New Paltz's FREE, Large Database of Evolutionary Psychology Videos
Since 2008, Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) at New Paltz has hosted, recorded, and streamed a ton of important evolutionary psychology talks. Here they are. Curated and linked. Free.
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If you want a resource for many high-caliber free-and-streaming talks related to evolutionary psychology, look no further. This post includes links to a plethora of such talks—connected with the SUNY New Paltz Evolutionary Studies Series.
Since the SUNY New Paltz Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) seminar series began in 2008, we have maintained a free-to-access online database of all of our 100+ presentations, focusing on evolution related to a broad array of topics.
Our EvoS Series includes outstanding up-and-coming academics as well as many internationally renowned scholars in the field. Such speakers have included David Buss, Todd Shackelford, Sarah Hill, Jaime Cloud, David Schmitt, Randy Nesse, Robb Wolf, Niles Eldredge, Marlene Zuk, Richard Wrangham, Patricia Wright, Todd Disotell, and David Sloan Wilson—along with many more icons in the field.
Many EvoS speakers have addressed issues related to evolutionary psychology, focusing on how evolutionary processes deeply underlie the human condition and human behavior.
Our full list of EvoS talks (100+), which includes speakers from such diverse academic areas as anthropology, art, biology, geology, literary studies, sociology, and more—is linked here.
Evolutionary-Psychology-Relevant Talks in the SUNY New Paltz EvoS Database
A good proportion of the talks in our EvoS Seminar Series over the years have focused on behavior and/or psychology, broadly defined. Many of these talks should be of interest to those with interests in evolutionary psychology.
Below is a list of links to talks from our series—over the years—that bear, broadly, on issues of psychology and behavior. Note that while some of these talks are not directly related to evolutionary psychology (such as Niles Eldredge’s talk on Darwin’s life and work), I have included several that, to my mind, should be of interest to folks in the evolutionary behavioral sciences.
These talks address such diverse topics as women's health from an evolutionary perspective, why we yawn, sexual selection in human mating, positive evolutionary psychology, and more. Way more.
I hope that readers find it useful. We largely are creating this database in the name of embracing and advancing access to evolution education in the broadest sense.
The Evolutionary Psychology-Related Talks from the SUNY New Paltz EvoS Seminar Series
Spring 2022 Evolutionary Studies Seminar Series
♦ BODY IMAGE AND ATTRACTION: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ACROSS GENDERS AND SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS
David Frederick, Ph.D. | Chapman University
♦ IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE BRAIN AND THE BIRTH CONTROL PILL
Sara Hill, Ph.D.
♦ OUR GRANDMOTHERS’ LEGACY: CHALLENGES FACED BY FEMALE ANCESTORS LEAVE TRACES IN MODERN WOMEN’S SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS
Tania Reynolds, Ph.D. | University of New Mexico
♦ THE LANGUAGE OF HUMAN MATING: EFFECTS OF VOICE PITCH AND SPEECH ARTICULATION ON MATING-RELEVENT PERCEPTIONS
Sethu Karthikeyan, Ph.D. | PACE University
♦ MISMATCH: TRANSLATING CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY INTO AN AGGREGATION OF VARIOUS AESTHETIC MEDIUMS—ART AND ITS CONNECTION TO EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES
Brianna McQuade | State University of New York at New Paltz
♦ SEXUAL COERCION AND FORCED INPAIR COPULATION AS SPERM COMPETITION TACTICS IN HUMANS
Note: This talk includes some content related to sexual assault and violence.
Todd Shackelford, Ph.D. | Oakland University
Spring 2021 Evolutionary Studies Seminar Series
♦ SUNY New Paltz's 16th Annual Darwin Day Event: Diversity in the Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences--A Symposium of the SUNY New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology Lab
♦ Exercise and the Evolution of Human Healthspan and Lifespan
Dan Lieberman, Ph.D.
Harvard University
♦ When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
Note: This talk includes some content related to sexual assault and violence.
David Buss, Ph.D.
