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Recent Accomplishments of Graduate Students



Recent Empirical Publications and Book Chapters

Pham, M.N., & Shackelford, T.K. (2013). Oral sex as infidelity-detection. Personality and Individual Differences,54, 792-795.

Pham, M.N., & Shackelford, T.K. (in press). The relationship between objective sperm competition risk and men’s copulatory interest is moderated by partner’s time spent with other men. Human Nature.

Pham, M.N., & Shackelford, T.K. (in press). Oral sex as mate retention behavior. Personality and Individual Differences.

Vonk, J., Jett, S. E., Mosteller, K.W. & Galvan, M. (in press). Natural category discrimination in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at three levels of abstraction. Learning and Behavior.

Zeigler-Hill, V., & Holden, C. J. (in press). Self-esteem and psychopathology: The connections between feelings of self-worth and psychological adjustment. In D. S. Stoyanov (Ed.), Psychopathology: Theory, perspectives, and future approaches. Hauppauge, NY: Nova.


Recent Commentaries, Reviews, and Other Publications

McCoy, M.G., & Shackelford., T.K. (2012). A textbook about evolution, for the general reader? A review of Carl Zimmer, The tangled bank: An introduction to evolution. Human Ethology Bulletin, 27, 1-3.

McCoy, M. G., & Shackelford, T.K. (2013). No such thing as genuine forgiveness? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 28-29.

Memering, S.L., & Shackelford, T.K. (in press). A view from the feathered side. Review of Tim Birkhead’s Bird Sense. Human Ethology Bulletin.

Memering, S.L., Weekes-Shackelford, & Shackelford, T.K. (2012). Magic at any age. A review of Richard Dawkins, The magic of reality: How we know what’s really true. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 538-541.

Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T.K. (2012). The human and non-human life of insects. A review of Marlene Zuk, Sex on six legs: Lessons on life, love, and language from the insect world. Evolutionary Psychology, 10, 617-620.


Sela, Y., & Shackelford, T.K. (in press). Evolution. In R. Cautin and S. Lilienfeld (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.


Recent Presentations

Aradhye, C., Vonk, J. & Brothers, B. (2013, May). Are mate preferences related to personal life values? Paper presented at the 85th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

Aradhye, C., Vonk, J. & Brothers, B. (2013, May). Congruence with peer and caregiver attitudes and beliefs as a function of religiosity. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

Arvanitis, J. N., Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2013, May). The relationship between risk of sperm competition and male copulatory interest is moderated by the amount of time their partner spends with other men. Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

Brothers, B.,  Vonk, J. & Aradhye, C. (2013, May). Religiosity and information seeking across domains. Paper presented at the 85th Annual Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

Ehrke, A. D., Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2013, May). Cunnilingus-induced orgasm as a male sperm-retention strategy. Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

Galvan, M., & Vonk, J. (2013, March). Foraging and spatial memory in captive grizzly bears. Paper presented at the 20th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, CO3. Melbourne, FL.

Holden, C. J., & Zeigler-Hill, V. (2013, January) Fragile self-esteem and personality features. Poster session presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Fourteenth Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Memering, S.L., Shackelford, T.K., & Weekes-Shackelford, V.A. (2013, May). Are young women at special risk of rape-murder across victim-offender relationships? Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

Montrosse, B. E., Holden, C. J., & Cunningham, J. D. (2013, April) Use of the MacArthur Network student engagement measure in a rural educational program evaluation. Paper Session Presented at American Education Research Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Noser, A., & Zeigler-Hill, V. (2013, May). Fragile self-esteem, body image discrepancy, and disordered eating: A moderated mediation study. Poster to be presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Pham, M. N., & Shackelford, T. K. (2013, May). Testing the infidelity-detection hypothesis of oral sex. Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

Pollock, N.C., Holden, C. J., & Zeigler-Hill, V. (2013, May) Self-esteem instability and personality. Poster to be presented at the meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Sela, Y., Weekes-Shackelford, V.A., & Shackelford, T.K. (2013, May). Female copulatory orgasm and male partner attractiveness. Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference. Chicago, IL.

Sela, Y., Weekes-Shackelford, V.A., & Shackelford, T.K. (2013, January). Female copulatory orgasm and male partner attractiveness. Evolutionary Psychology Preconference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA.

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