Jennifer Byrd-Craven Editor

Maryanne L. Fisher, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Saint Mary's University, where she holds the inaugural Santamarian Research Chair for the Faculty of Science. She also serves as an affiliate faculty member of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana. She has produced over 200 peer-reviewed publications, primarily on the evolutionary foundations of human interpersonal relationships, with a focus on female intrasexual competition, physical attractiveness, and mating strategies. Dr. Fisher is an award-winning teacher and student mentor. In 2023, she received the Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal. ln 2019, she was named a Fellow of the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society. For more information, visit https://www.maryannefisher.ca

Lora E. Adair, PhD, is a senior lecturer in psychology and deputy director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University of London. She leads The Adair Lab which, through the contribution of her outstanding PhD, MSc, and BSc students and research assistants, produces cutting-edge, community-engaged research on women's health and well-being. Dr. Adair's primary scientific contributions include combining feminist and evolutionary models to understand the relationship between women, and gender diverse people, and their social world. For updates on her research, visit https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/lora-adair and @loraadair.bsky.social.

Jennifer Byrd-Craven, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Oklahoma State University, where she cofounded the Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis (OCEAN), which promotes interdisciplinary training in the evolutionary social sciences, and directs the Psychobiology Lab. She also teaches courses in behavioral neuroendocrinology, developmental psychobiology, and evolutionary psychology, and serves as director of the Experimental Psychology graduate program. Her research explores how a variety of social and developmental contexts influence neuroendocrine responses with a focus on sex differences and health outcomes. For current information about her research, visit https://theocean.mystrikingly.com and https://byrd-cravenpsychobiologylab.mystrikingly.com

Thomas E. Dickins, PhD, is a professor of behavioral science at the University of West London. His active research interests are in evolutionary theory and its application within the behavioral sciences. He has conducted a wide range of empirical work, including projects on life history approaches to fertility scheduling in Western women, various aspects of inequality, and normative behavior, as well as work on seabirds, investigating their parental behaviors. Dr. Dickins cofounded the European Human Behavior and Evolution Association in 2006 and has served as a prior Editor-in-Chief of the previously named Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (now Culture and Evolution). For more information about his activities and publications, visit http://tomdickins.net/

Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, PhD, is a specialist in clinical adult psychology and professor of personality psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), as well as a supervisor of cognitive-behavioral therapy. His research includes the application of sexual strategies theory to explore topics such as jealousy, regret, sexual harassment, sexual development, sexual orientation, mate preferences, and the use of dating apps. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. He is an elected member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and an appointee of the Norwegian Cabinet Committee on Women's Health.

Annie E. Wertz, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she leads the Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC), and is a core faculty member in the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. Her research investigates cognitive development from an evolutionary perspective, with a focus on how infants and young children learn about the natural world. Her work has won several awards, including the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's Margo Wilson Award in 2021 and the inaugural Don Symons Adaptationism Award in 2023. Visit https://lilac.psych.ucsb.edu/ for more information about her research.