UM Evo Social Psych Lab

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!

TODAY is the day to submit your abstract! (Well, Monday would still work, but why wait?)

Work led by the perpetually-offline Oliver Sng and doctoral student Minyoung Choi. For a quick read, here's the press release: news.umich.edu/family-matters…

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…

Graduate applications at the University of Michigan close Nov 15. My lab is recruiting a student with interests in the psychology of infectious disease and in applying evolutionary/ecological perspectives to social psychology. Join us! Apply here: lsa.umich.edu/psych/prospect…

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!

Applying to graduate school? Join U-M's STAR Scholars 9/25 @ 4pm ET to learn about - finding your area of interest - finding programs/mentors - writing a statement of purpose - acquiring rec letters - GRE info - and more All are invited! Register at sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/se…

One month left to apply for this open Social Psych position. And note the Collegiate Fellowship (postdoc-to-faculty) opportunity in the ad as well!

Re-upping this job ad. In case you're wondering, this is a truly *open* rank search. We have no hidden preferences. If you are doing compelling work related to Social Psychology, please apply!

Join us at Michigan!

TriCEM's Assistant Director Position is open - apply by July 31! More info at: tricem.org/07/04/2024/pos…. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27730

Is anyone aware of a measure tapping belief in natural = good (or naturalistic fallacy more generally)? Strongly related individual differences would also be appreciated.

Psych pals + other nerds! ⭐️Follow @Kenbergerum! ⭐️ My PhD lab—led by @DouglasTKENrick, Steve NeuBERG, Vaughn BeckER, + Michael VarnUM—has joined us on here. They’ve begat among of the most TT (evo) social psych folks of any lab. Always keen to see what’s next!

Many belated cheers to @choi_soyeonc who successfully defended her dissertation and will be graduating with her PhD soon! An amazing person and scholar. She is off to postdoc with @NickButtrick this fall. Congratulations!

Last week, the GOP stopped their mail-in voting program. The consequences of this will be interesting to see in light of our finding from 2020 that voters, especially germ averse ones, prefer this method (regardless of partisanship). news.umich.edu/germ-aversion-…

Mucho congratulations to @mshastry10 who will be moving on as lab manager for us and @rosesomm to work with @kurtjgray at UNC!! We’ve loved having you at Michigan, and can’t wait to see what’s next.

@JaimieKrems @UCLA Congrats, that’s stupendous!

Excited to say: I've won the #NSFCAREER Award to work on FRIENDSHIP! My lab will investigate the computational design of friendship---how people, e.g., find, make, keep friends. We'll also emphasize science communication! Stay tuned for calls join us in Psychology @UCLA!

Looking for experience working in an evolutionary psych lab or an intergroup relations lab? Why not both? Arnold Ho and I are hiring a joint lab manager to begin later this summer here at U-M. Apply by March 25th. Questions welcome. Details: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/246…

Did *not* translate into actual voting method. Sorry.

As expected, liberal voters say they preferred distanced voting more than conservatives (but this did translate into actual voting method). Interestingly, the effects of germ aversion were stronger than those for partisanship.

Really enjoyed working on this paper with esteemed colleagues! Interested in take-away points? We examined the impact of pathogen concerns on *how* people voted (not for whom) and also tried a manipulation of COVID threat the summer before the election. We found...

Will this happen again in the 2024 election cycle? These participants said yes (to using the same methods in future elections), but let's find out!