Evolutionary Lecture Exchange Group Sign-Up

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Attention HBES faculty:

Are you teaching online in Spring 2021? Would you love to expose your students to more evolutionary-minded researchers? Join our lecture exchange group! We have created a spreadsheet for faculty interested in exchanging prerecorded guest lectures for classes in social psychology, evolutionary psychology, cultural psychology, evolutionary anthropology, and more. We think that this time of online teaching affords an excellent opportunity to expose students to experts on various topics in the study of human behavior.

The idea would be to provide a prerecorded guest lecture that can be used by any participating faculty. Please add your name, lecture topic(s), and email address to our list! And, if there is something you would like for your class, feel free to send the request to that faculty member. They can then send you their recorded lecture.

A wonderful, but not mandatory, accompaniment to the lecture would be to exchange “tea time chats”. That is, allow the professor and/or students in a course to interview you for 10 mins at a mutually convenient time after watching your lecture.

If you would like to be involved in this exchange, sign up here: Lecture exchange

Understanding the Complexity of #LifeHistoryTheory in HBES’s Roundtable Seminar Series Event

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By Nicole Barbaro

 

HBES hosted the second event in the new Roundtable Seminar Series on November 17 with over 215 members in live attendance. The new event series, organized by HBES volunteers Kristopher Smith, Courtney Crosby, and Paul Deutchman, featured a panel of researchers who specialize in different areas of life history theory to discuss what “life history theory” means, the area’s current theoretical and empirical issues, and where research should go next. The event topic corresponds with the November special issue of HBES’s journal, Evolution and Human Behavior, on Current Debates in Human Life History Research.

 

 

Panelists Dr. Marco Del Giudice, Dr. Rebecca Sear, Dr. Keelah Williams, Dr. Daniel Nettle, and Dr. Willem Frankenhuis discussed differences between ‘clusters’ of life history research in biology and psychology, difficulties of applying original conceptualizations of life history theory to human behavior, issues in measurement and trait covariation, and the importance of measuring adaptive outcomes. Many of these issues were sparked by panelists contributions to the EHB special issue.

 

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The Roundtable Seminar Series will be held regularly throughout the year, approximately every 1 – 2 months. HBES members receive the exclusive perk of being able to watch the event live, engage in chat with other attendees, and ask the panelists questions. Following each event, the recording of the event will be available for anyone to view on the HBES Roundtable Series YouTube channel.

The next event in the Roundtable Series will be held on Thursday, December 17 at 2 pm -3:15 pm EST, with the topic of discussion centered on Origins of Political Orientation and Partisanship. The conversation will include panelists Dr. Michael Bang Petersen, Dr. Hugo Mercier, Dr. Rose McDermott, and Dr. John Jost, moderated by Dr. Andrew Delton.

Thank you to all who continue to make this event a great success, and we look forward to seeing you all on December 17!

Fully-Funded PhD Studentship at University of Portsmouth

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PhD position at the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK
UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR AND ATTITUDES: A BIG DATA APPROACH
 

Applications are invited for a fully-funded three-year PhD or four-year Masters and PhD studentship to commence in October 2021.

The studentship is funded by the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP), a collaboration between the universities of Portsmouth, Southampton and Brighton.

The studentship covers tuition fees and an annual maintenance grant of £15,285 (2020/21 rate).

The supervisors are Dr Edward Morrison and Dr Jerome Micheletta. 

For details, please see here and here.

Lecturer or Senior Lecturer of Psychology at University of Portsmouth

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Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Psychology
University of Portsmouth – Department of Psychology
Location: Portsmouth
Salary: £35,845 to £49,553 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 30th October 2020
Closes: 29th November 2020
Job Ref: ZZ600831

Applications are invited for a fixed term (3 years) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer post in Psychology.

Our Department comprises four research centres/groups; the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, the Quality of Life, Health and Well-Being Research Group, the Centre for Interaction, Development and Diversity, and the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology. Our facilities include EEG, eye tracking and psychophysiology labs, virtual reality and motion detection labs, interviewing suites and a baby/infant lab. We have links to local NHS trusts, schools, nurseries and zoos.

