Find faculty and links to their research by navigating to their primary discipline. Within each discipline, faculty are grouped by their university. Faculty names that are bolded are actively seeking graduate students. To edit or update the wiki, see Places To Study Instructions.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Australian National University (AUSTRALIA)
Geoff Kushnick. Human behavioural ecology; ethnographic fieldwork; cross-cultural studies; quantitative methods. Website. Scholarships. How to apply.
Arizona State University (UNITED STATES)
Rob Boyd.
Sarah Mathew
Joan Silk.
Arizona State University (UNITED STATES)
Rob Boyd.
Sarah Mathew.
Joan Silk.
Baylor University (UNITED STATES)
Mark Flinn.
John Shaver.
Binghamton University, SUNY (UNITED STATES)
Laure Spake. Child outcomes; alloparenting; cooperation; human behavioural ecology; quantitative methods. Faculty page.
Boise State University (UNITED STATES)
Kristin Snopkowski. Human behavioral ecology; reproductive decision-making; demographic transition; kin cooperation and conflict; data analytics. Website.
Currently accepting graduate students for Anthropology MA degree or Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior PhD program.
Boston University (UNITED STATES)
Luke Glowacki. Warfare; intergroup cooperation; social institutions; cultural evolution; human behavioral ecology; cultural psychology; collective behavior. Lab Website.
Carolyn Hodges-Simeon. Evolutionary psychology; development of sex traits; gender/ sex differences; puberty and adolescence. Personal Website. Lab Website.
Brunel University London (UK)
https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Centres/Culture-and-Evolution
Lora Adair.
Michael de Barra.
Stanley Gaines.
Matt Gervais.
Will Gervais.
Francisco Gomez Jimenez.
Nelli Ferenczi.
Michelle Kline; for Fully Funded UK/EU Studentships beginning Jan 2024, see: https://careers.brunel.ac.uk/vacancy/funded-phd-studentships-in-the-origins-and-spread-of-spiritual-beliefs-538545.html
Abigail Page.
Michael Price.
Nicholas Pound.
Nicole Wen.
Aiyana Willard.
James Winters.
California State University, Fullerton (UNITED STATES)
Elizabeth Pillsworth.
Eric Schniter.
Florida State University (UNITED STATES)
Eric Shattuck. Sickness behavior; infectious disease; inflammation; behavioral endocrinology; social immunology. Personal Website.
Pennsylvania State University (UNITED STATES)
David Puts. Behavioral endocrinology; evolutionary anthropology; evolutionary psychology; sex differences; sexual selection. Lab website.
Currently accepting graduate students. How to apply.
Review of applications begins 12/1/23.
Mary Shenk. Human behavioral ecology; evolutionary anthropology; evolutionary demography. website.
Currently accepting graduate students. How to apply.
Review of applications begins 12/1/23.
Rutgers University (UNITED STATES)
Lee Cronk. Human behavioral ecology; cooperation; culture. [https://anthro.rutgers.edu/people/full-time-faculty/faculty-member/89-lee-cronk].
University College London (UK)
Ruth Mace.
University of California, Davis (UNITED STATES)
Cristina Moya. Evolutionary anthropology; cultural evolution; ethnographic fieldwork Website. How to apply.
Manvir Singh. Evolutionary anthropology; cultural evolution; cognitive anthropology; ethnographic fieldwork; cross-cultural research. Personal website. How to apply.
University of California, Los Angeles (UNITED STATES)
Brian Wood. Evolutionary anthropology; human behavioral ecology; hunter-gatherers; movement ecology; ethnographic fieldwork Website.
Brooke Scelza
Daniel Fessler
Clark Barrett
Abigail Bigham
Erica Cartmill
Molly Fox
Jessica Lynch
Susan Perry
University of Missouri (UNITED STATES)
Karthik Panchanathan.
University of Richmond (UNITED STATES)
Chris von Rueden. Evolution of status hierarchy and leadership; origins of gender inequality/political inequality; Amazon horticulturalists. von Rueden profile.
University of Texas, Austin (UNITED STATES)
Christine Legare.
Washington State University (UNITED STATES)
Ed Hagen. Evolutionary medicine. Evolutionary approaches to drug use, mental health, and cognition. Faculty page.
Nicole Hess.
Anne Pisor. Human sociality; climate change adaptation; natural resource management; evolutionary social science. Human Sociality Lab.
