University of Michigan evolutionary social psychology lab headed by Josh Ackerman
Joined March 2018
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26 Sep 2024
Are you 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!
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2 Feb 2025
TODAY is the day to submit your abstract! (Well, Monday would still work, but why wait?)
Submit your abstracts now! ISEMPH 2025 will be in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by the beautiful Vanderbilt University. It's promising to be spectacular! Details and abstract submission here: buff.ly/40zGJLx
@EvolutionVU
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25 Nov 2024
Feeling a bit ingroupy these days? A little open to extreme punishments for certain crimes? Sibling incest lost its charm? Maybe living near family (or seeing them at the holidays) is shaping your psychology. New paper on the ecology of relatedness:
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-…
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25 Nov 2024
Work led by the perpetually-offline Oliver Sng and doctoral student Minyoung Choi. For a quick read, here's the press release: news.umich.edu/family-matter…
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1 Nov 2024
Graduate applications at the University of Michigan close Nov 15. My lab is recruiting a student with interests in the psychology of infectious disease and in applying evolutionary/ecological perspectives to social psychology. Join us! Apply here: lsa.umich.edu/psych/prospect…
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14 Oct 2024
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!
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23 Sep 2024
Applying to graduate school? Join U-M's STAR Scholars 9/25 @ 4pm ET to learn about
- finding your area of interest
- finding programs/mentors
- writing a statement of purpose
- acquiring rec letters
- GRE info
- and more
All are invited! Register at sessions.studentlife.umich.e…
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15 Aug 2024
One month left to apply for this open Social Psych position. And note the Collegiate Fellowship (postdoc-to-faculty) opportunity in the ad as well!
29 Jul 2024
Re-upping this job ad. In case you're wondering, this is a truly *open* rank search. We have no hidden preferences. If you are doing compelling work related to Social Psychology, please apply!
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29 Jul 2024
Re-upping this job ad. In case you're wondering, this is a truly *open* rank search. We have no hidden preferences. If you are doing compelling work related to Social Psychology, please apply!
15 Jul 2024
Join us at Michigan!
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15 Jul 2024
Join us at Michigan!
12 Jul 2024
University of Michigan is hiring for an open rank faculty position in Social Psychology, all relevant content areas considered! Spread the word, and apply by September 15 at: apply.interfolio.com/147442
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TriCEM's Assistant Director Position is open - apply by July 31! More info at: tricem.org/07/04/2024/postdo…. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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21 Jun 2024
Is anyone aware of a measure tapping belief in natural = good (or naturalistic fallacy more generally)? Strongly related individual differences would also be appreciated.
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10 Jun 2024
Psych pals other nerds!
⭐️Follow @Kenbergerum! ⭐️
My PhD lab—led by @DouglasTKENrick, Steve NeuBERG, Vaughn BeckER, Michael VarnUM—has joined us on here.
They’ve begat among of the most TT (evo) social psych folks of any lab. Always keen to see what’s next!
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29 May 2024
Many belated cheers to @choi_soyeonc who successfully defended her dissertation and will be graduating with her PhD soon! An amazing person and scholar. She is off to postdoc with @NickButtrick this fall. Congratulations!
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19 Mar 2024
Last week, the GOP stopped their mail-in voting program. The consequences of this will be interesting to see in light of our finding from 2020 that voters, especially germ averse ones, prefer this method (regardless of partisanship).
news.umich.edu/germ-aversion…
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19 Mar 2024
Mucho congratulations to @mshastry10 who will be moving on as lab manager for us and @rosesomm to work with @kurtjgray at UNC!! We’ve loved having you at Michigan, and can’t wait to see what’s next.
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8 Mar 2024
Looking for experience working in an evolutionary psych lab or an intergroup relations lab? Why not both? Arnold Ho and I are hiring a joint lab manager to begin later this summer here at U-M. Apply by March 25th. Questions welcome. Details: careers.umich.edu/job_detail…
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12 Mar 2024
Really enjoyed working on this paper with esteemed colleagues! Interested in take-away points? We examined the impact of pathogen concerns on *how* people voted (not for whom) and also tried a manipulation of COVID threat the summer before the election. We found...
11 Mar 2024
My paper with @MalAdapts, @joshackman, and @gaby__goldstein is out today in Political Psychology! My favorite part was the sampling method for this one! Take a look: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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12 Mar 2024
As expected, liberal voters say they preferred distanced voting more than conservatives (but this did translate into actual voting method). Interestingly, the effects of germ aversion were stronger than those for partisanship.
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12 Mar 2024
Did *not* translate into actual voting method. Sorry.
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12 Mar 2024
Will this happen again in the 2024 election cycle? These participants said yes (to using the same methods in future elections), but let's find out!
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