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Sarah Nila

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        Hi!

        I am a bio-anthropologist interested in human behavioural ecology mainly using evolutionary approach but now learning behavioural science approach

      • Research

        I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Psychology, Durham University on FACE-UP project. On my role, I am working on how to protect children from air pollution in Nepal and Indonesia; supervised by Dr Judith Covey, Dr Claire Horwell, and Dr Rachel Kendal (Durham University).

        I am also developing my own (side) project to investigate the reproductive success of the fifth gender in Sulawesi, Indonesia. In this project, I am collaborating with Michel and will develop collaborations with other people soon...

        Previously, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL Anthropology working on how cultures influence empathy behaviour in Indonesian societies with Dr Alecia Carter (University College London) and Dr Christine Webb (Harvard University). We measured empathy using three different measurements, i.e., self-report questionnaire (adult), pen-dropped experiment (adult), and broken toy experiment (children).

        When I was Phd, I worked on sexual preference in Indonesian males with Dr Michel Raymond (University Montpellier) and Dr Bambang Suryobroto (IPB University). I was also involved in Michel’s and Bambang’s project about local adaptation on environment at risk. We are conducting this research in the villages around Semeru mountain, one of an active volcano in Indonesia, to measure risk taking behaviour of people who live in risky areas compared with people who lived in non-risky areas. In addition, I was also involved in their project on handedness in Indonesian society to assess heritability of handedness in East Nusa Tenggara where violent conflict is still high.

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        Traditional dance for ancestors in East Nusa Tenggara (personal credit)

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        A cross-dresser learned to read Quran in Yogyakarta (personal credit)

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        Semeru mountain, another active volcano in Indonesia which become our field site (personal credit)

      • Publications

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      • Correlation between social networking time use and self-control of university students in Indonesia

        Increased birth rank of homosexual males: disentangling the older brother effect and sexual antagonism hypothesis

        Evolution of the bitter taste receptor TAS2R38 in colobines

        How evolutionary behavioural sciences can help us understand behaviour in a pandemic

        Handedness heritability in industrialized and nonindustrialized societies

        Male homosexual preference: Femininity and the older brother effect in Indonesia

        Kin selection and male homosexual preference in Indonesia

        Are right-and left-handedness relevant as general categories in a non-industrialized country?

        Functional characterization of the TAS2R38 bitter taste receptor for phenylthiocarbamide in colobine monkeys

        “Deer” friends: feeding associations between colobine monkeys and deer

        Diurnal resting site selection and daytime feeding behaviour of wild Malayan flying lemur Galeopterus variegatus in Western Java, Indonesia

        Dietary variation of long tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Telaga Warna, Bogor, West Java

      • Contact me

        Department of Psychology

        Durham University

        Stockton Rd, Durham, DH1 3LE

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