces Rapid Onset of Anxiolytic-Like Behaviors in Mice. R. E. OSBORNE, I. NIEKRASZ, and T. W. SEALE, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

 

117          Kinship Ties: Who Knows About Them and What Do They Really Know? CATHERINE SALMON, McMaster University

 

118          Behavioral Markers of Endogenous Depression and Recovery. TYGE SCHELDE, Frederiksberg Hosital, Fredriksberg, Denmark

 

119          The Co-Evolution of Sexual Jealousy and Strategic Jealousy Induction:

An Evolutionary Psychological Approach. WILLIAM TOOKE, KIM CLINE, and JAMES DAILEY, State University of New York-Plattsburgh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6 TIME AB#

                                PLENARY ADDRESS
                                Lecture Hall 1
     
8:30  32              Can Behavior Genetics Contribute to Evolutionary Explanations of
                                Behavior? MICHAEL BAILEY, Northwestern University
                                SYMPOSIUM: EVOLUTION AND HUMAN COGNITION I:
                                GENERAL CONCEPTS
                                Lecture HaIl 1
                               
Organized by I. SILVERIvIAN

      9:45   33             A Mechanistic Approach to the Evolution of Human Cognition. LESLIE
                                A. REAL, Indiana University

    10:15   34             What Can You Think About in a Frequentist Way? GARY L. BRASE and
                                LEDA COSMIDES.
University of California-Santa Barbara

    10:45   35             Adaptive Genetic Variation. DAVID SLOAN WILSON, Binghamton
                                University

    11:15   36             Testing for Universality: Reasoning Adaptations among the Achaur of
                                Amazonia. LARRY SUGIYAMA, JOHN TOOBY, and LEDA
                                COSMIDES, University of California-Santa Barbara

 

PAPER SESSION IV: SEX DIFFERENCES AND

REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES

                                Lecture Hall 2

      9:45   37             Conflict Between the Sexes. DAVID BUSS, University of Michigan

    10:05   38             The Evolutionary Psychology of Women’s Sexuality. NANCY
                                THORNHTLL, University of Michigan

    10:25   39             Female Unattractiveness and Concealed Ovulation as a Strategy for
                                Increasing Per Capita Paternal Investment.
EDWARD M. MILLER,
                                University of New Orleans

    10:45  40             Reproductive Strategies of Harem Females. LISA R. LUDVICO, The
                                Pennsylvania State University

    11:05  41             Human Male Mating Strategies and Dating Behaviors. LINDA R.
                                HIRSCH and LUCI PAUL, Temple University

     11:25  42            Evolution, Mood, and Landscape, L1JVDA MEALEY, College of St.
               
Benedict; PETER THEIS, St. John’s University

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6

 

TIME AB#

PAPER SESSION V: THEORETICAL ISSUES