Jessica D Ayers
@jessicadayers.bsky.social
Evolutionary Social Psychologist | Studies behavioral expressions of genetic conflict 🧬 | CSUF🐘and ASUpsych 🔱🌵alum | Assistant professor BoiseStatePsych jessicaayers.org
What an exciting new platform to talk about all of the cool things that can influence us. athenaaktipis.substack.com I’m personally excited for the ones on hijacking and how it might not be only bad! @athenaaktipis.bsky.social
Not for Peer Review: Field Notes From The Edge of Chaos | Athena Aktipis | Substack
After publishing over 100 peer-reviewed papers—an essential but slow process—I’m opening decades of notebooks to explore the evolution of life, the practice of living well now, and the work of buildin...
athenaaktipis.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
What an exciting new platform to talk about all of the cool things that can influence us. athenaaktipis.substack.com I’m personally excited for the ones on hijacking and how it might not be only bad! @athenaaktipis.bsky.social
Missed the deadline?
This just in!! Preconference submissions will remain OPEN until Monday (10/27) at 8 am ET!!! Don’t let this opportunity pass you by! @ahrako.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2026
This just in!! Preconference submissions will remain OPEN until Monday (10/27) at 8 am ET!!! Don’t let this opportunity pass you by! @ahrako.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2026
Friends!!!! It’s that time again… Submit abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social EP preconference: my.spsp.org/Events/Submi...
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
Society for Personality and Social Psychology > Events > Submission Portal
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October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Missed the deadline?
This just in!! Preconference submissions will remain OPEN until Monday (10/27) at 8 am ET!!! Don’t let this opportunity pass you by! @ahrako.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2026
This just in!! Preconference submissions will remain OPEN until Monday (10/27) at 8 am ET!!! Don’t let this opportunity pass you by! @ahrako.bsky.social @spspnews.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2026
It’s the last day friends!! Submit those abstracts!!! #EPatSPSP2026
Friends!!!! It’s that time again… Submit abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social EP preconference: my.spsp.org/Events/Submi...
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
Society for Personality and Social Psychology > Events > Submission Portal
my.spsp.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It’s the last day friends!! Submit those abstracts!!! #EPatSPSP2026
Registration and housing is OPEN!! But the submission portal closes soon (IN TWO DAYS)! Submit your abstracts if you haven’t yet!!! @ahrako.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2026
Friends!!!! It’s that time again… Submit abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social EP preconference: my.spsp.org/Events/Submi...
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
Society for Personality and Social Psychology > Events > Submission Portal
my.spsp.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Registration and housing is OPEN!! But the submission portal closes soon (IN TWO DAYS)! Submit your abstracts if you haven’t yet!!! @ahrako.bsky.social #EPatSPSP2026
Reposted by Jessica D Ayers
💞 Friendship isn’t about keeping score. It’s about helping when it counts.
In our new The Conversation article, @jessicadayers.bsky.social & I explore why true friendship works like risk-pooling, not exchange.
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#Friendship #Psychology
In our new The Conversation article, @jessicadayers.bsky.social & I explore why true friendship works like risk-pooling, not exchange.
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#Friendship #Psychology
Friendships aren’t just about keeping score – new psychology research looks at why we help our friends when they need it
Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.
doi.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
💞 Friendship isn’t about keeping score. It’s about helping when it counts.
In our new The Conversation article, @jessicadayers.bsky.social & I explore why true friendship works like risk-pooling, not exchange.
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#Friendship #Psychology
In our new The Conversation article, @jessicadayers.bsky.social & I explore why true friendship works like risk-pooling, not exchange.
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#Friendship #Psychology
Do we really keep score in our friendship? See what @athenaaktipis.bsky.social and I have to say about why this isn’t always the case theconversation.com/friendships-...
Friendships aren’t just about keeping score – new psychology research looks at why we help our friends when they need it
Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Do we really keep score in our friendship? See what @athenaaktipis.bsky.social and I have to say about why this isn’t always the case theconversation.com/friendships-...
Glad to have had the chance to pitch why we need to research friendship to @boisestate.bsky.social stake holders as an ASSERT (www.boisestate.edu/ifits/facult...) fellow at today’s pitch event.
ASSERT
Aligning Stakeholders and Structures to Enable Research Transformation (ASSERT) is a cohort faculty development program where faculty, from all ranks and various academic units, become an ASSERTive co...
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September 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Glad to have had the chance to pitch why we need to research friendship to @boisestate.bsky.social stake holders as an ASSERT (www.boisestate.edu/ifits/facult...) fellow at today’s pitch event.
Submit those abstracts! @ahrako.bsky.social and I cant wait to review them!
Friends!!!! It’s that time again… Submit abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social EP preconference: my.spsp.org/Events/Submi...
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
Society for Personality and Social Psychology > Events > Submission Portal
my.spsp.org
September 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Submit those abstracts! @ahrako.bsky.social and I cant wait to review them!
Friends!!!! It’s that time again… Submit abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social EP preconference: my.spsp.org/Events/Submi...
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
Society for Personality and Social Psychology > Events > Submission Portal
my.spsp.org
September 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Friends!!!! It’s that time again… Submit abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social EP preconference: my.spsp.org/Events/Submi...
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions!
We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!
Https://ep2026.mystrikingly.com
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
Best part of being a professor? Having my lab listen to Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) with David Pinsof and Dave Pietraszewski so I have an excuse to listen too! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology
Podcast Episode · Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) · 06/03/2025 · 2h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Best part of being a professor? Having my lab listen to Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) with David Pinsof and Dave Pietraszewski so I have an excuse to listen too! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
We know a lot about ovulatory hormones in early reproductive life - but what about near menopause? Read more about my RA’s research project here www.ayerslab.org/blog/why-we-...
