Human Sociality Lab
@socialitylab.bsky.social
We're the HSL, a lab of integrative scientific anthropologists passionate about basic plus applied work. We span Penn State and Washington State 🐾 and work primarily in the US 🌎 and East and Southern Africa 🌍 www.socialitylab.org
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How climate adaptation and cooperative networks affect people and the resources they manage? 🐟 How changed livelihoods change health? 🩺 This is what we do at the Human Sociality Lab. 🧵
We're so excited for @kris-smith.bsky.social -- our WSU + PSU lab is keeping its WSU roots strong!! Congratulations Prof Smith!! 🎉
I'm excited to announce I'll be returning to WSU Anthropology this Fall as an assistant professor! I know these announcements are a little weird these days, but I'm thrilled to be joining a great department with wonderful colleagues. I'm looking forward to this new chapter in my academic career
March 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We're so excited for @kris-smith.bsky.social -- our WSU + PSU lab is keeping its WSU roots strong!! Congratulations Prof Smith!! 🎉
Is us vs them thinking inevitable? 👥 No, and understanding why it happens can help us push back against it, even if in local ways. In a Q&A, Anne offers some ideas for what we can do 👇
Who has what, what we’ve heard, past experiences: these are all factors that (1) contribute to us vs them thinking, and (2) that we can address – even if in small, local ways – to reduce it. Read my hopeful Q&A with Francisco Tutella (Penn State sci comm) for more: www.psu.edu/news/researc...
Q&A: Is it always ‘us vs them’? Researcher explains why flexibility is key | Penn State University
In this Q&A, Anne Pisor, assistant professor of anthropology at Penn State and Social Science Research Institute co-funded faculty member, discussed her recently published paper on the “us versus them...
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March 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Is us vs them thinking inevitable? 👥 No, and understanding why it happens can help us push back against it, even if in local ways. In a Q&A, Anne offers some ideas for what we can do 👇
How do social relationships spanning communities help or hurt conservation? 🐠 Kris, Anne, and our collaborators in Africa and Europe find that long-distance relationships increase participation in conservation behavior 👇
How do we get people to work across community boundaries to achieve conservation goals? In a new paper in @consletters.bsky.social, we show that long-distance friends in other communities encourage people to participate in managing natural resources conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵
Long‐distance Friends and Collective Action in Fisheries Management
Much received wisdom in the conservation literature is that individual connections across community boundaries undercut natural resource management. However, when multiple communities access the same...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
How do social relationships spanning communities help or hurt conservation? 🐠 Kris, Anne, and our collaborators in Africa and Europe find that long-distance relationships increase participation in conservation behavior 👇
How climate adaptation and cooperative networks affect people and the resources they manage? 🐟 How changed livelihoods change health? 🩺 This is what we do at the Human Sociality Lab. 🧵
March 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How climate adaptation and cooperative networks affect people and the resources they manage? 🐟 How changed livelihoods change health? 🩺 This is what we do at the Human Sociality Lab. 🧵