University of Texas
♦ Johnsen / Evolution and Sex Toys / EvoS Talk-20210315 2232-1
Laura Johnsen, Ph.D. Candidate
Binghamton University
♦ Andrea Varga / Threads of Humanity / EvoS Talk-20210322 2233-1
Andrea Varga, MFA
State University of New York at New Paltz
♦ Au Naturel Selection: The Evolutionary Logic That Underlies Perceptions of Facial and Bodily Attractiveness
Jaime Cloud, Ph.D.
Western Oregon University
♦ The Ancestor's Trail: A Journey Through Time
Olivia Jewell, M.A. & Trent Reid, B.A.
Alum of the State University of New York at New Paltz (Psychology and Geography)
Spring 2020 Evolutionary Studies Seminar Series
"Sweet Home Hudson Valley"
♦ Nature & Science in Nineteenth-Century American Art
SUNY New Paltz
Kerry Carso, Ph.D.
♦ Evolutionarily Informed Mental Health: A Darwinian Approach to Clinical Practice
Daniel J. Glass, Ph.D.; Alum of SUNY New Paltz
♦ Evolution Meets AI in the Bedroom: The Future of Sex
Marianne Brandon, Ph.D.
2019—Evolution and the Social World
♦ Darwin Day Extravaganza featuring renowned primatologist Natalia Reagan of Nat Geo’s StarTalk - “Going Ape: How Non-Human Primates Get it On!
Natalia Reagan, M.A.
♦ Solar Events and the Human Experience: Why the Sunlight in Wooster Hall Matters
Raj Pandya, M.S.
State University of New York at New Paltz
Joseph Diamond, Ph.D.
State University of New York at New Paltz
♦ The Hidden Logic of Bad Decisions: How Development Influences Our Neurochemistry and the Choices We Make
Michael Frederick, Ph.D.
University of Baltimore
♦ Let's Talk About Sex. Literally. How the Voice Can Inform Mating
Melanie Shoup-Knox, Ph.D.
James Madison University
♦ No Guts, No Glory: The Influence of Adolescent Risk-taking on Adolescent Popularity and Romantic Involvement
Cesar Rebellon, Ph.D.
University of New Hampshire
♦ The Evolved Classroom: Using Evolutionary Theory to Inform Education
Katie Gruskin
State University of New York at New Paltz
2018 - The Tree of Life: From Cosmic Origins to Today
♦ Are We Alone? What We Know About Life in the Universe
Amy Bartholomew
State University of New York at New Paltz
♦ Bone of Contention: How Vertebrates Got and Lost a Backbone
John H. Long, Jr., Ph.D.
Vassar College
♦ How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog: a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
Lee Dugatkin, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
♦ Smashing Agassiz's Boulder: Giving Shock to Nearly All Men
Joseph L. Graves, Jr., Ph.D.
North Carolina A&T State University & University of North Carolina at Greensboro
♦ The Advent of Positive Evolutionary Psychology
Glenn Geher, Ph.D.
State University of New York at New Paltz
NEEPS 2018 Keynote Address:
Doug Kenrick, Ph.D.
Arizona State University
NEEPS 2018 Keynote Address:
The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones
Martie Haselton, Ph.D.
UCLA
2017
♦ Evolutionary Medicine: A not so radical (but absolutely necessary) Paradigm for Modern Health and Behavior
Mandy Guitar, M.A.
Binghamton University
♦ Sex, Hormones, and the Evolution of Human BehaviorP
David Puts, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University
♦ Self-Care, Group-Care, Earth-Care
David Sloan Wilson, Ph.D.
Binghamton University
2016
♦ Signal Costs and Benefits of Aggression Displays
Thomas Nolen, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
♦ How Aggression has Shaped the Appearance of Primates
James Higham, Ph.D.
NYU
♦ Extravagant Weapons: The Story Behind Arms Races in Animals and People
Doug Emlen, Ph.D.
University of Montana
♦ Animal Hypnosis: The Role of Fear and Predation
Gordon Gallup, Ph.D.
SUNY Albany
♦ Evolution of Humans: Collaborative, Humane, Xenophobic, and Moralistically Violent
Paul M. Bingham, Ph.D. & Joanne Souza, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University
♦ Killers Among Us
Joshua Duntley, Ph.D.
