Ph.D. Students & Post-Docs

Ph.D. Students

  • Jon Sefcek; co-advisor, Psychology (University of Arizona), 2007; Dissertation: Human intelligence and life history theory. dissertation  website

  • Yann Klimentidis; co-advisor, Anthropology, 2008; Dissertation: Genetic admixture and ethnic ancestry among Hispanic and Native Americans in New Mexico. website

  • Gil Greengross, co-advisor, Anthropology, 2008; Dissertation: In search of Homo humorus: Personality, health, humor styles, and humor as a mental fitness indicator in stand-up comedians and the rest of us. dissertation  website

  • Joshua Tybur; main advisor, 2009; Dissertation: Disgust dissected: An investigation of the validity of the three domain disgust scale. website

  • Ilanit Tal; main advisor, 2009; Dissertation: The role of major histocompatibility complex genes in human kin recognition and mate preferences. website

  • Laura Dane; main advisor 2009; Dissertation: An analysis of the sexual dimorphism of hands: Attractiveness, symmetry, and person perception. website

  • Ethan White; co-advisor, 2009.  Dissertation: Verbal creativity, mate value, and sexual selection. website

  • Michael Church; co-advisor, Anthropology, 2012.  A quantitative analysis of Renaissance Italian palaces as forms of conspicuous consumption. website

  • Helen Davis, co-advisor, Anthropology, 2014; Variable education exposure and cognitive task performance among the Tsimané forager-horticulturalists. dissertation  website

  • Chris Jenkins, main advisor, 2014; Sensorimotor synchronization and individual differences in intelligence: A chromometric perspective on music evolution. website

  • Ruth Sarafin, main advisor, 2020; Manipulation of human sexual behavior by sexually transmitted organisms.  website

  • Ryan Dobson, main advisor, 2023 - present. Projects on opposite-sex friendships, five ‘love languages’, alternative sexuality.

Post-Docs

  • Paul Andrews, main advisor, 2002-2003; Projects on social cognition, emotional pain, depression, and parasuicide website  

  • Eveline Seghers, main advisor, 2017-2018; Projects on evolutionary aesthetics, visual arts, religion, and costly signaling website