Harrison Miller studies leadership from an evolutionary perspective. His recent projects focus on how people mentally represent leaders—e.g., as big versus small or physically close versus distant (inspired by idioms like “big man on campus”). To answer his research questions, he often creates custom web apps using artificial intelligence. In his free time, he enjoys running, playing the bass guitar, playing poker, and watching suspenseful movies.

Kyle Powell is broadly interested in social evolutionary psychology approaches to understanding ostracism and the influence of early childhood environments on later life outcomes. In a series of studies, he is examining the relationship between life history strategy and career choice. He is also conducting a direct replication of some seminal findings in the life history theory literature. In another ongoing study, he is looking at the relationship between ostracism and online trolling behavior. He is also conducting research with Dr. Ashby Plant on the influence of approval-seeking motivation on the sharing of politically charged memes with political ingroup and outgroup members. In his free time, Kyle enjoys playing video games, playing tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons, and adding to his collection of fun and wacky shirts.

Lisa Rahn earned her M.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Wuppertal, Germany, where she studied the perception of mate-choice relevant characteristics from an evolutionary perspective. Her research interests broadly lie at the intersection of social and evolutionary psychology, with a particular focus on romantic relationships, attraction, mating strategies, and person perception. She is especially interested in relationship dynamics and in how mate preferences and other socially relevant characteristics are reflected in cognitive processes. Her current projects investigate reasons for relationship dissolution and the links between attachment styles and leadership strategies. In her free time, Lisa enjoys being outdoors, hiking, dancing, and discovering new places.