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• FMRI and cognitive function: (reliably) different regions for different people
• Personality and personality disorders
• Third Way in Differential Psychology

You just don't know yourself

When: March 5, 2010

What: Vazire. Who knows what about a person? The self–other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model. J Pers Soc Psychol (2010) vol. 98 (2) pp. 281-300 (| pdf)

Question: are self- and peer-ratings capturing different things?

Who: Mark & Alex

Moral fixation

When: March 12, 2010

What: Rozin, P., Haidt, J. and Fincher, K. (2009). Psychology. From oral to moral. <i>Science</i>, <b>323</b>, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1170492">1179-80</a>.

Who: Round-table discussion

Individual quality

When: March 19, 2010

What: Wilson and Nussey. What is individual quality? an evolutionary perspective. Trends Ecol Evol (2009) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.10.002">10.1016/j.tree.2009.10.002 | doi] (| pdf)

Who: Mark

Pass Go, collect $200

When: March 26, 2010

What: The role of genes in determining social status under different regimes of inequality and social mobility.

Adkins & Vaisey. 2009. Toward a Unified Stratification Theory: Structure, Genome, and Status Across Human Societies. Sociological Theory 27:2 100-121 (<a href="http://search.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/st/Jun09STFeature.pdf">pdf</a>)

Past Topics

• fMRI evidence for brain regions in social science? The case of the ex-salmon
  • Emotional life of an ex-Salmon
• Animal IQ
  • g - Just for humans or in all cognizant creatures? (General Ability in another primate)
  • Darwin's last laugh : Article : Nature
  • Can evolution explain how minds work?
• National Differences in Personality
  • Schmitt, D. P., et al. (2007). The geographic distribution of big five personality traits - Patterns and profiles of human self-description across 56 nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38, 173-212. pdf
  • Lynn, R. and Martin, T. (1995). National Differences for 37 Nations in Extroversion, Neuroticism, Psychoticism and Economic, Demographic and Other Correlates. Personality and Individual Differences, 19 403-406
• Animal Personality
  • Gosling, S. D. and John, O. P. (1999). Personality dimensions in nonhuman animals: A cross-species review. <i>Current Directions in Psychological Science. 8 | 69-75
  • Weiss, A., King, J. E. and Perkins, L. (2006). Personality and subjective well-being in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90,501-511

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