We are happy to announce that the preliminary conference programme is now available online.
We’re delighted to announce that Evolution and Human Behavior now offers Registered Reports. More details to follow! You can learn more about the Registered Report format at https://cos.io/rr/
Evolutionary and Social Psychology: Confrontation, Interaction and Integration
Dates: 28th of June (arrival and welcome dinner) – 1st of July 2018, a couple of days before the HBES conference in Amsterdam. There are many direct flights from Amsterdam to Alicante, the airport closest to Javea.
Organizing universities: University of Groningen and IDOCAL, University of Valencia
Number of participants: minimally 15, maximally 20
Scientific committee:
Douglas T. Kenrick, Arizona State University, USA
MartieHaselton, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Thomas Pollet, University of Newcastle, UK
José Maria Peiro,University of Valencia, Spain
Abraham P. Buunk, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Local organizer: Abraham P. Buunk, a.p.buunk@rug.nl
Robert Kurzban chose to step down from his position as President of HBES on April 26. He is also on leave as Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s journal, Evolution and Human Behavior. HBES members have received an email explaining these changes. Past-president Elizabeth Cashdan is Acting President until the meeting in Amsterdam and Debra Lieberman is Acting Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
Would extraterrestrial intelligence have language? If so, what can we say about the nature of such language prior to making contact, or before even knowing whether extraterrestrial intelligence exists? To explore these questions, chapter proposals are invited for an edited book titled Xenolinguistics: Toward a Science of Extraterrestrial Language. This book builds upon the forthcoming Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Cognition and Communication in the Universe (Oxford University Press, 2018), which is also edited by Douglas Vakoch. Proposals informed by the evolution of language are encouraged, as are proposals exploring the distinctive nature of language when compared with nonhuman communication systems.
Early registration for HBES 2018 in Amsterdam will end today at midnight Amsterdam time. A small percentage of people may experience technical difficulties when trying to pay with a credit card. Our suggestion is that you try a different card, emptying cookies in your browser or using a different browser. Also feel free to contact us at hbes2018@gmail.com.
The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health is announcing our 4th annual meeting this year in spectacular Park City, Utah, August 1-4, 2018. This interdisciplinary conference is an opportunity for psychologists, anthropologists, biologists, students, clinicians and public health professionals (and more) to share their research and advance the goals of the society: to use evolutionary insights to improve medical research and practice and to advance evolutionary biology.
The deadline for submission of manuscripts to be considered for the New Investigator and Postdoctoral Award is 1 April. You can find more information here.
Are you interested in developing novel approaches to understanding, predicting or changing behaviour?
Newcastle University is offering five, 4-year PhD studentships in the field of behaviour informatics. Behaviour informatics brings together the study of behaviour in all its guises, from economics to psychology and from behavioural ecology to animal welfare, with new methods from computational science and engineering to address challenging questions in human and/or animal behaviour.