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Marist College to Become Marist University
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Adar Eisenbruch
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Bio
Dr. Eisenbruch received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Prior to joining Marist, he was an Associate Researcher at Future Laboratories, a Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Purchase, and an Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Mary College. Dr. Eisenbruch’s research takes an evolutionary approach to the problems of human social life. In particular, he studies the relationships between hormones and behavior, and the ways that our contemporary social preferences (e.g. who people want to be friends with) have been shaped by the problems faced by our ancestors.
Education
PhD, Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
MA, Cognition and Culture, Queen’s University Belfast (UK), 2010
BA, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2008
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Evolutionary Psychology, Behavioral Endocrinology, Social Cognition, Behavioral Economics
Selected Publications
Eisenbruch, A. B., & Krasnow, M. M. (2022). Why warmth matters more than competence: A new evolutionary approach. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916211071087
Eisenbruch, A.B. & Roney, J. R. (2020). Social taste buds: Evidence of evolved same-sex friend preferences from a policy-capturing study. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 6 (195-206). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-019-00218-9
Krasnow, M. K., Howard, R. & Eisenbruch, A. B. (2019). The importance of being honest? Evidence that experimental deception may not pollute the subject pool after all. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01309-y
Eisenbruch, A.B., Grillot, R. L. & Roney, J. R. (2019). Who receives generosity? Tests of the partner choice and threat premium models of resource division. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 5(3), 274-296.
Eisenbruch, A.B., Lukaszewski, A. W, Simmons, Z. L., Arai, S. & Roney, J. R. (2018). Why the wide face?: Androgen receptor gene polymorphism does not predict men’s facial width-to-height ratio. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 4, 138-151.
Eisenbruch, A.B. & Roney, J. R. (2017). The skillful and the stingy: Partner choice decisions and fairness intuitions suggest human adaptation for a biological market of cooperators. Evolutionary Psychological Science 3(4), 364-378.
Eisenbruch, A.B., Lukaszewski, A.W., & Roney, J. R. (2017). It's not all about mating: Attractiveness predicts partner value across multiple relationship domains. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 22-23. (Comment on target article by Maestripieri, Henry & Nickels).
Eisenbruch, A. B., Grillot, R. L., Maestripieri, D. & Roney, J. R. (2016). Evidence of partner choice heuristics in a one-shot bargaining game. Evolution and Human Behavior 37(6), 429-439.
Eisenbruch, A. B. & Roney, J. R. (2016). Conception risk and the ultimatum game: When fertility is high, women demand more. Personality and Individual Differences 98, 272-274.
Roney, J. R., Lukaszewski, A. W., Simmons, Z. L., Eisenbruch, A. B. & Grillot, R. L. (2015). A between-women account of cycle phase shifts is probably wrong: Comment on Havlicek et al. Behavioral Ecology 26(5), 1264-1265.
Eisenbruch, A. B., Simmons, Z. L., & Roney, J. R. (2015). Lady in red: Hormonal predictors of women’s clothing choices. Psychological Science 26(8), 1332-1338.
Awards and Honors
- 2022 Human Behavior and Evolution Society Post-Doctoral Award (finalist)
- 2017 Margo Wilson Award
- 2015-2016 Contribution to Excellence in Teaching Award (UCSB Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences)
