Billingsley Jr., William J.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Joseph Billingsley, PhD, fuses social psychology, cognitive science and evolutionary biology in an effort to understand the psychological mechanisms that regulate cooperation and altruism. His research investigates cooperation and altruism along several distinct but related lines of inquiry: the mechanisms underlying reconciliation and relationship repair; how kinship influences cooperation; religiosity and prosocial behavior; and social categorization. Billingsley’s research has been published in such journals as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Royal Society Open Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and Evolution and Human Behavior. Billingsley received his PhD in psychology from the University of Miami, with a concentration in quantitative psychology. He served as research assistant professor at North Carolina State University, where he investigated the social networks of entrepreneurs, before accepting his current position as visiting assistant professor in Tulane’s Department of Psychology.
Biography
Joseph Billingsley, PhD, fuses social psychology, cognitive science and evolutionary biology in an effort to understand the psychological mechanisms that regulate cooperation and altruism. His research investigates cooperation and altruism along several distinct but related lines of inquiry: the mechanisms underlying reconciliation and relationship repair; how kinship influences cooperation; religiosity and prosocial behavior; and social categorization. Billingsley’s research has been published in such journals as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Royal Society Open Science, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and Evolution and Human Behavior. Billingsley received his PhD in psychology from the University of Miami, with a concentration in quantitative psychology. He served as research assistant professor at North Carolina State University, where he investigated the social networks of entrepreneurs, before accepting his current position as visiting assistant professor in Tulane’s Department of Psychology.
