Projects

I am currently involved in a number of projects. A selection includes:

• A five year ERC Starting Grant funded project, The Human Behavioral Immune System: Consequences for Health and Innovation. The project involves testing basic aspects of our anti-pathogen psychology, including how pathogen-avoidance affects our health psychology, our food psychology, and our attitudes toward innovations.
• With Annika Karinen and Reinout de Vries: Testing accuracy in assessing others’ disgust sensitivity.
• With Catherine Molho and Daniel Balliet: Investigating how emotional responses (e.g., disgust versus anger) to anti-social behaviors are differentially associated with punishment tactics (e.g., direct versus indirect aggression).
• With Cagla Cinar: Better understanding how food neophobia varies across meat and plant categories.
• With Paola Perone: Investigating the effects of hunger on reactions to pathogen cues.
• With Florian van Leeuwen, Yoel Inbar, and Michael Bang Peterson: Testing how pathogen avoidance motives relate to prejudice against gay men, lesbian women, and other sexual minorities.

 

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Biography

After completing my bachelor studies in social psychology at Arizona State University, I enrolled in the evolutionary psychology Ph.D. program at the University of New Mexico in 2004. The program offered an interdisciplinary training across the evolutionary behavioral sciences housed within anthropology, biology, and psychology departments. Then, after completing my Ph.D. in 2009, I worked as a postdoc in health psychology under the advisement of Angela Bryan. I started as Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at VU University in 2011 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. I teach courses on research methodology, statistics, and evolutionary approaches to human behavior. I also manage the Evolutionary Social and Organizational Psychology (EVSOP) lab group, where researchers from my department, from other departments at the VU (e.g., biology), and from other universities in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany visit to discuss and enrich research ideas inspired by evolutionary theory.

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Research interests

My research interests are described in detail here: http://www.joshtybur.com/research/

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Links

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Recent publications

	Citations
CE Ashton-James, JM Tybur, V Grießer & D Costa (2019) Stereotypes about surgeon warmth and competence: The role of surgeon gender. PloS one 14 (2), e0211890
NJ Van Doesum, RE de Vries, AAJ Blokland, JM Hill, DM Kuhlman & ... (2019) Social mindfulness: Prosocial the active way. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-11
T Ji, JM Tybur & M van Vugt (2019) Generalized or Origin-Specific Out-Group Prejudice?: The Role of Temporary and Chronic Pathogen-Avoidance Motivation in Intergroup Relations. Evolutionary Psychology 17 (1), 1474704919826851
RA Klein, M Vianello, F Hasselman, BG Adams, RB Adams Jr, S Alper & ... (2018) Many Labs 2: Investigating variation in replicability across samples and settings. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 1 (4), 443-490	65
H Ijzerman, R Klein, M Vianello, F Hasselman, B Adams, R Adams & ... (2018) Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 1 (4), 443-490
G Palomo-Vélez, JM Tybur & M van Vugt (2018) Unsustainable, unhealthy, or disgusting? Comparing different persuasive messages against meat consumption. Journal of Environmental Psychology 58, 63-71
BC Jones, AC Hahn, CI Fisher, H Wang, M Kandrik, AJ Lee, JM Tybur & ... (2018) Reply to Fleischman and Fessler's (2018) comment on" Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust: Testing the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis". Evolution and Human Behavior 39 (4), 470-471
BC Jones, AC Hahn, CI Fisher, H Wang, M Kandrik, AJ Lee, JM Tybur & ... (2018) Reprint of Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust: testing the compensatory prophylaxis hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior 39 (4), 464-467
J Billingsley, D Lieberman & JM Tybur (2018) Sexual disgust trumps pathogen disgust in predicting voter behavior during the 2016 us presidential election. Evolutionary Psychology 16 (2), 1474704918764170	3
JM Tybur, Ç Çınar, AK Karinen & P Perone (2018) Why do people vary in disgust?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 …	2
D Balliet, JM Tybur, J Wu, C Antonellis & PAM Van Lange (2018) Political Ideology, Trust, and Cooperation: In-group Favoritism among Republicans and Democrats during a US National Election. Journal of Conflict Resolution 62 (4), 797-818	8
BC Jones, AC Hahn, CI Fisher, H Wang, M Kandrik, AJ Lee, JM Tybur & ... (2018) Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust: testing the compensatory prophylaxis hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior 39 (2), 166-169	21
JM Ackerman, JM Tybur & CR Mortensen (2018) Infectious disease and imperfections of self-image. Psychological science 29 (2), 228-241	6
C Cinar, JM Tybur & AK Karinen (2018) Neophobia towards different types of food: Sex differences and disgust across meats and plants.: Poster session presented at the Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE).
C Cinar, JM Tybur & AK Karinen (2018) Multidimensionality of food neophobia: Variation across meats and plants.: Poster session presented at the 30th Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) Conference.
L Fan, JM Tybur & L Xia (2018) Does Agreeableness Dictate Violence? The Relationship between Interpersonal Self-support and Aggression in Chinese Sample.
JM Tybur, C Molho, DP Balliet, N Strohminger & V Kumar (2018) Moralized disgust versus disgusting immorality: An adaptationist perspective.. The Moral Psychology of Disgust, 11-27	1
D Balliet, JM Tybur & PAM Van Lange (2017) Functional interdependence theory: An evolutionary account of social situations. Personality and Social Psychology Review 21 (4), 361-388	37
TR Kupfer & JM Tybur (2017) Pathogen disgust and interpersonal personality. Personality and Individual Differences 116, 379-384	7
JM Tybur & CD Navarrete (2017) INTERRUPTING BIAS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. Politics of Social Psychology

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