Announcements
2024
2022
10/2022 — An empirical investigation of the roles of biological, relational, cognitive, and emotional factors in explaining sex differences in dyadic sexual desire — Article on ScienceDirect published in Biological Psychology by Dr. Juliana French, Dr. James McNulty, Dr. Anastasia Makhanova, Dr. Jon Maner, Dr. Lisa Eckel, Dr. Larissa Nikonova and Dr. Andrea Meltzer.
09/2022 — Value computation in humans — Article on ScienceDirect Published in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Daniel Sznycer
07/19/2022 — What really drives anti-abortion beliefs? Research suggests it’s a matter of sexual strategies — Article on The Conversation by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems and Dr. Martie Haselton.
07/2022 — Parents of children with higher-weight are viewed as responsible for child weight and thus stigmatized — Article accepted for publication in Psychological Science by Devanshi Patel, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Madison Stout, Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven and Misty A. W. Hawkins.
07/2022 — The implicit rules of combat reflect the evolved function of combat: An evolutionary-psychological analysis of fairness and honor in human aggression — Article on ScienceDirect published in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Aaron Sell, Dr. Daniel Sznycer, & Matt Meyers
04/2022 — Third-party Perceptions of Male and Female Status Cues: Male Physical Strength and Female Physical Attractiveness Cue High Status — Article accepted for publication in a special issue of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Laureon A. Merrie, Tori Short, Krystal Duarte, Nina Rodriguez, Dr. Juliana French, Dr. Daniel Sznycer and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
03/2022 — How anger works — Article on ScienceDirect published in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Daniel Sznycer, Dr. Aaron Sell and Alexandre Dumont.
2022 — Dr. Jaimie Krems in the New York Times (on friendship)
2021
06/18/2021 — Associations between Emotion Regulation and Adolescent Adjustment Difficulties: Moderating Effects of Parents and Peers — Article on Springer Link published in Journal of Child and Family Studies by Dr. Mike Criss, Dr. Lixian Cui, Dr. Erin Wood and Dr. Amanda Morris.
04/05/2021 — Parenting, Cortisol, and Risky Behaviors in Emerging Adulthood: Diverging Patterns for Males and Females — Article on Springer Link published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology by Dr. Erin Wood, Dr. Ray Garza, Dr. Shelia Kennison and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
01/25/2021 — An agent-based model of the female rivalry hypothesis for concealed ovulation in humans — Article on Nature Human Behaviour accepted for publication in Evolutionary Psychological Science by Ray Garza, Nikki Clauss and
Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
01/07/2021 — Do BMI and Sex Hormones Influence Visual Attention to Food Stimuli in Women? Tracking Eye Movements Across the Menstrual Cycle — Article on Springer Link accepted for publication in Evolutionary Psychological Science by Ray Garza, Nikki Clauss and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
01/02/2021 — Updating long-held assumptions about fat stigma: For women, body shape plays a critical role — Article on PsyArXiv Preprints accepted for publication in Social Psychological and Personality Science by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems and Dr. Steven Neuberg.
01/2022 — Sex differences in friendship preferences — Article on ScienceDirect in press in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Keelah Williams, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Jessica Ayers and Dr. Ashley Rankin.
2021 — Chronic adversity and experiences with racism as predictors of nervous system response: Diverging patterns of cortisol and alpha amylase — Published in Stress by Dr. Erin Wood, Dr. Mike Criss and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
2021 — The role of fathers on HPA-axis development and activity across the lifespan: A brief review — In press in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Keelah Williams, Laureon Merrie, Dr. Douglas Kenrick and Dr. Athena Aktipis
2021 — Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy — In press in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Keelah Williams, Laureon Merrie, Dr. Douglas Kenrick and Dr. Athena Aktipis
2021 — Accolades to Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems who was elected to the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES Member-at-Large).
2021 — Fundamental motives illuminate a broad range of individual and cultural variations in thought and behavior — Accepted in Current Directions in Psychological Science by Dr. Cory Cook, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems and Dr. Douglas Kenrick
2020
12/2020 — Adrenocortical attunement, reactivity, and potential genetic correlates among parent–daughter dyads from low-income families — Article on Wiley Online Library published in Developmental Psychobiology by Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven, et al.
11/28/2020 — Is there anything good about atheists? Exploring positive and negative stereotypes of the religious and nonreligious — Article on PsyArXiv Preprints accepted for publication in Social Psychological and Personality Science by Jordan W. Moon, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems and Dr. Adam Cohen
10/2020 — Why are song lyrics becoming simpler? A time series analysis of lyrical complexity in six decades of American popular music — Article on ResearchGate accepted for publication in PLOS ONE by Dr. Michael Varnum Dr. Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Igor Grossmann, Alexandra Wormley and Colin Morris
09/20/2020 — Effects of Women’s Short-Term Mating Orientation and Self-Perceived Attractiveness in Rating and Viewing Men’s Waist to Chest Ratios — Article on Springer SharedIt published in Archives of Sexual Behavior by Ray Garza and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
09/02/2020 — ASU Study Finds Jealousy Strengthens Friendships — A radio Interview with Dr. Krems on KJZZ (NPR)-Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems and Dr. Keelah Williams discuss their recent work on friendship jealousy!
08/25/2020 — Dr. Matt Motta Does Q&A with The Conversation about COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy-Current rates of vaccine hesitancy in the US could mean a long road to normalcy — Interview with The Conversation on YouTube. Matt Motta is a political scientist at Oklahoma State University. He studies the social and political determinants of anti-science attitudes, and investigating their policy impact. In this Q&A he answers questions about the current levels of vaccine hesitancy in the US and how that might affect the country's ability to achieve herd immunity after a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.
