Current Graduate and Postdoctoral students affiliated with the Center for Evolutionary Psychology

Brandy Burkett is interested in social cognition, and her current research investigates the domain specificity of attribution processes (email or click here for more information).

Andrew W. Delton's work explores the evolutionary psychology of human cooperation using experimental work and simulation studies (email or click here for more information).

Elsa Ermer, Ph.D. studies reasoning, judgment and decision-making mechanisms specialized for the social world (email or click here).

Max Krasnow is working on topics including: foraging adaptations in spatial cognition, adaptations for acquiring knowledge about and using tools, modeling the cognitive mechanisms that enable cooperation and their evolution, and exploring a ‘concepts-as-mechanisms’ approach to understanding concepts (email or click here for more information).

Julian Lim is interested in the psychology of gratitude, friendship formation and representations of the intentions of other agents.(email)

David Pietraszewski studies the cognitive mechanisms underlying social group categorization (email).

Aaron Sell, Ph.D. is attempting to map the computational architecture of human anger including its causes, computations and behavioral consequences as well as individual differences (email or click here for more information).

Eric Schniter studies the evolution of human life-history and behavioral ecology. Specific research interests are cross-cultural gerontology, cultural transmission and ontogeny, human capital, and behavioral economics. Geographic and cultural foci are Amazonian societies, Bolivian Tsimane and Ecuadorian Shuar, Achuar, and Shiwiar. (email or click here for more information)

Daniel Sznycer is studying the computational nature of status emotions like shame and pride. (email or click here for more information)


Past Graduate and Postdoctoral students affiliated with the Center for Evolutionary Psychology

Clark Barrett, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (email or click here for more information).

Gary Brase, Ph.D. is a Resident Instruction Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Missouri, Columbia (email or click here for more information).

Brad Duchaine, Ph.D. studies face perception through a combination of neuropsychological, psychophysical, and TMS studies at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London (email or click here for more information).

Larry Fiddick, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at James Cook University in Australia (email or click here for more information).

Edward Hagen, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University, Vancouver. He studies parental investment, Darwinian psychiatry, and the evolution of emotions (email or click here for more information). Ed was formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Nicole Hess, Ph.D. is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University, Vancouver. She studies the evolution of female friendship/coalitions, gossip, reputation, and the evolution of cooperation (email or click here for more information). Nicole was formerly a Predoctoral Fellow, jointly funded by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University, both in Berlin, Germany.

Robert Kurzban, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania (email or click here for more information).

Debra Lieberman, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and studies the cognitive mechanisms mediating kin recognition and inbreeding avoidance (email or click here for more information).

Josh New, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Perception and Cognition Laboratory, Yale University (email or click here for more information).

Michael Price, Ph.D. is Lecturer in Psychology at Brunel University, studying psychological adaptations for group cooperation (email or click here for more information).

Jade Price studies the role that emotions such as shame, guilt, embarrassment and pride play in cooperative relationships (email or click here for more information).

Francis Steen, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (email or click here for more information).

Larry Sugiyama, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon (email or click here for more information).


Last updated 8/07