| Evolutionary Psychology Lab |
|
Evolutionary psychology
and human behavioral ecology are overlapping interests in the Utah Anthropology department. Doug Jones and Elizabeth Cashdan are faculty whose research interests include evolutionary psychology. Many graduate students in the evolutionary ecology track also have interests that combine these areas. Most of the research is conducted in the field, but the department also has a room dedicated to evolutionary psychology research with local populations. Currently the lab is being used by Elizabeth Cashdan, Mercedes Ward, and Emily Stone for two studies: (a) Women's attractiveness and their sexual attitudes and behaviors, and (b) Variation in women's waist-to-hip ratio: trade-offs between androgen- and estrogen-related traits. |