08/17/2020 — Dr. Matt Motta Chats with the BBC about the Virtual DNC.
07/26/2020 — Covid-19 conspiracy theories are being fed by institutions meant to inform the public — Dr. Matt Motta speaks to Vox about COVID-19 Misinformation.
07/13/2020 — The GOP’s Murderous Anti-Intellectualism — Article on Politics-Dr. Matt Motta's research covered in the New Republic. Coverage of "How Right-Leaning Media Coverage of COVID-19 Facilitated the Spread of Misinformation in the Early Stages of the Pandemic in the U.S." by Dr. Motta and colleagues.
06/22/2020 — A Common Snake Oil Reemerges for the Coronavirus — Dr. Matt Motta interviewed by The Atlantic on Alternative Medicine and COVID-19.
05/24/2020 — We Don’t Even Have a COVID-19 Vaccine, and Yet the Conspiracies Are Here — Dr. Matt Motta interviewed by The Atlantic on COVID-19 misinformation.
05/18/2020 — There Isn’t a COVID-19 Vaccine Yet. But Some Are Already Skeptical About It — Dr. Matt Motta interviewed by Time Magazine on COVID-19 Vaccine Skepticism.
05/2020 — Congratulations, graduates! — We're excited to announce that Dr. Jarrod Bock has accepted an position as an assistant professor of psychology at Towson University. Dr. Nikki Clauss has accepted a postdoctoral researcher position at the University of Texas Health Center.
05/2020 — First tests of Euclidean preference integration in friendship: Euclidean friend value and power of choice on the friend market — Article on ScienceDirect in press at in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems and Daniel Conroy-Beam
02/28/2020 — Effects of Breast Size, Intermammary Cleft Distance (Cleavage) and Ptosis on Perceived Attractiveness, Health, Fertility and Age: Do Life History, Self-Perceived Mate Value and Sexism Attitude Play a Role? — Article on Springer Link published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Human Physiology by Farid Pazhoohi, Ray Garza and Alan Kingstone.
2020 — Dr. Matt Motta on the font page of The New York Times!
2020 — Lay beliefs about gender and sexual behavior: First evidence for a pervasive, robust (but seemingly unfounded) stereotype — Accepted for publication in Psychological Science by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Ahra Ko, Jordan Moon and Dr. Michael Varnum.
2020 — Does Ecological Harshness Influence Men’s Perceptions of Women’s Breast Size, Ptosis, and Intermammary Distance? — Published in Evolutionary Psychological Sciences by Ray Garza, Farid Pazhoohi and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
2020 — Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party interference? — Published (online first) in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Keelah Williams, Athena Aktipis and Douglas Kenrick
2020 — Opposition to short-term mating predicts dislike of atheists — Accepted in Personality & Individual Differences by graduate student Jordan Moon, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems and Adam Cohen
2020 — New Awards! — Ashley M. Rankin won a Women's Faculty Council Award! ($1,000). Laureon A. Merrie won a Student Technology Award! ($8,600). Erin Harrington won the Robberson Dissertation Award! ($6,000). Congratulations, all!
2020 — The nuanced psychology of The Handmaid’s Tale: Commentary on power, feminism, and the patriarchy from four feminist evolutionary psychologists — Article on APA PsycNet published in Evolutionary Behavioral Science by Dr. Jessica Calvi, Ashley Rankin, Nikki Clauss and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
2019
12/03/2019 — Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation — Article on Sage Journals accepted for publication in Perspectives on Psychological Science by Ahra Ko, Cari Pick, Yul Kwon, Dr. Michael Barlev, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Michael Varnum and Dr. Douglas Kenrick.
11/20/2019 — Women’s Strategic Defenses Against Same-Sex Aggression: Evidence From Sartorial Behavior — Article on Sage Journals accepted for publication in Social Psychological and Personality Science by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Ashley M. Rankin and Stefanie Northover.
06/27/2019 — Sex Differences for Preferences of Shoulder to Hip Ratio in Men and Women: an Eye Tracking Study — Article on Springer Link published in Evolutionary Psychological Sciences by Farid Pazhoohi, Ray Garza, James F. Doyle, Antonio F. Macedo and Joana Arantes
04/29/2019 — Is Nothing Sacred? Religion, Sex, and Reproductive Strategies — Article on Sage Journals published in Current Directions in Psychology
by Jordan Moon, Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Dr. Adam Cohen and Dr. Douglas Kenrick.
04/2019 — Exposure to a sex-specific stressor mitigates sex differences in stress-induced eating — Article on ScienceDirect published in Physiology & Behavior by Nikki Clauss and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
03/2019 — Why are conversations limited to about four people? A theoretical exploration of the conversation size constraint — Article on ScienceDirect published in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems and Jason Wilkes
02/26/2019 — Fertility Status in Visual Processing of Men’s Attractiveness — Article on Springer Link published in Evolutionary Psychological Science by Ray Garza and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.
2019 — New accolade! — Dr. Krems named one of the Top 20 Psychologists Under 40. Published in Evolution and Human Behavior by Dr. Jaimie Arona Krems, Laureon A. Merrie, Tori Short, Krystal Duarte, Nina Rodriguez, Dr. Juliana French, Dr. Daniel Sznycer and Dr. Jennifer Byrd-Craven.