Watch this space - I KNOW some big and important things are going to be coming from one of my favorite researchers (and her students) soon! Cannot wait 😍

Pleased to share to published version! How would you build the perfect friend? What traits do they have to have, and which ones are just nice for them to have? Read our take on why this is important for understanding friendships here: doi.org/10.1177/026540…

Our publication showing that pregnancy is associated with faster epigenetic aging is out now in PNASNews! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Kobor Lab Daniel Belsky Chris Kuzawa A thread about the paper below 👇

Cool write up of NEW FRIENDSHIP work from Jessica D. Ayers, me, + Aktipis Lab. What makes a perfect friend? We used behavioral economics measures to explore that... psypost.org/what-makes-som…

Friendship is an uncommon phenotype in the animal kingdom, but universal in humans. Here, using a sample of Americans, this new study explicates crucial traits in friends: loyalty, reliability, trustworthiness, and honesty. Traits like forgiveness, information sharing,

“Evolution is not destiny. It is a powerful tool for explaining how we came to be who we are today, but it cannot tell us who we should be today or who we can be tomorrow. In fact, we can leverage an understanding of our evolved psychology to create the world we want to live in.”

Jessica D. Ayers et al. #OnlineFirst investigated the nature of friendship preferences using two forced-choice decision-making paradigms. doi.org/10.1177/026540…

What do your genes have to do with psychology? The likely influence your behavior more than you realize Read my new piece in The Conversation U.S., hope you enjoy it! theconversation.com/what-do-genes-…

Our lab is recruiting a new PhD student for Fall 2025. Please share! If you're interested in adaptationist/computational approaches to human social reasoning, esp. mate choice, I'd love to see your application. More information here: danconroybeam.com/join-the-lab

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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Hi folks! Sharing a pre-print that we just submitted from my dissertation work. We adapted and extended the GIMME framework for identifying group-level structure in person-specific dynamics to the continuous-time framework via modification indices osf.io/preprints/psya…

Phenomenal panel on Men’s Mental health hosted by my brilliant colleague Boise State Psychology Boise State University Matthew Genuchi

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