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Learn about the MCFC (Males Compete Females Choose) and MMC (Mutual Mate Choice) models of sexual selection in my interview with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams (Steve Stewart-Williams). #evolutionarypsychology #Science Full interview: youtu.be/WQtrjpUU0L4

What a pleasure to do this podcast with Adam Hunt, who has done so much for evolutionary psychiatry! It even made me optimistic about psychiatry's future as it finds its missing foundation in evolutionary biology. Allen Frances ISEMPH UM_EHAP World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org Psychiatric Times

'Pressures to pay article processing fees on the part of funding agencies and university libraries waste research funding and stymie efforts to establish more sustainable publishing systems. We recommend a total abandonment of author-paid publication fees for academic research'.

As if shame were designed to minimize the threat of information-triggered devaluation papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Fresh out in Psychological Review! Why do so many societies explain events through fate, spirits, or divine will—but rarely invoke “chance”? My new article examines the cross-cultural absence of chance-based explanations and what it reveals about human cognition.

"rely more on the good stuff" Sacha Altay advocates that we should increase trust in credible sources in order to improve true beliefs!

“In this post, I’d like to summarize two fascinating papers showing that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, it’s actually women who receive inflated feedback in professional settings.” [Link below.]

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New, hot-off-the-presses! Delighted to share this new paper about why the ubiquitous "Evolution vs. Learning" dichotomy is the wrong way to think about things. Out now in American Psychologist (APA Journals). The paper avoids the boring, underspecified claim that "both matter"

1. The evolution of [proto] music. My arguments against the social bonding hypothesis and in favor of the signaling hypothesis The Explicandum: The evolution in the human lineage of vocalizations that are: * Loud * Synchronized * Variable 🧵

20th-century anthropologists called romantic love a Western invention – our new paper, with data from 9 non-WEIRD societies (N = 937), finds high levels of passion, intimacy & commitment everywhere, adding evidence for the universality of love hypothesis. Link to the pdf below!

New paper: victims are devalued, and judged more responsible for their own misfortune, if they request help from others, supporting an ev-psych model of victim-blame as caused by a cooperation-dilemma. Open pub: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

New episode (1106), with Dr. Kevin Hong (Kevin Hong). We talk about magic, divination, and dream interpretation across societies. #Anthropology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/Gnq8Kjp1Qnc Podcast: bit.ly/3Sz0KwS

I wrote a short blog post about our experimental work on the logic of guesses:

"Critically, these intuitions aren’t simply illusions... Intuitive theories that specify when team size, diversity, or power asymmetries make some battles not worth the time may help ensure that reaching consensus isn’t always akin to herding cats" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Do men overperceive sexual interest in women? Watch my interview with Dr. Carin Perilloux. #evolutionarypsychology #Science Full interview: youtu.be/8DZD0AD6d7M

"appears to be universal patterns in the kind of things that people find interesting... also seems that the share of people interested in different domains of inquiry [...] broadly similar across societies and time periods, at least until the enlightenment"psypost.org/scientists-unc…

Luke Glowacki does outstanding work on how cultural mechanisms interact with our evolved psychology to shape warfare and peace, which makes him well-deserving of the HBES Early Career Award. See his research here: hsb-lab.org Congratulations, Luke!

Thrilled to announce my new book on shelves soon: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Our longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden. Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

New commentary article in Evolution and Human Behavior. Does cultural evolution involve its own system of inheritance, or are cultural phenomena mere vehicles produced by the genes in order to facilitate their (i.e., the genes’) self-copying success? The ecological approach to