Adar Eisenbruch
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Education
Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
MA, Cognition and Culture, with distinction
Thesis: Religion and Sexual Selection. Advisor: E. Thomas Lawson.
December 2010
9th International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter, University of Granada, Spain
Attended 40 hours of lecture on the psychometrics, physiology and sociology of humor and laughter; participated in symposium.
June 29-July 4, 2009
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
BA, Political Science
May 2008
Research Experience
Study on Moral Contagion (Hillary Lenfesty)
Results presented at International Association for the History of Religions 2010 World Congress
Research Assistant: Served as experimenter’s confederate; assisted in recruiting participants.
Personality, Preferences and Resource Allotments (Colin Holbrook, Jared Piazza, Paulo Sousa and Dan Fessler)
Research Assistant: Set up laboratory; recruited participants; ran study on participants; recorded experimental data.
Teaching Assistant Experience
Introduction to Psychology (psych 1)