Kelly Arbeau, PhD

Associate psych prof, health psychology researcher. BA(UNBSJ), PhD(UAlberta). West Coast. She/her. Views & 👓 mine /avatar @blackmudpuppy /cover Miramichi River

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

Note that this in itself is a well-replicated finding. At least a dozen studies show that when researchers replicate qualitative research, or re-analyze it, they come to basically identical themes. There is nothing special about qualitative research with respect to replicability.

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

We worked with @HaguePhd to test 3 explanations for the connection between religiosity and disgust sensitivity.

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

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

https://t.co/lOrFJuoHzI

[Benjamin Zubaly @benjamin_zubaly]

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/ @HealthPsychKell & @HaguePhd

Link to publisher and PDF below!

[Benjamin Zubaly @benjamin_zubaly]

Why do our friendships feel so vital?

I wrote a short piece for @JessicaDAyers’ lab blog. It discusses why evolutionary psychology is critical for understanding complex social phenomena like friendship and provides an introduction to evolutionary social psychology.

Read it here!

https://t.co/rpjpcHlyRr

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

@balisally Oh I’m sorry! 😢

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

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.

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

@GabrielaLSuarez Congratulations, Dr. Suarez!

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

@balisally It has looked like nighttime since 2:30pm.

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

@balisally Thank you very much! Ben did so much to make this happen.

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

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.

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

@FerasBasal I am a psychologist and I agree with you!

[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

Dr Ally Louks is in the building.

Cambridge PhD student Dr @DrAllyLouks from @Peterhouse_Cam went viral last year when she posted a photo of her thesis on the politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose.

Here's her story about what happened next 👇

[Amber Mac @ambermac]

Good for the Canadian @cancersociety. The way to deal with the firehose of BS online is not by staying quiet and hoping it goes away.

Maybe that approach worked 10 years ago, but we live in different times now; people will get hurt if we don't do our best to quickly correct misinformation.

[💀💢 @gugukcoklat]

made me remembered again about this

(original post by @/mathewsmarz)

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

@ravenscimaven The pink/purple glasses are a terrific shape and size, but it looks like they are missing nose pads to fine-tune the fit. They are likely also heavier than the others. Lower left have nose pads and the 2nd best size and shape.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.”

HUMANS!

[Kelly Arbeau, PhD @HealthPsychKell]

@mattgreencomedy @MTakeshisan The way I exclaimed out loud in surprise watching tonight’s episode on PBS and spotting you at the police station reception desk!

[Benjamin Zubaly @benjamin_zubaly]

One of the worst ways to experience regression to the mean is when one of your favorite artists releases a new album.