Faculty

D. Vaughn Becker
Faculty
Keywords
evolutionary cognitive science; facial expression of emotion; threat vigilance; fundamental motivational and emotional systems; evolutionary aesthetics
Publications
Becker, D.V. and Neuberg, S. L. (2019). Archetypes Reconsidered as Emergent Outcomes of Cognitive Complexity and Evolved Motivational Systems, Psychological Inquiry, 30:2, 59-75, DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2019.1614795
Becker, D.V. (2017). Facial gender interferes with decisions about facial expressions of anger and happiness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 146 (4), 457-461.
Neuberg, S. L., Becker, D. V., & Kenrick, D. T. (2014). Evolutionary social cognition. In D. Carlston (Ed.), Handbook of social cognition. Oxford University Press.
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(480)550-2956
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Randolph Nesse
Faculty at ASU and University of Michigan
Keywords
evolutionary medicine; evolutionary psychiatry; smoke detector principle
Publications
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Local Affiliations
ASU Center for Evolution and Medicine
International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health
HBES
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Steven Neuberg
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Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Researchers

Michael Barlev
Post Doctoral Researcher
Keywords
evolutionary cognitive science; cognition and culture; religious experiences
Publications
Barlev, M. & Shtulman, A. Minds, bodies, spirits, and gods: Does widespread belief in disembodied beings imply that we are inherent dualists? https://psyarxiv.com/e9cw4/
Barlev, M., Mermelstein, S., & German, C. T. (2018). Representational co-existence in
the God concept: Core knowledge intuitions of God as a person are not revised by Christian theology despite lifelong experience. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(6), 2330-2338.Mermelstein, S., Barlev, M., & German, T. C. She told me about a singing cactus: Counterintuitive concepts are more accurately attributed to their speakers than ordinary concepts. https://psyarxiv.com/6cp8e
Local Affiliations
Psychology Department
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(650)619-2343

Diego Guevara Beltran
PhD Student
Keywords
cooperation; interdependence; empathy; food sharing
Publications
Cronk, L., Guevara Beltrán, D., Mercado D. R., & Aktipis A. “A solidarity-type world.” Need-based helping among ranchers in the Southwestern United States. Under revision.
Local Affiliations
Cooperation and Conflict Lab
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Jordan W. Moon
PhD Student
Keywords
morality; religion; mating strategies; social psychology
Publications
Moon, J. W., Krems, J. A., & Cohen, A. B. (2020). Opposition to short-term mating predicts anti-atheist prejudice. Personality and Individual Differences, 165, Article 110136.
Moon, J. W., Krems, J. A., Cohen, A. B., & Kenrick, D. T. (2019). Is nothing sacred? Religion, sex, and reproductive strategies. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(4), 361–365.
Moon, J. W., Krems, J. A., & Cohen, A. B. (2018). Religious people are trusted because they are viewed as slow life-history strategists. Psychological Science, 29(6), 947–960.
Local Affiliations
Department of Psychology
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Adi Wiezel
PhD Student
Keywords
leadership; political psychology; emotions/affect; motivation
Publications
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Local Affiliations
Department of Psychology (Social)
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