| Day | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 (Monday, 14 April) | 14:00 - ... | Registration Opens | |
| Day 1 | 14:00 - 15:00 | Team Science pre-conference workshop | CCE001 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Introduction and Opening remarks | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Plenary: Russell Hill | ||
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Student, ECR, & first time attendees mixer | ||
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Welcome reception | ||
| Day 2 (Tuesday, 15 April) | 09:00 - 10:00 | Plenary: Petr Tureček (New Investigator) | CCE001 |
| Day 2 | 10:00 - 10:20 | Morning Break | |
| 10:20 - 11:50 | Risk and individual differences Talk 1: An inquiry into people's experience of financially desperate situations (Arnaud Wolff) Talk 2: ‘I need to eat today': A model of time discounting under a desperation threshold (Benoît de Courson, Chair) Talk 3: Linking weather to day-to-day food production activities: A “Going-Out Model” (Friederike Hillemann) Talk 4: Variations in human personality with resource availability: a meta-analytic review (Thomas Beuchot) Short talk 5: Introducing an evolutionary model to explain the origin of the Five Factor Model (Julian Hart) |
CCE001 | |
| 10:20 - 11:50 | Parenting and Child Development Talk 1: Impartiality in norm enforcement: children’s responses to social norm violations across relationship contexts (Francesca De Petrillo, Chair) Talk 2: The impact of maternal experience of gender roles on children’s socio-emotional development in Uganda: A qualitative study (Georgia Tuohy) Talk 3: Does the emotional valence of prior interactions with a demonstrator influence overimitation in children? (Rachel Harrison) Short talk 4: Parenting in Context: A Socio-Ecological Scale for Understanding Modern Parenting Problems (Julieta Baker) Short talk 5: Infant feeding practices in rural southern Poland (Joanna Żyrek) Short talk 6: Protecting Children: Is the Behavioral Immune System (BIS) Related to Overprotective Parenting? (Dawid Mikulski) |
CCE003 | |
| 11:50 - 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Plenary: Lynda Boothroyd | ||
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Short Break | ||
| 14:10 - 15:30 | Algorithms and AI Talk 1: Algorithm-augmented cumulative cultural evolution (Maria Pykälä) Talk 2: Evolution of Social-Cognitive Abilities in Large Language Models (Max van Duijn, Chair) Short talk 3: Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations (Thomas Eisenmann) Short talk 4: Foraging and Signaling in Digital Environments (Oliver Twardus) Short talk 5: How do chatbots engage evolved human capacities for intimacy building? (Robert Brooks) Short talk 6: Multi-level Selection of AI Behaviors (Qiankun Zhong) |
CCE001 | |
| 14:10 - 15:30 | Family Support and Childcare Talk 1: Grandparents raising grandchildren: Maternal grandmothers still go the extra mile (David Coall) Talk 2: Resource Competition within Families: How Spousal Care Influences Grandchild Care Provision (Mirkka Danielsbacka) Talk 3: Are allomothers important for child quality in the UK? Evidence from the COVID-19 lockdown (Emily Emmott, Chair) Short talk 4: How does social support from kin and friends mediate social integration following a forced migration? Insights from the Karelian WW2 evacuees (Axelle Delaunay) Short talk 5: Demography of grandmothering – a case study in Agta foragers (Abigail Page) |
CCE003 | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Afternoon Break | ||
| 15:50 - 17:10 | Life History Talk 1: Co-evolution of culture and demography: a forward-simulation approach applied to indigenous age-categories in the Gambia (Thomas Holding) Talk 2: Life History Strategies or Genetic Predispositions? Considering the Role of Genes in Environmental Effects (Venla Berg, Chair) Talk 3: Survival costs and benefits of reproduction (Peeter Hõrak) Short talk 4: Regional and Sex Disparities in Lifespan of 1750 - 1850 Historical Finland (Eni Bullaj) Short talk 5: Sons accelerate maternal ageing in pre-industrial humans (Lucas Invernizzi) |