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
♦ The Role of Resemblance in Families and Beyond
Rebecca Burch, Ph.D.
SUNY Oswego
♦ New Paltz's 10th Annual Darwin Day celebration - The Evolution and Art Interface—Featuring keynote address by Dr. Gabrielle Starr of NYU and talks by New Paltz's Glenn Geher, Andrew Higgins, Paul Kassel, and Andrea Varga.
♦ Songs and the Suburbs: What Birds Can Teach Us About Communication and Conservation
Kara Belinsky, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
2015
Patricia Wright, Ph.D.
Stony Brook University
♦ 311 Hotlines and the Maintenance of the Urban Commons: Examining the Intersection of Policy and the Evolved Human Animal
Dan O'Brien, Ph.D.
School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University; Boston Area Research Initiative, Harvard University
Department of Sociology
♦ Primate Evolution in the Modern Age
Todd Disotell, Ph.D.
New York University
♦ Facebook Frenemies and Selfie-Promotion: Intrasexual Competition in the Digital Age
Mandy Guitar, M.A.
Binghamton University Ph.D. student and Teaching Assistant
♦ Transcendental Medication: Defraying the Costs of Analysis Paralysis
Christopher Lynn, Ph.D.
The University of Alabama
♦ The Evolutionary Psychology of Breaking up and Making up
Joel Wade, Ph.D.
Bucknell University
♦ Paleoneurology and Human Brain Evolution
Ralph Holloway, Ph.D.
Columbia University
♦ Plants and People in the Intermountain High Desert: From Hunter-Gatherer to Sustainable Landscapes
William Varga
Utah Botanical center
♦ On how wrestling rhinoceros beetles, drinking LOVExCOLA and similar adventures, aka public and lifestyle experiments, may produce a bio-diverse, tasty and desirable future
Natalie Jeremijenko, Ph.D.
New York University
♦ From Ardipithecus to agriculture: The science of diet and human evolution
Ken Nystrom, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
♦ When one male is not enough: The diversity of primate mating systems
Andreas Koenig, Ph.D.
Stony Brook university
♦ Primate Sexual Behavior - Confirmations, Continuums and Cautions
Craig Bielert, Ph.D.
SUNY Oneonta
2013
♦ Sexual Selection and Runaway Consumerism
Geoffrey Miller, Ph.D.
University of New Mexico - Department of Psychology
♦ Neanderthal Evolution—Surfing the genomic wave: archaic hominin hybridization with modern humans
Todd Disotell, Ph.D.
New York University
David Rothenberg, Ph.D.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
♦ Two Men and a Baby: The Reproductive Success of Homosexual Males
Sarah Strout, Ph.D.
Dominican College
♦ Why do we yawn? Integrating neuroscience, physiology, and evolutionary theory
Andrew Gallup, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor at Bard College
♦ Evolved This Way: Evolutionary Approaches to Clinical Psychology
Daniel Glass, M.A.
University of Massachusetts Boston
2012
Introductory Keynote Address (Special EvoS Consortium Conference) by Gordon Gallup (SUNY Albany) –♦ ♦ Evolutionary Medicine – Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Studies in Action
♦ Evolutionary Studies in Higher Education: Into the Gray and Out Again (Rosemarie Sokol Chang [APA and SUNY New Paltz]; Jennifer Waldo [SUNY New Paltz]; Glenn Geher, [SUNY New Paltz])
♦ Building EvoS Programs is not Always Easy (Rebecca Burch [SUNY Oswego] & Kristina Spaulding [SUNY Albany])
♦ Evolutionary Studies from the Student Perspective (Rachael Carmen [SUNY New Paltz], Daniel Glass [UMASS Boston] and Amanda Guitar [SUNY New Paltz])
♦ The Natural Sciences, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences: An Evolutionary Biological Theory of Human Uniqueness Puts it all Together (Paul Bingham and Joanne Souza [Stony Brook University])
♦ Capstone Address (Special Conference on the EvoS Consoritium): EvoS, The Binghamton Neighborhood Project, and the Future of Evolution in Higher Education (David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University)
♦ Whining is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Rosemarie Sokol Chang, Ph.D.
