Interests: Evolution and its impacts on the nature of human social competence, personality and individual differences, aggression, morality, friendship selection and dynamics. Evolutionary education and regional attitudes towards evolutionary theory (the EALS). Social relationships, well-being, and health in college students.



Office: 414 Fraser Hall
Tel: 785-864-9818
Email: PHawley@ku.edu

Interests:Examining human sexuality from developmental and evolutionary perspectives; exploring how we develop "normal" or "atypical" behavioral preferences, specifically with regard to the interaction between sexuality and power dynamics.

Thesis title: Perceived Parenting Styles and Sexual Attitudes among Young Adults

Office: 10 Fraser Hall
Tel: 785-864-9118
Email: MMAlexander@ku.edu

Interests: IIntegrating developmental models of aggression with social psychological paradigms of stereotyping; investigating the influence of a perceived sexist climate in professional academic contexts on personal experiences and coping within that climate.

Thesis title:The 'Mean Girl' Myth: Gender Stereotypes and Perceptions of Relational Aggression

Office: 421 Fraser Hall
Tel: 785-864-9824
Email: JRatliff@ku.edu

Interests: instrument development and validation, applying multivariate statistics, including confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling,and longitudinal modeling, and the role of individual differences in predicting attitudes and behaviors.

Office: 10 Fraser Hall
Tel: 785-864=9118
Email: SDShort@ku.edu

click here for SPSP Poster, Jan 2011

Interests: The effects of social status inequities in adolescent peer relationships and friendships and the acquisition and maintenance of social status.

Thesis title: Friends, Interlopers, and Social Status: A Social Contextual Approach to Friendship Jealousy, Aggression, Victimization, and Loneliness

Office: 10 Fraser Hall
Tel: 785-864-9118
Email: KNStump@ku.edu

Interests:Novel clinical treatments for eating disorders, the prediction of aggression, motivations for aggressive behavior in females, possible links between disordered eating and aggressive behavior.

Thesis title: Omega-3 Fatty Acid and Sleep
Dissertation: Mean Girl Economics: creating demand, eliminating competitors, and building social capital

Awards: Clinical Service Award, 2009

Office:323 Fraser
Email: JProhask@ku.edu
Tel: 913-226-8270

Interests:The evolution of individual differences and personality, evolutionary attitude assessment, all things quant.

Awards: J. Michael Young Opportunity Award

MPA Poster Title: A Categorical Analysis of the Relationship between Protestantism and Evolutionary Understanding and Acceptance

educators in the region.

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UPDATE: Luke is now a graduate student in our Quant Program!

Interests: Evolution, morality, evolutionary attitude assessment.

Awards: Regional Research Award from Psi Chi, J. Michael Young Opportunity Award, KU Undergraduate Research Symposium Best Poster, Dept of Psychology Best Methods recgonition

MPA Poster Title: The Mediating Role of Conservative Self-identity on Associations between Religiosity and both Individual Evolutionary Knowledge and Attitudes toward the Relevance of Evolution

 

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UPDATE: Mark is wrapping up at KU, and currently is roaming England on Study Abroad.