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Prospective Students
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Here is some info for students wishing to work in the Voice Research Laboratory.
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4R03
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Psychology Neuroscience and Behaviour 4R03 – Special Topics in Animal Behaviour
Instructor: David R. Feinberg, PhD
- email: feinberg at mcmaster dot ca
- phone: 28664
- office: PC 407
TA's:
- Jillian O'Connor
- oconnojj at mcmaster dot ca
- Cara Tigue
- tiguecc at mcmaster dot ca
Office hours: By appointment only
Location: Burke Science Building (BSB) 238
Time: Mondays, 2:30PM-5:20PM
January 4, 2008- March 29, 2008
Course description and objectives: This term’s 4th year 4R03 seminar
course will focus on the adaptive design of mate preferences. In this
course we will discuss how evolutionary-based hypotheses explored in
non-human animal species have been used to generate hypotheses about
human mate preferences, and vice versa. We will examine theoretical
papers and research reports that integrate evolutionary psychology,
evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, psychology, and
anthropology, in order to gain a broad perspective on not only why
certain signals and cues to mate quality are preferred, but how
preferences can be highly dynamic in response to fluctuating
environments.
Registrants are expected to be familiar with the basic principals
underlying sexual selection. For the first half of the course, each
week we will discuss set of papers that explores a facet of mate
preferences among non-humans and humans alike. During the second half
of the course, students will present a grant proposal that proposes to
examine a novel hypothesis about one of the topics covered in the first
half of the course.
This course is designed to help develop effective, transferable
techniques among many facets of scientific research such as finding and
evaluating relevant literature on adaptive mate preferences,
identifying gaps in our current understanding of mate preferences,
developing new ways to fill these gaps, and formulating them in such a
way as to share them with a group of scientific peers.
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3YY3 - Evolution in Communication
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Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour 3YY3
Evolution Of Communication
Time: Mon, Wed, Thu 13:30-14:20
LS/B130E = Life Sciences Building, Lobby Level Room B130E
Instructor: David Feinberg
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TA's:
Diana Borak:
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Cara Tigue:
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Course website: http://www.voiceresearch.org/students/3YY3.html
Communication is a fundamental adaptation for individuals within and
between species to socially interact. Topics will include how and why
different animal species have evolved different communication systems,
honest and dishonest signaling, sexual signaling, deception, and a
special focus on the evolution of human speech and language.
The FX-991 calculator is permitted on the test in class on November 4, 2009.
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3F03 - Evolution and Human Behaviour
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Psychology 3F03
Evolution & Human Behaviour
Summer, 2010
Where & When: Mondays &Wednesdays - 18:30-21:30 - D.R. Feinberg - MDCL-1102
June 21 - August 6
Instructor David R. Feinberg (
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This course concerns the relevance of contemporary evolutionary theories and knowledge for understanding human psychology and behaviour, especially social behaviour. The subject matter is interdisciplinary: required readings and lectures will include recent research by anthropologists, biologists, economists, health scientists, and psychologists.
While developing an appreciation of the ways in which evolutionary thinking can inform the study of human psychology and behaviour, you will also gain experience in understanding and evaluating primary research reports. Ideally, you will thereby acquire a more critical grasp of the relationships among research methods, data, and interpretations, and this critical capability will assist you in evaluating research-based claims that you encounter elsewhere.
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