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. Advanced personality course part1 and 2.

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Friday May 11 2012: The predictive power of childhood intelligence on subjective well-being in adulthood

• Presenter: Magda Chmiel
• refs to come

Friday March 2: Smart Groups: A g-factor for 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
• 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?

• Presenter: Stuart
• Topic: Does education raise g, or just IQ?
• ppt

Friday January 27: Endophenotypes for major depression

• Presenter: Ana Maria Fernandez
• Paper: Glahn et al High Dimensional Endophenotype Ranking in the Search for Major Depression Risk Genes Biological Psychiatry.
• Irv Gottesman adds this core reference!
  • Gottesman, II and Gould, T. D. (2003). The endophenotype concept in psychiatry: etymology and strategic intentions. Am J Psychiatry, 160. 636-645. doi]. link. ([PDF]

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)
• We hope that Iva and Allan might be persuaded to give talks :-)
• 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...

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