Coren L. Apicella [Home]
PERSONAL INFORMATION
	Peabody Museum Department of Anthropology 11 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Email: apicella@fas.harvard.edu			Foreign Languages: Intermediate Swahili
EDUCATION
	Harvard University, Cambridge, MA				2003 - Present
	PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology
	Harvard University, Cambridge, MA				2003 - 2005
	A.M. Biological Anthropology
	University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England				2000 - 2001
	M.S. Evolutionary Psychology; Graduated with Distinction
	Bradford College, Bradford, MA				1995 - 1999
	B.A. Human Studies with a concentration in Psychology
	Arcadia University, Study Abroad in Greece “Ancient History and Archaeology”				Summer 1997
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
	Visiting Researcher: Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm Sweden · Entrepreneurship, risk-taking and testosterone				Summer 2008
	Teaching Fellow: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA				2005 - 2008
	· Human Evolutionary Biology: Sophomore Tutorial · Evolution of Human Nature · Behavioral Biology of Women Undergraduate Thesis Advisor: Harvard University				2006 - 2007
	Reviewer for Journals: Evolution & Human Behavior; Human Nature
	Fieldwork India
	· Attractiveness preferences in matrilineal and patrilineal Khasi				November 2007
	Dissertation Fieldwork: Tanzania
	· Mate choice in Hadza hunter-gatherers · Mate choice and attractiveness and their relationship to reproductive success and health in the Hadza				June 2004 – August 2004 June 2006 – Nov. 2006
	College Lecturer: Lasell College, Newton, MA				Jan. 2003 – Aug.2003
	· Introduction to Psychology
	College Lecturer: Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA				Sept. 2002 – Aug. 2003
	· Introduction to Psychology
	Research Analyst: Education Development Center, Newton, MA				Jan. 2002 - May 2002
	· Oversaw and coordinated the work of 32 school-based research assistants in the Social Norms Marketing Research Project
	Psychology Teacher: Range High School, Formby, England				Sept. 2000 – Nov. 2000
	· Designed and conducted lessons to Advanced Psychology Students · Responsible for personal development of students in tutor group
	Research Assistant: Harvard Vanguard, Boston, MA				Sept. 1998 - May 1999
	Department of Behavioral Medicine - Mind and Body Research Project
	· Identified prospective subjects from patients in a cooperating general internal medicine practice and conducted structured interviews
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
	2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2005		Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates Edmund J. Curley Fellowship Derek Bok Center Certificate for Distinction in Teaching Graduate Society Merit Fellowship Derek Bok Center Certificate for Distinction in Teaching National Science Foundation Research Experience for Graduate Students Harvard University Department of Biological Anthropology Advanced Studies Support Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Science Summer Fellowship
	2004		Department of Biological Anthropology Early Training and Research Award
	2004		National Science Foundation: Honorable Mention
	2000		University of Liverpool International Scholarship
	1999		Filene Shouse Internship Award
PRESENTATIONS & INVITED TALKS
	2008 2008 2007 2006 2006 2005 2004 2003	“Testosterone and financial risk preferences”. Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society: Manchester, NH “Cross-cultural preferences for attractiveness and their evolutionary significance:  Lessons from Hadza hunter-gatherers” Invited talk Department of Anthropology; McGill University, Montreal, Canada “Hadza hunter-gatherers meet your average Joe: Cross-cultural preferences for averageness in faces” Evolution and Human Behavior Society: Williamsburg, VA “Waist-to-hip ratio: A profile view”. Evolution and Human Behavior Society: Philadelphia, PA “The story of Average Joe and Plain Jane”. Northeast Biological Anthropology Symposium: Cambridge, MA “Men’s reproductive investment decisions: mating, parenting and self-perceived mate value”. Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX “Mate fidelity, paternal resemblance and mate value predict paternal investment”. New England Biological Anthropology Symposium: New Haven, CT “Paternity and parental investment in human males” Human Behavior and Evolution Society: Lincoln, NE
PUBLICATIONS
	Apicella, C.L., Dreber, A.. Campbell, B., Gray, P. Hoffman, M., & Little, A. C. (in press). Testosterone and financial risk preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior.
	Little, A.C., Jones, B., Waitt, C., Tiddeman, B.P., Feinberg, D., Perret, D.I., Apicella, C.L., Marlowe, F.W. (2008). Symmetry is related to sexual dimorphism in faces: Data across cultures and species, PLoS ONE.
	Apicella, C. L., Little, A.C. & Marlowe, F.W. (2007). Averageness and attractiveness in an isolated population of hunter-gatherers. Perception, 36, 1813-1820.
	Apicella, C. L., Feinberg, D. & Marlowe, F.W. (2007) Voice pitch predicts reproductive success in male hunter-gatherers. Biology Letters,6, 682-684.
	Apicella, C.L. & Marlowe, F.W. (2007). Men’s reproductive investment decisions: mating, parenting and self-perceived mate value. Human Nature, 18, 22-34.
	Little, A.C., Apicella, C.L. & Marlowe, F.W. (2007). Preferences for symmetry in human faces in two cultures: data from the UK and the Hadza, an isolated group of hunter-gatherers Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 274, 3113-3117.
	Marlowe, F.W., Apicella, C.L., & Reed, D. (2005). Men’s Preferences for women’s profile waist- to-hip ratio in two societies. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26, 458-468.
	Apicella, C.L. & Marlowe, F.W. (2004). Mate fidelity and resemblance predict men’s investment in children. Evolution and Human Behavior, 25, 371-378.
	Apicella, C L. & Feinberg, D. (in review). Hadza voice pitch preferences and attributions.
	Dreber, A.., Apicella, C.L., Campbell, B.C., MacKillop, J,. Eisenberg, D.T.A., & Gray, P. (in Prep). Polymorphisms in the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) are associated with financial risk-taking in men.
	Campbell, B.C., MacKillop, J., Dreber, A., Apicella, C.L., Eisenberg, D.T.A., Gray, P. Little, A.C., (in review). Testosterone exposure, delay discounting, and sensation-seeking in young men.
	Dreber- Almenberg, A., Almenberg, J., Rand, D. & Apicella, C.L. (in review). Rewarding the generous.
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE OF RESEARCH
	Nightline, BBC (World News, Radio 1 and Radio 4), NPR (Morning Edition and Here and Now), New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times (UK), The Boston Globe, New Scientist

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