A5026869524- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Plant and animal studies
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
- German Literature and Culture Studies
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Media Influence and Health
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Language and cultural evolution
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Child and Animal Learning Development
University of New Mexico
2011-2024
Royal Marsden Hospital
2017
University of California, Davis
2014
Medical University of South Carolina
2012
Highland Community College - Illinois
2010
Energy Center of Wisconsin
2010
UC San Diego Health System
2010
University of California, San Diego
2010
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2010
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
2010
Conspicuous displays of consumption and benevolence might serve as "costly signals" desirable mate qualities.If so, they should vary strategically with manipulations mating-related motives.The authors examined this possibility in 4 experiments.Inducing mating goals men increased their willingness to spend on conspicuous luxuries but not basic necessities.In women, boosted public-but private-helping.Although motivation did generally inspire helping men, it induce more helpfulness contexts...
By 2025, when most of today's psychology undergraduates will be in their mid-30s, more than 5 billion people on our planet using ultra-broadband, sensor-rich smartphones far beyond the abilities iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries. Although were not designed for psychological research, they can collect vast amounts ecologically valid data, easily quickly, from large global samples. If participants download right "psych apps," record where are, what are doing, see hear run interactive...
Genetic influences on personality differences are ubiquitous, but their nature is not well understood. A theoretical framework might help, and can be provided by evolutionary genetics. We assess three genetic mechanisms that could explain variance in differences: selective neutrality, mutation‐selection balance, balancing selection. Based theory empirical results from behaviour genetics psychology, we conclude neutrality largely irrelevant, balance seems best at explaining intelligence,...
In their 1984 article, Priest and Klein show that a simple divergent expectations model of the decision to litigate leads plaintiff success rate at trial approaches 50 percent as fraction cases going zero. However, an extensive empirical literature has documented plaintiffs win far fewer than half cases. As observe, this conflict between predictions may be attributable violations in data assumptions behind model. Based on from 3,529 cases, we find "multimodal" case characteristics associated...
Science is among humanity’s greatest achievements, yet scientific censorship rarely studied empirically. We explore the social, psychological, and institutional causes consequences of (defined as actions aimed at obstructing particular ideas from reaching an audience for reasons other than low quality). Popular narratives suggest that driven by authoritarian officials with dark motives, such dogmatism intolerance. Our analysis suggests often scientists, who are primarily motivated...
In the spring of 1993, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) “emerged” in southwestern United States, where a multiagency investigation led to rapid description this new clinical entity and its etiology. Analysis first 100 US cases identified showed that disease was distributed 21 states, had gone unrecognized since at least 1959, distinct spring-early summer seasonality. Of infected persons, 54% were male; 63% Caucasian, 35% Native American, 2% African American. The average age case-patients...
This study explores the adaptive functions and design features of self-and other-deprecating humor. Sixty-four female 32 male college students participated in a two-part study. In first part, we examined relationships among participant demographics, personality traits, preferences for producing different types Men report using more humor than women do, use decreases with age both sexes. second part study, each listened to tape recordings opposite-sex people who were described as having...
Individual differences in humor production ability are understudied, especially among experts. This is the first quantitative study of personality traits, ability, styles, and intelligence stand-up comedians. It analyzes data from 31 comedians 400 college students with regard to Big Five traits (NEO-FFI-R), Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), a task, verbal intelligence, and, for comedians, measure professional success. Comedians scored higher than on each four styles humor. Among openness,...
We identify points of conflict and consensus regarding (a) controversial empirical claims (b) normative preferences for how scholarship-and scholars-should be treated. In 2021, we conducted qualitative interviews (
According to most evolutionary psychologists, human psychological adaptations can be recognized by criteria such as high efficiency, complexity, modularity, low phenotypic variance, genotypic heritability, universality across cultures, and individuals. These are appropriate for that have been shaped through stabilizing selection survival utility. However, they often inappropriate sexual mate choice reliable signals of heritable fitness. If some evolved sexually selected fitness indicators...
Many traits in many species have evolved through sexual selection specifically to function as 'fitness indicators' that reveal good genes and health. Sexually selected fitness indicators typically show (1) higher coefficients of phenotypic genetic variation than survival traits, (2) at least moderate heritabilities (3) positive correlations with aspects an animal's general condition, including body size, symmetry, parasite resistance, longevity freedom from deleterious mutations. These...