Psychology > Faculty
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Angela Bryan
Quantitative Psychology
publications | department profile
My primary interest is in the study of health behavior from a social psychological perspective, including sexual risk reduction in populations at risk for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). I am also interested in the promotion of physical activity. I have developed a program of research that assesses differential psychological and physiological responses to exercise, and the possible genetic and biological substrates of those responses.
My interests also encompass evolutionary social psychological topics including the study of attraction, mating, and romantic relationships, and the possible influence of our evolutionary history on current mating behavior.
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Steve Gangestad
sgangest@unm.edu
Evolutionary Psychology
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General interests concern the ways in which humans' current psychological design is a product of evolutionary selection. Current research generally concerns this issue in regard to phenomena that occur within close relationships such as sexual relationships, friendships, and familial relationships. Other research concerns the developmental expressions of adaptations.
Additional interests include individual differences, behavior genetics, psychometric theory, and philosophy of science.
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Geoffrey Miller
gfmiller@unm.edu
Evolutionary Psychology
publications | department profile
Evolutionary social psychology is my main focus, especially the study of human mental adaptations for judgment, decision-making, strategic behavior, and communication in social and sexual domains. This includes work on mutual mate choice and sexual selection theory, analysis of human mental traits as fitness indicators (reliable cues of underlying phenotypic traits and genetic quality), analysis of social attribution heuristics as adapted to the statistical structure of individual differences (including genetic and phenotypic covariances), and analysis of animate motion perception mechanisms as adapted to typical patterns of intentional movement.
Also, consumer behavior: applications of evolutionary psychology in product design and aesthetics, marketing, advertising, and branding (book in progress on this topic); use of genetic algorithms for interactive online product design.
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Psychology > Graduate Students
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Christine Garver-Apgar
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Ann Caldwell
The evolutionary psychology and physiology of exercise. Sex roles, energetics, and reproductive ecology.
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Laura Dane
ldane@unm.edu
The interaction between hormones and behavior, in particular the influence of sex hormones at different points in the life histories of men and women. The relationship between attraction, attractiveness, dominance, status and hormonal status; female behavior across the menstrual cycle; dermatoglyphics and finger ridge asymmetry; testosterone and relationship status; sexual selection and sexually antagonistic genes.
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Rachael Falcon
rfalcon@unm.edu
Social status and adaptations for within-group social interaction and exchange. My current research is exploring how people's perceptions of income change when they compare their own gain to that of another person.
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Melissa Heap
mheap@unm.edu
Current interests include: testosterone and its role in mating and competition; male intrasexual competitive tactics; and taking a coevolutionary approach to antagonistic reproductive physiology (mainly the immune system's role in fertilization).
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Christopher Jenkins
I'm applying honest signaling theory to develop quantitative, objective measures of human creative abilities and the cognitive mechanisms that underlie them, and I'm currently investigating individual differences in rhythmic synchronization accuracy. I'm also interested in behaviors, such as female orgasm, that show signs of functional design for evaluation of and response to others' signals and traits.
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Leslie Merriman
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Joshua Tybur
tybur@unm.edu
personal website
My research explores potential cognitive adaptations selected to decrease the likelihood of contracting infections. I am currently investigating how attitudes toward physical penetration of the skin and body orifices correspond to cues for infection. Other interests include the domain specificity of disgust and the moral and political implications of using an evolutionary perspective to explain human behavior.
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Ethan White
ethanw@unm.edu
Intelligence as a fitness indicator, relational frame theory, behavior analysis, evolution and learning.
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Psychology > Alumni
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Glenn Scheyd (2006)
Psychology, Eureka College, IL
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