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Nikki Clauss

NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Professional Background

    Education

    • 2015-2019 - Ph.D. - Oklahoma State University
    • 2015-2017 - M.S. - Oklahoma State University
    • 2013-2015 - M.A. - Northern Arizona University
    • 2009-2012 - B.S. - University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

    Honors

    • 2020 - SPSP Travel Grant
    • 2019 - HBES Conference Grant
    • 2019 - Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid of Research
    • 2018 - Otto S. Cox Genetics Research Fellowship
    • 2018 - Sigma Xi Grants-in aid of Research
    • 2018 - OSU Women's Faculty Council Research Award
    • 2018 - OSU Graduate Research Excellence Award
    • 2018 - Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award

    Professional Memberships

    • 2014-present - Society for Neuroscience
    • 2017 - current - Graduate Women in Science
    • 2017 - present - American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • 2015 - present - Human Behavior and Evolution Society
  • Research

    I am particularly interested in the molecular and neurochemical underpinnings of the relationship between early adversity and addiction. 

  • Publications

    Calvi, J., Rankin, A., Clauss, N., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2020). The nuanced psychology of the Handmaids Tale: Commentary on power, feminism, and the patriarchy from four feminist evolutionary psychologists. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 14I(1), 63-78. DOI: 10.1037/ebs000017.

    Clauss, N. & Byrd-Craven, J. (2019). Exposure to a sex-specific stressor mitigates sex differences in stress-induced eating. Physiology & Behavior, 202 (1), 26-35.

    Clauss, N., Byrd-Craven, J., Kennison, S., & Chua, K. (2017). The role of mothers’ partner satisfaction and mother-infant communication duration in mother-infant adrenocortical attunement. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 1 – 17, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40750-017-0078-8

    Clauss, N., Rankin, A., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2017). Meta-analysis of sex differences in aggression. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford’s Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp 1-5). DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_846-1. 

    Byrd-Craven, J. & Clauss, N. (2017). The psychobiology of family dynamics: Bidirectional relationships with adrenocortical attunement. Chautauqua

    Clauss, N., & Rankin, A. (2017). Docosahexanoic acid. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford’s Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp 1-3). 

    Clauss, N., & Rankin, A. (2017). Maternal malnourishment. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford’s Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp 1 – 3). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_780-1. 

    Rankin, A., & Clauss, N. (2017). Investment vs. future payoff. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford’s Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp 1-3). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_772-1

    Rankin, A., & Clauss, N. (2017). Evolution of live birth in mammals. In T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford’s Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp 1-5). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_711-1.