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Pete.Hurd

Contact Info

Prof. Peter L Hurd
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T6G 2E9

Work homepage Peter L Hurd

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fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
math-1This user knows just enough math to make sense in educated company
This user pretends to be a member of the Association of Immoral Wikipedians but hasn't paid his dues. Nevertheless, he reminds you "Mores omnibus futuendi sunt".
This user drinks. Period.

Professional Interests

I have served as a referee for research grant proposals to the National Science Foundation (USA) and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (Canada), and refereed papers for the following scientific journals: Aggressive Behavior, Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biological Psychology, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Condor, Ethology, Evolutionary Ecology, Evolution and Human Behavior, Hormones & Behavior, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, Psychiatry Research, Psychoneuroendocrinology.

Maintainer

Despite some misgivings about the {{Maintained}} template, I've added my name to a few pages. I think its an idea worth exploring, and view my participation as an experiment. The pages are: Best response, Evolutionary stable strategy and Game theory. That my name appears as a maintainer does not mean that I necessarily endorse absolutely all the material that may be on those pages.

Contributions

I contribute mostly through WikiProject Game theory, and other topics related to my professional interests.

Some pages I've made substantial contributions to include:

edit count (If the edit counter is broken, then here's what you need to know: it's more than a few, but less than a lot. Quality beats quantity).

To Do

Pages that need fixing:

These things are lingering here in the hope that someone else will do them before I get around to it myself. More thoughts on what needs fixing are on the related Discussion pages.

  • adaptationism, Darwinian Fundamentalism, Gene-centered view of evolution - *grumble* the better of these just need knowledgeable editing, some need of a stiff broom...
  • aggression - a very poor article that keeps getting worse, contains group selectionist arguments, v. poor coverage of current biology & psychology.
  • Congenital adrenal hyperplasia should discuss effects on personalityand cognitive abilities, e.g.
    • Berenbaum & Reinisch (1997) Early androgen effects on aggression in children and adults with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Psychoneuroendocrinology 22:505-515.
    • Hines et al. (2003) Spatial abilities following prenatal androgen abnormality: targeting and mental rotations performance in individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Psychoneuroendocrinology 28:1010-1026.
and has no mention of sex role and sexual orientation effects of CAH in girls, it should (but words must be chosen cautiously, given the heavy pathology emphasis of the current CAH article). Research on the topic:
  • Dittmann et al. (1990) Psychoneuroendocrinology 15:401-420.
  • Dittmann et al. (1990) Psychoneuroendocrinology 15:421-434.
  • Zucker et al. (1996) Hormones and Behavior 30:300-318.
  • Iijima et al (2001) Sex differences in children's free drawings: A study on girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Horm. Behav. 40:99-104.
  • Hines et al. (2004). Journal of Sex Research 41:75-81.

Subcultural Affiliations, Countercultural & Political Allegiances

(thank you Vic Bondi, thank you Ian MacKaye, thank you Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn, thank you Mike Watt, D. Boon, George Hurley, thank you Hüskers; thank you Joey Shithead, Wimpy Roy and Gerry Useless; thank you Dick Lucas, thank you Steve Ignorant and Penny Rimbaud).
  • Music the most powerful mood altering substance I've ever experienced, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders are my therapists.
  • I'm in my second decade of the 'Jazz Snob' phase of the punk-rock recovery program:
Did you know that: of the 10 greatest albums in the history of vertebrate evolution 3 are by Miles Davis?
Rock on: Last Exit, Curlew, Lounge Lizards and Sex Mob.

Vices

(In alphabetical order, rather than severity of vice)

Arbitrary top-ten list

Most memorable live shows (chronological order)

  1. The Clash, Ottawa Civic Center 5/3/1984 --- The crowd rushed the stage during the encore, the band played on, hugely outnumbered by kids (one in a CRASS t-shirt! Intentional irony?) dancing on stage.
  2. Nomeansno (& many other bands), Montreal 1985 --- The "It Came From the Pit" show. Hitchhiked to Montreal the day before and slept on an anthill between shortstop & third base someplace downtown. The show was in a huge church basement. Rob Wright wore his priest get-up, smiled this beatific smile to all the kids as they came up and thanked him for letting them have a show in his church. Then he got up on stage... Bang! start - stop start BANG! STOP!
  3. Beefeater, Ottawa Sandy Hill CC. Fred crooning "Fred's song" to the six pack of chrome-domes in the pit. Priceless.
  4. Meat Puppets, Toronto RPM. Bruce stole a van and we drove to Toronto to see the band, Catherine's fake ID failed at the door, I hit Chris Kirkwood with a raw ear of corn, he used it as a pick. They were in fine form. On the drive back, in the middle of nowhere, we blew the motor out. Moral of the story: check the oil before a road trip, especially if the car is "borrowed".
  5. SWANS, Ottawa, One Step Beyond. loud, very Very VERY LOUD, and tight, very *very* tight.
  6. Bad Brains, Montreal, Aug 1989. On a trip to Montreal after the end of field season. Slept on Aiden Girt's livingroom floor. Indoor-outdoor carpeting if I recall correctly, but maybe I just remember it that way because I was covered in poison ivy. Had a hard time explaining the bottle of DEET in my pocket to the bouncer, I guess they don't call it "bug dope" round here. Seriously, you can't smoke up and play like that!... can you?!
  7. Fugazi, Ottawa, Glebe CC, Sept 1989. Fugazi in your broom closet, Intense.
  8. Jonas Hellborg, Stockholm Sweden Fasching. Dr Death invited himself up for a visit and stayed in our batchelor apartment, we took him out to see real music, he whined about how silly live music was compared to raves, half the women there hit on him, we could not figure out why. Hellborg played great (Shawn Lane played great too, but it would have been nice if someone switched his mike off...)
  9. The Jesus Lizard, Portland OR, Satyricon 1998. I thought I had seen it all! Indiscribable, unbelievable! A riot with soundtrack. From the first chord of the set David Yow was off surfing the crowd, mic cord trailing behind. From somewhere in the second song he was buck naked save for a pair of cowboy boots. The pressing question was not "How did the jeans come off while the boots stayed on?" but "How can this band play so f***in' tight". The whole drive home, we just kept muttering back and forth "Do you believe that!...".
  10. Sex Mob, Austin TX Elephant room, SxSW. March 2000. If this is jazz, then I wasted my youth going to see punk shows!

Shuffle list

First ten songs from shuffle on Friday (rules as per Steinsky)

  1. Frank Zappa --- Gumbo variations
  2. John Coltrane --- India
  3. Minutemen --- Cut
  4. Minutemen --- Corona
  5. Minutemen --- Tourspiel
  6. Freddie Hubbard --- Mr. Clean
  7. John Scofield --- Chichon
  8. Wayne Horvitz & Zony Mash --- Brand spanking new
  9. Minutemen --- Party with me punker
  10. John Coltrane --- Equinox
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