CCE001 | |
| 15:50 - 17:10 | Accuracy and Bias in Facial Perception Talk 1: Political faces: Partisan stereotypes in mental images of Democrats and Republicans (Vittorio Merola, Chair) Talk 2: Do stereotypes and ambivalent sexism predict facial judgements? A study in a large multi-country sample (Ian Stephen) Short talk 3: When the Face Fits the Crime: Bias Against Facial Differences in Sentencing Decisions. (Franziska Hartung) Short talk 4: Who looks competent for what? Context-sensitivity in the predictors of competence judgments of faces (Victor Shiramizu) Short talk 5: Do social judgements made from facial photographs predict those made in-person? (Anthony Lee) Short talk 6: Are facial measures biomarkers of a risk of cardiometabolic diseases in postmenopausal women? (Weronika Obrochta) |
CCE003 | |
| 17:10 - 19:00 | Poster session | ||
| Day 3 (Wednesday, 16 April) | 09:00 - 10:00 | Plenary: Heidi Colleran | CCE001 |
| Day 3 | 10:00 - 10:20 | Morning Break | |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | Models of Thought and Social Judgment Talk 1: A model of minimal mindreading (Tadeg Quillien) Talk 2: A Context-Integrated Theory of Moral Regulation: Reputation Management through a Bayesian Updating Process (Amanda Rotella, Chair) Talk 3: Using signal detection theory (SDT) with generalized linear mixed models for more accurate veracity judgement analysis (Mircea Zloteanu) Talk 4: Looking again at Biological evolution to inform Cultural Evolutionary theory at Marr's (1992) algorithmic level (Monica Tamariz) Talk 5: Too good to be true: people use Bayesian processes to discount improbable performance in competence judgments (Marius Mercier) |
CCE001 | |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | Health Talk 1: The relationship between family size and child health: Evidence from five countries. (Paula Sheppard, Chair) Talk 2: Access to allocare, postnatal depression, and shifting fertility desires – exploring the long-term consequences of COVID-19 for reproduction in the UK (Sarah Myers) Talk 3: East or West, Where Does Morbidity Manifest? Spatial Patterns of Historical Death Causes in Finland (Mark Spa) Short talk 4: Income, Food Acquisition, and Electrical Appliances: Influences on Dietary Diversity and Child Growth in Rural Timor-Leste (Keeley McGee) Short talk 5: Social Determinants of Depression in the Tsimane Forager-Horticulturalists of Bolivia (Tanay Katiyar) Short talk 6: Cigarette smoke exposure as a potential risk factor for sleep problems in pregnant women (Aleksandra Ciochoń) Short talk 7: The Hidden Advantage of Psychiatric Disorders: The Evolutionary Paradox Revisited (Marco Balducci) |
CCE003 | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 - 13:40 | Group Living and Sociality Talk 1: Human prestige psychology creates hierarchical societies (Robin Watson) Short talk 2: The long shadow of dominance: continuity of power seeking from apes to modern humans (Drew Altschul, Chair) Short talk 3: Expectations, forward-thinking, and mentalizing shape ingroup favoritism (Gabriele Bellucci) |
CCE001 | |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | Publishing Workshop CUP | CCE003 | |
| 13:40 - 13:55 | Short Break | ||
| 13:55 - 15:15 | Change and Society Talk 1: Beyond Individual Choice: Exploring the Role of Social Learning in Gendered Subject Selection (Karen Golden) Talk 2: From the Gender Gap to the Gender Paradox in Pro-Environmental Engagement: Insights from Multilevel Analysis across 56,582 respondents from 63 Nations (Sylvie Borau, Chair) Short talk 3: Information about Immigrants’ Deservingness Reduces Misperceptions and Opposition to Immigration (Amine Sijilmassi) Short talk 4: Barriers in the Transition from School to Work: How Student Financial Adversity Predicts Deprioritising Jobs with the Best Long-term Career Progression (Julia Buzan) |
