Christopher D. Watkins

Christopher D. Watkins

Senior Lecturer and director of the Human Relationships Laboratory

Abertay University

Chris is a friend and collaborator. For more information and to see his work and publications, visit his Lab website, or his Abertay University page.

I worked with him on a project related to environmental predictors of mouth-to-mouth kissing:

Happily, for this project lead by Chris, we were awarded the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize in economics, “for trying to quantify the relationship between different countries’ national income inequality and the average amount of mouth-to-mouth kissing”. Below, you can watch the ceremony (if you want to jump to Chris receiving the prize, go to 28:13).

Co-authored publications