International optimism: Correlates and consequences of dispositional optimism across 61 countries.

Emotions Do Reliably Co-Occur With Predicted Facial Signals: Comment on Durán and Fernandez-Dols (2021)

How and why head position changes the perception of facial expressions of emotion.

Is a downwards head tilt a cross-cultural signal of dominance? Evidence for a universal visual illusion.

Aaron C. Weidman

Aaron studies individual differences in how people desire, forecast, and experience emotions.

Zak Witkower

I research how nonverbal behaviors (e.g., facial expressions and body movements) are used to express and interpret emotion, personality, and social status. Recently, I have been exploring whether distinct nonverbal behaviors are associated with distinct forms of social rank, along…

Matthew Gervais

My work investigates human emotions from an evolutionary anthropological perspective. I’m particularly interested in the psychological bases of derived (and possibly unique) forms of human social behavior, including sharing, punishment, and tolerance, as these scale out to social relationships and…

Alec T. Beall, Ph.D.

Alec studies human sexual attraction and mate preferences, and he is co-supervised by Jess and Mark Schaller.

Alec T. Beall, Ph.D.

Alec studies human sexual attraction and mate preferences, and he is co-supervised by Jess and Mark Schaller.