2021 PTNCE online (Białystok)

7th International Conference of the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies

14-17 September 2021

About

Conferences of the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies (PTNCE) are international meetings which bring together a wide range of scholars who use in their research the evolutionary framework. They come from highly diverse backgrounds, such as anthropology, archaeology, behavioural sciences, cognitive science, linguistics, psychology, and primatology. PTNCE conferences are well known for their friendly atmosphere and the high quality of discussions and scientific results presented by participants. This year for the first time PTNCE conference will be held online and we will do our best to transfer this quality to virtual space.

Join us online in September 2021.

Plenary speakers

David Buss
David Buss
a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Buss previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He is considered the world’s leading scientific expert on strategies of human mating and one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology.
His books include The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating; Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind; The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex; The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill; and Why Women Have Sex (with Cindy Meston).
His new book: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault (2021) uncovers the evolutionary roots of conflict between the sexes.
Buss has more than 300 scientific publications. In 2019, he was cited as one of the 50 most influential living psychologists in the world.
Ben Jones
Ben Jones
professor at the University of Strathclyde. His research investigates how people respond to social cues, particularly information that is visible in faces. Held a 5-year ERC Starting Grant to investigate the effects of exogenous hormones on women's perceptions, behaviours and appearance.
Marek Konarzewski
Marek Konarzewski
professor in the Institute of Biology at the University of Białystok. In 1991-1993 he was a scholarship holder at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he worked in Jared Diamond’s research team.
His scientific interests focus on issues combining the disciplines of evolutionary ecology, physiology and genetics of birds and mammals.
Cristine Legare
Cristine Legare
associate professor of psychology and the director of the Evolution, Variation, and Ontogeny of Learning Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin.
Her research examines how the human mind enables us to learn, create, and transmit culture. She conducts comparisons across age, culture, and species to address fundamental questions about cognitive and cultural evolution.
Plenary talks will also be given by the 2019 and 2020 winners of the Prof. Jan Strzałko Award for Outstanding Young Scientist:
Katarzyna Pisanski
Katarzyna Pisanski
a researcher at the University of Wrocław, Poland, and also affiliated with the University of Lyon in France.
Her research mainly focuses on the human voice. Employing a multi-disciplinary experimental and comparative framework, she studies a broad range of species and human cultures to better understand the origins and functions of vocal communication in animals, including the human animal.
She completed her PhD in Canada in 2014 and has since published over 70 papers including in top journals like Nature, Nature Communications, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and has garnered over 800K EUR in independent research funding.
She is passionate about open access to knowledge, for all, and thus takes an active role in the open access movement, public events and science festivals.
Jitka Fialová
Jitka Fialová
a human ethologist and behavioural scientist currently affiliated with the Faculty of Science, Charles University in the Czech Republic.
Her research interests include a wide range of topics mainly related to human olfaction and the social and environmental aspects of chemical communication in humans. Mostly works on environmental factors affecting body odour quality, such as the effect of diet on body odour and possible communication of emotions via body odour and its influence on other individuals.
Her work also includes the relationship between immune system effectiveness and attractiveness (both visual and olfactory), the role of olfaction in the mother-infant relationship and factors affecting the onset of lactation and the visual perception in both inter- and intra-sexual selection in humans.

Call for papers

We invite abstracts for paper and poster presentations at the 2021 Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies Conference. The 2021 conference will be completely on-line and will take place September 14th to 17th, 2021. It will cover the range of research looking at humans in the evolutionary perspective, including work within biological and cultural anthropology, psychology, linguistics, sociology and archeology. The plenary speakers at the conference will include David Buss, Cristine Legare, Marek Konarzewski and Benedict Jones.

Presentations

Accepted talks will be 20 minutes long, including question time, and will be grouped by the organisers into sessions on related topics. Posters will be uploaded as pdf files, with a session during the conference set aside for attendees to talk individually with the poster presenters.

Abstracts & Registration

Text of the abstract should be prepared and submitted according to the instructions on the conference webpage.

Calendar

Abstracts are due by August 31st, 2021.
Information regarding acceptance will be sent no later than September 6th, 2021.
Early registration fees are due by September 12th, 2021.
Conference held September 14th to 17th, 2021.