Seeking graduate students interested in (1) the cultural evolution of climate change adaptation and/or (2) natural resource management and collective action. Application Information.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) (MOROCCO)
Mathieu Charbonneau. Social learning, cultural and technological evolution, philosophy of science and technology, cognitive engineering. Personal webpage. The Faculty of Governance, Economics and Social Sciences offers a Masters in Behavioral Science and Public Policy (Apply here) and Ph.D. Program in Behavioral and Social Sciences (Apply here).
Zach Garfield. Leadership, conflict resolution, punishment, social norms and institutions; market integration and cultural transitions among Ethiopian pastoralists. Personal webpage. The Faculty of Governance, Economics and Social Sciences offers a Masters in Behavioral Science and Public Policy (Apply here) and Ph.D. Program in Behavioral and Social Sciences (Apply here).
BIOLOGY
Harvard University (US)
Joyce Benenson.
Joseph Henrich. Website.
Johns Hopkins University (US)
Andrew Gallup. Website.
BUSINESS SCHOOLS
Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph (CANADA)
Sandeep Mishra. Decision-making under risk (who takes risks, what kinds, and under what conditions?), adaptive ventures (innovation, entrepreneurship, prosocial risk-taking), well-being (social comparison, relative state). Website.
Rady School of Business (University at Michigan) (UNITED STATES)
Charlene Case.
Rutgers Business School (UNITED STATES)
Kristina Durante.
COMMUNICATION
University of California, Los Angeles (UNITED STATES)
Greg Bryant. Vocal communication, bioacoustics, cognitive science. Website.
Rick Dale. Dynamical systems of interpersonal communication. Website
Kerri Johnson. Social vision (at intersection of communication, social psychology, vision/cognitive science), social categorization, social perception. Lab page.
Martie Haselton. Women's psychology, abortion and related political attitudes, human intimate relationships (and endocrine foundations), sexuality, sexual orientation. Website.
Anne Warlaumont. Early vocal development, evolution of human vocal signals. Website
ECONOMICS
University of Queensland, Brisbane (AUSTRALIA)
Lionel Page. Adaptive explanations of human behaviour and human cognition. Research group page.
MEDICINE
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Aarhus University (DENMARK)
Michael Bang Petersen. Website.
Stony Brook University (UNITED STATES)
Andrew Delton. Website.
Peter DeScioli. Website.
PSYCHOLOGY
Aberystwyth University (UNITED KINGDOM)
Gil Greengross. Evolution of humor; Creativity; Intelligence; Sex differences; Behavioral genetics; personal website.
Arizona State University (UNITED STATES)
To apply go to [https://asupsych.slideroom.com/#/Login]
Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory Evolutionary approaches to prejudice, stereotyping, aggression, mating, culture. Joint training lab led by Doug Kenrick, Steve Neuberg, Michael Varnum, Vaughn Becker, Michael Barlev. [https://psychology.asu.edu/research/labs/evolutionary-social-psychology-co-laboratory]
Athena Aktipis. Evolution of cooperation, social norms and cooperation, computational modeling of behavior, manipulation and hijacking [https://www.athenaaktipis.org/]
Vaughn Becker.
Douglas Kenrick.
Steven Neuberg. Stereotyping, stereotypes, prejudices, stigma, discrimination, intergroup relations; ecological shaping of motivated cognition; identification and management of threats and opportunities Website
Michael Varnum. Ecological influences on behavior and culture; Cultural evolution and Cultural change; Sex differences; [https://sites.google.com/site/mewvarnum]
Brock University (CANADA)
Anthony Volk. Antisocial personality/HEXACO; bullying; parenting; historical perspectives on evolution [https://www.brocku.ca/volklab]. Seeking graduate students who are interested in evolutionary research, want opportunities to publish, and like collaborating with others. Numerous faculty at Brock engage with evolutionary theory (e.g., Dr. Naomi Andrews, Dr. Michael Ashton, Dr. Angela Book, Dr. Andrew Dane, Dr. Ann Farrell) and Niagara's a pretty fantastic place to live, so I'm always happy to chat with potential students.
California Polytechnic Institute, Humboldt (UNITED STATES)
Amanda Hahn. Cuteness; emotion; face perception; female competition; hormonal contraceptives; hormones and behavior; infant cues; parental behavior; social neuroendocrinology. BERL lab website.
Applications due March 1st. How to apply.
California State University, Fresno (UNITED STATES)
Partrick Durkee.
California State University, Fullerton (UNITED STATES)
Aaron Lukaszewski. profile page. personal website.
Clarkson University (UNITED STATES)
Andreas Wilke Human cognitive evolution; decision-making; foraging behavior; risk and uncertainty. faculty website — lab website.
