Jaimie Arona Krems
Biographic Data
| ID | 204559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaimie Arona Krems |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaimie Arona |
| FAMILY NAME | Krems |
| SIGNATURE | KREMS J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2590-2241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Friendship: The Most Overlooked Public Health Asset
Friends confer powerful benefits to physical and mental health, happiness, longevity, economic mobility, work productivity, civic participation, and community resilience. In the face of twin crises—the loneliness epidemic and the friendship recession—friendships are more important to understand and facilitate than ever. Yet friendship is undervalued in public discourse and invisible in public policy. Drawing from research across and beyond social…
Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns
Pro-life individuals often emphasize sanctity-of-life concerns as driving their opposition to abortion. This implies the straightforward prediction that the more strongly people oppose abortion for such reasons (e.g., “abortion is murder”), the more they will endorse policies preventing abortions (face-value account). An alternative suggests that typically nonconscious reproductive goals (e.g., discouraging casual sex) influence policy preference…
Canceling creativity? Exploring artist censure as a function of crime type
Trustworthiness: An Adaptationist Account
Two notes on Wiezel et al: Explaining why people disfavor dominant leaders and exploring overlooked sources of women's dominance and leadership
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments
Friendship is a unique and underexplored area of human sociality. Research suggests that humans have preferences for characteristics in their friends that maximize the benefits of these relationships. Yet, whereas more friends might increase friendship benefits, humans also have limited time, resources, and energy to invest in finding high-quality friends, making it likely that the nature of these preferences differs depending on the resources an…
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others
The acute inflammatory effects of weight stigma: An experimental pilot study
Weight stigma is a chronic stressor and may contribute to cardiometabolic health risk. This pilot study tests an experimental protocol exploring acute inflammation as a potential biological mechanism connecting weight stigma and disease risk. Preliminary effect sizes and protocol feasibility were assessed. Women ( N =44, 68% white) with overweight/obesity ( M BMI =33.2±6.7 kg/m 2 ) were randomized to either weight stigma ( n =22) or control ( n =…
Food scarcity and disease concern reduce interdependence when people eat together
Food sharing is central to the human experience, serving biological and sociocultural functions. Historically, food sharing has allowed people to manage food shortages, creating positive interdependence among those who pool calories and other sources of risk. However, sharing food may lead to negative outcomes when food is scarce, or when there is a threat of disease. We found that sharing food (compared with sharing pencils) led to reduced coope…
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy
Sex differences in friendship preferences
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women
Overweight and obese (“heavyweight”) people devalue themselves because, it has been proposed, they are socially devalued. However, for women, social valuation depends not only on how much weight they carry but also on where on their bodies they carry it. Here, we investigated whether weight-based self-valuation and perceived social valuation similarly depend on body shape. Study 1, using a nationally representative sample from National Health and…
Updating Long-Held Assumptions About Fat Stigma: For Women, Body Shape Plays a Critical Role
Heavier bodies—particularly female bodies—are stigmatized. Such fat stigma is pervasive, painful to experience, and may even facilitate weight gain, thereby perpetuating the weight-stigma cycle. Leveraging research on functionally distinct forms of fat (deposited on different parts of the body), we propose that body shape plays an important but largely underappreciated role in fat stigma, above and beyond fat amount. Across three samples varying …
Is There Anything Good About Atheists? Exploring Positive and Negative Stereotypes of the Religious and Nonreligious
Negative stereotypes about atheists are widespread, robust, rooted in distrust, and linked to discrimination. Here, we examine whether social perceivers in the United States might additionally hold any positive stereotypes about atheists (and corresponding negative stereotypes of the religious). Experiments 1 ( N = 401) and 2 ( N = 398, preregistered) used methods of intuitive stereotypes (the conjunction fallacy). People tended to stereotype ath…
Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party threats
2,918) using hypothetical scenarios, recalled real-world events, and manipulation of online emotional experiences-whether friendship jealousy possesses the features of a tool well-designed to help us retain friends in the face of third-party threats. Consistent with our proposition, findings suggest that friendship jealousy is (a) uniquely evoked by third-party threats to friendships (but not the prospective loss of the friendship alone), (b) sen…
An agent-based model of the female rivalry hypothesis for concealed ovulation in humans
First tests of Euclidean preference integration in friendship: Euclidean friend value and power of choice on the friend market
Women’s Strategic Defenses Against Same-Sex Aggression: Evidence From Sartorial Behavior
Women’s intrasexual competition has received significant attention only in the last decades, with even less work investigating women’s defenses against such aggression. Yet, we should expect that women can (a) grasp which perceptually-salient cues evoke same-sex aggression and (b) strategically damp the display of (some of) those cues when aggression risk is greatest, thereby avoiding the potentially high costs of victimization. Women selectively…
Why are conversations limited to about four people? A theoretical exploration of the conversation size constraint
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
Something to talk about: Are conversation sizes constrained by mental modeling abilities?
