NEWS 2018

 

  1. • Paul Vasey spend much of November and December in Samoa collecting data on spatial and verbal cognition.


  1. • Francisco Gómez spent much of November and December in Juchitán, Mexico, collecting data for his doctoral dissertation.


  1. • Francisco Gómez gave an interview in Spanish for Radio Canadá Internacional, El rol evolutivo de los homosexuales que mejora la supervivencia de las familias.


  1. • A new article by Scott Semenyna and Paul L. Vasey entitled “Striving for prestige in Samoa: A comparison of men, women and fa’afafine” is now available online in the Journal of Homosexuality.


  1. •A new article by Jean-Baptiste Leca, Noelle Gunst, Keiko Shimizu, Michael A. Huffman, Yukio Takahata & Paul L. Vasey entitled “Hormonal contraceptive affects heterosexual but not homosexual behavior in free-ranging female Japanese macaques over 17 mating seasons” is now in print in the journal, Hormones and Behavior.


  1. •  Here is a University of Lethbridge news item about Scott Semenyna’s research activities: Globetrotting U of L researchers making a name for themselves.


  1. •Francisco Gómez spent much of the summer in Juchitán, Mexico, collecting data for his doctoral dissertation.


  1. • Paul Vasey & Lanna Petterson spent much of the summer in Samoa collecting data on men’s viewing time patterns of sexual stimuli.


  1. • Camille Cenni gave the following podium presentation:

Cenni, C., Wright, C.I., Gunst, N., Vasey, P.L. & Leca, J-B. (2018). Do male Balinese macaques use stones as sex toys to engage in tool-assisted mastrubation? Northeastern Evolutionary Primatologists Conference, August 2018, Buffalo, New York.


  1. • Scott Semenyna gave a podium presentation entitled “Changing the ‘gender fluid’: Unconventional conclusions from cross-cultural research into gender and sexual orientation” at the Heterodox Academy Psychology Workshop at Chapman University in Orange, California.


  1. • Doug VanderLaan and Paul Vasey organized a symposium on “Non Western Third-Genders” for the 2018 International Academy of Sex Research in Madrid, Spain.  Scott Semenyna presented a talk on our Samoan and Zapotec research during this symposium. The podium presentations included:

VanderLaan, D.P. & Coome, L.A. (2018). Third genders in Thailand: Gender development and sexual orientatation profiles.

Semenyna, S.W., Gómez, F.R. & Vasey P.L. (2018). We have to really bring our A-game: Women’s reports of inter-sexual mate competition in Samoa and the Zapotec Istmo region. 

Khorashad, B.S. (2018). Conceptualization and clinical context of transgenderism in Iran.

Stief, M. (2018). A non-self report measure of sexual interest applied to hijra, kothi, and panthi in Mumbai, India.


  1. • Scott Semenyna presented a poster at the International Academy of Sex Research in Madrid, Spain entitled: “Have you put on some (regression) weight? Replicating the relationships between Dark Triad traits and female mate-competition tactics in undergraduate women.”


  1. • A new article by Lanna Petterson, Barnaby Dixson, Anthony Little & Paul Vasey entitled, “Viewing time and self-report measures of sexual attraction in Samoan cisgender and transgender androphilic males,” is now available online at the Archives of Sexual Behavior website.


  1. • Paul Vasey & Lanna Petterson spent much of the summer at their fieldsite in Samoa to collect viewing time data on men.


  1. • Scott Semenyna & Lanna Petterson were identified by Playboy’s Debra Soh as two of the world’s leading young sexual orientation researchers.  Read all about it in her Playboy article, Meet the Sex Researchers Redefining Sexual Orientation.


  1. • Lanna Petterson was interviewed by Brain Buzz’s Drake Levere and Kyle Gooderham about our research in Samoa. To listen to the interview, click on the link: Male Sexual Orientation and Gynadromorphophilia (May 31, 2018).


  1. • Scott Semenyna was interviewed by Brain Buzz’s Drake Levere and Kyle Gooderham about our research in Samoa and among the Istmo Zapotec. To listen to the interview, click on the link: Mate Competition in Cultures Containing a Third Gender (May 18, 2018).


  1. • A new article by Lanna J. Petterson, Doug P. VanderLaan, Tonje J. Persson & Paul L. Vasey entitled “The relationship between indicators of depression and anxiety and sexual orientation in Canadian women,” was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.


  1. • A new article by Noëlle Gunst, Paul L. Vasey & Jean-Baptiste Leca entitled, “Deer mates: A quantitative study of heterospecific sexual behaviors performed by Japanese macaques towards sika deer,” was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.


  1. • Vasey lab’s 2018 retreat was at the Sip n’ Dip Lounge in Great Falls, Montana.  The tiki bar is famous for it’s mermaids and Piano Pat.  Here are some photos.


  1. • Paul Vasey gave a talk at Montana State University-Northern, Havre, entitled “Cross-cultural research on the evolutionary psychobiology of male androphila.”


  1. • Paul Vasey gave a talk in Victoria, British Columbia at the 2018 Moving Trans History Forward conference entitled “Ritual cross-dressing of boys during a Japanese festival.”


  1. •Paul Vasey gave a talk on March 15 as part of the University of Lethbridge’s It Take Two --Taking Gender, Sex and Sexuality into Account speakers series


  1. • Scott Semenyna was interviewed by Eric Dolan at PsycPost about research he is conducting in our lab on the personality traits of bisexual women.


  1. •A Society for Personality and Social Psychology blog entitled, “Gender and Sexuality in Two Non-Western Cultures,” discusses Paul Vasey’s cross-cultural field research in Samoa and Juchitán, Mexico.


  1. •Paul Vasey gave a keynote talk in Atlanta at the Sexuality Pre-conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology entitled “Intersexual Mate Competition in Two Non-Western Cultures.”


  1. •A new article by Francisco Gómez, Scott Semenyna, Lucas Court and Paul Vasey entitled “Familial patterning and prevalence of male androphilia among Istmo Zapotec men and muxes” is not available online at the PLoS ONE website.


  1. • A blog by Robert Martin, Beauty and the Beard, discussed work Barnaby Dixson and Paul Vasey conducted in Samoa on sexual selection and men’s beards.


  1. • During the month of February, Paul Vasey & Francisco Gómez travelled to their fieldsite in Juchitán, Mexico, to collect data.


  1. • A new article by Scott Semenyna, Charlene Belu, Paul Vasey & Lynn Honey entitled “Not straight and not straightforward: Sexual orientation, sociosexuality, and Dark Triad traits among women” is now in print in the journal, Evolutionary Psychological Science.


  1. • Paul Vasey travelled to Toronto to be interviewed by Patricia Marcocia for a documentary she is filming.


  1. • Paul Vasey gave a lecture on January 25, 2018 entitled “Beyond the Binary: What the West Can Learn from Non-Western Approaches to Gender Diversity” as part of the University of Lethbridge Public Professors Lecture series.


  1. • Scott Semenyna gave a fantastic interview on The Science of Sex Podcast about the research conducted in our lab.  Click on the Holiday Special Edition #2 (1/3/2018) link to hear Scott’s interview.