I teach several undergraduate courses including Foundations of Psychology, Seminar in Social Psychology, Seminar in Biological Psychology, and Origins of the Human Mind. I also teach Honors Foundations of Psychology & Honors Social Psychology, both offered through the University Honors Program.

My Ph.D. work focused on the integration of ultimate and proximate explanations of human social-cognitive traits with a specific focus on mate preferences & individual differences in psychometric intelligence, creativity, & other conspicuous behavioral displays.

My teaching interests can be categorized into the following:

1. Neuroscience — evolutionary; social-cognitive; behavioral; neuro-endocrinology; & pathology
2. Hominid evolution — complexity & emergence; adaptationist perspectives; comparative primate brain evolution & social cognition; sexual selection & mate preferences; Darwinian medicine
3. Individual variation in behavior — genetic & epigenetic regulation of neural development; prenatal environmental effects; infant social intuitions & attachment; social influences & tribalism