Verbal Derogation Among Women
Women selectively guard their (desirable) mates from ovulating women
For women, forming close, cooperative relationships with other women at once poses important opportunities and possible threats-including to mate retention. To maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of same-sex social relationships, we propose that women's mate guarding is functionally flexible and that women are sensitive to both interpersonal and contextual cues indicating whether other women might be likely and effective mate poachers. H…
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party threats
2,918) using hypothetical scenarios, recalled real-world events, and manipulation of online emotional experiences-whether friendship jealousy possesses the features of a tool well-designed to help us retain friends in the face of third-party threats. Consistent with our proposition, findings suggest that friendship jealousy is (a) uniquely evoked by third-party threats to friendships (but not the prospective loss of the friendship alone), (b) sen…
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments
Friendship is a unique and underexplored area of human sociality. Research suggests that humans have preferences for characteristics in their friends that maximize the benefits of these relationships. Yet, whereas more friends might increase friendship benefits, humans also have limited time, resources, and energy to invest in finding high-quality friends, making it likely that the nature of these preferences differs depending on the resources an…
Food scarcity and disease concern reduce interdependence when people eat together
Food sharing is central to the human experience, serving biological and sociocultural functions. Historically, food sharing has allowed people to manage food shortages, creating positive interdependence among those who pool calories and other sources of risk. However, sharing food may lead to negative outcomes when food is scarce, or when there is a threat of disease. We found that sharing food (compared with sharing pencils) led to reduced coope…
Women selectively guard their (desirable) mates from ovulating women
For women, forming close, cooperative relationships with other women at once poses important opportunities and possible threats-including to mate retention. To maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of same-sex social relationships, we propose that women's mate guarding is functionally flexible and that women are sensitive to both interpersonal and contextual cues indicating whether other women might be likely and effective mate poachers. H…
Clique Size and Network Characteristics in Hyperlink Cinema: Constraints of Evolved Psychology
Clique Size and Network Characteristics in Hyperlink Cinema: Constraints of Evolved Psychology
Something to talk about: Are conversation sizes constrained by mental modeling abilities?
