Centre for Longitudinal Research seminar: Evolution, stress, and sensitive periods: The Influence of unpredictability in early versus late childhood on sex and risky behavior

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Location: At Function Room 730-220, Building 730, Tāmaki Innovation Campus

Speaker: Professor Jeffry Simpson
Department: Centre for Longitudinal Research

Jeffry Simpson is a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. He is an internationally recognized leader in the study of close relationships and interpersonal processes.

According to a recent evolutionary life history model of social development (Ellis et al., 2009), growing up in harsh versus unpredictable environments should have unique effects on life history strategies and behavior in adulthood. Using data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (MLSRA),  Professor Simpson and colleagues tested how harshness and unpredictability experienced in early childhood (age 0-5) versus in later childhood (age 6-16) uniquely predicted sexual and risky behavior at age 23.

Please RSVP by Monday 12 June to:
Mandy Heathcote
Email: m.heathcote@auckland.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86612