RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am broadly interested in the process of sexual selection and in a variety of topics that typically fall within its purview, including mating systems, sexual conflict, direct and indirect sexual competition, mating strategies, mating effort allocation and mechanisms of mate preference and choice.
My graduate research focused on exploring predictors of strategic variation in women and on how cues of apparent receptivity impact mate preference decisions, elements that are both more behavioural and situation- and dyad-specific than previous studies of human mate preference have focused on. Both of these lines of study have provoked further questions and I intend to continue exploring them.
I am also interested in social consequences of human mate choice, with the prediction that such consequences may prove to be important in regulating the strength and nature of choice, and in developing predictive models of human mate preference and mating tactics.
I have conducted research on behaviour in both human and nonhuman animals, but my graduate thesis focused on my work with Homo sapiens, as does my current research.