Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory

How does ecology affect human culture? Find out in this
@us.theconversation.com Podcast featuring Michael Varnum shows.acast.com/60087127b968... via@acast

Congrats to KNBV alumni and rockstar evolutionary psychologist @jaimiekrems.bsky.social on winning an NSF Career Award!

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Lab alumni and rising star @alexandraworm.bsky.social recently graduated and is starting a postdoc with
Ethan Kross :)

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You can find the non-paywalled version here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Think the Earth is flat? Or that aliens experimented on your cow? Don't worry, KNBV has you covered! In a new #AmericanPsychologist piece Michael Barlev & Steve Neuberg explore the deep evolutionary logic behind why people hold irrational (at least to most) beliefs.
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Homo temporus: Seasonal Cycles as a Fundamental Source of Variation in Human Psychology - Ian Hohm, Alexandra S. Wormley, Mark Schaller, Michael E. W. Varnum, 2024 Many animal species exhibit seasonal changes in their physiology and behavior. Yet despite ample evidence that humans are also responsive to seasons, the impact...

Here's the paper which appeared recently in Perspectives on Psychological Science in case you want to take a deeper dive.

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BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Seasonality, learning to hope, and the gender citation gap Seasonal psychology, learning to hope, male psychologists forget their female colleagues.

How much do the seasons affect our minds and behaviors? It turns out humans, like many other animals are seasonal creatures. Listen to Michael Varnum talking with the BBC about his work on seasonal psychology with Ian Hohn, @alexandraworm.bsky.social, & Mark Schaller.

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Is it time to jettison the alpha male stereotype of leadership? - HBES – by Adi Wiezel & Doug Kenrick Women make up slightly over 50 percent of the U.S. population. Why then are only a quarter of U.S. Senators and a tenth of Fortune 500 CEOs women? Why have none of 45 Am...

Do people really prefer dominant male leaders? A series of studies led by @awiezel.bsky.social & Doug Kenrick suggest people in fact would rather have prestige-based and female leaders in a variety of leadership roles, including political office.

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Sibling aggression is surprisingly common and sexually egalitarian Two well-supported generalizations from aggression research are that: a) people are less likely to commit homicide against close kin compared to non-k…

Are males always more physically aggressive than females? Not when it comes to sibling relationships another new study from the KNBV out in EHB this month finds.

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Can the behavioral immune system pick up on new cues of infection threat? New study from our lab finds increase in prejudice toward Republicans during the pandemic among those high in perceived vulnerability to disease (even if they are Republicans themselves)
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We are the Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory at ASU. Aka Ken(rick)(Neu)berg(Beck)er(Varn)um. Stay tuned for all the latest discoveries and updates from our lab and Evo Psych more generally :)