Dr Gil Greengross

BS in Behavioral Sciences (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) MS Statistics (University of New Mexico) MS Evolutionary Anthropology (University of New Mexico) PhD Evolutionary Anthropology (University of New Mexico).

Module Coordinator

• AB2 Evolutionary Psychology (PS21020)
• AB1 Psychology of Humour (PS32620)

Moderator

• AB2 21st Century Self: Critical and Constructionist Approaches to Contemporary Personhood (PS31720)
• AB1 Applied Forensic Psychology (PS21220)
• AB1 Behavioural Neuroscience (PS32120)
• AB2 Brain, Behaviour and Cognition (PS11220)
• AB2 Child Language: Development and Assessment (PS31820)
• AB1 Cognitive Psychology (PS21820)
• AB2 Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology (PS11820)
• AB1 Counselling Research Project (PS33240)
• AB1 Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg (SC11320)
• AB2 Developmental Psychology and Individual Differences (PS34320)
• AB1 Drugs and Behaviour (PS30820)
• AB2 Evolutionary Psychology (PS21020)
• AB1 Foundations of Counselling II: Further Skills and Theory (PS22120)
• AB1 Foundations of Counselling: Skills & Theory 1 (PS12120)
• AB2 Health Psychology (PS20720)
• AB1 Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology (PS11320)
• AB1 Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour (PS11420)
• AB1 Issues in Clinical Psychology (PS21720)
• AB1 Personal Development and Organisational Behaviour (PS11710)
• AB1 Placement Year (PSS0160)
• AB1 Placement Year (PSS0060)
• AB1 Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl (SC33140)
• AB1 Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd (SC34120)
• AB1 Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours (PS34120)
• AB1 Psychology Research Project for Single Honours (PS33140)
• AB1 Quantitative Research Methods (PS21310)
• AB2 Social Psychology (PS20220)
• AB1 Work Placement (PSS0360)
• AB1 Work Placement (PSS0260)

Tutor

• AB1 Applications of Psychology (PS11520)
• AB2 Evolutionary Psychology (PS21020)
• AB1 Forensic Psychology Dissertation (PS33340)

Lecturer

• AB1 Applications of Psychology (PS11520)
• AB1 Counselling Research Project (PS33240)
• AB2 Evolutionary Psychology (PS21020)
• AB1 Prosiect Ymchwil Cwnsella (SC33240)
• AB1 Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer anrhydedd sengl (SC33140)
• AB1 Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd (SC34120)
• AB1 Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours (PS34120)
• AB1 Psychology Research Project for Single Honours (PS33140)
• AB1 Psychology of Humour (PS32620)
• AB1 Quantitative Research Methods (PS21310)

• Thursday 10:30-12

My main areas of research are evolutionary psychology and psychology of humour and laughter. I take an interdisciplinary approach to understand humour and other everyday behaviours using established theories within the evolutionary paradigm, such as sexual selection and life history.

In my humour research, I study why people use and enjoy humour, individual and sex difference in humour production and appreciation, and specifically the importance of humour to mating and mate choice. I also study people with extreme humour abilities, such as stand-up comedians and improv artists, further aiming to understand the roots of sense of humour and the creative mind.

Other research interests include creativity and intelligence, positive psychology, behavioural genetics, marketing and consumer behaviour, quantitative methods and statistics, and philosophy of science. I am currently studying the psychology of magic and magicians, and a twin study on the heritability of humour.