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Assistant Professor Psychology Keelah Williams published a sole-authored article, “Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race,” in Evolution and Human Behavior.
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Ten Hamilton faculty members were approved for tenure by the College’s Board of Trustees at its March meeting. They include Ryan Carter (music), Jose Ceniceros (mathematics), Alexsia Chan (government), Justin Clark (philosophy), Matt Grace (sociology), Tom Helmuth ‘09 (computer science), Natalie Nannas (biology), Colin Quinn (anthropology), Anne Valente (literature and creative writing), and Keelah Williams (psychology).
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Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams co-authored a paper “Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others” that was published in Evolution and Human Behavior in February.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams was recently interviewed for an episode of the podcast Ten Percent Happier. The episode, titled “Jealousy: Friends & Lovers,” is part of a series on feelings.
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Social distancing in crows? Associate Professor Andrea Townsend and Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams have published a paper about the challenges of social distancing in humans and other animals.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams and four students presented research at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual convention held in New Orleans.
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An article co-authored by Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams was recently published in Evolution and Human Behavior. The article explores the interactive nature of sex and age stereotypes, demonstrating that perceivers categorize and stereotype others not by sex and age independently, but by the interaction of their sex and age (i.e., people mentally group others as females and males of specific ages).
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Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented to Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz ’82, Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams, and Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich.
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Scientific American published an essay titled How Capital Influences Attitudes toward Capital Punishment by Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams in which she explained, “When people think the economy is poor, support for the death penalty rise.”
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Evolution and Human Behavior published an article authored by Keelah Williams, Assistant Professor of Psychology, titled "Capital and punishment: Resource scarcity increases endorsement of the death penalty," on Aug. 10.
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