Daniel Conroy-Beam

I’m recruiting #PhD students to join my Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at @UCSB! We study how infants learn about the natural world from others 🌱 If you’re interested in development, evolution, and infancy, please reach out and apply! More info below (1/2)

Fourth Episode is out today! Our first of many wonderful interviews. This one with Dan Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam, where we discuss evolutionary psychological studies of mating. podbean.com/ew/pb-f8icb-18… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mat… youtube.com/watch?v=C0qRhk…

Huge thanks to @UCSBpsych’s @dconroybeam! He came to the Social Psych Brown Bag @UCLA + 🤯🤯🤯! If you understand how a complicated thing—mating psychology—works, maybe you can 🔮predict🔮 what relationships people should be in. Data suggest…maybe you can!?!! (Well, Dan can!)

Super excited to talk 👯‍♀️FRIENDSHIP👯‍♀️—why it's more complicated than we think—at @UCSBpsych today! Thanks to the groups across Social + Evo/Devo for bringing me out (esp @kyleratner + @zoeliberman)!

Come join us for your Master's in Psychology! The Psychology department at UCCS is excellent, extremely research-productive, and full of friendly people. #ma" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">psychology.uccs.edu/academics/grad… Colorado Springs is gorgeous, with the Rocky Mountains all around you. It routinely ranks as one of the best cities to live in in the U.S., as well as the #1 most neighborly city: coloradosprings.gov/news/us-news-n… neighbor.com/storage-blog/t… Applications due December 15. Please RT for wider spread!

Interested in how infants and young children learn about plants and nature? I am currently looking for PhD students to be part of my (new) Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at @UCSBpsych in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA. The application deadline is December 1st 👶🪴

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⭐Exciting news: Abstract submission for #EHBEA2025 is now open! 🦧 ⭐We are hosting it an Northumbria, and it will surely be a fantastic conference! So, submit your exciting new work - we can't wait to hear it! ⭐And plz share widely 🐦 #Conference #Psychology #Anthropology

Why do people 🤬♨️VENT♨️🤬 to friends? Venting DOES NOT decrease anger (what Freud said) It's competition for affection: Venting can make the friends we vent to (listeners) like us better than--and support us over--the friends we vent about (targets) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm recruiting grad students to work with me at UCLA! Apps due Dec 1 👇

Want to know more about our program at @PSU_Anthro & how to apply? Join us Monday or look for the recording after! PhD student Iyun Ademola-Popoola will bring additional tips & insights for international applicants. See you there!

🐒🧐 ATTN budding primatologists: I'm recruiting grads this Fall to work with the Kakamega Monkey Project. Seeking interests in sociality & health, aging, development, & life history. See 🧵 for contact & due dates. leakeyfoundation.org/grantee-spotli…

We're hiring a TT Assistant/Associate Prof in evo/bio anthropology! Seeking applicants w/ research programs that focus on living people, who can contribute to grad education in biological, medical, evolutionary, or cultural evolutionary anth. Please share! buff.ly/489MeCu

Thanks for having me on the show!

Preconference abstract submission closes this Thursday (10/17). Don't forget to submit yours while there's still time! #SPSP2025

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!

Our new preprint on causal judgment! Led by Can Konuk, with Salvador Mascarenhas. We study how causes that feature several variables (`A and B caused E') are represented in the human mind. This one contains some really surprising findings...🧵

And as a reminder: *I'm* recruiting a new PhD student this year. So if you're interested in our lab, definitely check out our website and come join the open house!

Interested in grad school in psychology? Perhaps at UCSB? The Psychological and Brain Sciences department at UC Santa Barbara will be doing an open house next Friday (10/18)! Come learn about our department and program. Register at the link in this flyer: