Joseph Kilgallen

Phd Student @ UC Santa Barbara 👨‍💻🏄‍♂️ 🌊 | Human Behavioral Ecology, Women’s Empowerment, Gender norms, Cross-cultural collaborations | 🇹🇿 🇺🇸

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

Our study reveals a critical issue: how we measure beliefs matters.

To truly understand attitudes toward IPV, we need indirect and mixed-methods approaches—not just self-reports.

Curious? Read the full paper here: https://t.co/C6Wz7VSpW1

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

A surprising pattern in global health research: Women often report greater acceptance of intimate partner violence (IPV) than men.

This has been widely interpreted as women internalizing inequitable gender norms.

Our recent study asks what if that conclusion is wrong?

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

✅ Self-reports: Women appear more accepting of IPV than men.

❌ Indirect reports: Men actually express greater acceptance of IPV than women.

This suggests self-reports underestimate men’s true attitudes.

A major challenge for research relying on direct questioning.

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

Many thanks to my advisor @davidwlawson,
@mgurven, @NicoleAlineSci and @Kanyawera21, as well as our collaborators at the Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Research in Mwanza, Tanzania @nimrmwanza !

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨
“You Are Married by the Woman” explores how men’s support for women’s empowerment is understood in a fast-urbanizing Tanzanian community.

If you're interested in gender, masculinity, and social change, check it out!
https://t.co/sGot5uvhH5

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

📌 Key Findings:
🔹 Young men express supportive views but often fail to translate them into action.
🔹 Elders support women in ways that reinforce male authority.
🔹 Women prioritize practical over abstract rights-based support
🔹 Urbanization is reshaping gender norms

[Eric Schniter @esworldwide]

Looking forward to seeing fellow evolutionary scientists at C-WESS https://t.co/On2opRY6IQ hosted by UCSB this year.
I'll be presenting this poster on Saturday about the Evolution of Primate Vocal Repertoires:

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

@HaneulJang_kr @WennerGrenOrg Yay! Congrats Haneul!

[Evolutionary Human Sciences @Journal_EHS]

Newly Published: Misperception of peer beliefs reinforces inequitable gender norms among Tanzanian men | Evolutionary Human Sciences https://t.co/ibY0jgwR1l

By David W. Lawson, Zhian Chen et al

#AcademicTwitter #Cultural_Evolution #Gender_Norms #Social_Norms #Global_Health

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

@TeamLiquid @Liquid_casper @Liquid_casper is a scammer and stole my money wouldn’t recommend doing business with him

[Ruth Mace @tavitonst]

Misperception of peer beliefs reinforces inequitable gender norms among Tanzanian men by @DavidWLawson et al (one of the first out from our forthcoming collection on Researching Sensitive Topics) | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - https://t.co/e5Tq9aIgdI

[Kimberly Luddy @luddyka]

Adapting to Adversity: Exploring cancer in the animal kingdom
By @amy_boddy

Cancer is a consequence of multicellularity.

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

PhD Data Collection ✅

Quantitative surveys and in-depth interviews w/ young & elder men and women examined ramifications for men who break gender norms in support of women's empowerment

Thank you @NSF & @nimrmwanza for making this possible, excited to share results soon!

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

@NSF @nimrmwanza @IAS_UCSB For more information on the project see: https://t.co/qFTTEKMULM

[Joseph Kilgallen @JosephKilgallen]

Successful week of data collection for my @NSF funded PhD research, a collaboration between @nimrmwanza and @IAS_UCSB examining the ramifications for men who break gender norms in support of women's empowerment!

[Michael Gurven @MGurven]

Congrats to Elizabeth Agey @AnthroLiz on an impressive PhD defense, deconstructing mate “choice” in arranged marriage context in Nepal. X-cultural, experimental and in-depth fieldwork. A model PhD!!

[Robert Barton @howbrainsevolve]

Graduates interested in pursuing research in evolutionary anthropology - join us in lovely Durham on a one-year Masters by Research programme. This potentially provides a great bridge to a PhD position. https://t.co/YRIxECfipy

[Cristiano Parmeggiani @CriParmeggiani]

If we think about inbreeding, it is usually a given that it is avoided at population level. But check this out! @LeonieBiologist, fellow PhD student at @IAS_UCSB, just published a very cool paper showing how this tendency is reversed in a fish population!
https://t.co/cPlydhjoka