PEOPLE
Jaimie Arona Krems
Krems is a social psychologist with interdisciplinary training. Her research draws on theoretical perspectives from social psychology, cognitive + evolutionary anthropology, relationship science, + animal behavior to investigate how people create + navigate their social worlds.
Krems' work has been published in Nature Human Behaviour, the Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, Psychological Science, + Evolution and Human Behavior. She currently serves as an elected member of the Executive Council at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), where she is also chair of the Grievance Committee + creator/co-developer of the ADAPT (Advancing Diversity Through Anthropological and Psychological Training) Program to provide underrepresented undergraduates access to rare, high-quality mentorship in evolutionary social science. Krems also serves as an Open Science Advisor at Psychological Science + occupies other editorial positions at Evolution and Human Behavior (beg. 2024) + Human Nature. She has been named an HBES Rising Star + Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
Devanshi Patel
Laureon Merrie
Tori Short
Nina Rodriguez
Krystal Duarte
Yunsuh (Nike) Wee
Lisa Walsh
Lisa Walsh (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab. She completed her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology at the University of California, Riverside under the mentorship of Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky. In broadest terms, her work aims to investigate the links between interpersonal relationships (with friends, family, and romantic partners) and well-being, as well as understand the effects of positive social behaviors (e.g., expressing gratitude, doing acts of kindness).
See more about Lisa here.
Victor Kaufman
David Pinsof
David received his PhD from UCLA in 2018, where he studied psychology and biological anthropology. David's research focuses on political attitudes, mating strategies, signaling theory, the psychology of status, public opinion, mathematical models of alliance formation, and the origins of political belief systems. He writes for a popular audience at everythingisbullshit.substack.com
What is the psychology that enables people to interact with other people? Sznycer use theories of selection pressures along with data from ancestral + modern humans to produce computation-level descriptions of our social psychology. His lab's research focus is on value computation, emotion, communication, morality, + institutions.
Krems + Szyncer often co-advise graduate students.
PI: Szyncer Lab
OCEAN (The Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis) is housed in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. OCEAN incorporates faculty + graduate students from across disciplinary boundaries---each using an evolutionary approach to understand social cognition + behavior.
OCEAN was founded in 2019 by Jennifer Byrd-Craven + Jaimie Arona Krems. OCEAN includes Jennifer Byrd-Craven, Jaimie Arona Krems, Daniel Sznycer, Juliana French, + multiple affilaited researchers.
PI: Szyncer Lab
The UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture (BEC) unites scholars exploring the connections among evolution, culture, the mind, + society.
BEC provides a framework to facilitate research and training on the interaction among natural selection, cultural transmission, social relations, and psychology.
LAB ALUMS
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Graduate Student
Devanshi Patel
Graduate Student (Clinical)
Graduate Student
Laureon A. Merrie
Graduate Student (Experimental)
Graduate Student
Tori Short
Graduate Student (Experimental)
Graduate Student
Nina Rodriguez
Graduate Student
Graduate Student
Krystal Duarte
Graduate Student (Experimental)
Graduate Student
Yunsuh (Nike) Wee
Graduate Student (Experimental)
Undergraduate RA Team
Collaborators
Meet some of the people our lab works with:
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Student
Devanshi Patel
Graduate Student (Clinical)
Graduate Student
Laureon A. Merrie
Graduate Student (Experimental)
Graduate Student
Tori Short
Graduate Student (Experimental)
Graduate Student
Nina Rodriguez
Graduate Student
Graduate Student
Krystal Duarte
Graduate Student (Experimental)
Graduate Student
Yunsuh (Nike) Wee
Graduate Student (Experimental)
Undergraduate RA Team