Gregory D. Webster

     
Institution
University of Florida

Current Position
Assistant Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006

Research Interests
Aggression
Close Relationships
Evolution/Genetics
Helping/Pro-Social Behavior
Judgment/Decision Making
Personality
Political Psychology
Research Methods/Assessment
Self/Identity
Sexuality/Sexual Orientation

Courses Taught
Evolutionary Psychology
Graduate Research Methods

 
Gregory D. Webster
Department of Psychology
University of Florida
P.O. Box 112250
Gainesville, Florida 32611-2250
U.S.A.

Home Page
Work: (352) 273-2160
Mobile: (303) 895-7312
Fax: (352) 392-7985

Vita

Gregory D. Webster
I research prosocial and aggressive behavior from an evolutionary social psychological perspective. My prosocial research examines within-family resource allocation as a function of relatedness and emotional closeness. My aggression research examines relationships between different domains of self-esteem and aggression. I am currently developing a new line of research at the intersection of evolutionary psychology and behavioral economics that examines heuristics and biases in understanding rare and random events.

Research Interests

  • Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Aggression
  • Prosocial Behavior: Resource Allocation, Closeness, and Inclusive Fitness
  • Theoretical Integration of Evolutionary and Social-Personality Psychology
  • Judgment and Decision Making: Understanding Rare and Random Processes
  • Psychology of Science and Publication Trends in Psychology
  • Longitudinal Data Analysis (growth curve modeling, daily diary methods)
  • Multilevel Modeling and Moderated Mediation

Professional Positions

Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, August 2006 to August 2008 to Present

NIMH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Quantitative Methods, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, IL, August 2006 to August 2008

Education

Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, May 2006

M.A., General Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, August 2001

B.A., Psychology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, May 1997

Honors and Awards

Division 49: Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy 2007 Disseration Award Finalist (one of three; only North American finalist)

2006 Psi Chi/American Psychological Association (APA) Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award for The demise of the increasingly protracted journal article? Publication trends in APA journals, 1986-2004.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Stipend for the 1st Biennial Summer Institute for Social Psychology (SISP), Boulder, Colorado, July 2003

SPSP Graduate Student Travel Award and Stipend to Attend the European Society of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) Summer School, Marburg, Germany, August 2002 (one of only five American students selected)

SPSP Graduate Student Travel Award for 4th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, January 2002

Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, Colorado College, Elected May 1997

Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology, Colorado College, Elected May 1996

Professional Associations

American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Association for Research in Personality (ARP)
Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics (APA Division 5)
Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)
International Society for the Psychology of Science & Technology (ISPST)
International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI)
Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA)
Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

Consulting Editor/Editorial Board

Social Psychological and Personality Science (2009–Present)
Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology (2008–Present)
Representative Research in Social Psychology (2002–2004)


Journal Articles:

  • Webster, G. D. (2008). An emerging psychology of science: A quantitative review of publication trends in the metasciences. Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology, 1, 6-14.
  • Webster, G. D. (2008). The kinship, acceptance, and rejection model of altruism and aggression (KARMAA): Implications for interpersonal and intergroup aggression. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 12, 27-38.
  • Webster, G. D. (2007). Evolutionary theory's increasing role in personality and social psychology. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 84-91.
  • Webster, G. D. (2007). Evolutionary theory in cognitive neuroscience: A 20-year quantitative review of publication trends. Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 520-530.
  • Webster, G. D. (2007). Is the relationship between self-esteem and physical aggression necessarily U-shaped? Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 977-982.
  • Webster, G. D. (2007). The demise of the increasingly protracted APA journal article? American Psychologist, 62, 255-257.
  • Webster, G. D. (2007). The Electoral College exacerbates the red-blue divide and disenfranchises ethnic minorities. American Psychologist, 62, 701-703.
  • Webster, G. D. (2003). Prosocial behavior in families: Moderators of resource sharing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 644-652.
  • Webster, G. D., & Bryan, A. (2007). Sociosexual attitudes and behaviors: Why two factors are better than one. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 917-922.
  • Webster, G. D., Bryan, A., Crawford, C. B., McCarthy, L., & Cohen, B. H. (2008). Lineage, sex, and wealth as moderators of kin investment: Evidence from inheritances. Human Nature, 29, 189-210.
  • Webster, G. D., Jonason, P. K., & Schember, T. O. (2009). Hot topics and popular papers in evolutionary psychology: Analyses of title words and citation counts in Evolution and Human Behavior, 1979-2008. Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 348-362.
  • Webster, G. D., & Kirkpatrick, L. A. (2006). Behavioral and self-reported aggression as a function of domain-specific self-esteem. Aggressive Behavior, 32, 17-27.
  • Webster, G. D., Kirkpatrick, L. A., Nezlek, J. B., Smith, C. V., & Paddock, E. L. (2007). Different slopes for different folks: Self-esteem instability and gender as moderators of the relationship between self-esteem and attitudinal aggression. Self and Identity, 6, 74-94.
  • Webster, G. D., Nichols, A. L., & Schember, T. O. (2009). American psychology is becoming more international. American Psychologist, 64, 566-568.

Other Publications:

  • Webster, G. D. (2006). Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award: Autobiography. American Psychologist, 61, 871-874.

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