Program


Our main speakers are

Christine Caldwell, University of Stirling, UK

The Cog in the Ratchet: Investigating the Cognitive Mechanisms Underpinning Human Cumulative Culture

Asmir Gračanin, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Inter-personal functions and intra-personal byproducts of emotional crying

Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Hungary

How t(w)o act together: Coordination mechanisms in human joint action

Annie Wertz, Max Planck Institute Berlin, Germany

Exploring the cognitive consequences of human-plant interactions in infancy

Workshops will be held by

Lisa deBruine on data visualisation

    you can find materials on this workshop here!

Iris Holzleitner on open science and pre-registration

      Iris has provided materials here!

Hermann Prossinger on data analyses and distributions

 

2019 ISHE Summer Institute Program

 

21. August

16:00-17:30 registration

17:30-18:00 Welcome and introductions

18:00-19:00 Plenary by Asmir Gracanin introduced by Irena Pavela Banai

19:30-22:00 Reception in the Glass Museum

optional meetup till late: Ledana Bar

 

22. August

9:00–10:00 Christine Caldwell introduced by Craig Roberts

10:00-10:20 coffee break

10:20-10:55 Oral session Ia – Chair Elisabeth Oberzaucher

Cultured Laterality: Foot Laterality Around the Globe and in Art Depictions

Pia M. Böhm

Reception and production of art as costly signalling

Viktorie Vítů

Which seat to take, which one to offer? Seat choice in mixed dyads –  a cross-cultural study

Susanne F. Schmehl

Does the faster runner take the pill? The effect of hormonal contraception on sports achievements

Marie-Helene Polt

Those Three Little Words: Stature, Face, Muscularity; Relation between ideal partner’s components (Love, Wealth, Attractiveness, Intelligence, Caring towards children) with ideal partner’s physical attractiveness features.

Lidia Ludwika Wojtycka

The influence of stressful situation on the effect of an implicit reputational cue – At least one thing what is stress good for

Tereza Šmejkalová

The Mental Health Crisis: How can Ethology help? Measuring Eye contact in depression

Colin Hendrie

 

10:55-11:35 Discussion Session Ia & refreshments

11:35-12:10 Oral session Ib – Chair Elisabeth Oberzaucher

Does current experience alter attachment security? Variation in current self-perceived mate value

Faize Eryaman

Blurred lines: alcohol, sociosexuality and ambiguous sexual scenarios

Edward Morrison

The influence of competition outcome on testosterone and face preferences in men and women

Lisa L. M. Welling

The effect of olfactory stimulation on affective valence of dreams and affective state upon waking: results of a pilot study

Lenka Martinec Nováková

The evolution of plant avoidance through social learning and error minimization

Linda S. Oña

Cultural differences in judgments of vocal attractiveness

Chengyang Han

Methods comparison in third party kin recognition; or how everyone finds a different answer to the same question.

Vanessa Fasolt

The role of shape and color in human aesthetic perception of real flowers and their photographs

Martin Hůla

 

12:10-12:50 Discussion Session Ib & refreshments

12:50-14:15 Lunch

14:15-14:50 Oral session IIa – Chair Iris Holzleitner

Hierarchy of attachment figures among adult twins and non-twins

Vinicius F David

Male facial formidability, attractiveness and its hormonal correlates

Jitka Fialová

Body cues of physical fitness affect perception of formidability

Vít Třebický

Sex differences in misperceptions of sexual interest can be explained by men projecting their own interest onto women.

Anthony J. Lee

No Ice Cream After Dinner: A Preference for Falsifying Consequents Alluding to Resource Loss

Ashton Babcock

Girls wear pink and boys wear blue: an evolutionary study of gender stereotypes in Brazil

Italo Ramon Rodrigues Menezes

Context-specific effects of facial dominance and trustworthiness on hypothetical leadership decisions

Hannah Ferguson

 

14:50-15:30 Discussion session IIa & refreshments

15:30-16:05 Oral session IIb – Chair Iris Holzleitner

Charlie Bucket effect: Two grandmothers decrease survival probability

Petr Tureček

Does women’s interpersonal anxiety track changes in steroid hormone levels?

