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expires: 22 September 2010
What Evolutionary Psychology Can Teach Us About Human Behaviour in Financial Markets
A half-day event, “What Evolutionary Psychology Can Teach Us About Human Behaviour in Financial Markets”, will be held at the Linnean Society in London on 21st September 2010. This event will be hosted by the Financial Services Knowledge Transfer Network and will feature talks by Robin Dunbar (Oxford), Nigel Nicholson (London Business School), Nicholas Pound (Brunel) and Michael Price (Brunel), for an audience drawn from both academia and industry. For more information please visit link provided.
expires: 15 October 2010
McMaster University - Evolutionary Psychology Tenure-Track Position at the Assistant Professor Level
The Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University invites applications for a tenure track position in evolutionary psychology at the assistant professor level. The successful applicant will have a PhD in a relevant field, and a research program that uses contemporary evolutionary theory and knowledge to direct the study of human (and perhaps also non-human) psychology and behaviour. An appropriate research program will complement the department's strengths in animal behaviour, cognition, neuroscience, and development, and may entail any combination of laboratory and fieldwork; cognitive, genetic, neuroscientific, and endocrinological methods; and experimental, correlational and archival hypothesis testing.
DEADLINE: 15 October, 2010
Each applicant should send a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, and copies of three published contributions to:
- Dr. Martin Daly
- Chair, Evolutionary Psychology Search Committee
- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour
- McMaster University
- 1280 Main Street West
- Hamilton, Ontario
- Canada L8S 4K1
Applicants should also arrange to have three letters of reference sent to the same address. The appointment will commence on July 1, 2011. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
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Lecturer in Comparative Psychology
University of Portsmouth - Department of Psychology
Fixed term contract for 3 years
Applications are invited for a three year fixed term post in the Department of Psychology with particular expertise in Comparative Psychology.
For more details see http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABI759/lecturer-in-comparative-psychology/
expires: 01 January 2011
Papers for Evolutionary Psychology textbook
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I'm in the process of revising my Evolutionary Psychology text for the 4th edition, and would like it to be maximally current.
Hence, I would be most grateful if you could send me [via email or snail mail] any relevant papers of yours from published from 2007 - 2010, including those that are ‘in press’.
- Email: dbuss@psy.utexas.edu
- Snail mail: David M. Buss, Dept. of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 USA
Thanks much for this courtesy.
David
expires: 22 September 2010
3rd Biennial Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology
Keynote Lectures:
Susan Andersen
New York University, USA
The Relational Self: Advances in Research on Significant Others and Transference Processes
John T. Cacioppo
University of Chicago, USA
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection.
Daniel Cervone
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
From Metatheory to Theory: Specifying the Architecture of Personality
Klaus Fiedler
Ruprecht-Karls Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany
Mood and the Regulation of Cognition and Behavior: The Role of Assimilation and Accommodation
Hubert J.M. Hermans
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The dialogical self: Positioning and counter-positioning in a globalizing world
Jerzy Karyłowski
Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Thinking about people and thinking about traits
Małgorzata Kossowska
Jagiellonian University, Poland
Motivation towards closure and cognitive resources: An individual differences approach.
Paula Niedenthal
Université Blaise Pascal, France
The Simulation of Smiles (SIMS) Model : A Window to General Principles in Processing Facial Expression
Janusz Reykowski
Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Social identity can suppress personality... But under some conditions and to some extent.
Krystyna Skarżyńska
Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Interpersonal trust: the effect of personality or/and social experiences
Robin Vallacher
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Dynamical Social Psychology: Finding Order in the Flow of Human Experience.
expires: 01 January 2011
MSc in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology at St Andrews University
The main aim of this programme is to provide advanced research training in a range of intellectual and practical skills associated with evolutionary and comparative approaches to the study of mind. On completion, students should be equipped with the necessary skills to facilitate research at M.Phil or Ph.D. level.
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MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology at Durham University, UK
The Anthropology Department at Durham University is offering a number of bursaries (£2000 - U.K. students; £2500 - overseas students) to study for an MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology.
The Durham MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology:
- For students with an undergraduate degree in anthropology, psychology, biology or a related discipline.
- Offers an advanced investigation of evolutionary processes through the study of primates (human and non-human, living and fossil) including paleontology, social behavior, culture, and evolutionary psychology.
- Taught by an active, interdisciplinary research group involved in cutting-edge work on primate behaviour, morphology, cultural transmission, and evolution.
- Provides the theoretical background, subject-specific knowledge, and practical skills that provide a perfect foundation for PhD-level research in primate and human evolution and behaviour.
Why come to Durham?
- Durham is one of Britain’s top universities. The Anthropology Department is one of the largest in the world. It is also one of very few in the UK that includes both biological and socio-cultural anthropology and is notable for its efforts to integrate the two sub-disciplines.
- Research in Durham Anthropology is consistently ranked as internationally excellent. For example, in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, we ranked 2nd in the UK for volume of research rated as world-leading and internationally excellent.
- We deliver the highest quality teaching (Quality Assurance Agency, UK, 2004).
Visit:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/postgraduate (for MSc information)
and
http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/postgraduate/taught (for bursary information)
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Ethnographic Database Project
The Ethnographic Database Project (EDP) is a web-based interface for the standardisation of comparative ethnographic data. The EDP enables anthropologists to enter information about their field research using a set of standard codes developed for cross-cultural application; the codes relate to a society's organization, kinship and marriage practices, subsistence economy, and pattern of sexual division of labor. The EDP is in the form of a web-based questionnaire, which can be accessed from any computer connected to the internet.
The EDP aims to complement widely-used comparative ethnographic datasets such as the Ethnographic Atlas and the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample by: (i) obtaining data directly from anthropologists who conducted field research in the societies of interest, (ii) using standard codes developed for cross-cultural application for all societies, (iii) expanding the range of societies for which coded ethnographic data are available.
The first stage of the EDP includes societies speaking Indo-European languages, which are underrepresented in the existing ethnographic databases. We welcome contributions from researchers who have conducted fieldwork in societies speaking these languages.
Visit the EDP website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucsalfo/EDP to read more about this project, to view a sample version of the EDP, and to find out how to contribute. Please forward this link to anyone who may be interested in this project!
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