Meetings
Where and When: 4 pm on Fridays throughout the year: Room G26, 7 George Square, EH8 9JZ. We used to go to the pub afterwards.
You can subscribe to our mailing list here.
Otherwise email Professor Timothy Bates
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 2023 completed and future list is this google doc
Academic year 2018/19 Meetings a google doc for possible topics is here
[!— Copy this blank example, and paste in to make new meeting and topic
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 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
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- Cognitive Ageing Journal Club
- Edinburgh Alliance for Complex Trait Genetics
- Edinburgh Stats club
- statmethods
Administration
Esteemed Alumni of the organizing club
2017: Theresa KÄMPFER or Sam Henry, Natalie Tew, and Mia Rohler
We have a facebook group (not much used)
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