Verbal Derogation Among Women
Women selectively guard their (desirable) mates from ovulating women
For women, forming close, cooperative relationships with other women at once poses important opportunities and possible threats-including to mate retention. To maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of same-sex social relationships, we propose that women's mate guarding is functionally flexible and that women are sensitive to both interpersonal and contextual cues indicating whether other women might be likely and effective mate poachers. H…
Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence
Why are conversations limited to about four people? A theoretical exploration of the conversation size constraint
First tests of Euclidean preference integration in friendship: Euclidean friend value and power of choice on the friend market
Women’s Strategic Defenses Against Same-Sex Aggression: Evidence From Sartorial Behavior
Women’s intrasexual competition has received significant attention only in the last decades, with even less work investigating women’s defenses against such aggression. Yet, we should expect that women can (a) grasp which perceptually-salient cues evoke same-sex aggression and (b) strategically damp the display of (some of) those cues when aggression risk is greatest, thereby avoiding the potentially high costs of victimization. Women selectively…
Is There Anything Good About Atheists? Exploring Positive and Negative Stereotypes of the Religious and Nonreligious
Negative stereotypes about atheists are widespread, robust, rooted in distrust, and linked to discrimination. Here, we examine whether social perceivers in the United States might additionally hold any positive stereotypes about atheists (and corresponding negative stereotypes of the religious). Experiments 1 ( N = 401) and 2 ( N = 398, preregistered) used methods of intuitive stereotypes (the conjunction fallacy). People tended to stereotype ath…
Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party threats
2,918) using hypothetical scenarios, recalled real-world events, and manipulation of online emotional experiences-whether friendship jealousy possesses the features of a tool well-designed to help us retain friends in the face of third-party threats. Consistent with our proposition, findings suggest that friendship jealousy is (a) uniquely evoked by third-party threats to friendships (but not the prospective loss of the friendship alone), (b) sen…
An agent-based model of the female rivalry hypothesis for concealed ovulation in humans
Sex (similarities and) differences in friendship jealousy
Sex differences in friendship preferences
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women
Overweight and obese (“heavyweight”) people devalue themselves because, it has been proposed, they are socially devalued. However, for women, social valuation depends not only on how much weight they carry but also on where on their bodies they carry it. Here, we investigated whether weight-based self-valuation and perceived social valuation similarly depend on body shape. Study 1, using a nationally representative sample from National Health and…
Updating Long-Held Assumptions About Fat Stigma: For Women, Body Shape Plays a Critical Role
Heavier bodies—particularly female bodies—are stigmatized. Such fat stigma is pervasive, painful to experience, and may even facilitate weight gain, thereby perpetuating the weight-stigma cycle. Leveraging research on functionally distinct forms of fat (deposited on different parts of the body), we propose that body shape plays an important but largely underappreciated role in fat stigma, above and beyond fat amount. Across three samples varying …
Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others
The acute inflammatory effects of weight stigma: An experimental pilot study
Weight stigma is a chronic stressor and may contribute to cardiometabolic health risk. This pilot study tests an experimental protocol exploring acute inflammation as a potential biological mechanism connecting weight stigma and disease risk. Preliminary effect sizes and protocol feasibility were assessed. Women ( N =44, 68% white) with overweight/obesity ( M BMI =33.2±6.7 kg/m 2 ) were randomized to either weight stigma ( n =22) or control ( n =…
Food scarcity and disease concern reduce interdependence when people eat together
Food sharing is central to the human experience, serving biological and sociocultural functions. Historically, food sharing has allowed people to manage food shortages, creating positive interdependence among those who pool calories and other sources of risk. However, sharing food may lead to negative outcomes when food is scarce, or when there is a threat of disease. We found that sharing food (compared with sharing pencils) led to reduced coope…
Two notes on Wiezel et al: Explaining why people disfavor dominant leaders and exploring overlooked sources of women's dominance and leadership
Dyads in networks: We (dis)like our partners' partners based on their anticipated indirect effects on us
Venting makes people prefer—and preferentially support—us over those we vent about
How do you build the perfect friend? Evidence from two forced-choice decision-making experiments
Friendship is a unique and underexplored area of human sociality. Research suggests that humans have preferences for characteristics in their friends that maximize the benefits of these relationships. Yet, whereas more friends might increase friendship benefits, humans also have limited time, resources, and energy to invest in finding high-quality friends, making it likely that the nature of these preferences differs depending on the resources an…
Trustworthiness: An Adaptationist Account
Friendship: The Most Overlooked Public Health Asset
Friends confer powerful benefits to physical and mental health, happiness, longevity, economic mobility, work productivity, civic participation, and community resilience. In the face of twin crises—the loneliness epidemic and the friendship recession—friendships are more important to understand and facilitate than ever. Yet friendship is undervalued in public discourse and invisible in public policy. Drawing from research across and beyond social…
Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns
Pro-life individuals often emphasize sanctity-of-life concerns as driving their opposition to abortion. This implies the straightforward prediction that the more strongly people oppose abortion for such reasons (e.g., “abortion is murder”), the more they will endorse policies preventing abortions (face-value account). An alternative suggests that typically nonconscious reproductive goals (e.g., discouraging casual sex) influence policy preference…
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (15 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (7 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 works) · Friendship (6 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (4 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 works) · Biology (3 works)