Keelah applies an evolutionary psychological perspective to social behavior, with an emphasis on the formation and maintenance of friendships.
What do we want from friends, and why do men and women sometimes want different things? How do we hold on to friends when someone else comes along? Keelah’s work treats friendship as an alliance worth studying with the same rigor as romance or family.
How do threats like scarcity change the punishments people endorse? Do the stereotypes we hold sometimes originate from circumstance rather than group membership? This work connects evolved social reasoning to legal decision-making.
Williams, K. E. G., Li, Y., Chung, E., & Ayers, J.
Evolution and Human Behavior , special issue on friendship
Krems, J. A., Merrie, L. A., Rodriguez, N. N., & Williams, K. E. G.
Evolution and Human Behavior , 45(5), 106608
Williams, K. E. G., Krems, J. A., Ayers, J., & Rankin, A.
Evolution and Human Behavior , 43(1), 44–52
Krems, J. A., Williams, K. E. G., Merrie, L. A., Kenrick, D. T., & Aktipis, A.
Evolution and Human Behavior
Krems, J. A., Williams, K. E. G., Kenrick, D. T., & Aktipis, A.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 120(4), 977–1012
Neuberg, S. L., Williams, K. E. G., Sng, O., Pick, C. M., Neel, R., Krems, J. A., & Pirlott, A. G.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology , 62, 245–304
Williams, K. E. G., Votruba, A. M., Neuberg, S. L., & Saks, M. J.
Evolution and Human Behavior
Williams, K. E. G., Sng, O., & Neuberg, S. L.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 113(2), 310–315
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Keelah works with students on every stage of the research process, from study design to publication.
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