Joshua Tybur

{{Short description|American psychologist}}

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| birth_name = Joshua M. Tybur

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| fields = Evolutionary psychology

| workplaces = VU Amsterdam

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| education = Arizona State University
University of New Mexico

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| thesis_title = Disgust dissected: An investigation of the validity of the Three Domain Disgust Scale

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| thesis_year = 2009

| doctoral_advisor = Geoffrey Miller

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| awards = Early Career Award from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (2018)

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Joshua M. Tybur is an American psychologist who serves as Professor of Psychology and Infectious Disease in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at VU Amsterdam. Much of his research focuses on the evolutionary psychology of disgust.{{Cite web |title=Disgust Evolved To Protect Us From Disease. Is It Working? |url=https://insidescience.org/news/disgust-evolved-protect-us-disease-it-working |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Inside Science |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=VU psychologist Joshua Tybur receives ERC Consolidator Grant |url=https://vu.nl/en/news/2022/vu-psychologist-joshua-tybur-receives-erc-consolidator-grant |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Gorman |first=James |date=2012-01-23 |title=Survival's Ick Factor |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/science/disgusts-evolutionary-role-is-irresistible-to-researchers.html |access-date=2022-12-16 |issn=0362-4331}}