Amanda C Hahn

Women’s predicted earlier pregnancy announcement to her blood versus affinal relatives

Melanie MacEacheron

Ethological analysis of the jealousy response in infants 10-20 months old following Tinbergen´s four questions

Ana Maria Fernandez

An Ethological Study of Camgirls: Plentiful, Sexually Available Virtual Women for Hire

Laura Johnsen

Inquiring about the type of group relationships that could have promoted the success of the first human groups

Cristina Acedo-Carmona

Jealousy-evoking economic game effect on related emotions

María Teresa Barbato

The Mental Health Crisis: How can Ethology help? PTSD and the false hand illusion

Colin Hendrie

 

16:05-16:45 Discussion session IIb & refreshments

16:45-18:45 Workshops A, B, and C

19:00-20:00 Walking tour through old town

Dinner on your own

optional meet up till late: Garden Lounge Bar

 

23. August

9:00–10:00 am Natalie Sebanz introduced by Elisabeth Oberzaucher

10:00-10:20 coffee break

10:20-10:55 Oral session IIIa – Chair Amanda Hahn

Frontal hemispheric asymmetries as neural correlates of Behavioral Immune System activation

Ivana Hromatko

The height preferences in romantic pairs for representatives of Indian Diaspora

Daria Dronova

Sensory impairment reduces altruism regardless of the recipient’s sensory status

Anna Oleszkiewicz

The Influence of Three Domains of Disgust on Attractiveness

Michał Stefańczyk

Tolerating free-riders as a signal of group strength in lions and humans

Juan Perote-Peña

CAN YOU TELL WHAT HE WANTS BY HIS COURTSHIP STYLE?

Kateřina Potyszová

Necessary dealbreakers and dealmakers in mate choice

Zsófia Csajbók

Using Observational Research in a Large Enrollment Undergraduate Course

Jessica S. Kruger

10:55-11:30 Discussion Session IIIa & refreshments

11:35-12:10 Oral session IIIb – Chair Amanda Hahn

Collaboration in Semi-Naturalistic Context: Twin Study of Tacit Coordination

Nancy L.  Segal

Differences in pathological jealousy between Brazilian men and women

Andrea Lorena Stravogiannis

The relationship between visual discomfort and scores on the Trypophobia Questionnaire as a function of trypophobic image phase and amplitude spectral profiles

R. Nathan Pipitone

Social Risks as Costly Trait Signals

Ruth E Sarafin

Are men with more reactive immune system perceived as attractive and healthy?

Žaneta Slámová

Shopping for High Heels – Do Singles and Women With a Higher BMI Buy Higher Heels?

Stephanie Josephine Eder

Sizing up the competition: individual moderators of men’s dominance perceptions

Thomas Richardson

12:10-12:50 Discussion Session IIIb & refreshments

12:50-14:15 Lunch

14:15-16:15 Symposium 1 & 2 & 3 in parallel

Mechanisms of cooperation and helping in industrial and small-scale-societies: meeting evolutionary social-cultural perspectives

Marina Butovskaya

Human Behaviour: Unexpected Turns and Methodological Challenges

Maryanne L. Fisher

Relational Approaches to Understanding Human Behavior

Daniel Redhead

16:15-16:45 coffee break

16:45-18:45 Symposium 4 & 5 in parallel

Romantic Relationships on Many Levels: Physiological, Personality, and Cultural Predictors of Love

Carol Weisfeld

Human olfaction

Caroline Allen

optional: Famous Beach Bar party till late – please sign up for the trip until August 22nd at the registration desk!

