We're the HSL, a lab of integrative scientific anthropologists passionate about combining basic and applied work. We're based at Penn State and work primarily in the US 🌎 and East and South Africa 🌍 www.socialitylab.org
Human Sociality Lab
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CHARMES is a Wellcome-funded project making the health impacts of climate change more visible – including to Kenyan policymakers. What else did Soujanya report? At the national level, health sector decision-makers are eager to implement now – so it’s time to deliver recommendations. 2/2
Northern Kenya experiences extreme heat. Practitioners connect this heat to anxiety. Household heads report kids can’t go outside. At the @pennstateuniv.bsky.social Climate Solutions Symposium, HSL PhD student @soujanyaakkiraju09.bsky.social presented early insights from CHARMES Kenya. 1/2
In a recent win for the HSL, Courtney Elmore received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for the first 3 years of her PhD at @psuanthro.bsky.social. Courtney plans to study how livelihood change and migration affect social networks in rural South Africa. Congratulations to Courtney!! #NSFfunded
It was great to present some ongoing work at #HBES2026 about how the mind might make judgements of others’ traits in environments with dishonest signaling!
CEs Job Alert 🚨!
4-year teaching focused lecturership at Bristol in bio/evo anthropology with a quantitative focus.
Bristol is a terrific city to live in, and many ECRS in the CES will hopefully fit the profile:
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Wow it's hard to start new research and grow our lab and get stuff out and *also* be social, but Human Sociality Lab is still here! We'll catch you up on our latest. To get you started: greetings from Kenya, where Soujanya Akkiraju and @annepisor.bsky.social work on climate change and health! 👋🌍🇰🇪
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@hbes2026.bsky.social @psuanthro.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social
Congrats 🎉 to HSL alum Dr Joon Hwang on his new publication in Evolution & Human Behavior! In rural Bangladesh, participants’ risk preferences may be a function of their social networks... 🧵 [1/3]
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When participants are in clustered financial support networks, they are more likely to choose a risky option in an economic experiment, independent of their wealth. However, if they are borrowing household items or food without reciprocating, they are less likely to choose a risky option. [2/3]
We're so excited for @kris-smith.bsky.social -- our WSU + PSU lab is keeping its WSU roots strong!! Congratulations Prof Smith!! 🎉