SUNY New Paltz
Lee Dugatkin
University of Louisville
♦ Darwinian Medicine: Maybe There IS Something to this Evolution Thing
Robb Wolf, MS
♦ Men at Risk: Understanding Sex Differences in Human Mortality Rates with an Evolutionary Life History Framework
Dan Kruger, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
♦ Where Personality Meets the Page: Evolution and Adaptive Self-Expression in Alice Andrews’s Trine Erotic
David Michelson, PhD
Binghamton University
♦ Evolved to Cabaret: Expressing Human Behavioral Evolution Through Costume Design
Andrea Varga, MFA & Laura Johnsen, ABD
SUNY New Paltz
2011
♦ Sex Differences in Hero Creation: A Sociobiological Analysis of Children's Fantasy Literature
Victoria Ingalls, Ph.D.
Marist College
♦ Evolution and Women's Health
Chris Reiber, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Binghamton
♦ AEPS—Inaugural meeting of the Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society Part 1; Part 2; Part 3
featuring Nick Armenti, PhD, Nando Pelusi, PhD, Jon Raskin, PhD, and Jerome Wakefield, PhD
♦ The Demise of the Dinosaurs: A Biotic Crisis or a Biotic Revenge?
Gordon Gallup, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Albany
♦ SEEKING and PLAYING: Affective Infrastructures and the Evolutionary Function of Sport Leslie Heywood, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Binghamton
♦ How Natural Selection Produced Humans- How Humans Produce Knowledge
Paul Bingham, PhD and Joanne Souza, MA
♦ From Singles to Swingers: Biopsychosocial Views on Contemporary Human Sexual Behavior
Justin Garcia, Ph.D.
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
Indiana University
2010
♦ Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life
Niles Eldredge, PhD
American Museum of Natural History Paleontology
♦ Mutualists, Pathogens, and the Evolution of Sex in Wild Garlic
Margaret Ronsheim, Ph.D.
Vassar College,
♦ Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: when Natural History and History Collide
Lee Alan Dugatkin, Ph.D.
University of Louisville
♦ The International Evolutionary Studies Consortium and the Evolution Institute
A special session of the 4th Annual NEEPS conference
David Sloan Wilson, Ph.D.
Binghamton University
♦ Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham, Ph.D.
Harvard University
♦ Nurturing Nature: Epigenetics and the Transmission of Behavior Across Generations
Frances A. Champagne, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Darwin's 200th birthday was Feb. 12, 2009! Happy Birthday Charles!
♦ The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective,
Gordon Gallup, PhD
University at Albany
♦ Darwin’s Legacy in the Behavioral Sciences: Human Mating Research in the 21st Century (Darwin Day Speaker) Feb. 12, 2009
David Schmitt, PhD
Bradley University and Director of the International Sexuality Description Project
♦ The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origin of War
David Livingstone Smith, PhD
University of New England
♦ Intimacy, Infidelity, and the Individual
Justin Garcia, PhD
Binghamton University (now Director of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University)
Maryanne Fisher, PhD
St. Mary's University
2008
Lionel Tiger, PhD, Rutgers University; "What Would Darwin Say?"
Rebecca Burch, PhD, SUNY Oswego, How Seminal Fluid Has Evolved to Affect Female Psychology and Physiology
Anne Clark, PhD, Binghamton University, The Social Lives and Sometimes Hard Times of American Crows (Corvus Brachyrhynchos)
Susan Hughes, PhD, Albright College; Sex Differences in Romantic Kissing
Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, Yale University, A Tale of Two Minds: Implications for Intelligence, Reasoning, and Creativity
Bottom Line
Since 2008, the Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) program at SUNY New Paltz has been hosting, recording, and streaming high-caliber talks on all facets of evolution and how evolution bears on the broader experience of life. Included here are direct links to the talks from the series that bear most closely on issues of human psychology. Note that we have many more talks that we've hosted in this series over the years. The full list, with free, streaming links, is included here: https://www.newpaltz.edu/evos.
Evolution matters. A lot. It affects the entirety of life—including all facets of the human experience. I hope you find the free resources included herein helpful in understanding so much that we've learned within the field of evolutionary psychology over the years.
Here is to our shared future. Keep evolving.