 

24. August

9:00–10:00 Annie Wertz introduced by Maryanne Fisher

10:00-10:20 coffee break

10:20-10:55 Oral session IVa – Chair John Richer

Even grandpas can do the job well: Positive effect of grandfather’s presence on offspring survival

Jan Havlíček

Proximity and touching: Observational research on mate guarding in humans

Kraig S. Shattuck

Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences: The Case of Evolutionary Sociology

Manfred Hammerl

Visible or not? Displays of emotional arousal

Lucie Krejčová

Food wasting moral judgments predicts reproductive success

Michał Misiak

The nature of the twin relationship in childhood as a function of varying genetic relatedness

Paula Coeli Araújo Short

10:55-11:35 Discussion Session IVa & refreshments

11:35-12:10 Oral session IVb – Chair John Richer

Reproductive effort as the best predictor of life satisfaction: Evidence from a Brazilian sample

Renata Pereira de Felipe

Why are cultures so divers? Findings from New Guinea

Wulf Schiefenhövel

The Role of Ritual in Creation of Strong Commitment: Example from Community with Shared Nonreligious Interest

Silvia Boschetti

Behavioural Cues that Lead to Food Sharing

Isaac Cormier

Self-reported Health is Related to Body Height and Waist Circumference in Rural Indigenous and Urbanized Latin-American Populations

Juan David Leongómez

Social and health gaming motivations lead to greater benefits of Pokémon GO use

Martyna Dziekan

Extending Ethology and Psychotherapy dialogue in Insecure Attachment: Contributions of the Polyvagal Theory

Michele Dufey

12:10-12:50 Discussion Session IVb & refreshments

12:50-14:15 Lunch

14:15-14:50 Oral session Va – Chair Benjamin Banai

He writes a lot, she gets to the point – sex differences in bathroom graffiti

Kathrin Masuch

Pathogen disgust sensitivity changes according to the perceived harshness of the environment

Carlota Batres

Politicians’ facial width-to-heigth ratio is not related to voting behavior: a real world study

Benjamin Banai

Relationship between anxiety-related personality traits and anxiety-related physiological responses

Dino Krupić

Watching People People Watch: Using Eye Tracking to Study the Perception of Social Interactions

Coltan Scrivner

Men’s Mating Orientation Does Not Moderate the Accuracy with Which They Assess Women’s Mating Orientation from Facial Photographs

Tara DeLecce

Combining Observational and Survey Methods to Investigate Loyalty in a University Rivalry

Daniel J Kruger

The effect of carotenoid-rich smoothie consumption on skin colour and perceived health of Asian faces

Tan Kok Wei

14:50-15:30 Discussion session Va & refreshments

15:30-15:55 Oral session Vb – Chair Benjamin Banai

An Operant-Model of Gustatory Discrimination for Sweetness in Marmoset Monkeys (Callithrix sp.).

Luiz Henrique Santana

Referee height influences decision making in British football leagues

Gayle Brewer

Is beauty attractive and trustworthy? It depends. A methodological investigation of rating studies.

Lisa Mira Hegelmaier

Enhancing pro-environmental behaviour using various visual stimuli

Romana Žihlavníková

Evidence for the good parent account of women’s preference for facial masculinity

Xue Lei

15:55-16:30 Discussion session Vb & refreshments

16:30-18:30 Workshops A, B, and C

20:00 till late Banquet at Hotel Kolovare

 

Important locations:

University of Zadar, Main Venue – Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV, 2 

lunch will be served at Restaurant Barbakan – Ul. Ruđera Boškovića 5

Student dorm – Ulica doktor Franje Tuđmana 24d 

Hotel Kolovare, Banquete place – Bože Peričića 14

Museum of Ancient Glass, Reception place – Poljana Zemaljskog odbora 1

Meeting point for the Zadar Walking Tour will be just in front of the University.  

 

Optional social activities:

Ledana bar (after the reception) – Perivoj kraljice Madijevke

Garden Lounge (after Zadar Walking tour) – Liburnska obala 6

Famous Bar

Tourist train ride – train will depart from Branimirova Obala, 23000, Zadar, Croatia, just next to the bridge. Please sign up for the trip by August 22nd at the registration desk!