New research from the lab in collaboration with Andy Elliot shows that men in Burkina Faso find women in red more attractive, suggesting that red may be a universal sexual signal. Read the paper in press at JESP here.
Nonverbal pride displays function to bias social learning. Read Jason Martens’ and Jess’ paper– online early edition now available at SPPS.
New grant just awarded from the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) will fund a major new project on self-conscious emotions and alcoholism. To learn more about this project click here.
Here in the lab we always knew we were a little special for knowing the term arms akimbo. But now you can too! Akimbo is number 8 on the “25 everyday things you never knew had names” list. Check it…
Psychologists are increasingly turning to online data collection methods when conducting research, and such methods sometimes degrade data quality. We all have heard anecdotal accounts of malingering participants on M-Turk and online HSP studies and, as a result, many of…
New research by Joey Cheng, Jess Tracy, and other UBC collaborators showing that Dominance and Prestige are both effective routes to social influence, now published at JPSP. Read the CNN story here.
Personality development, like many aspects of phenotypic development seen across species, can be viewed within the framework of flexible ontogeny (Hagen & Hammerstein, 2005). An individual’s behavioral patterns across time represent that individual’s context-dependent adaptive strategy for coping with the…
At the risk of inundating loyal readers with navel-gazing fodder, I recommend Gregory Mitchell’s (2012, Perspectives on Psych Science) new article examining effect sizes within and outside of the lab. Mitchell surveyed 82 meta-analyses that directly compared effect sizes for…
Joey Cheng, Jess, & Joe Henrich’s (2010) paper on The Evolutionary Foundations of Human Social Status was the 11th most downloaded article from Evolution and Human Behavior in 2011
For those who haven’t kept up to date with the recent published papers, blog posts, and media reports on the state of psychological science and social psychology in particular, I strongly recommend Brent Roberts’ blog post: Roberts, B. W. (2012).…