Jaime L. Palmer-Hague, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology; Chair, Psychology

Jaime Palmer-Hague is an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her current research focuses on the evolutionary psychology of women’s social behaviour. Specifically, she is interested in what women’s faces reveal about their tendency toward indirect aggression, as well as how hormones influence their intrasexual behaviour. Dr Palmer-Hague is also interested in sex ratio variation and sexual behaviour in men and women.

  • PhD Cognitive and Biological Psychology (Simon Fraser University)
  • MSc Applied Psychology (University of Calgary)
  • BA (Hons.) Biology and Psychology (Carleton University)

 

Expertise

Evolutionary, biological, and cognitive processes; aggression; mating and sexual behaviour

Recent Publications

Selected Publications

  • Reynolds, T. A., & Palmer-Hague, J. L. (2022). Did you hear what she did to me? Female friendship victimization disclosures offer reputational advantages. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101. 10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104311

  • Palmer-Hague, J. L., & Geniole, S. N. (2022). Perceptions of threat track self-reported social, but not physical, aggression in women’s faces. Personality and Individual Differences, 185. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111264

  • Palmer-Hague, J. L., Wong, S. T. S., Wassersug, R. J., Kingstone, A., & Wibowo, E. (2021). Hormones and visual attention to sexual stimuli in older men: an exploratory investigation. The Aging Male. doi: 10.1080/13685538.2021.1960964

  • Palmer-Hague, J. L., Twele, A. C., & Fuller, A. J. (2018). Body mass index, facial width-to-height ratio, and perceived formidability in female ultimate fighting championship (UFC) fighters. Aggressive Behavior, 44, 533-560. doi: 10.1002/ab.21774.

  • PSYC 254 Biological Psychology
  • PSYC 309 Sensation and Perception
  • PSYC 356 Motivation and Emotion
  • PSYC 497 Senior Thesis I