BussLab

Current Graduate Students

	Website Email Jaime joined the Buss lab in August of 2006. She received her undergraduate degree from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in Psychology (2005). Upon being introduced to Evolutionary Psychology through documentaries on human mating, she has found EP to be an exciting and compelling theoretical lens through which to view human behavior. Her research interests are broad and include topics such as adaptive human preferences for physical characteristics such as waist-to-hip ratio, in accordance with consumer behavior in attempts to forge genetic fitness; and features associated with intrasexual competition among human females, especially conspicuous consumption. She is currently involved in research concerning reproduction expediting and perceptual biases in mating related stimuli.
	Website Email Judith Easton joined the BussLab in August 2006. She received her B.S. from York College of Pennsylvania where her advisor, Dr. PengKwei Chang, introduced her to the field of Evolutionary Psychology. She then went on to earn her M.A. from Dr. Todd Shackelford at Florida Atlantic University. Her research interests are in the area of mating; particularly female mating strategies and jealousy/infidelity. While at FAU, she examined potential mate preference shifts after having children and the clinical disorder of morbid jealousy from an evolutionary perspective. She is currently continuing work on both projects as well as examining potential variations in the contexts of female short term-mating and how females' mate preferences may shift across those contexts. She has also begun a collaboration with Jaime examining mate value trajectories.
	Website Email Diana joined the Buss lab in 2003. As an undergraduate she attended Oglethorpe University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. While in Atlanta, Diana worked at Georgia State University's Language Research Center on spatial cognition research in symbol competent chimps. Diana has conducted two studies with Carin Perilloux and David Buss: one on parental attitudes towards sons and daughters and another study on behaviors related to sexual victimization across the menstrual cycle. Right now Diana is conducting her dissertation research in collaboration with Professor Dan Fessler on how progesterone influences multiple aspects of female psychology.
	Email After earning her B.S. in Psychobiology from UCLA, Cari joined the Buss Lab in the fall of 2007. At UCLA, she was fortunate enough to gain exposure to the evolutionary approach to studying human thoughts and behavior through involvement in the labs and coursework of both Dr. Dan Fessler and Dr. Martie Haselton. Cari has come to appreciate Evolutionary Psychology as a valuable perspective that draws on various disciplines to explain the way we think and act. While she is fascinated by most EP-based inquiries, some of her main research interests lie in areas of mating and female sexuality.
	Email A graduate of Tufts University, David is the newest member of David Buss' EP Gang (as of Fall 2005). He obtained his B.A. in Biology and Spanish, but found his academic calling in Evolutionary Psychology's melting pot mixture of Anthropology, Biology, Psychology, Archaeology, and Economics. His current research interests deal with how humans' sense of morality may have been shaped by natural selection, as well as the unexplored intricacies of mate choice behavior. He looks forward to working in the Buss Lab, and welcomes any interested collaborators to contact him.
	Website Email Carin joined the BussLab in 2004. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Computer Science from Knox College in 2003. During her senior year at Knox she took a course on evolutionary psychology with Dr. Frank McAndrew which refocused her study of psychology. Her research interests center around sexual conflict within the realm of mating. She has conducted large-scale surveys on romantic breakups as well as sexual victimization. She has also conducted two studies with labmate Diana Fleischman: one which examined parental guarding behavior and one which looked at risky behavior over the menstrual cycle. She is currently focused on several studies centered around men's sexual overperception bias.