What Will It Take For Psychology To Make Full Use Of Evolutionary Biology?

Evolutionary studies of human behavior have generated enormous interest in the past decade, but they have tended to be dramatic and controversial, with a strong emphasis on a few topics, especially sex differences and mating strategies. This lecture series will explore the wider range of contributions that evolutionary biology offers psychology, and what it will take to incorporate them into the field.

This lecture series was a component of the Fall Term Psychology Faculty Seminar and a Psychology Graduate Seminar (988).

Tomas Pyszczynski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Why do people need self-esteem? 
September 15th, Monday, 3:30 P.M., 6050 ISR
(Co-sponsored by RCGD)

Marlene Zuk, Deptartment of Biology, University of California, Riverside
Sexual Selections: What we can and can't learn about sex from animals
September 18th, Thursday, 2:30 P.M., 4448 East Hall

*David Bjorklund, Deptartment of Psychology, UNC-Chapel Hill
Deferred Imitation in Juvenile Human-Reared Great Apes: What can It Tell Us about Human Cognitive Evolution?
September 24th, Wednesday, 12 P.M., 4448 East Hall
*This is a Psychology Department Colloquium, not part of the EHAP series, but will be of interest*

Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa & Toshikazu Hasegawa, The University of Tokyo
Homicide in Japan: Age, resources, sexual jealousy and risk-taking
September 25th, Thursday, 2:30 P.M., 4448 East Hall

SPECIAL MINI-SYMPOSIUM ON STRESS AND EVOLUTION 
EVOLUTIONARY FUNCTIONS AND ONTOGENY OF THE STRESS RESPONSE
Listen Online Using Real Audio: [Part One] [Part Two]
Mark Flinn; Anthropology and Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri 
Robert Sapolsky; Department of Biology, Stanford University
How can research on stress be advanced by understanding the evolutionary functions and ontogeny of the HPA system? 
Discussants: Seema Bhatnagar, Terri Lee, Elizabeth Young, University of Michigan
October 9th, Thursday, 2:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Kellogg Auditorium, G005 School of Dentistry

Geoffrey Miller, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico
The mating mind: New evidence for ovulatory cycle effects on female preferences for male mental traits as 'good genes' indicators
Listen Online Using Real Audio: [Lecture] [Discussion]
October 23rd, Thursday, 2:30 P.M., 4448 East Hall

Gary Cziko, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign
Listen Online Using Real Audio: [Lecture] [Discussion]
Three lessons of biology for psychology: The adapted mind, within-organism selection, and perceptual control
November 13th, Thursday, 2:30 P.M., 4448 East Hall

Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University Japan
Culture and Education in Chimpanzees
December 4th, Thursday, 2:30 P.M., 4448 East Hall