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Carlos David Navarrete

Carlos David Navarrete

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Professor Navarrete died on December 26, 2024. Social Psychology Network is maintaining this profile for visitors who wish to learn more about Professor Navarrete's work.

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Carlos David Navarrete received his Ph.D. in 2004 in Biological Anthropology from UCLA. He held postdoctoral positions in psychology at UCLA and at Harvard and is currently an assistant professor in social psychology at Michigan State University. His research on the psychology of prejudice integrates theory and methods from across several disciplines, including social psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology. His research explores the interface between disgust, morality and intergroup attitudes.

Primary Interests:

  • Aggression, Conflict, Peace
  • Attitudes and Beliefs
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Ethics and Morality
  • Evolution and Genetics
  • Gender Psychology
  • Group Processes
  • Helping, Prosocial Behavior
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Neuroscience, Psychophysiology
  • Political Psychology
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping

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Journal Articles:

  • McDonald, M., Asher, B., Kerr, N., & Navarrete, C. D. (2011). Fertility and intergroup bias in racial and in minimal group contexts: Evidence for shared architecture. Psychological Science, 22(7), 860-865.
  • McDonald, M., Navarrete, C. D., & van Vugt, M. (2012). Evolution and the psychology of intergroup conflict: The “warrior male” hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1589), 670-679.
  • Navarrete, C. D., & Fessler, D. M. T. (2007). Disease avoidance and ethnocentrism: The effects of disease vulnerability and disgust sensitivity on intergroup attitudes. Evolution and Human Behavior.
  • Navarrete, C. D., Fessler, D. M. T., & Seng, S. J. (2007). Elevated ethnocentrism in the first trimester of pregnancy. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 60-65.
  • Navarrete, C. D., Fessler, D., Fleischman, D., & Geyer, J. (2009). Race bias tracks conception risk across the menstrual cycle. Psychological Science.
  • Navarrete, C. D., Kurzban, R., Fessler, D. M. T, & Kirkpatrick, L. (2004). Anxiety and intergroup bias: Terror-management or coalitional psychology? Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 7(4), 370-397.
  • Navarrete, C. D., McDonald, M., Molina, L., Sidanius, J. (2010). Prejudice at the nexus of race and gender: An outgroup male target hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(6), 933-45.
  • Navarrete, C. D., McDonald, M., Mott, M., & Asher, B. (2012). Virtual morality: Emotion and action in a simulated 3-D “trolley problem.” Emotion, 12(2), 364-70.
  • Navarrete, C. D., Mott, M., Cesario, J., McDonald, M., & Sapolsky, R. (2010). Fertility and race perception predict voter preference for Barack Obama. Evolution & Human Behavior, 31(6), 391-399.
  • Navarrete, C. D., Olsson, A., Ho, A., Mendes, W., Thomsen, L., & Sidanius, J. (2009). Fear extinction to an out-group face: The role of target gender. Psychological Science, 20(2), 155-158.

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