HBES 2012 – Update

Abstract submission is now open for the 24th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Note that the deadline is March 16th, so the window for submission is narrow. For those who have not submitted to HBES before, note that the submission process requires only an abstract (200 words or fewer), rather than a completed manuscript.

The keynote address will be given by Paul Bloom (Yale), author of How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like.

On the joint day between the Animal Behavior Society and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, there will be two featured speakers:

  • William Rice, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Universidad de Costa Rica

The Plenary Speakers have also been announced.

  • Clark Barrett, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles

Barrett does research on cognitive development both in U.S populations and among the Shuar of Ecuador. He currently coordinates the AHRC Culture and the Mind Project.

  • Laura Glynn, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California at Irvine

Glynn describes her interests as focusing on “biological and psychosocial effects during pregnancy and subsequent outcomes.”

  • Brian Hare, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University

Brian Hare is among the growing list of scholars who study animals whose names are also animals. He heads the Hominoid Psychology Research Group, investigating problem-solving abilities, including in dogs, one of which is pictured here.

  • Karen Kramer, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Karen Kramer describes the key question that animates her research as “how did there get to be so many of us?” She studies human population growth, drawing on data from extant traditional populations.

  • Karen Wynn, Department of Psychology, Yale University

Karen Wynn is the directly of the Infant Cognition Center. She studies, among other topics, the development of numerical competence in infants.

23. February 2012 by kurzbanepblog
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