Special issue of The Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology
on Applied Evolutionary Psychology
Deadline for Submission: December 15, 2011 (earlier submissions encouraged)
Guest Editors: Daniel J. Kruger (University of Michigan) & Nick Armenti
(University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey)
More information can be found on the JSEC page or by clicking here
NEEPS Fundraising Efforts Benefit NCSE
Monies raised from sales of the great NEEPS fish bumper stickers
have been donated to a great cause -
the National Center for Science Education -
a center of evolutionary study.
Nice job NEEPSters!
NEEPS 2011 - at Binghamton University
5th Annual Meeting
March 31 - April 3
March 31 will be the second annual meeting of the Feminist Evolutionary Psychology Society (FEPS).
Be there!
NEEPS 2010 Student-Presentation Awards:
Best POSTER Iris Holzleitner, University of Vienna, Austria
Best TALK Katherine Reding, Emory University, Georgia
The Awards Committee, headed by NEEPS 2010 program chair Maryanne Fisher, wanted me to make it very clear that there were lots of outstanding candidates for these awards. Congatulations Iris and Katherine!
Check out conference details and get a sneak peak at the top notch presentations and posters!
NEEPS Annual Kickball Tournament.
New Paltz, NY.
Thursday, March 25 at 7PM
In the words of President-Elect Rosemarie Sokol Chang:
“… Or will you be washing your hair that evening?
Be afraid. Be very afraid. And tell your friends and/or mom and 1 year old
son to be there.”
NEEPS ELECTION RESULTS*:
President- Rosemarie Sokol Chang
Vice President- Dan Kruger
Secretary- Sarah Strout
Treasurer- Robert O. Deaner
Membership Officer- Scott Barry
Kaufman
Communications Officer- Edward
Sturman
Members at Large: Alice Andrews, Rebecca Burch, Maryanne Fisher, Kilian Garvey, Gordon Gallup, and Steve Platek
Student Member- Ben Crosier
Congrats to all. New officers start their positions June 1, 2010 (as per the NEEPS by-laws)
*note that this list includes some executive appointments.
NEEPS 2009
The annual conference for NEEPS was held from the 9th to the 12th of July at SUNY, Oswego. Please see the Conference Web-Site for additional details.
Neepsters in the News
In a recent New York Times article, NEEPS Officer Robert Deaner reports on gender differences in high performance athletes.
NEEPS 2008 — Another Success!
Our second annual conference at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester was another success. For details on the event, please visit the NEEPS 2008 Conference Website.
The Natural Cook: What Diet Does to Make us Human
The 2008 William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture at the University of New England will be delivered by Dr. Richard Wrangham. The lecture, entitled “The Natural Cook: What Diet Does to Make us Human” will be held on April, 25 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Interactive Classroom, Parker Pavilion, Westbrook College Campus, University of New England, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine. The annual William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology.
Evolution for Everyone
David Sloan Wilson has created an on-line version of Evolution for Everyone which is now available for college credit. Please see the Evolution for Everyone (Biol 105) Website for more information.
Sex in the City: The Ambiguity of Female Mating Strategies
The New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology (aka: The NEI) hosted a talk by Southern New Hampshire University professor of psychology and NEEPS member Sarah L. Strout, Ph.D. entitled Sex in the City: The Ambiguity of Female Mating Strategies October 24th, 2007. This was the first lecture in the 2007-2008 NEI series. NEEPS members Kilian J. Garvey and David L. Smith are scheduled to present lectures later in the year.The New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology is an initiative by the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of New England (Biddeford, ME) to foster research and education into the interdisciplinary nexus of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology.
Steven Pinker will give the NEEPS keynote address the evening of Friday, May 2nd, 2008.
Plenary Speaker of 2nd Annual Conference
Peter Gray will be the plenary speaker at this year’s conference.
Special Sessions at Annual Conferences
Next year’s conference will begin our tradition of having a special topic session. The tentative 2008 Special Session is Clinical Applications of Evolutionary Psychology.
Our first conference at SUNY New Paltz was a huge success drawing 85 registered members from nearly 30 institutions … NEEPS is alive!For those who are interested, there is an online photo album from the first conference.
NEEPS is the first regional sister organization of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
We welcome all researchers and students of human behavior with an interest in applying evolutionary principles to the mind and behavior.
This society is designed to facilitate interactions among scholars who study psychological questions from an evolutionary perspective. Given this relatively broad charge, we welcome scholars from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, biology, literary studies, psychology, sociology) with a diversity of research and theoretical interests.
Our members are predominantly from the Northeastern part of the U.S. (PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, VT, NH, and ME) and from nearby states and provinces (e.g., Ontario, Nova Scotia, OH). If you’re interested in joining and coming to the NorthEast for our annual meeting, don’t let geography stand in the way! England, Georgia, and Michigan are, in fact, already represented!
View and post photos from our 2007 and 2008 conferences.
For those who are interested, you can visit NEEPS on Facebook.
