About Research Center
The goal of the Center is to explain human social behavior by applying biological, including evolutionary, perspectives. The Center researches phenomena such as emotional mimicry in the social context, social implications of the behavioral immune system, signaling pathway of creativity in women, and psychoacoustics.
We currently work on projects about:
The effect of mating-related and threatening situational contexts on makeup use in women.
Behavioral Immune System and Prosocial Behaviors: the moderating role of type of help, a sign of disease, and kinship between the helper and the recipient of help in pursuing the pathogen avoidance motive.
Testing the signaling function of creativity in the context of intersexual and intrasexual selection.
Visual contact and emotional mimicry: Why do people mimic the emotions of others even though they cannot see them?