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Evolution and Behaviour Programme day
To events overview| What | Lecture |
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| When |
09-12-2008 from 10:00 to 17:00 |
| Where | Utrecht |
| Address | Domplein 29 3512 JE Utrecht |
| Contact Name | Karin Snijders |
| Contact Email | E-Address |
| Contact Phone | 070-3440933 |
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Op dinsdag 9 december organiseert NWO de jaarlijkse programmadag van het onderzoeksprogramma Evolution & Behaviour. Aangezien het E&B programma op 17 en 18 september 2009 met het eindcongres ‘Human Evolution and Behaviour’ wordt afgesloten, is dit tegelijkertijd de laatste programmadag.
De keynote zal dit jaar verzorgd worden door Dr Margo Wilson en Dr Martin Daly van de McMaster University in Canada, met de titel: "Future discounting: risk-taking, inequality, and homicide". Daarnaast zullen verschillende onderzoekers uit het programma op deze dag een presentatie geven over hun project.
Preleminary Programme Day Evolution & Behaviour
Tuesday 9th of December 2008
10:00 Coffee
10.15 Opening by programme chairman Prof. Serge Daan
10:30 Keynote lecture by Dr Margo Wilson and Dr Martin Daly, Daly-Wilson Lab, Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Canada Title: "Future discounting: risk-taking, inequality, and homicide" People and other organisms “discount the future”, weighing imminent costs and benefits more heavily than temporally distant ones. Evolutionary theories of reproductive effort scheduling both explain why such discounting occurs and suggest testable hypotheses about variability in its magnitude.
We have tested some of these hypotheses experimentally, finding that discount rates can be altered in predictable ways by contextual variables. We have also studied reckless risk-taking in the real world by analyzing archival data, especially data on homicide, which we interpret as a manifestation of interpersonal competition. Disregard for the future is exacerbated when competitors have little to lose, when the future is uncertain or grim, and when resources are inequitably distributed. Together, these factors do a remarkably good job of accounting for variability in homicide rates.
12:00 Research project presentation by Andries Richter, MSc "The evolution of social norms for renewable resource exploitation”
12:35 Lunch
Chair Dr Kate Lessells
13:30 Research project presentation by Ineke van der Ham, MSc /Anna Oleksiak, MSc “The Evolution of Spatial Abstraction and Categorization”
14:05 Research project presentation by Nora Szabo, MSc / Dr Megan Dickens “Bi-parental care: the same game by different rules?”
14:40 Research project presentation by Prof. Wout Ultee “The evolution of activist images of god(s) and communality of rites”
15:15 Short break
15.30 Research project presentation by Karlijn Massar, MSc “Evaluation of rivals in jealousy evoking situations”
16:05 Research project presentation by Prof. Paul van Lange “Generosity and Forgiveness: Their Functional Value in a Noisy World”
16:40 Closing, followed by drinks