My recent poster with Dr. Jaime Palmer-Hague presented at the NE Evo Psych Society 2024 conference. We discussed potential influences of associative mating for dominance on offspring sex in humans. #NEEPS2024

People are so biased in favor of "common sense" and against experimentation that when Archie Cochrane first started doing randomized, controlled trials, doctors were up-in-arms, demanding they be shut down. Now everyone defers to Cochrane reviews.

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

Excited to share that my first ever paper has been accepted for publication at AHBP! Co-authored with my mentor and supervisor Jaime Palmer-Hague, whose guidance has been essential in forming this work and my skills as a researcher.

One of the worst ways to experience regression to the mean is when one of your favorite artists releases a new album.

This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst Ul on Reddit. I think the winners are (thread)🧵 1/ Enter your phone number

Just out in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. doi.org/10.1007/s40750…

Gripping new paper provides evidence of cumulative cultural evolution of complex foraging tools among chimpanzees via migration between populations over 15,000 years. From Cassandra Gunasekaram and Human Evolutionary Ecology Group UZH. Link: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Preprint for access: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is still one of my favorite #dataviz of all time. It shows how sensitive results are in small samples. It provides raincloud plots with N=20 (on the left) & N=500 (right). There is no difference between the two conditions other than the N.

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Pleased and proud to share that recent honours student Ben has just accepted an offer to do a PhD in evo psych at Michigan. Appropriately, he is in Denver this weekend presenting his research at SPSP.

My poster summarizing my research (with Dr. Kelly Arbeau and Dr. Jamie Palmer-Hague) on religiosity within the behavioral immune system at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention this past weekend in Denver. #SPSP2025

Thrilled to share I'll be starting my Ph.D. at U-M Psychology this fall, studying in Josh Ackerman's Evolutionary Social Psychology Lab (UM Evo Social Psych Lab). I'm incredibly excited to join such a dynamic and accomplished lab within a leading department in psychological science.

A new piece in PsyPost.org on our recent study published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. Check it out! psypost.org/fathers-with-m…

After a great HBES panel on friendship, I thought it was a perfect time to share Benjamin Zubaly’s thoughts on why evolutionary theory is needed to understand friendships ayerslab.org/blog/why-under…

Why do our friendships feel so vital? I wrote a short piece for Jessica D. Ayers’ lab blog. It discusses why evolutionary psychology is critical for understanding complex social phenomena like friendship and provides an introduction to evolutionary social psychology. Read it