Catherine Salmon Ph.D.
About Dr. Salmon
Catherine Salmon received her BSc in Biology in 1992 and her PhD in Evolutionary Psychology in 1997 from McMaster University. After a number of blissful years as a post-doctoral researcher at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, she fled the frozen north to join the faculty at the University of Redlands in southern California where she is currently a professor in the Psychology department and on the advisory board for the Human-Animal Studies program. She is the co-author (with Donald Symons) of Warrior Lovers: Erotic fiction, evolution and female sexuality and The Secret Power of Middle Children (co-authored with Katrin Schumann). Her primary research interests include parental investment/sibling conflict, male and female sexuality, particularly as expressed in pornography and other erotic genres, and human-animal interactions. She is a founding member of SOIBS, the Society for Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Science and was, for 8 years, the editor-in-chief of Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. Recent papers include Sibling Conflict and Closeness: The Effects of Sex, Number of Siblings, Relatedness, Parental Resemblance and Investment; Pornography’s ubiquitous external ejaculation: Predictors of perceptions; The Influence of Individual Differences and Local Ecological Conditions on Emotional Empathy, Cognitive Empathy, and Harm Avoidance towards Nonhuman Animals.
Education
- Ph.D., Psychology, McMaster University
- B.Sc, Biology, McMaster University
Professional Background
- Post doctoral researcher, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada
- Professor, University of Redlands
Publications
Salmon, C., Hehman, J.A., & Figueredo, A.J. (2023). Pornography’s ubiquitous external ejaculation: Predictors of perceptions. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52, 431-442.
Salmon, C. & Burch, R. (2023). Popular Culture and Human Mating: Artifacts of Desire. In D. Buss & P. Durkee (Eds.). Handbook of Human Mating. Oxford University Press.
Figueredo, A. J., Steklis, N. G., Peñaherrera-Aguirre, M., Fernandes, H. B. F., Cabeza de BacaT., Salmon, C., ... & Sevillano, V. (2022). The Influence of Individual Differences and Local Ecological Conditions on Emotional Empathy, Cognitive Empathy, and Harm Avoidance towards Nonhuman Animals. Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin, doi.org/10.1079/hai.2022.002
Salmon, C. & Hehman, J.A. (2021). Good Friends, Better Enemies? The Effects of Sibling Sex, Co-Residence, and Relatedness on Sibling Conflict and Cooperation. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7, 327-337. 10.1007/s40806-021-00292-y
Salmon, C., & Burch, R.L. (2020). I’m with You Till the End of the Line: The Romanticization of Male Bonds. In J. Carroll, M. Clasen, & E. Jonsson (Eds.). Evolutionary perspectives on Imaginative Culture (pp. 291-305). New York: Springer.
Awards and service
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Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society Fellow
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Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship
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Best Post-Doctoral Paper Award 1999 HBES Annual Meeting