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Kelly Arbeau, PhD

@karbeau.bsky.social

Associate psych prof, health psychology researcher. BA(UNBSJ), PhD(Alberta). Maritimer on the West Coast.

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Religiosity may function as a mating strategy shaped by disease avoidance psychology Researchers have uncovered evidence that links disease-avoidance motives to religiosity. Rather than tradition or ethnocentrism, the findings point to sexual conservatismβ€”specifically, a preference fo...

@benjamin_zubaly did an interview with @PsyPost about our recent paper in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences:

www.psypost.org/religiosity-...

31.08.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New paper out in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences!

We find evidence that disgust sensitivity leads to religiosity through monogamous sexual attitudes. Calibrated mating goals might functionally shape belief.

w/ @karbeau.bsky.social & Jaime Palmer-Hague

Link to publisher and PDF below!

22.07.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A small story for a Monday night:

A group of students in my History of Psych class devised a game of musical chairs to illustrate the concept of survival of the fittest.

The prize was a box of Kinder eggs…representing the successful reproduction of those fittest.

04.03.2025 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pleased and proud to share that recent honours student Ben has just accepted an offer to do a PhD in evo psych at Michigan.

Appropriately, he is in Denver this weekend presenting his research at SPSP.

22.02.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Were I to have made the credits, it would have been 3.

20.11.2024 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not sure it’s my favourite, but Love Hard was a scream.

20.11.2024 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I *always* want to see Santa, but in this scene my job was shopping.

20.11.2024 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Of course! If you zoom in really far towards the background scenery in this photo, you’ll see me.

20.11.2024 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t need to go on social media to have my worldview challenged I am in theoretical physics I have a new existential crisis daily

18.11.2024 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 26743    πŸ” 2030    πŸ’¬ 367    πŸ“Œ 122

*hands a cookie*

19.11.2024 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trivia:
-I’ve tapped trees and turned the sap into maple syrup
-I make a couple of brief appearances in a Patrick Swayze movie (not that one)
-I’m a PADI certified diver but have never gone diving in the ocean
-On the day I moved to BC, I was rescued from an elevator by the fire department

18.11.2024 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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A small introduction: I am an associate professor, a health psychologist, an eclectic, and a university teacher. Manuscripts currently under review used experimental, correlational, and qualitative designs, respectively, because it’s more fun that way.

Also a kayaker, ballroom dancer, & night owl.

18.11.2024 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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