Human Sociality Lab

We're so excited for @kris-smith.bsky.social -- our WSU + PSU lab is keeping its WSU roots strong!! Congratulations Prof Smith!! 🎉

Is us vs them thinking inevitable? 👥 No, and understanding why it happens can help us push back against it, even if in local ways. In a Q&A, Anne offers some ideas for what we can do 👇

How do social relationships spanning communities help or hurt conservation? 🐠 Kris, Anne, and our collaborators in Africa and Europe find that long-distance relationships increase participation in conservation behavior 👇

Want to know more about what we do? Here -- we'll repost some recent papers and media from directors @annepisor.bsky.social and @kris-smith.bsky.social 👀

Hello world! We're the HSL, a lab of integrative scientific anthropologists passionate about basic plus applied work. We span Penn State and Washington State 🐾 and work primarily in the US 🌎 and East and Southern Africa 🌍.

How climate adaptation and cooperative networks affect people and the resources they manage? 🐟 How changed livelihoods change health? 🩺 This is what we do at the Human Sociality Lab. 🧵