the 11th PTNCE Conference

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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22 September (Monday)

12:00 - 15:00 Registration (Main Venue) 15:00 - 15:15 Opening Ceremony (Main Venue) 15:15 - 16:15 Plenary Lecture - Nancy L. Segal Evolutionary applications of twin and adoption research: Insights into social relatedness and affiliation 16:15 - 16:55 Session 1: Cooperation (chair: Konrad Talmont-Kamiński) • Signaler psychology: Cognitive processes underlying costly signaling in humans – Martin Lang • Simulating small group cooperation in silico – Konrad Talmont-Kamiński 17:00 - 19:00 Reception Party (Library at Kanonia 6/8 St.)

Evening suggestions (optional): Participants may wish to attend the Multimedia Fountain show at Centennial Hall. Details & schedule can be found here: https://halastulecia.pl/zwiedzanie/fontanna/#harmonogram The biggest show – 21:40 or Take part in PTNCE talent show hosted at Wrocław's smallest club Pieśniarze, starting from 20:00

23 September (Tuesday)

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture - Lisa Welling Hormones and human behavior: Evolutionary insights into the role of hormones in mate selection 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Session 2: Culture transmission (chair: Petr Tureček) • Cannibalism as a cultural trade-off – Michał Misiak, Petr Tureček • Task goals shape cultural attractors: An experimental study of 3d artifact evolution – Petr Chlup, Peter Kutsos, Petr Tureček • The shape of the cultural transmission of shapes – Peter Kutsos, Petr Tureček 11:30 - 12:30 Session 3: Disgust and Food Preferences (chair: Agnieszka Hamerlińska) • Exploring preschoolers‘ disgust via visual and tactile stimuli – Daniela Dlouhá, S. Craig Roberts, Hana Hubová, Jana Benešová, Kateřina Roberts, Šárka Kaňková • The development of disgust sensitivity in preschool children – Dagmar Schwambergová, Daniela Dlouhá, Marie Štěpánková, Jan Havlíček • Smell as a predictor of food selectivity and food preferences in children – Agnieszka Hamerlińska, Lidia Nawrocka, Beata Szukay, Sabina Schubert-Greń, Magdalena Maciejewska, Zuzanna Gadomska 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (next to Café Flora) 14:00 - 15:00 Plenary Lecture - Mark Thomas Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe 15:00 - 16:30 Speed Talk Session (chair: Cleve Hicks & Urszula Marcinkowska-Trimboli) • The price of conformity – monetary motivation elicits higher reliance on social cues – Pavlína Hillerová, Petr Tureček • Faces (on the internet) do not look all alike: Importance of the source of the stimuli – Vojtěch Fiala, Sławomir Wacewicz, Anna Szala, S. Adil Saribay, Juan David Leongómez, Patrycja Wilczewska, Mahzad Berenji, Petr Tureček, Karel Kleisner • Variations in facial metrics based on measurement techniques employed, exemplified with asymmetry and averageness – Urszula Marcinkowska, Obrochta W, Galbarczyk A, Jasienska G, Kleisner K, Klimek M, Windhager S. • Human olfaction and well-being – Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski, Oana David, Babes-Bolyai, Thomas Hummel • Childfree by choice: Gender differences in motivations, stigmatization, and life satisfaction – Anna Jurczak, Olga Krzyżanowska-Bodzoń, Urszula M. Marcinkowska, Aleksandra Szymków • Determinants of grandparental investment in university students – Urszula Kurysz, Monika Krzyżanowska, Elżbieta Cieplak • Association between women’s childhood socioeconomic status and selected indicators of body structure and composition in adulthood – Maja Pietras, Łukasz Piotr Pawelec, Monika Krzyżanowska, Anna Lipowicz • 20 thousand looks like 40: Critical moments in crowd size estimation – Petr Tureček • Bases, bodies, and cognition: Structural properties of body-based numeration systems – Olga Dudojć, Andrea Bender, Chiara Anceschi • Sex differences in nesting behavior of the Bugoma Central Forest Reserve Chimpanzees, Western Uganda – Thurston Cleveland Hicks, T. Romani, M. Konarzewski, M. Molak 16:30 - 18:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session (Kanonia 6/8 St.) 19:00-20:00 Guided Tour of Ostrów Tumski - the historic heart of Wrocław

