08:00-20:00 - Arrival at Palermo or Trapani airport
08:00-20:00 - Transfer to Erice via shuttle bus and conference check-in at Centro Majorana
19:00-22:00 - Conference welcome reception with food and drinks
Day 2, Thursday September 9, 2021
08:30-8:45 - Opening Remarks (Stefano Parmigiani)
08:45-9:00 - Introduction by Conference Organizers (Claudio Carere, Dario Maestripieri)
09:00-9:30 - Breakfast
Session I, Ecology and evolution of animal personality variation (Chair: Melanie Dammhahn)
09:30-10:15 - Niels Dingemanse (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany)
: Adaptive personality variation: evidence for studies of natural and sexual selection
10:15-11:00 - Melanie Dammhahn (Potsdam Universität, Potsdam, Germany)
: Ecological consequences of individual differences
11:00-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-12:15 - Daniele Canestrelli & Claudio Carere (Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy)
: Animal personality and biogeography
12:30-15:00 - Lunch break
15:00-15:45 - Sonja Koski (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
: Domesticated sociality: young horses’ social personality traits
15:45-16:30 - Alison M. Bell (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA)
: Personality in sticklebacks
16:30-17:00 - Coffee break
17:00-17:45 - Graziano Fiorito (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy)
: Temperament or Personalities? Individual differences in behavioral performances in cephalopods - a tale around octopus and their allies
17:45-18:30 - Short talk session 1 (Chair: Claudio Carere)
18:30 - Social time, drinks, & dinner
Day 3, Friday September 10, 2021
Session II, Mechanisms of Personality variation (Chair: Marco Del Giudice)
09:00-09:45 - Renee A. Duckworth (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
: Maternal stress, personality variation, and ecological Feedbacks
09:45-10:30 - Kees van Oers (Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, NL)
: The role of DNA methylation in explaining heritable and rearing variation in avian personality
10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
11:15-12:00 - Marco Del Giudice (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA)
: Mechanisms of personality: a hierarchical coordination model for human and animal research
12:00-15:00 - POSTER SESSION - Lunch break
15:00-15:45 - Dario Maestripieri (The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA)
: Are genetic influences on personality variation incompatible with the conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology?
15:45-16:30 - Brian Boutwell (University of Mississippi,USA)
: Human nature and individual differences: How variability illuminates theory and sharpens causal inference
16:30-17:00 - Coffee break
17:00-17:45 - Hermann Prossinger, Jakub Binter, Silvia Boschetti (Charles University, Prague)
: You actually find what you had been hoping to discover: Artificial intelligence has the tools that dispose of error-laden (traditional) statistical methods.
17:45-18:30 - Roundtable discussion (Chair: Sarah Hill)
18:30 - Social time, drinks, & dinner
Day 4, Saturday September 11, 2021
Session III, The Adaptiveness of Human Personality Variation (Chair: Debra Lieberman)
09:00-09:45 - Aaron Lukaszewski (California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA)
: An adaptationist framework for personality science
09:45-10:30 - Sarah E. Hill (Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, TX, USA)
: Early life stress, health, and individual differences: biological mediators of life history tradeoffs
10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00-11:45 - Debra Lieberman (University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA)
: Indices of social leverage predict individual differences in gratitude
12:00-15:00 - Lunch break
15:00-15:45 - Peter Jonason (Università di Padova, Padova, Italy)
: What is the Dark Triad and why should evolutionary psychologists care?