Meetings

Where and When: 4 pm on Fridays throughout the year: Room S38, 7 George Square, EH8 9JZ. We go to the pub afterwards.
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Otherwise email Natalie or Mia

We have a facebook group (not much used)

M.Sc. in Individual Differences students attend this club (as well to own MSc PG Seminar in personality and PG Seminar in intelligence.

Academic year 2018/19 Meetings a google doc for possible topics is here

Friday, February DAY: YOUR_SHORT_TITLE

• Presenter: [Alicia]
• Topic Page Conscientiousness
• Papers: Göllner, R., Damian, R. I., Rose, N., Spengler, M., Trautwein, U., Nagengast, B., & Roberts, B. W. (2017). Is doing your homework associated with becoming more conscientious? Journal of Research in Personality, 71, 1-12. doi.
• LINK_TO_YOUR_POWERPOINT ppt file

Friday, November 30: Who's family? Evidence for innate kin recognition mechanisms.

• Presenter: Dominic Sohotra-Fuge
• Topic Page Evolutionary Psychology
• Papers: Lieberman, D., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2007). The architecture of human kin detection. Nature, 445, 727-731. doi pdf.
• LINK_TO_YOUR_POWERPOINT ppt not yet available

Thursday, November 29 9-11: Morality as Cooperation

• Presenter: Oliver Curry
• Topic Page morality
• Papers: TBA
• LINK_TO_YOUR_POWERPOINT ppt TBA

Friday, November 23: ??

• Presenter: []
• Topic Page [[[]]]
• Papers: TBA
• LINK_TO_YOUR_POWERPOINT ppt TBA

Friday, November 16: Walter Mischel 2.0: Should/can we study Animal Personality?

• Pulp fiction & Arnold the pig
• Presenter: Rosalind Arden
• Topic Page animal personality
• Papers:
  • • Beekman, M. and Jordan, L.A. (2017). Invited Review: Does the field of animal personality provide any new insights for behavioral ecology? Behavioral Ecology 28, 617–623. doi:10.1093/beheco/arx022 pdf
    • Bell. A.M. (2018) There is no special sauce: a comment on Beekman and Jordan. Behavioral Ecology pdf
    • “It’s like déjà vu all over again”- Yogi Berra
• LINK_TO_YOUR_POWERPOINT ppt TBA

Friday, November 9th: Evolution of Vulnerability: How our mental and physical vulnerabilities are not failures of evolution, but rather result from selection to display behaviors that are vulnerable.

• Presenter: David Geary

Friday, October 26: Situational Strategies for Self-Control

• Presenter: Pankaj
• Topic Page conscientiousness
• Papers:Duckworth, A. L., Gendler, T. S., & Gross, J. J. (2016). Situational Strategies for Self-Control. Perspect Psychol Sci, 11, 35-55.
• https://www.dropbox.com/s/nlouv4pffna0ndg/Self%20control%20as%20situational%20strategies.pptx?dl=0 ppt

Friday, October 19: Do differences between schools matter?

• Presenter: Alicia Aranda Diaz
• Topic Page education
• Papers: Detterman
• LINK_TO_YOUR_POWERPOINT ppt TBA

Friday, October 12: Depression genetics redux

• Presenter: Tim Bates
• Jay Leno explains Psychopathy (28")
• ppt

Friday, Sept 21: Interests

• Presenter: Tim Bates
• Topic Page interests
• [ppt]

Dozens of previous talks for your edification

• 2017-2018, 2015-16, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010… Topic Archive Here

Suggestions for future topics

Other groups you might like

• EdinbR: The Edinburgh R User Group
• Social-Science Interest Group
• Cognitive Ageing Journal Club
• Edinburgh Alliance for Complex Trait Genetics
• Edinburgh Stats club
• helpr
• statmethods
• Causes and Consequences of Personality
• Advanced Personality.

Administration

Esteemed Alumni of the organizing club
2017: Theresa KÄMPFER or Sam Henry

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