Conference program

Physiology (09:30-13:30)
09:30
Bogusław Pawłowski
The evolution of breasts in women - a novel hypothesis
10:00
Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz
Perceived facial age and biochemical indicators of glycaemia
10:30
Vojtěch Fiala
Africans and Europeans differ in their facial perception of dominance and sex-typicality: A multidimensional Bayesian approach
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Maximilian von Andrian-Werburg
A Hairy Tale of Testosterone: Development and Application of a Body Hair Scale for Indirect Testosterone Assessment
12:00
Vit Trebicky
Is it in the air? Congruence in attractiveness rating across perceptual modalities
12:30
Lunch break
Sexual behaviours (13:30-18:00)
13:30
Benedict Jones
How does women’s sexuality change over the menstrual cycle?
14:30
Coffee break
15:00
Peter Jonason
Competence increases romantic interest in 1.8M online daters from 24 nations: Sex differences and country-level effects
15:30
Marta Kowal
A large-scale study on improving one’s physical attractiveness: Data from more than 50 countries
16:00
Piotr Szymczak
Who cyberstalked their sexual and romantic partners? Sex differences, dark personality traits, and fundamental social motives
16:30
Coffee break
17:00
David Buss
When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
Communication (09:00-13:30)
09:00
Katarzyna Pisanski
Human nonverbal vocal communication: from form to function
10:00
Michael Pleyer
Language Evolution Research and Its Representation in Introductory Linguistics Textbooks
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Jitka Fialová
Perception of intra-individual variation in human body odour quality
12:00
Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska
Teaching methods and language development - the role of gesture in early linguistic communication
12:30
Lunch break
Covid (13:30-15:00)
13:30
Valentina Burkova
Cultural variations in anxiety during the first wave of in the COVID-19 pandemic: the data from 23 countries
14:00
Marina Butovskaya
Empathy during COVID-19’s First Wave: the data from 23 countries
14:30
Coffee break
Poster/networking (15:00-16:30)
Anna Apanasewicz-Grzegorczyk
Primiparas bear heavier children when they had more social support during pregnancy
Aleksandra Ciochoń
Birth classes and anxiety and depression among pregnant Polish women
Katarzyna Galasinska
Creative boost of fertility
Urszula M. Marcinkowska
Self-rated attractiveness predicts preferences for sexually dimorphic facial characteristics in a culturally diverse sample
Małgorzata Mucha
Male facial masculinity and serum bactericidal activity
Jagoda Nawrocka
Male facial attractiveness and carriage of latent pathogens
Aleksandra Tołopiło
Pathogen-Relevant Face Database with multiracial identities
General Assembly (17:00)
Humans & others (10:00-13:30)
10:00
Marek Konarzewski
The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness: Evolutionary Perspective
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Martyna Molak-Tomsia
The lessons on evolution dug up in a Siberian cave. The wider significance of the discovery of the Denisovan
12:00
Toni Romani
The impact of habitat, humans and other vertebrates on nest height and ground nesting behavior in eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of the Northern Democratic Republic of Congo
12:30
Lunch break
Culture (13:30-18:00)
13:30
Vladimír Bahna
Mind the trap of functionalism: How the fallacies of the ‘society as a (super)organism’ analogy spoil the evolutionary theorizing about culture
14:00
Petr Tureček
How subcultures emerge
14:30
Coffee break
15:00
Wiktoria Jędryczka
Cooperative values shape moral condemnation of abortion
15:30
Lidia Wojtycka
Individuals with sensory impairments are more conservative
16:00
Jacek Wiewiorowski
Darwin meets the Emperor? Constantine’s Legislation on Family in the Light of Evolutionary Psychology
16:30
Coffee break
17:00
Cristine Legare
The development and diversity of cumulative cultural learning

Registration

Instructions for abstract preparation

The abstract should contain the key elements of a research article, i.e., a clearly stated aim, information of the results obtained, and a discussion of their significance.

The required format consists of the following elements: Times New Roman font, size 12, single spacing.

The structure of the abstract is to be as follows:

  • article title,
  • list of authors (last and full first names),
  • affiliation – department, university, city, country, e-mail address of the first author,
  • empty line,
  • text of the abstract,
  • form of presentation (talk, poster).

A second, blinded version of the abstract. Same as above but without names of authors and affiliations.

Text of the abstract must not be longer than 300 words.

There is no limit to the number of abstracts that an individual may co-author; however, each person may be the first author of only one abstract. Every abstract must have a unique author (including e-mail address) registered for the meeting.

Both talks and posters are to be prepared and presented in English.

Please send the abstract file and the blinded abstract file through the form below. Accepted formats: .pdf / .docx / .doc.

The author of the abstract will receive notification via e-mail confirming acceptance of the abstract. If you are submitting an abstract and it is accepted for presentation, it will be published in the conference booklet.

Deadline for abstract submission is August 31st, 2021. All authors who receive confirmation of the acceptance of their presentations are obliged to pay their fees by September 7th, 2021.

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Conference fees

Early registration
(till 12.09)		Late registration
(after 12.09)
StatusPolish zlotyEuroPolish zlotyEuro
PTNCE member2706040090
PTNCE member student1353020045
Non-member40090540120
Non-member student2706034075

Payments to be made in PLN only, EUR estimates for information purposes only.

All authors who receive confirmation of the acceptance of their presentations are obliged to pay their fees by September 3rd, 2021.

Bank transfer

Account number / IBAN: PL 23 1160 2202 0000 0002 4179 4327
Recipient name: Uniwersytet w Białymstoku
Recipient address: ul. Świerkowa 20 B, 15-328 Białystok
Transfer name: "PTNCE 2021 conference fee for" + the participant's name.

Bank name: Bank Millennium S.A.
Bank address: ul. Stanisława Żaryna 2A, 02-593 Warszawa
Bank country: Poland
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