Scheduled Meetings
Where and When: Every Friday from 2-3 pm in room S38, 7 George Square.
This Journal Club is linked to the MSc. In individual Differences – especially the Advanced personality course part1 and 2.
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Friday May 18: Cooperation
- Presenter: Tim Bates
- Topic Page cooperation
- Papers: Jensen, K. (2010). Punishment and spite, the dark side of cooperation. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 365. 2635-2650. doi. link.
Friday May 11 2012: The predictive power of childhood intelligence on subjective well-being in adulthood
- Presenter: Magda Chmiel
- Papers Chmiel M, Brunner M, Martin R & Schalke D (2012). Revisiting the Structure of Subjective Well-Being in Middle-Aged Adults link pdf
Friday May 4 2012: Achievement independent of attainment
- Presenter: Mark Adams
- Paper: Haworth CMA, Asbury K, Dale PS, Plomin R (2011) Added Value Measures in Education Show Genetic as Well as Environmental Influence. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16006. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016006
Friday April 27: External event: Edinburgh Alliance for Complex Trait Genetics
- Location: Prestonfield Room, John Macintyre Conference Centre, Pollock Halls
- Time: 9:00-17:00
- Program includes talks on cognitive aging, psychosis, health, and evolutionary genetics. Email Josephine Pemperton to register to attend.
Friday April 20: Affective Disorder and Intelligence: A study conducted by our colleagues here in Edinburgh
- Presenter Ana Maria Fernandez
- Topic Page
- Papers: C R Gale, G D Batty, A M McIntosh, D J Porteous, I J Deary and F Rasmussenref (3 April 2012) Is bipolar disorder more common in highly intelligent people? A cohort study of a million men. Molecular Psychiatry| doi:10.1038/mp.2012.26 url, pdf
Friday April 13: Third Component Causing Random Variability- of particular interest in Aging
- Presenter Ana Maria Fernandez
- Topic Page A third component causing random variability beside environment and genotype.
- Paper Klaus Gärtner. A third component causing random variability beside environment and genotype. A reason for the limited success of a 30 year long effort to standardize laboratory animals?, Int. J. Epidemiol. (2012) 41(2): 335-341 doi:10.1093/ije/dyr219**: Commentary, ref, pdf
Friday April 6: Good Friday
- Presenter Jesus
- Topic Page LoB
Friday March 30 th: Asking good questions in individual differences
- Presenter Tom Booth and Timothy Bates
- Topic Page Doing better research quicker and more cheaply
Friday March 23: Ideas underlying MSc projects
- Presenter: MSc stars
- Papers: Send your key paper to Tim
Friday March 16: Are Higher social class people unethical?
- Presenter: Sophie von Stumm
- Papers: Piffa, P. K., Stancatoa, D. M., Côtéb, S. p., Mendoza-Dentona, R., & Keltnera, D. (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. doi: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109 pdf
Friday March 9: Smart Groups: A distributed social intelligence
- Presenter: Tim Bates
- Papers: Woolley, A. W., Chabris, C. F., Pentland, A., Hashmi, N. and Malone, T. W. (2010). Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups. Science, 330. 686-688. doi. link.
Friday February 24: Personality and Type II Diabetes
- Presenter: Iva Cukic
- Topic: more to come…
Friday February 17: Who should you trust and help?
- Presenter: Tim Bates
- Papers: Feinberg, M., Willer, R. and Keltner, D. (2011). Flustered and faithful: Embarrassment as a signal of prosociality. J Pers Soc Psycholdoi. pubmed.
Friday February 10: Theory of Affect
- Presenter: Vanessa Wilson
- Topic: Themes for PhD proposal
Friday February 3: What is education good for?
Friday January 27: Endophenotypes for major depression
- Presenter: Ana Maria Fernandez
- PowerPoint Presentation [| pptx]
- Paper: Glahn et al High Dimensional Endophenotype Ranking in the Search for Major Depression Risk Genes Biological Psychiatry.
- Irv Gottesman adds this core reference!
Friday January 20: The structure of intelligence in Project Talent
- Presenter: Jason Major
Friday January 13: Personality Assessment in Snow Leopards
- Presenter: Marieke Gartner
- Gartner, M.C., Powell, D. (in press). Personality assessment in snow leopards. Zoo Biology.
Upcoming events for 2012 include:
- Sex differences in personality (Tom Booth)
- Personality and adding up snps (Lars)
- The biology of Religion: Genes and intelligence (Tim & Stuart)
- GxE intelligence: Causes and Questions (Sophie, Tim)
- All the material comes from participants… so mail suggestions to ku.ca.de|setab.mit#ku.ca.de|setab.mit
Topics and paper which have been suggested for future Events...
Books we might review
- Stanovich, K. E. (2004). The robot's rebellion : finding meaning in the age of Darwin. Chicago ; London, University of Chicago Press.
- Stanovich, P. J., Stanovich, K. E., RMC Research Corporation. and Partnership for Reading (Project). (2003). Using research and reason in education : how teachers can use scientifically based research to make curricular & instructional decisions. Washington, D.C.?, Partnership for Reading (Project), National Institute for Literacy National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- Stanovich, K. E. (2009). What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought. New Haven, Yale University Press.
Archive
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Other groups you might like
- Philosophy-Psychology Interest Group
- Cognitive Ageing Journal Club
- Edinburgh Alliance for Complex Trait Genetics
Other relevant sites: helpr; statmethods
Admin stuff
We're moving to a goggle group, but in the mean time you should still subscribe to the old mailing list: send email to majordomo@lists.ed.ac.uk with "subscribe differential-club" in the body.
Oh yeah… we've got a facebook group
Our club was inspired by McGue's sonnet to openness and reason at Minnesota :-).
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