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Confirmed speakers:
Joyce Benenson: Why Girls Socially Exclude and Boys Beat Each Other up: An Evolutionary Adaptive Explanation
David Bjorklund: You've Come a Long Way Baby: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
Pat Hawley: Transforming the Obvious: Evolution, Children's Aggression, and Re-evaluating the Mental Health Model
David Geary: Collision of Endrocrine Disruptors and Developmental Sex Differences: How the Chemical Byproducts of our Modern World May Differentially Affect Boys and Girls
Robert Lickliter: Biased Embryos: How prenatal experience shapes postnatal preferences and predispositions
Marco del Giudice: The Stress Response as a Mechanism of Adaptive Calibration: Implications for Developmental Theory, Empirical Research, and Intervention
Also:
Karin Frey
Martha Pott
Hongling Xie
Registration is now closed. Please email Pat Hawley.
Humans, like all other organisms, are part of the adaptive landscape. Most notable treatments of evolution and human behavior may give the impression that selective processes begin at the age of 18. At the same time, however, Developmental Psychology has long evolutionary roots (e.g., James Mark Baldwin, Piaget, Bowlby, Hinde).
The present pre-conference event aims to show that evolutionary approaches to childhood have come of age. Accordingly, such work-- like earlier approaches—stand to inform researchers and practitioners about ways to enhance their own programs that aim to improve the lives of children. Likewise, evolutionists stand to learn from those deeply entrenched in critical problems of the day.
For these reasons, we would like to invite all types of Developmentalists at all levels of inquiry to participate in this open exchange of ideas
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