Florida State University (UNITED STATES)
Jon Maner. Motivated social cognition; Social hierarchy; Mating; Pathogen avoidance; Emotion. [Maner Lab website http://www.jonmaner.com]
Jim McNulty. Close relationships.
Andrea Meltzer. Close relationships.
Georg August University Göttingen (GERMANY)
Lars Penke Evolution of personality and intelligence; evolutionary genetics; social endocrinology; mating strategies and mate choice; human sexuality personal website.
Hamilton College (UNITED STATES)
Keelah Williams. Evolutionary psychology and the law. Legal decision-making and related politics and stereotypes. Website.
Harvard University (UNITED STATES)
Jillian Jordan.
Steven Pinker.
Kansas State University (UNITED STATES)
Gary Brase. Judgments and decision making about relationships, fertility decision making, social reasoning, and social perceptions. Evolutionary influences on understanding and use of numerical information in judgments. Lab Website. Go here to apply, applications due December 1.
David P. Schmitt. Human sexual diversity; personality traits; mating strategies; sexual health personal website.
Northumbria University (UNITED KINGDOM)
Jeanne Bovet. Lab website.
Amanda Rotella. Evolution of cooperation and competition; intrasexual competition; moral decision-making; cultural change [amandarotella.ca].
Seeking graduate students interested in "The Mean Girl effect: Investigating how economic inequality fosters competition and aggression in women". [ Apply Here].
*Deadline: 26 January 2024*
Oakland University (UNITED STATES)
Melissa M. McDonald. Evolved mechanisms in women to protect reproductive choice; Antecedents and consequences of women's fear of rape; Intimate partner violence; Coalitional psychology; Intergroup dating. See more at lab website.
Lisa L.M. Welling. Mate choice; attraction; adaptive preferences; hormones and behavior; human sexuality; mating strategies. Lab website.
See for more information .How to apply.
Oklahoma State University (UNITED STATES)
Jennifer Byrd-Craven. Currently accepting graduate students. Applications due Dec 1st.
Juliana French. Romantic relationship formation; Long-term relationship maintenance; Relationship dissolution; Intrasexual Competition; Hormonal contraceptives. Lab website. Currently accepting graduate students. Applications due Dec 1st.
Daniel Sznycer. Value computation; emotion; communication; morality; institutions. Lab website. Currently accepting graduate students. Applications due Dec 1st.
Paris (FRANCE)
Evolution and Social Cognition Team. [https://esc.dec.ens.fr/en/presentation-10634] Our team studies social cognition in a broad sense (e.g. morality, communication, argumentation, social influence) in light of evolutionary biology, in order to better understand a variety of social and cultural phenomena such as religion, mass communication, policy, art, institutions, or social norms.
Team members:
Jean-Baptiste André [https://sites.google.com/view/jeanbaptisteandre/accueil]
Nicolas Baumard [https://nicolasbaumards.org/]
Coralie Chevallier [https://sites.google.com/site/coraliechevallier/home]
Hugo Mercier [https://sites.google.com/site/hugomercier/]
Olivier Morin [https://sites.google.com/site/sitedoliviermorin/]
Daniel Nettle [https://www.danielnettle.org.uk/]
Singapore Management University (SINGAPORE)
Norman Li. Evolutionary mismatch; Mate preferences; Mating strategies. Personal website. Currently accepting graduate students. Applications due Dec 1st.
State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz (USA)
Dr. Glenn Geher. Positive Evolutionary Psychology [https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/glenngeher/research/lab/].
Professor Glenn Geher. Positive Evolutionary Psychology; Understanding the interface of evolutionary psychology and the positive features of the human experience Research Publications.
Seeking Masters students interested in Positive Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Social Psychology, Applied Evolutionary Psychology. Lab Orientation Information.
Swansea University (UNITED KINGDOM)
Andrew G. Thomas. Mate preferences; Mating strategies; Sex Differences; Sexual Harassment; Singlehood/Incel work. Personal website. Currently accepting graduate students.
Texas Christian University (UNITED STATES)
Sarah Hill.
Tulane University (UNITED STATES)
Damian Murray.
University of Amsterdam (NETHERLANDS)
Willem Frankenhuis. Cognitive and behavioural development; harshness and unpredictability; hidden talents; reasonable responses; mathematical modeling; plasticity. Personal website.
University of Arizona (UNITED STATES)
Diego Guevara Beltran. Social psychology and evolutionary anthropology; interdependence; social emotions + empathy; cooperation + prosociality; fieldowork with Mayangna of Nicaragua [https://psycheddiego.mystrikingly.com/].
