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University of Auckland is looking for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversityO… via SmartRecruiters

New paper in Nature Human Behaviour...How do religious and political authority co-evolve and which comes first? We take a look across Austronesian-speaking communities of the Pacific - nature.com/articles/s4156… Oliver Sheehan Joseph Watts RDGray @scottclaessens Joseph Bulbulia Erik J. Ringen

It scored poorly on fuel economy and price but destroyed the competition when it came to its ability to smoothly and efficiently run over children

Partner choice does not predict prosociality across countries @scottclaessens and @thkyritsis cambridge.org/core/journals/…

A wide ranging chat covering democracy, religion, climate change and cross-cultural databases, with Ricardo Lopes @TheDissenterR - youtube.com/watch?v=09UkHZ…

Our paper showing how responses to COVID-19 across the political landscape make more sense when you consider the dual dimensions of political ideology...

Out this week in Science Advances, our long-awaited Grambank paper, documenting global variation in grammar across 2400 languages. 10 years' work by an amazing team (too many to mention in one tweet). We have to protect this linguistic diversity - science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

NEW PAPER! Climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour more likely among those who cooperate with strangers in lab-based social dilemmas that make no mention of climate change or any other real world social dilemma - theconversation.com/climate-change…

Sign the petition: Provide tertiary institutions a funding boost to enable good long-term staffing decisions. together.org.nz/provide_tertia…

Check out our new political ideology scale...

Lots of hot takes on our latest Indo-European paper. I’ll try respond to some of the general complaints about methods, without singling people out. I’ll focus on methods as that’s my expertise, rather than IE prehistory. 1/n

We have a new paper (round 3!) on the origins of Indo-European out this week in Science. Kudos to the amazing work by Paul Heggarty, Cormac Anderson and team producing the new IE database that underpins this analysis - doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Check out our new paper @NatComms on the non-independence of nations in cross-national analyses...

PhD Scholarship - call for applications. Come study the cultural evolution of mentalising or religion with me at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand University of Canterbury. My lab is also accepting applications for all levels of postgraduate supervision. More info: josephwatts.org/2024PhDscholar…

Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau ! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity. findaphd.com/phds/project/u…

Our new paper showing tool use isn't as rare as we thought among parrots - cell.com/iscience/fullt…