Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Sergey Gavrilets, Ph.D.
Depending on the context, I call myself a theoretical evolutionary biologist (most of the time) or an applied mathematician (sometimes). I use mathematical models to study complex evolutionary processes. Over the last several years, my research interests have mostly concentrated on the following major areas: social and cultural evolution, speciation and adaptive radiation, sexual conflict, holey fitness landscapes, and micro-evolutionary processes and macro-evolutionary patterns. I have also studied mathematical models aiming to describe/explain maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations, dynamics of genetic variation under selection, frequency-dependent selection and coevolution, maternal and parental effects, hybrid zones and clines, and spatially heterogeneous selection.
Selected Publications
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K. Rooker and S. Gavrilets. 2018. On the evolution of visual female sexual signalling.Proc. Roy. Soc. B [link] [pdf]
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L. Perry et al. 2018. Collective action problem in heterogeneous groups with punishment and foresight. Journal of Statistical Physics [link] [pdf]
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S. Gavrilets et al. 2018. Understanding homosexuality: moving on from patterns to mechanisms. Archives of Sexual Behavior47:27–31. [pdf]
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P. Turchin et al.. 2017. Linking "micro" to "macro" models of state breakdown to improve methods for political forecasting. Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution 8:159-181. [online]
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S. Gavrilets and P. J. Richerson. 2017. Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization. PNAS 114: 6068-6073 [online]
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H. Rusch and S. Gavrilets. 2017. The logic of animal intergroup conflict: A review.Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization [online] [pdf]
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H. Whitehouse et al. 2017. The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences. Scientific Reports 7: 44292. [online]
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K. Rooker and S. Gavrilets. 2016. Evolution of long-term pair-bonding in humans. T.K. Shackelford, V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_99-1 [pdf]
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S. Gavrilets et al. 2016. Convergence to consensus in heterogeneous groups and the emergence of informal leadership. Scientific Reports 6: 29704. [online]
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Smith J.E. et al. 2016. Leadership in mammalian societies: emergence, distribution, power, and payoff. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: