News from the lab

September 2009: Dr. David Buss's new book, Why Women Have Sex, co-written with Dr. Cindy Meston, comes out September 29th.

August 2009: Diana Fleischman has been hired by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as an Experimental Social Psychologist. She will be working with Robert Aunger and Val Curtis applying evolutionary psychology to the problem of promoting hygiene behaviors in developing countries.

April 2009: The BussLab got the chance to meet with Michael Shermer during his visit to Austin as part of a panel on scientific vs. religious explanations of life.

March 2009: The work on romantic relationship termination by Carin Perilloux and Dr. David Buss was quoted in an article, The Science of Heartbreak, in the March issue of Men's Health magazine.

February 2009: In honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth), American Psychologist published a special Darwin issue in which David Buss published his article, The Great Struggles of Life: Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Psychology.

January 2009: Congratulations to former BussLab member Joongwhan Jeon on his new tenure-track position at Kyung-hee University in Korea.

January 2009: Congratulations to former BussLab member Barry (Friedman) Kuhle on his new tenure-track position at the University of Scranton.

January 2009: Congratulations to former BussLab member Todd Shackelford on his recent election to Fellow of APS.

March 2008: The BussLab and the LiLab obtained an exclusive meeting with Richard Dawkins during his visit to Austin!
We were able to discuss our research with him and receive his comments and questions.

July 2007:The Meston-Buss article "Why Humans Have Sex" was featured in the New York Times on July 31, 2007, and became the most emailed and blogged article of the day.

June 2007:The third edition of David Buss's Evolutionary Psychology textbook was released.

June 2007: Congratulations to Joongwhan Jeon for receiving his doctorate.

December 2006: Congratulations to Sarah E. Hill for receiving her doctorate (and on the birth of her new daughter, June).

July 2005: The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, edited by David Buss, was released.

June 2005: Congratulations to Joshua Duntley for receiving his doctorate.

June 2005: The annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference hosted by Professors David Buss and Norman Li was highly attended and universally enjoyed. Some photos from the conference have been posted here.

May 2005: David Buss's new book, The Murderer Next Door was released.

2004: The second edition of Randy Larson and David Buss's Personality textbook was released.

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