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Kaelyn Sabree
@kaelynsabree.bsky.social
Social Psych PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan | sites.lsa.umich.edu/esplab/ | ASU alumna 🌵🌞| #firstgen | she/her
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New work on resource possession + hierarchy regulation!

Do the faces on the left and right look different to you?

They were generated using a reverse correlation task by UK ps asked to visualize “poor people”:

🟩 Generated by egalitarians (low SDO)
🟥 Generated by anti-egalitarians (high SDO)
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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If you’re in Ann Arbor on Oct 24th, come out to the library for the first Evolution in the Public Eye award address featuring Ed Hagen. Refreshments provided!
Very excited to announce the inaugural Evolution in the Public Eye Award Ceremony and Lecture. Our first winner, Ed Hagen, will be speaking about "The Evolution of 'Recreational' Drug Use" on Oct. 24 @ 5:30pm at the Ann Arbor District Library. More info: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evoluti...
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Very excited to announce the inaugural Evolution in the Public Eye Award Ceremony and Lecture. Our first winner, Ed Hagen, will be speaking about "The Evolution of 'Recreational' Drug Use" on Oct. 24 @ 5:30pm at the Ann Arbor District Library. More info: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evoluti...
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'!

🗓️ Dec 4 & 5
📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr
💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more

Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...
August 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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New paper from Qi, Vul and Powell introduces a clever way to measure a participant's Welfare-Tradeoff Ratio in a single trial: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
July 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I had a great time at HBES 2025 @humbehevosoc.bsky.social! I presented my work on a method we developed that allows us to predict who people will choose as partners 3 months into the future—participants chose romantic partners on their own, in their own mating markets—with zero intervention from us!
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Another badge for the collection! Had a great time at #HBES2025 :) 📍Atlantic City, NJ
June 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The #HBES2025 Postdoctoral Award (best paper/talk by someone <5 years post-PhD) goes to Ahra Ko for her work on “Politics, Pathogens, and Perception: Tracking Adaptive Shifts in the Behavioral Immune System in Real Time”. Congratulations Ahra!
June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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👋🏻Are you a woman and/or member of the SGM community working in the evolutionary human sciences? We've relaunched W+EBS (@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social) to provide mentorship, networking, and advocacy at major EHS conferences, including HBES, CES, and EHBEA! 👇🏻Will you be at HBES in 2 weeks? 👀 If so... (1/2)
May 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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No fools, on April 1st, we welcome Diego Guevara Beltrán to the EHAP speaker series. Come hear his talk about why people cooperate.
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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🤗 This *will* be a great talk! @chops310.bsky.social joins @rcgd-isr.bsky.social and the Katz-Newcomb colloquium series to give a crash course on optimism, where it comes from, and whether it's a source of resilience or delusion. events.umich.edu/event/134094 @daviddunning6.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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For the final project in my "Shamanism & Witchcraft" course this past quarter, I gave students a huge amount of freedom: any medium, any tech (including as much AI as they needed), as long as they explored content from the class. I love what they produced.

Here's a selection:
March 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Ho et al. (2025) review three decades of work on social dominance orientation (SDO), which represents "individual differences in the preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality."

BSky authors: @nourkteily.bsky.social, @jsskeffington.bsky.social, @lottethomsendk.bsky.social
(PDF) Ho, Kteily, Sheehy-Skeffington, and Thomsen, Social Dominance Orientation, IN PRESS AESP
PDF | On Mar 21, 2025, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington and others published Ho, Kteily, Sheehy-Skeffington, and Thomsen, Social Dominance Orientation, IN PRESS AESP | Find, read and cite all the research ...
www.researchgate.net
March 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Today at 4pm, EHAP is excited to welcome Annie Wertz to our speaker series. Please join us for her talk on infants & plants!
March 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Last, some highlights from the #EPatSPSP2025 datablitzes:

1) A seriously cool talk by @wnmerrell.bsky.social about how we infer clustered (patchy) resource distribution based on an area’s hierarchicalness (& vice versa). Who knew lobstering could be so socially complex?! #SPSP2025
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Next up, @joshackman.bsky.social reminded us that disease remains a potent threat post-pandemic, and has been throughout human history - to the point that we’ve got psychological mechanisms dedicated to preventing and coping with it. (1/5) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
February 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Lots of lab member content at #SPSP2025! Posters from @kaelynsabree.bsky.social on "Ecology-driven Stereotypes," Savannah Adams on "Moral Judgments of Concealers of Infectious Illness," and Nicole Li on "Cultural Variations in Emotion Regulation through the Body: the Role of Cognitive Styles"...
February 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Whether we're foraging for food or hunting for houses, humans expect resources to be clumped. What are the implications of this'patchiness psychology' for intergroup relations? Excited to share new geospatial approaches tackling this❓at #SPSP2025 this week--stop by and say hi if you're in town!
February 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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We’re transitioning the University of Michigan EHAP account to Bluesky! Follow if you’re interested in evolution and behavior, and stay tuned for an announcement about our Winter speaker series. umehap.bsky.social
UM_EHAP (@umehap.bsky.social)
Evolution and Human Adaptation Program at The University of Michigan | sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/
umehap.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The 2025 EHAP Speaker Series is coming! We are thrilled to feature early-career researchers from a variety of fields doing work on evolution and behavior. If you're in the area, check out the talks. sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/
February 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM