Our resarch focuses on the psychological underpinnings of human social power and social success. Our underlying evolutionary model (i.e., Resource Control Theory; Hawley, 1999) integrates work from various disciplines (e.g., developmental psychology, social psychology, peer relationships, and evolutionary theory). As such, it challenges prevalent thought on aggression and social adaptation, as well as common assumptions about gender and social status.

Currently we are looking at morality, aggression, and regulation developmentally. Other work integrates social psychological paradigms to better understand gender and aggression. Our recent forays into adulthood have addressed attachment underpinnings of social dominance and sexual fantasy.

All of our work is predicated on the assumption that social dominance is a central organizing feature to social groups and as such has far reaching implications for many domains of functioning.

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