Lei Fan

I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏 Start date: May 2026 at latest Deadline: Feb 8 Please share it widely! jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

We think this adds nuance to the relationship between social perception + hierarchy regulation, showing shared imagery of resource possession exists across ideological lines. Co-led with @wnmerrell , alongside Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington and Lotte Thomsen. doi.org/10.1177/014616…

Despite clear ideological differences in stated attitudes toward poor people (left panel), egalitarians and anti-egalitarians generated strikingly similar mental images. • Objectively: high pixel-wise similarity • Subjectively: no difference rated by others (right panel)

New work on resource possession + hierarchy regulation! Do the faces on the left and right look different to you? They were generated using a reverse correlation task by UK ps asked to visualize “poor people”: 🟩 by egalitarians (low SDO) 🟥 by anti-egalitarians (high SDO)

It's been a really wonderful collaboration with @florianvl @Hiro_IMADA Catherine Molho and @joshtybur — super grateful for the teamwork! This is Paper #1 of our series on moral emotions and aggression from a cultural lens. Stay tuned for the next one! 🌍 [7/7]

In sum, moral emotions divide labor in moral punishment. Anger fuels direct confrontation, while disgust mobilizes indirect, relational sanctions. Their consistent linkage across contexts and cultures reveals a universal functional grammar of moral emotion. 🌍 [6/7]

🚨New paper🚨 We’ve repeatedly seen anger fuels confrontation and disgust fuels exclusion—at least in the West. But what about the East, where anger is taboo and harmony valued? We tested this in Japan 🇯🇵. Check our new paper in Cognition & Emotion: doi.org/10.1080/026999… [1/7]

New paper out in Evolution and Human Behavior with Hongyu Sun (first author) and @LFanPsych: Comfort with microbe-sharing contact across the COVID-19 pandemic: Testing behavioral immune system predictions doi.org/10.1016/j.evol… A🧵(1/X)

I am hiring a PhD student to study the relation between disgust and moral cognition. Master's degree required. A background in evolutionary psychology is a big plus. Please circulate! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/phd-…

🚨Excited that our meta-analysis is out in JPSP @APA_Journals. We synthesized 6 decades (1958-2017) of empirical evidence on social dilemmas and tested which structural features (most strongly) promote cooperation: 📄doi.org/10.1037/pspi00… 1/10

📢 JOB ALERT: Post-Doc position 📢 Please join our group, and explore human social behavior on a fully funded 3y Post-Doc position at it-u.at/en. The position is open for people doing lab experiments or modeling. Details: christian-hilbe.github.io/postdoc_positi… Please share! 🚨

@stephenjwild @rmkubinec I mean the word "only" really hurts me.

Respect.

@stephenjwild Well, sometimes money matters, especially when you don't even know how many waves will be there. Actually I took power thing pretty seriously so that I did the analysis in a (pretty naive) Bayesian way. However, reviewers don't like it so it is now resting in the SOM in the end.

Special thanks to @VUSocialPsych for hosting my PhD and the project, and also to @CEPDISCresearch for the ongoing further investigation on this topic - new results coming soon! [7/7]

Linking back to our previous work showing null links between ethnic outgroups and pathogen-related xenophobia, these results call for a reconsideration of how BIS shapes intergroup interactions in real-world contexts. [6/7] sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨New Paper📄Salience of Infectious Diseases Did Not Increase Xenophobia During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Check out what @joshtybur @PaulvanLange and I found through a 4-wave longitudinal study in the Netherlands. Now online @Journal_EHS cambridge.org/core/journals/… [1/7]