Principal Investigator

Daniel Sznycer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University, and Visiting Professor at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He conducts research on value computation, emotion, communication, and morality and institutions. He has multiple lines of cross-cultural evidence on shame, pride, compassion, and envy, and their roles in altruism, cooperation, social exclusion, and conflict. 

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Graduate Students

Laureon Merrie. Her research interests are in female sociality, and she pairs both evolutionary and feminist perspectives to explore overlooked aspects of women's behavior, including female cooperation and competition. Given the importance of information (e.g., secrets, gossip) in female social relationships, Laureon's recent work has focused on understanding the rules governing the sharing of information, and how the sharing of privileged information is perceived. 

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Nina Rodriguez is a graduate student in the Experimental Psychology PhD program at Oklahoma State University. She received her MA at California State University Fullerton where she conducted research on personality and status motivation from an adaptationist perspective. Current research interests range from female competition and sociality, status acquisition, personality variation, and the influence of emotion and motivation on behavior.  

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Yoonsuh Nike Wee is a graduate student working with Daniel Sznycer and Jaimie Krems. She received a BA and MA in psychology from Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). Her research focuses on how the mind computes values and how evaluative systems interface with emotion systems. Her research draws on social psychology, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral ecology. Outside of the lab, she enjoys cooking and reading comics and poetry. 

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Hongming Chen is a graduate student working with Amanda Morris and Daniel Sznycer. He received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and M.Ed. in Child Studies from Vanderbilt University. He is generally interested in parental and familial influences on childhood emotional development as well as the roles of cognition in developing emotional skills (e.g., recognition and management). In his free time, he enjoys music, movies, and shows.

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Affiliated Faculty

Jaimie Krems (Department of Psychology, UCLA) is a social psychologist with interdisciplinary training. Her research draws on theoretical perspectives from social psychology, cognitive and evolutionary anthropology, relationship science, and animal behavior to investigate how people create and navigate their social worlds.

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Alumni