CCE001 | |
| 13:55 - 15:15 | Faces and Social Influence Talk 1: Facial expressivity predicts social popularity (Alisa Balabanova) Talk 2: Facial expressivity predicts richer social networks (Eithne Kavanagh) Talk 3: Do humans use universal prototypical facial expressions in everyday social interaction? (Bridget Waller, Chair) Short talk 4: Bringing evidence of systematic differences between the faces of social media influencers and the general population (Vojtech Fiala) Short talk 5: Comparing the effects of traits of facial attractiveness on attention (Joseph Ventress) |
CCE003 | |
| 15:15 - 15:40 | Afternoon Break | ||
| 15:40 - 17:00 | Methods and Theory Talk 1: Coevolution and causal inference using generalized dynamic phylogenetic models (Adrian Jaeggi, Chair) Talk 2: Modelling Deviations from Marriage Norms: Integrating Ethnography into Archaeogenetic Inferences of Prehistoric Kinship (Willem Church) Talk 3: Rethinking Homosexual Orientation: Beyond the “Darwinian Puzzle” Trope (Louis Bachaud) Talk 4: Two Universal Pathways in Demographic Transition (Kenji Itao) |
CCE001 | |
| 15:40 - 17:00 | Religion and Morality Talk 1: Analysing the Form and Function of Rituals Using Large Language Models: Fasting (Kristen Syme, Chair) Talk 2: Public but not self-evaluated religiosity is associated with prosociality and indirect reciprocity within ego-networks in four distinct cultures (Radim Chvaja) Talk 3: Belief Beyond Tradition: How Spirituality Spreads and Thrives in the Modern World (Nachita Rosun) Short talk 4: “My spirituality gives me the opportunity to serve others”. Spirituality as a pro-social activity that builds connectedness. (Ayesha Ali) Short talk 5: Sex, Drugs, and Genes: Illuminating the Moral Condemnation of Recreational Drugs (Annika Karinen) |
CCE003 | |
| 17:00 - 17:10 | Short Break | ||
| 17:10 - 18:10 | Panel on Stand up for Science and EHBEA2026 | CCE001 | |
| 18:30 - ... | Conference Social | ||
| Day 4 (Thursday, 17 April) | 09:00 - 10:00 | Plenary: Christine Caldwell | CCE001 |
| Day 4 | 10:00 - 10:20 | Morning Break | |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | Mate Preferences and Strategies Talk 1: Do women’s morphological traits predict reproductive outcomes? A systematic review (Linda H. Lidborg, Chair) Talk 2: Keen to be Seen to be Green: Can Mating Motivations lead to Increased Pro-Environmental Behaviour? (Daniel Farrelly) Talk 3: Personal ideal, cultural ideal and optimal attractiveness: Are these constructs for body size and shape the same or different? (Piers Cornelissen) Talk 4: Gender differences in mate preference: reanalysis of a cross-cultural dataset (Jinwen Xie) Short talk 5: The All-Pay Auction as a Tool to Measure Female Intrasexual Competition (Reuben Fakoya-Brooks) Short talk 6: Partner preference certainty in individualistic and collectivistic contexts (Chenruisi Xu) |
CCE001 | |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | Cooperation and Prosocial behaviour Talk 1: Exploring the interaction between reciprocity and kinship in a Sama marine foraging community (Julia Phelps) Talk 2: The Moral of the Story: Investigating the co-evolution of Storytelling and Human Cooperation by surveying moral attitudes to Indo-European Folktales and Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis (Emily Jeffries) Short talk 3: Honest signalling of intent underpins a moral mechanism that aligns individual interests with group cooperation (Gilbert Roberts) Short talk 4: Field-experiments on Pro-sociality and Observations of Hazardous Behaviour in a Volcanic Environment (Gillian Pepper, Chair) Short talk 5: Behavioural science of cooperation: A methodological hypothesis for social policy (John Lazarus) Short talk 6: Moral decision making declarations are influenced by an attractive audience's presence (Michal Stefanczyk) Short talk 7: The Paradox of Cultural Tightness: Low-cooperation individuals promote high-cooperation norms. (Grégoire Darcy) Short talk 8: The interplay between social norms and prosociality across adulthood and cultures (Saein Lee) |
