2012
2012 Meetings
Friday December 21: Is g an artefact of task complexity?
Question: Does anything in this study "cast into doubt tests that have been used to link cognitive ability to race, gender and class"?
- Presenter: Tim Bates
- References: Hampshire, A., Highfield, R. R., Parkin, B. L. and Owen, A. M. (2012). Fractionating Human Intelligence. Neuron, 76. 1225-1237. doi. PMID.
- press release page
- iq tests are fundamentally flawed
Friday December 14: Association between emotion processing deficits and body dysmorphic disorder traits in general population.
- Presenter: Anastasia Karagiannopoulou
- References: Buhlmann, U., McNally, R. J., Etcoff, N. L., Tuschen-Caffier, B., & Wilhelm, S. (2004). Emotion recognition deficits in body dysmorphic disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 38(2), 201-206. (pdf)
Friday December 7: ISIR talk trial runs
- Presenters: Stuart Ritchie, Dave Hill, Jason Major
- Topic Page: ISIR
- References ISIR 2012 webpage
Friday November 30th: Mechanisms of conscious and unconscious perception
- Presenter: David Carmel
- Topic Page: Unconscious perception
Friday November 23rd: Social class and unethical behaviour: follow-up
- Presenter: Marius Leckelt
- Topic: Piff et al. PNAS replication
- References: Piff, P. K., Stancato, D. M., Côté, S., Mendoza-Denton, R., & Keltner, D. (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(11), 4086-4091. pdf
Friday November 16th: Is modern IQ is decreasing due to mutation load?
- Presenter: Stuart Ritchie, Tim Bates
- References
- Crabtree, G.R. (2012). Our Fragile Intellect., Part I (pdf) Trends in Genetics.
- Crabtree, G.R. (2012). Our Fragile Intellect. Part II (pdf) Trends in Genetics.
Friday November 2nd: Facial width-to-height ratio predicts dominance and status in the Brown Capuchin Monkey
- Presenter: Carmen Lefevre, Vanessa Wilson, Timothy Bates
- Topic Page Facial Width height Ratio
Friday October 19th: Visit to The Living Links to Human Evolution Research Centre
- Presenter: Vanessa Wilson
- Topic Page: Living Links
- References
- Bowler et al. (2012) Assessing Public Engagement with Science in a University Primate Research Centre in a National Zoo
- MacDonald and Whiten (2011)The ‘Living Links to Human Evolution’ Research Centre in Edinburgh Zoo: a new endeavour in collaboration
- Leonardi et al (2009) Living together: behavior and welfare in single and mixed species groups of capuchin (Cebus apella) and squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)
Friday October 12th: Separating method factors and higher order traits of the Big Five
- Presenter: Jason Major
- Topic Page Higher Order Factors of Personality
- Papers: Chang L, Connelly BS & Geeza AA. (2012). Separating method factors and higher order traits of the Big Five: a meta-analytic multitrait-multimethod approach. J Pers Soc Psychol, 102(2). 408-26. PMID.
Friday October 05: Autistic Traits in Normal Population
- Presenter: Aja Louise Murray
- Topic Page Autism
- Papers: Lundstrom et al. (2012). Autism Spectrum Disorders and Autisticlike Traits - Similar Etiology in the Extreme End and the Normal Variation ARCH GEN PSYCHIATRY, 69(1). 46-52. pdf
Friday September 28:
- Presenter: All
- Topic Page Replication
Friday September 21: What is Optimism?
- Presenter: Caimei Liu
- Topic Page Optimism
- Papers: Carver, C. S., Scheier, M. F. and Segerstrom, S. C. (2010). Optimism. Clin Psychol Rev, 30. 879-889. doi. PMID.
- pptx
Friday September 14: Where Did Dominance Go in Humans?
- Presenter: Alex Weiss
- Topic Page Dominance
- Papers: Lilienfeld, S. O., Waldman, I. D., Landfield, K., Watts, A. L., Rubenzer, S. and Faschingbauer, T. R. (2012). Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103. 489-505. PDF, doi, pmid.
Friday August 31: Farewell and Goldsmiths celebration for Sophie
- Venue: The Greenmantle @ 6pm
Friday June 1: What should student's learn?
- What are the most important topics for us to teach in personality, and what are the most important papers: Bring your top-10 lists.
- Presenters: All
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. file
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 third 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
- Topic Page
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.
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