Jaimie Arona Krems
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Jaimie Arona Krems is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Her research focuses on three related streams: (1) friendship; (2) female sociality (both friendship and conflict) and women; and (3) evolutionary approaches to classic topics within social psychology---stigma, stereoptying and prejudice, trust, and well-being. In taking this approach, Krems has been able to create cohesive and generative new theories of fat stigma, prejudice against atheists, and what activities make us self-actualized.
Krems' work on female sociality is among the first to explore questions such as "How do women defend themselves against same-sex aggression?" Her work has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Nature Human Behavior, and Evolution and Human Behavior, among others. She has been the recipient of multiple research and mentorship honors. Krems received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University, her M.Sc. in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and her A.B. in Classics from Bryn Mawr College.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Close Relationships
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Gender Psychology
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Interpersonal Processes
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
- Social Cognition
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Abortion, Friendships, and Dad Bods
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1:30:18 Abortion, Friendships, and Dad Bods
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1:02:54 Female Friendships, Stereotypes, and Religion and Monogamy
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1:09:56 Restrictive Mating Strategies
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1:39:59 Female Cooperation
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1:10:51 Tackling Friendship: Appraising, Finding, Getting, and Keeping Partners
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13:00 The Utility of Jealousy
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57:08 Friendship, Jealousy, and For the 100th Time
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2:05:58 The Science of Friendship
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Journal Articles:
- David-Barrett, T., Rotkirch, A., Carney, J., Behncke Izquierdo, I., Krems, J. A., Townley, D., McDaniell, E., Byrne-Smith, A., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2015). Women favor dyadic relationships, but men prefer clubs: Cross-cultural evidence from social networking. PLOS ONE, 10(3), e0118329.
- Krems, J. A., & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2013). Clique size and network characteristics in hyperlink cinema: Constraints of evolved psychology. Human Nature, 24(4), 414-429.
- Krems, J. A., Dunbar, R. I. M., & Neuberg, S. L. (2016). Something to talk about: Are conversation sizes constrained by mental modeling abilities? Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(6), 423-428.
- Krems, J. A., Kenrick, D. T., & Neel, R. (2017). Individual perceptions of self-actualization: What functional motives are linked to fulfilling one's full potential? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(9), 1337-1352.
- Krems, J. A., Neel, R., Neuberg, S. L., Puts, D. A., & Kenrick, D. T. (2016). Women selectively guard their (desirable) mates from ovulating women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(4), 551-573.
- Krems, J. A., Neuberg, S. L., Filip-Crawford, G., & Kenrick, D. T. (2015). Is she angry? (Sexually desirable) women "see" anger on female faces. Psychological Science, 26(11), 1655-1663.
- Moon, J. W., Krems, J. A., & Cohen, A. B. (2018). Religious targets are trusted because they are viewed as slow life-history strategists. Psychological Science, 29(6), 947-960.
Other Publications:
- Kenrick, D. T., & Krems, J. A. (2018). Well-being, self-actualization, and fundamental motives: An evolutionary perspective. In E. Diener, S. Oishi, & L. Tay (Eds.), e-Handbook of subjective well-being. Online resource: Nobascholar.
- Krems, J. A., & Varnum, M. E. W. (2017). More than just climate: The role of other ecological dimensions in explaining human aggression across societies [commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e89.
Courses Taught:
- Advanced Research in Social Psychology: Grant Writing
- Advanced Social Psychology
- Evolutionary Social Science
- Social Cognition: Mating, Morality, and other Mysteries
- Social Psychology
- Stereotyping and Prejudice in Social Cognition
Jaimie Arona Krems
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90095-1563
United States of America
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