Jaimie Arona Krems
@JaimieKrems
Assoc Prof @UCLA. Director, UCLA Center for Friendship Research. Friendship, women, the social mind. Philly. @BrynMawrCollege•@UniofOxford•@ASU•@ocean_okstate
Big personal news: I’m thrilled to be joining the Department of Psychology at @UCLA this Fall!! Go Bruins! All LA advice welcome!👇
Ecstatic to be on @EPthepod with @DavidPinsof and @DavePietrasz. A rare chance to talk in depth about my work, especially with such exceptional colleagues. Highly recommend their other episodes too!
A new episode is up! In this one, we talk to @Mike_Moncrieff about terrorism, his studies of ethnic conflict, and the drag queen phenomenon. podbean.com/ew/pb-xa3zf-18… youtu.be/gEL1V0SmPDI?si… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…
Beyond The Evolution vs Learning Fallacy. I've long argued that this false dichotomy gets in the way of understanding language, cognition, and human nature. In a new article in American Psychologist, @LaithAlShawaf carefully examines & refutes the fallacy, with examples.…
Me in a Waymo… …and what happens when people see the Waymo
1. A lot of speculation about infidelity since yesterday. Here are some important points about who (commits it), why (it matters) & how (to affair proof your marriage). First: Who cheats more, men or women? ✔️20% of men 👨🏽 ✔️13% of women 👩🏽 admitted in one national survey:
Coldplay accidentally exposed an alleged affair between Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his colleague Kristin Cabot at one of their recent concerts.
📢 Job Opportunity! The University of Pittsburgh is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate to work with Professor Machery on his new project, Philosophy for Better Minds. cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…
Shame is designed to minimize the leakage of reputation-damaging information pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
The internet found out he’s married and she knows 🙃 Imagine being caught having an affair by Coldplay 😭😭😭
New episode is up! We talk to Deb Lieberman about morality, disgust, and kinship. Had a blast!! podbean.com/ew/pb-4h4by-19… youtu.be/C2Qba5BoFVk?si…
Conspiracies emerge in the wake of high-profile events, but you can’t contemporaneously debunk them with evidence ... because little yet exists. Nonetheless, we show that LLMs can debunk conspiracies during an ongoing event (attempted assassination of Trump) in a new WP!
A new episode is up! In this one, we talk to @Mike_Moncrieff about terrorism, his studies of ethnic conflict, and the drag queen phenomenon. podbean.com/ew/pb-xa3zf-18… youtu.be/gEL1V0SmPDI?si… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…
All human societies make music, and most frequently do it in groups. There are some exceptions where collective music making is rare and we don't have a good understanding of why. Cool paper exploring this question through ethnographic case studies. @RuedenChris
1st paper from my lab out @CommunicationsPsychology @CommsPsychol nature.com/articles/s4427… We show an alternative way to understand how people mentally represent other people's characteristics, namely high-dimensional networks, beyond the popular latent factor models.
🚨3rd preprint from my lab out! with my awesome grad @LuJunsong19474🌟 How do people mentally represent numerous inferences about others?🤯 Prior work proposed low-dimensional rep with latent dimensions We show high-dimensional network brings new insights🧵👇…
Post-doc position in social/personality psychology at UC Riverside, deadline July 14. 📣 higheredjobs.com/faculty/detail…
New #SPSPblog: Are People Who Oppose Abortion Simply Concerned About Saving Lives? by @jordan_w_moon & @JaimieKrems ow.ly/49Uf50Wl2iX
Next Episode is up! Dave and David discuss examples of good evolutionary psychology. epthepod.podbean.com/e/good-evoluti… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo… youtu.be/4CrMnhPHPec?si…
Bonus mini-episode: Dave and David (and Guest Pat Barclay) read some reviews! podbean.com/ew/pb-xysnw-18… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo… youtu.be/uCN3Iv7wXQc?si…
Tired of subscriptions? Frustrated by paywalls? A new way to consume high-value content is on the horizon. Media Bite! media-bite.com Can’t happen fast enough: nytimes.com/2025/06/20/lea…
🚨New in @BBSJournal: "Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework" is out as a target article & now open for commentary proposals! Ever wonder why an environment once full of promise 🥰 can later feel constraining 😮💨? doi.org/10.1017/S01405… 🧵
Our paper on the logic of guesses is now out (w/ @NeilBramley and Chris Lucas). We provide a new information-theoretic perspective on many phenomena (old and new) in judgment under uncertainty. 🧵
🚨 Now out in NHB 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news.
Participate in a new study about social perceptions and relationships! It'll take about five minutes of your time. Share broadly if you could. How about I entice participation with an AI drawing of me in an episode of Regular Show? uark.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0J…