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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Join us for the 25th Evolutionary Psychology Preconference at #SPSP2027 & showcase your research ✨ 🌐 Feb 9: Full-day Virtual Preconference featuring top international speakers 🚨 Submissions close Oct 8! Send us your Datablitz & Poster proposals. 💌 ep2027.mystrikingly.com

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Jessica D Ayers @jessicadayers.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Friends!!!! It’s that time again… Submit abstracts for @spspnews.bsky.social EP preconference: my.spsp.org/Events/Submi... We are accepting data blitz & poster submissions! We (@ahrako.bsky.social &me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago! ep2026.mystrikingly.com #EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026

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Jordan Moon @jordanmoon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

New paper out in SPPS w/ @jaimiekrems.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1177/1948... People who oppose abortion typically suggest that their position is motivated by concern for the unborn. But is there more going on?

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We illustrate our framework's value through 3 key dimensions: kin presence 👪, violence 🛡️, and sex-age ratio ⚖️. ⭐ Building on Lewin’s field theory and integrating affordance management with life-history perspectives, we offer a more nuanced, temporally dynamic, and evolutionarily grounded framework✨

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We actively manage ‘ecological affordances’ by: 1️⃣ fine-tuning how attentively and emotionally we respond to environmental cues, 2️⃣ adjusting how we think, feel, and behave, 3️⃣ restructuring our environments (e.g., relocating) to align with shifting life-stage goals 🎯

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Why does living near family feel essential in childhood 🥰, suffocating in young adulthood 😮‍💨, and lifesaving in parenthood 🥹? Because you changed! What the environment affords (aka ‘ecological affordances’) depends on one’s goals 🎯, which shift across life stages. So do your strategies.

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

🚨 New in Behavioral and Brain Sciences: "Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework" is out as a target article & now open for commentary proposals! Ever wonder why an environment once full of promise 🥰 can later feel constraining 😮‍💨? doi.org/10.1017/S014... 🧵

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We illustrate our framework's value through 3 key contexts: kin presence 👪, violence 🛡️, and sex-age ratio ⚖️. ⭐ Building on Lewin’s field theory and integrating affordance management with life-history perspectives, we offer a more nuanced, temporally dynamic, and evolutionarily grounded framework✨

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We actively manage ‘ecological affordances’ by: 1️⃣ fine-tuning how attentively and emotionally we respond to environmental cues, 2️⃣ adjusting how we think, feel , and behave, 3️⃣ restructuring our environments (e.g., relocating 📦) to align with shifting life-stage goals 🎯.

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Why does living near family feel essential in childhood 🥰, suffocating in young adulthood 😮‍💨, and lifesaving in parenthood 🥹? Because you changed! What the environment affords (aka ‘ecological affordances’) depends on one’s goals, which shift across life stages. So do your strategies.

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

3️⃣ Feeling disgust bridged threat perception and avoidance behavior—within the same individual over time (again)! Overall, our research revealed how flexible the ‘behavioral immune system’ can be—long-theorized flexibility, finally demonstrated using real-world longitudinal data!

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

2️⃣ This threat perception shifted dynamically within the same person over time. Americans who became more disease-avoidant (than their own baseline) when new COVID cases surged, saw Republicans as more infectious—*even among Republican supporters*. Real-time ecological recalibration!

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

1️⃣ Our disease psychology can quickly learn new, socially constructed cues. Though conservatives are typically more threat-vigilant & voters favor them in crises, COVID flipped the script in the U.S. Americans believed that Republicans were more likely to infect others with COVID than Democrats.

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Thrilled to receive the Postdoctoral Award for our paper @American Psychologist: doi.org/10.1037/amp0.... A deep dive into the 'functional flexibility' of disease psychology. COVID’s natural experiment put long-held theories to the test. Here are 3 contributions from a longitudinal study 🧵

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