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
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!