Martie Haselton
RECIPIENT OF CSW FACULTY DEVELOPMENT GRANT PRESENTS
RESEARCH ON HOW OVULATORY CYCLES AFFECT BEHAVIOR
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On April 10, Martie Haselton, Associate Professor in the Departments of Communications Studies and Psychology, will present her research on “The Hidden Side of Female Desire: What Ovulatory Cycle Research Reveals.” Her research addresses communication, social inference, courtship, and human mating from an evolutionary perspective. Much of the work conducted at her Evolutionary Psychology Lab is dedicated to testing and refining error management theory: “natural selection will often design judgment and decision making adaptations that are systematically biased. These adaptations are not designed to be maximally accurate; rather, they are designed to err in the direction of lower survival or reproductive cost.” Current areas of study at the lab include adaptive biases in social judgment, ovulatory shifts in women’s preferences, thoughts, and behaviors, evolved relationship defenses, and flirtation, sexual signaling, and cross-sex communication. Haselton’s research has been featured on NPR and in magazines and newspapers around the world. Haselton is also Co-Editor-in-chief of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. |