Why we need more research on women's hormones acorss the life span
I’m Grace, and I’ve been part of the APE Lab since Spring 2024. I graduated with a degree in Psychology in May 2024, and will be starting a Couples and Family Therapy graduate pro
www.ayerslab.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We know a lot about ovulatory hormones in early reproductive life - but what about near menopause? Read more about my RA’s research project here www.ayerslab.org/blog/why-we-...
Reposted by Jessica D Ayers
How do people know whom, and how much, to help? we (@jessicadayers.bsky.social @leecronk.bsky.social Daniel Balliet @jeremykoster.bsky.social & @athenaaktipis.bsky.social) tackle this question among the Mayangna of northern Nicaragua, who rely primarily on horticulture for subsistence 🧵(1/10).
July 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How do people know whom, and how much, to help? we (@jessicadayers.bsky.social @leecronk.bsky.social Daniel Balliet @jeremykoster.bsky.social & @athenaaktipis.bsky.social) tackle this question among the Mayangna of northern Nicaragua, who rely primarily on horticulture for subsistence 🧵(1/10).
Excited to announce that I won the Feminist Evolutionary Psychology Society best faculty talk at NEEPS this year!
July 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Excited to announce that I won the Feminist Evolutionary Psychology Society best faculty talk at NEEPS this year!
APE lab represented at NEEPs 2025!
June 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
APE lab represented at NEEPs 2025!
After a great @humbehevosoc.bsky.social panel on friendship, I thought it was a perfect time to share Benjamin Zubaly’s thoughts on why evolutionary theory is needed to understand friendships www.ayerslab.org/blog/why-und...
Why Understanding Friendship Requires Evolutionary Psychology
My name is Benjamin Zubaly. I am an incoming PhD student in the Evolutionary Social Psychology lab at the University of Michigan and a research assistant in the Ayers Psychology an
www.ayerslab.org
June 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
After a great @humbehevosoc.bsky.social panel on friendship, I thought it was a perfect time to share Benjamin Zubaly’s thoughts on why evolutionary theory is needed to understand friendships www.ayerslab.org/blog/why-und...
APE lab RAs presenting at our undergraduate talk psych poster session!
April 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
APE lab RAs presenting at our undergraduate talk psych poster session!
Got to present some of my favs in the Research and Creative Activity SPARC mixer
April 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Got to present some of my favs in the Research and Creative Activity SPARC mixer
Learn about our spring 2025 Everyday Upstanders! bsusocialpsych.mystrikingly.com/spring-2025-...
Spring 2025 Everyday Upstanders - Social Psychology site
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March 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Learn about our spring 2025 Everyday Upstanders! bsusocialpsych.mystrikingly.com/spring-2025-...
Dr. Weaver talking to us about motherhood at Talk Psych
March 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Dr. Weaver talking to us about motherhood at Talk Psych
Reposted by Jessica D Ayers
Two preconferences, one poster, one symposium, many events, and more reunions than I can count. #SPSP2025 is a wrap and I am so grateful for the reconnection. Until next year!
February 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Two preconferences, one poster, one symposium, many events, and more reunions than I can count. #SPSP2025 is a wrap and I am so grateful for the reconnection. Until next year!
Reposted by Jessica D Ayers
5) @psycheddiego.bsky.social extended interdependence research by surveying Mayangna participants to examine how shared fate impacts their cooperation. The more positive stake & shared fate in relationships, the more people tended to cooperate. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
5) @psycheddiego.bsky.social extended interdependence research by surveying Mayangna participants to examine how shared fate impacts their cooperation. The more positive stake & shared fate in relationships, the more people tended to cooperate. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
Reposted by Jessica D Ayers
4) Ryan Dobson conducted a longitudinal progesterone study to re-examine the social support vigilance hypothesis. Between women fluctuations in P were predictive of vigilance but within woman fluctuations were not. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
4) Ryan Dobson conducted a longitudinal progesterone study to re-examine the social support vigilance hypothesis. Between women fluctuations in P were predictive of vigilance but within woman fluctuations were not. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
Reposted by Jessica D Ayers
3) Sierra Peters tested competing predictions about sexual desire. Within subject fluctuations in desire for partners predicted greater desire for alternatives (& vice versa). Priming desire for alternatives increased desire for partners, but not vice versa. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
3) Sierra Peters tested competing predictions about sexual desire. Within subject fluctuations in desire for partners predicted greater desire for alternatives (& vice versa). Priming desire for alternatives increased desire for partners, but not vice versa. #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
Reposted by Jessica D Ayers
2) Susan Chen examined how different life history correlates are related to youth gang involvement. Such an interesting study of an under-considered population! #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
2) Susan Chen examined how different life history correlates are related to youth gang involvement. Such an interesting study of an under-considered population! #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025
Reposted by Jessica D Ayers
Last, some highlights from the #EPatSPSP2025 datablitzes:
1) A seriously cool talk by @wnmerrell.bsky.social about how we infer clustered (patchy) resource distribution based on an area’s hierarchicalness (& vice versa). Who knew lobstering could be so socially complex?! #SPSP2025
1) A seriously cool talk by @wnmerrell.bsky.social about how we infer clustered (patchy) resource distribution based on an area’s hierarchicalness (& vice versa). Who knew lobstering could be so socially complex?! #SPSP2025
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Last, some highlights from the #EPatSPSP2025 datablitzes:
1) A seriously cool talk by @wnmerrell.bsky.social about how we infer clustered (patchy) resource distribution based on an area’s hierarchicalness (& vice versa). Who knew lobstering could be so socially complex?! #SPSP2025
1) A seriously cool talk by @wnmerrell.bsky.social about how we infer clustered (patchy) resource distribution based on an area’s hierarchicalness (& vice versa). Who knew lobstering could be so socially complex?! #SPSP2025