Seeking graduate students interested in fieldwork in Northern Nicaragua (reviewing applications in Fall 2025; program begins Fall 2026).
University of California, Los Angeles (UNITED STATES)
Jaimie Arona Krems. Social psychology: friendship; women's cooperation + competition; reputation + status striving; stereotyping + prejudice. See lab website. Currently accepting graduate students. Applications due December 1.
University of California, San Diego (UNITED STATES)
Michael McCullough. Social psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara (UNITED STATES)
Daniel Conroy-Beam. Lab Website.
Leda Cosmides.
Tamsin German. Lab Website.
Zoe Liberman.
David Pietraszewski. Social Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Group cognition; Race + Racism; Conflict; Cooperation; Friendships & Alliances; Language & Politics; Evolutionary Psychology of Psychology and Philosophy of Mind; Meta-Science [https://psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/david-pietraszewski]. Accepting Postdocs, Lab manager, and Graduate Students sometime in 2024.
James Roney. Lab Website.
Annie Wertz. Lab Website.
Brandon Woo. Cognitive development; theory of mind; social evaluation; relationships. See the lab website for information about what I'm looking for in applicants. Applications are due Dec 1, and fee waivers are due 2 weeks before that.
University of Colorado, Boulder (UNITED STATES)
Eric Pedersen. How the mind regulates punishment and anger, how gratitude and forgiveness function to build and maintain relationships, and how individual and cultural differences in cooperation arise. See lab website.
University of Essex (UNITED KINGDOM)
Dr. Rick O'Gorman. Cooperation and altruism; Computer modelling of social phenomenon; Applications of social cognition techniques to evolutionary questions; Evolutionary biosocial psychology. Rick O'Gorman's university profile.
Currently accepting graduate students. (how to apply).
Please email to discuss an application.
University of Florida (USA)
Liana S.E. Hone, MPH, PhD Dr. Hone’s aim is to identify novel individual- and environmental-level targets for sexual aggression prevention and her current research interests include (1) examining the relationship between sociosexuality and alcohol use, (2) testing mHealth interventions for substance use and risky sexual behavior via alcohol administration methods, and (3) the application of evolutionary theory to examining sex differences in binge drinking, alcohol-related cognitive deficits, alcohol-related regretted sex, and sexual morality. website link how to apply. Application deadline: December 1
University of Guelph (CANADA)
Pat Barclay. The evolution of cooperation via reputation, partner choice, punishment, biological markets, costly signaling, & fitness interdependence (stake); game theory, economic games. See personal website. Accepting grad students in two grad streams (NACS/AS) - contact for details.
University of Massachusetts Boston (UNITED STATES)
Randy Corpuz. Parental investment; fatherhood; developmental evolutionary; psychobiology. Lab website.
University of Michigan (UNITED STATES)
Josh Ackerman. Pathogen threat; motivation; social ecology; social signaling; consumer behavior. Lab website. Accepting graduate students, applications due December 1st. Application details
University of Missouri (UNITED STATES)
David Geary.
University of New Mexico (UNITED STATES)
Tania Reynolds. Intrasexual competition; social biases; moral biases; ideology; friendship; life history theory. Lab website. Accepting graduate students, applications due December 1st. Application details
Geoffrey Miller. Sexual selection; mate preferences; consumer psychology; AI risk; effective altruism. Lab website. Accepting graduate students, applications due December 1st. Application details
University of Padua (ITALY)
Peter (PK) Jonason individual and sex differences; psychometrics; Dark Tetrad; life history strategies; mate choice and mating strategies personal website.
University of New South Wales (Australia)
Khandis Blake.
University of Redlands (UNITED STATES)
Jessica Hehman.
Catherine Salmon.
University of Sao Paulo (BRAZIL)
Dr. Jaroslava Varella Valentova. I can supervise postgraduate students with topics on human sexual strategies; sociosexuality; relationships; jealousy; appearance modifications; partner preferences; sexual orientation; love; disgust; facial appearance; vocal perception; non-verbal behavior. [https://sites.usp.br/bes/].
University of Strathclyde (SCOTLAND)
Ben Jones. I am interested in supervising postgraduate research on any aspect of social stereotypes, mate preferences, or responses to social cues.
University of Texas, Austin (UNITED STATES)
David Buss.
University of Trieste (ITALY)
Marco Del Giudice. Development; neurobiology; motivation and personality; individual and sex differences; psychopathology; methodology and data analysis personal website.
Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam (NETHERLANDS)
Joshua M. Tybur. Disgust; emotion; pathogen avoidance; moral cognition; food selection personal website.