24 September (Wednesday)

9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Lecture - Piotr Sorokowski Origins of art: Homo aestheticus in Papua and beyond – Piotr Sorokowski 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Session 4: Mating Strategy (chair: Aleksandra Szymków-Sudziarska) • Rivalry in disguise: The effect of self-presentation context on intrasexual competition scores – Oliwia Bakowska, Michal Stefanczyk • Sexual behavior as a mate retention strategy: Sex differences in response to mate value discrepancy – Natalia Frankowska, Aleksandra Szymków • From discrepancy to infidelity: How mate value discrepancy in romantic relationships shapes intimacy and sexual interactions with opposite-sex friends – Aleksandra Szymków, Natalia Frankowska 11:30 - 12:30 Session 5: Love and Sexuality (chair: Jan Havlíček) • Sexual arousal suppresses women's creative thinking – signaling trade-offs in the context of a potential partner – Katarzyna Galasińska, Aleksandra Szymków, Natalia Frankowska, Marco Antonio Correa Varella • Love as a fertility device: The adaptive function of love – Marta Kowal • Male body odour attractiveness but not the arousal state of the body odour influences sexual arousal in women – Jan Havlíček, Lucie Jelínková, Dagmar Schwambergová, Žaneta Pátková, Anna Frank 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (next to Café Flora) 14:00 - 15:00 Session 6: Perception & Aesthetics (chair: Łukasz Jach) (Main Venue) • Olfaction beyond WEIRD: Environment, daily-life practice, and olfactory abilities – Wiktoria Jędryczka, Piotr Sorokowski • Epistemic framing of aesthetic experience: Evolutionary and cognitive mechanisms behind the role of knowledge in art perception – Jerzy Luty • The beauties and the beasts: Do our aesthetic evaluations of animals depend on how many of them we see at once? – Łukasz Jach, Kajetan Nocoń 15:00 - 16:00 Session 7: Voice and Music Functions (chair: Piotr Podlipniak) • Does voice reflect a person's appearance? – Łukasz Pawelec, Karolina Kierczak, Anna Lipowicz, Jacek Szczurowski • The dark triad and humor in romantic relationships: Distinct roles of dark traits in relational process of humor – Marcin Moroń, Łukasz Jach, Ksenia Krotofil, Wiktor Łuniewski, Alicja Mazur, Emilia Rduch • The primordial adaptive function of music: Long-distance intraspecific defense signaling – Piotr Podlipniak 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 - 16:40 PTNCE Conference Announcement 2026 (Main Venue) 16:45 - 18:30 PTNCE General Assembly (only for PTNCE members) 20:00 - ......... Conference Dinner (Odra Centrum)

25 September (Thursday)

10:00 - 10:45 Professor Strzałko Award WInner's Lecture - Michał Stefańczyk The origins of sex differences in disgust sensitivity – evolutionary and social psychology approaches to the phenomenon 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 - 12:15 Session 8: Language and Evolution (chair: Monika Boruta) • What could our ancestors’ stories be about? Insights from hunter gatherers – Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta • Beyond vision and sound: The forgotten senses in multimodal communication – Aleksandra Ćwiek • The effects of training on gesture and adaptors in pre-schoolers – Monika Boruta, Klaudia Karkowska, Arkadiusz Gut, Jakub Janczura 12:15 - 13:15 Session 9: Evo Varia (chair: Jacek Wiewiorowski) • Adaptive significance of epidemic folktales as a protection of indigenous peoples against infectious diseases – Kiriakos Chatzipentidis, Piotr Sorokowski • Investigating the demographic drivers and the spread of cultural traditions in eastern chimpanzees of the Chinko Reserve, Central African Republic – Nora Bennamoun, Thurston Cleveland Hicks • ‘Darwinian’ aspects of the colour scheme in the insignia of the Notitia Dignitatum – Jacek Wiewiorowski 13:15 Closing Ceremony