Meetings
Where and When: 4 pm on Fridays throughout the year: Room S38, 7 George Square, EH8 9JZ. We go to the pub afterwards.
You can subscribe to our mailing list here.
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:
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- 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
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- 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
Dozens of previous talks for your edification
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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