Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory
@kenbergerum.bsky.social
The official feed of the Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory at ASU, aka the Ken(rick)(Neu)berg(Beck)er(Varn)um Lab.
How does ecology affect human culture? Find out in this @us.theconversation.com Podcast featuring Michael Varnum shows.acast.com/60087127b968... via@acast
Environments can shape the differences between cultures | The Conversation Weekly
The world explained by experts
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Congrats to KNBV alumni and rockstar evolutionary psychologist @jaimiekrems.bsky.social on winning an NSF Career Award! newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty...
Jaimie Krems receives NSF CAREER Award
The funding will support her work on how people solve the challenges of ‘friending’ — like finding, making and keeping friends.
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Lab alumni and rising star @alexandraworm.bsky.social recently graduated and is starting a postdoc with Ethan Kross :) news.asu.edu/20240428-sun...
ASU graduate student merges pop culture with social psychology | ASU News
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2024 graduates. Inspired by Matt Damon's survival saga in "The Martian," Alexandra Wormley found her calling in social psyc...
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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. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
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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. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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.
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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. www.hbes.com/is-it-time-t...
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...
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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. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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…
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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) psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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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 :)