For full details, please see here.

MindCORE Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars

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MindCORE (Mind Center for Outreach, Research, and Education) seeks to recruit outstanding postdoctoral researchers for our Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars. Housed within the School of Arts & Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, MindCORE is an interdisciplinary effort to understand human intelligence and behavior.

 

Designed for individuals who have recently obtained a PhD degree in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy or other cognitive science discipline, the MindCORE Fellowship is a springboard for young researchers as they establish their own research program. Fellows are also encouraged to pursue collaborative research with faculty working across disciplines at Penn.

 

Benefits

Fellows receive a competitive salary, relocation allowance, health insurance plus a modest research budget. Fellows also benefit from access to the greater community of academics including visiting scholars plus leading research facilities equipped with cutting-edge instrumentation all on an urban campus in a vibrant city. Fellows are invited to join regular working group meetings within their field plus career development workshops aimed at young researchers, and will be provided with a mentoring committee. Funding is provided in one year terms renewable for up to three years.

 

Eligibility & Application

–          Applicants must have formally completed all requirements of the PhD degree and provide a copy of their diploma at the time of appointment. Candidates must submit 1-2 page research statement that identifies at least three MindCORE faculty at Penn (https://mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/people/faculty-and-associates/) with whom the applicant would be interested in collaborating, along with a CV and contact information for two referees.

–          Submitted documents should be saved with candidate’s Lastname_Firstname.PDF in one PDF file in this order: research statement, CV, referees (name, affiliation, email address). Complete applications should be submitted through the form on our website: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/mindcore/post-doctoral-research-fellowship/. Questions can be emailed to pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu

–          Applications due January 14, 2021.

 

Selection

All eligible and complete applications will be evaluated by the Selection Committee and are judged on the following criteria:

–          Scientific excellence

–          Scientific match and interdisciplinarity

–          Career potential

 

MindCORE awards ~2 post-doctoral Fellowships per year. Positions may start as early as July 1, 2021.

 

See here for MindCORE Postdoc Fellows – FAQ

 

Penn adheres to a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class. Background check required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.

Evolutionary Psychology Preconference at SPSP: Abstracts due Nov 15

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The 19th annual Evolutionary Psychology Preconference at SPSP, to be held virtually on Feb. 10, 2021, is still accepting submissions for posters and data blitz talks through November 15th.

To find out more about the preconference, visit http://ep2021.mystrikingly.com for submission information, speaker lineup, & more!

If you have any questions about the event, please contact organizers Michael Barlev (mlbarlev@gmail.com) Will McAuliffe (williamhbmcauliffe@gmail.com), and Jaimie Krems (jaimie.krems@okstate.edu).

HBES #LifeHistoryTheory Roundtable Seminar Series Event on November 17th

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HBES is thrilled to announce the second event in our new Roundtable Seminar Series. On November 17th 2020 at 12pm -1:15pm EST Drs. Marco Del Giudice, Keelah Williams, Daniel Nettle, and Rebecca Sear will engage in discussion, moderated by Dr. Willem Frankenhuis on the topic, “Life history theory as applied to inter-individual variation.” The topic corresponds with the upcoming special issue of Evolution and Human Behavior, which is also focused on Life History Theory as applied in the evolutionary sciences.

 

After a successful first event on the topic of WEIRD research in the evolutionary social sciences, we’re looking forward to engaging with our members on important discussions happening in the area of life history research as it applies to inter-individual variation.

 

As prior, the livestream of the event will be hosted on crowdcast and the password to register for the event will be emailed out to HBES members the week of the event. The recording of this event, and all prior events, will be made available on our YouTube channel shortly following the event.

 

If you have any questions about registering for this event, please contact the event coordinators at hbesroundtableseries@gmail.com.

 

We’re looking forward to seeing you soon!