Associate professor at UCSB. Evolutionary and computational perspective on human mating.
Joined November 2019
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
27 Oct 2025
I’m recruiting #PhD students to join my Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at @UCSB! We study how infants learn about the natural world from others 🌱 If you’re interested in development, evolution, and infancy, please reach out and apply! More info below (1/2)
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
10 Jun 2025
Fourth Episode is out today! Our first of many wonderful interviews. This one with Dan Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam, where we discuss evolutionary psychological studies of mating.
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
25 Nov 2024
Huge thanks to @UCSBpsych’s @dconroybeam!
He came to the Social Psych Brown Bag @UCLA 🤯🤯🤯!
If you understand how a complicated thing—mating psychology—works, maybe you can 🔮predict🔮 what relationships people should be in. Data suggest…maybe you can!?!! (Well, Dan can!)
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
8 Nov 2024
Super excited to talk 👯♀️FRIENDSHIP👯♀️—why it's more complicated than we think—at @UCSBpsych today!
Thanks to the groups across Social Evo/Devo for bringing me out (esp @kyleratner @zoeliberman)!
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
30 Oct 2024
Come join us for your Master's in Psychology!
The Psychology department at UCCS is excellent, extremely research-productive, and full of friendly people.
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Colorado Springs is gorgeous, with the Rocky Mountains all around you. It routinely ranks as one of the best cities to live in in the U.S., as well as the #1 most neighborly city:
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Applications due December 15.
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
28 Oct 2024
Interested in how infants and young children learn about plants and nature? I am currently looking for PhD students to be part of my (new) Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at @UCSBpsych in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA. The application deadline is December 1st 👶🪴
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
25 Oct 2024
Researchers complete the largest compilation of cancer prevalence across vertebrates news.ucsb.edu/2024/021657/re…
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
23 Oct 2024
⭐Exciting news: Abstract submission for #EHBEA2025 is now open! 🦧
⭐We are hosting it an Northumbria, and it will surely be a fantastic conference! So, submit your exciting new work - we can't wait to hear it!
⭐And plz share widely 🐦
#Conference #Psychology #Anthropology
23 Oct 2024
🚨 Attention researchers! 🚨Abstract submission for #EHBEA2025 is NOW OPEN!
Don’t miss your chance to present your work on evolution, behaviour, culture & related topics!
Deadline: 2 Dec 📅
Submit today: ehbea2025.com/
@EHBEA1 #AcademicTwitter #EvolutionaryScience
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Why do people 🤬♨️VENT♨️🤬 to friends?
Venting DOES NOT decrease anger (what Freud said)
It's competition for affection:
Venting can make the friends we vent to (listeners) like us better than--and support us over--the friends we vent about (targets)
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
21 Oct 2024
Venting can make listeners feel closer to the speaker and less favorable toward the target, but this effect only holds when the venting appears genuine and not driven by rivalry or personal competition. dlvr.it/TFZRPz
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
22 Oct 2024
I'm recruiting grad students to work with me at UCLA!
Apps due Dec 1 👇
29 Aug 2024
Want to study how humans "do" FRIENDSHIP?
☀️I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UCLA!☀️
Join me—and the incredible team at UCLA’s new Center for Friendship Research. You’ll work on NSF-funded basic science.
More here: kremslab.com/
Please share!
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Want to know more about our program at @PSU_Anthro & how to apply? Join us Monday or look for the recording after! PhD student Iyun Ademola-Popoola will bring additional tips & insights for international applicants. See you there!
21 Oct 2024
Want to apply to our PhD program? Join us for our “How to Apply” Workshop, Oct 28 10-11am Eastern on Zoom! We'll overview app requirements & the review process, plus tips for international applicants. Have to miss it? We'll record it 👍. See you there! psu.zoom.us/j/94937917327
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
18 Oct 2024
Thanks for having me on the show!
18 Oct 2024
Today on SciFri 📻
ALT Today on Science Friday How do animals understand death A spacecraft headed to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. A concept album inspired by moths How the brain changes during pregnancy, two giant pandas arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, and more. Listen on your local public radio station 2-4 p.m. Eastern Time.
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
14 Oct 2024
Preconference abstract submission closes this Thursday (10/17). Don't forget to submit yours while there's still time! #SPSP2025
3 Sep 2024
@JessicaDAyers & I are so excited for the Evolutionary Preconference at #SPSP2025. There's a star speaker lineup: @dconroybeam, @joshackman, @durkeepk, @nora_balboa, @DrMeltemYucel & @wtt_taylor. Poster & datablitz abstracts are open Sep 5 - Oct 17. Come hang with us in Denver!
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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
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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Daniel Conroy-Beam retweeted
10 Oct 2024
Our new preprint on causal judgment! Led by Can Konuk, with Salvador Mascarenhas.
We study how causes that feature several variables (`A and B caused E') are represented in the human mind.
This one contains some really surprising findings...🧵
10 Oct 2024
Plural causes osf.io/5epzf/
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10 Oct 2024
Interested in grad school in psychology? Perhaps at UCSB?
The Psychological and Brain Sciences department at UC Santa Barbara will be doing an open house next Friday (10/18)! Come learn about our department and program. Register at the link in this flyer:
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10 Oct 2024
And as a reminder: *I'm* recruiting a new PhD student this year. So if you're interested in our lab, definitely check out our website and come join the open house!
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