Topics and Candidate Papers

Proposed Topics

• Achievement Gaps, Reasoning and motivation
• Altruism
• Can and how to human's reason about Probabilities?
• Cat Personality
• Detecting or estimating the IQ of Other people...
• Differences in Stress Susceptibility and Resilience
• Evolution of Personality Domains
• Evolution of Schizophrenia
• Happiness and Eudaimonia
• Impact of an Ageing workforce: What can and can't older people do (as well as younger people)?
• Influences on Child Bearing Decisions
• Influences on Childhood IQ
• Motivation
• RT: What is it?
• The Effects and Mechanisms of Stress
• What is the best Measure of intelligence?

Papers that have been mentioned, which you might present on

• Maccoby. J (2000) Parenting and its Effects on Children: On Reading and Misreading Behavior Genetics. Annual Review of Psychology, 51: 1-27 doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.51.1.1
• Choi, Y. Y., et al. (2008). Multiple Bases of Human Intelligence Revealed by Cortical Thickness and Neural Activation. Journal of Neuroscience,28 10323-10329

Useful Reference Sites

• | Nature Reviews Genetics: Fundamentals