Kelly Arbeau, PhD

Religiosity may function as a mating strategy shaped by disease avoidance psychology Researchers have uncovered evidence that links disease-avoidance motives to religiosity. Rather than tradition or ethnocentrism, the findings point to sexual conservatism—specifically, a preference fo...

@benjamin_zubaly did an interview with @PsyPost about our recent paper in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences:

www.psypost.org/religiosity-...

New paper out in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences!

We find evidence that disgust sensitivity leads to religiosity through monogamous sexual attitudes. Calibrated mating goals might functionally shape belief.

w/ @karbeau.bsky.social & Jaime Palmer-Hague

Link to publisher and PDF below!

A small story for a Monday night:

A group of students in my History of Psych class devised a game of musical chairs to illustrate the concept of survival of the fittest.

The prize was a box of Kinder eggs…representing the successful reproduction of those fittest.

Pleased and proud to share that recent honours student Ben has just accepted an offer to do a PhD in evo psych at Michigan.

Appropriately, he is in Denver this weekend presenting his research at SPSP.

Were I to have made the credits, it would have been 3.

I’m not sure it’s my favourite, but Love Hard was a scream.

I *always* want to see Santa, but in this scene my job was shopping.

Of course! If you zoom in really far towards the background scenery in this photo, you’ll see me.

I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily

*hands a cookie*

Trivia:
-I’ve tapped trees and turned the sap into maple syrup
-I make a couple of brief appearances in a Patrick Swayze movie (not that one)
-I’m a PADI certified diver but have never gone diving in the ocean
-On the day I moved to BC, I was rescued from an elevator by the fire department

A small introduction: I am an associate professor, a health psychologist, an eclectic, and a university teacher. Manuscripts currently under review used experimental, correlational, and qualitative designs, respectively, because it’s more fun that way.

Also a kayaker, ballroom dancer, & night owl.