CCE003 | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 - 13:50 | Punishment and Intentionality Talk 1: The restorative logic of punishment across non-industrial societies (Grégory Fiorio) Talk 2: Intensive kinship and societal 'complexity' predict distinct punishment types across 60 societies (Grégory Fiorio, Chair) Short talk 3: Detecting signs of intentionality in palaeolithic engravings: a probabilistic approach (Sally Street) |
CCE001 | |
| 13:00 - 13:50 | Genetics and Hormones Talk 1: Evolving oxytocin? Repeatability, heritability, and selection in peripheral oxytocin in the Tsimane of lowland Bolivia (Abigail Colby, Chair) Short talk 2: The influence of different stressors on the diurnal cortisol rhythms in a small-scale society (Dominik Jud) Short talk 3: Is premenstrual syndrome (PMS) a human universal? Impact of cycle phase and hormonal fluctuations on PMS symptoms in a small-scale society (Valerie Baettig) Short talk 4: Genetic polymorphism of apolipoprotein E and fertility in postreproductive women (Paula Bartecka) |
CCE003 | |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Short Break | ||
| 14:10 - 15:10 | Marriage Practices Talk 1: Why bride-kidnapping marriages persists in Kyrgyzstan: insights from social network and behavioural ecology (Ruth Mace) Talk 2: Competition for heritable wealth, not group selection, drives the evolution of monogamous marriage (Gabriel Šaffa) Talk 3: Residential mobility in Vanuatu: the role of male absence, market integration, and changing marriage practices (Eva Brandl, Chair) |
CCE001 | |
| 14:10 - 15:10 | Foraging and Subsistence Talk 1: The Impact of Subsistence Strategy on the Structure of Food Taboos (William Buckner) Talk 2: Decision making in a complex world: The impact of social context on human foraging behaviour (Marwa Kavelaars) Talk 3: Shared ecological expectations guide social foraging dynamics under natural conditions (Alexander Schakowski, Chair) |
CCE003 | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Afternoon Break | ||
| 15:30 - 16:40 | Gender Talk 1: The Sex/Gender Difference in Young Children's Play Across Cultures (Sunday Ukam, Chair) Talk 2: Gender biased transmission of physical intimate partner violence acceptance in South-Central Ethiopia (Sarah Myers) Talk 3: Socio-ecological Causes of Postpartum Sex Taboo (Prapti Gohil) Short talk 4: The social learning of gender roles: men report lower support for women’s empowerment when in front of other men (David Lawson) |
CCE001 | |
| 15:30 - 16:40 | Health, Well-being, and Society Talk 1: Perceptual body judgement tasks require ethnically appropriate stimuli (Martin Tovée, Chair) Short talk 2: In Sickness & In Health: men sound more attractive and formidable, but less healthy, when suffering from respiratory infections (James Rutter) Short talk 3: “I just want women to actually be seen as people and not reproductive cows”: Women's reproductive autonomy in the wake of Dobbs (Ssanyu Kayser) Short talk 4: Evolutionary neuroscience insights for public policy: Adapting to Modern Mismatches (Paul Goldsmith) Short talk 5: Cross-cultural infant sleep behaviour: Construction of the Views oN Infant Sleep (VNIS) Questionnaire (Sam Roberts) Short talk 6: Reconsidering the “reward center” as the neurobiological mediator of drug seeking and abuse. (Roger Sullivan) |
CCE003 | |
| 16:40 - 16:50 | Short Break | ||
| 16:50 - 17:50 | Conference Awards and AGM | CCE001 | |
| 18:30 - ... | Dinner at Biscuit Factory |
Conference Schedule EHBEA 2025 (titles only)
Conference Schedule
Day 1 (Monday, 14 April)
Day 2 (Tuesday, 15 April)
Day 3 (Wednesday, 16 April)
Day 4 (Thursday, 17 April)
Day 2 (Tuesday, 15 April)
Day 3 (Wednesday, 16 April)
Day 4 (Thursday, 17 April)