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
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