Wilson Merrell

Feeling a bit ingroupy these days? A little open to extreme punishments for certain crimes? Sibling incest lost its charm? Maybe living near family (or seeing them at the holidays) is shaping your psychology. New paper on the ecology of relatedness: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-44…

🚨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]

Once more to get the word out - applying to grad school and interested in the psychology of infection, both how people avoid it and what happens if they get sick? What about evolutionary/ecological perspectives on social psych? Come join our lab at Michigan!

I am recruiting graduate students to join the Affective Science and Psychophysiology lab at Miami University in the Fall of 2025! I would appreciate it if you could share this with your networks. Link: darwinguevarra.com

Are you applying to grad school and interested in the psychology of infection, both how people avoid it and what happens if they get sick? What about evolutionary/ecological perspectives on social psych? Come join our lab at Michigan!

🚨New pub now at JEPG🚨: What do you do when someone you care about does something really morally bad? Do you choose loyalty to them or lawfulness to society? The answer might depend on your culture. We tested this across 4 studies in the US and Japan: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-19…

Interested in writing an NSF Postdoc submission on FRIENDSHIP to work with me at UCLA? Let's talk! UCLA is a GREAT place to study friendship! (Check out the new center: center-for-friendship.com) NSF due Nov 6: new.nsf.gov/funding/opport….

There are many exciting future directions in this space, ranging from the contexts in which multiracial people perceive ⬆️/⬇️ levels of discrimination to disaggregating the pan-ethnic term "Asian American." Would love to chat with anyone interested in these kinds of ideas!

Second, our main findings add to the growing literature on intraminority intergroup relations between multiracial-monoracial groups. We show that meta-perceptions of “who you stand with” appear to be an important (and somewhat malleable) judgment undergirding such relations.

Now out at PSPB: we (@NVossoughi, @NourKteily, & Arnold Ho) examined predictors + intergroup implications of Asian-White multiracial solidarity with their respective parent groups. A🧵on some main findings: doi.org/10.1177/014616…

In this new paper, co-authored with Mathias Schmitz and @MarineRougier, we present the Brief Reverse Correlation. This improved version of the tool aims at measuring visual representations of social groups but opens the way to using individual images !!! @JeremyCone2 @easpinfo

New semester is just around the corner and so is a fresh & exciting round of the Aarhus Uni Migration & Ethnicity Workshop 😎 Come to hear from smart people abt their ongoing research. All welcome! @AnitaNissen @NannaAhrensberg @wnmerrell @alethnielsen @annavanvree @daniel__auer