For decades, psychologists believed reminding people of death would make them fry themselves in tanning booths, recommend harsher punishments for prostitutes, and spend more on luxury goods. Rigorous testing revealed: nope. Dead theories have a way of refusing to stay buried.

Dan Williams is always worth reading Dan Williams

New article by me! Cardiovascular disease mortality rates have declined by around three-quarters since 1950, but we rarely hear about it. I explore some of the reasons behind the decline.

Excellent episode with one of my favorite evolutionary behavioral scientists, Cristina Moya, who teaches me something new and interesting every time I listen to her (previously in person, now via podcast).

This week, Drugs, Delusions, and Depression with Ed Hagen A wild ride! podbean.com/eas/pb-7srpz-1… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo… youtu.be/fWawIyNAjTc

My review of Sex is a Spectrum by Agustín Fuentes: blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-08-…

Are you doing research on impression formation, face perception, personality judgment, or related topics? Then you might be interested in joining our collaborative study! Follow the link for more information: tilburgss.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4N…

🚨 TT job alert! The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5371… I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2026 in Rabat, 11-13 May. Submissions opening in two days. airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

"When it comes to epistemology, we are neither gullible nor skeptical, let alone Bayesian, but rather *thuggist*. We’re all thugs, just waiting for the chance to attack whoever or whatever gets painted with an accusation." -Robert Kurzban ✡️ LivingFossilsSubstack

“The demise of writing matters because writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking.” A warning from ⁦Derek Thompson⁩. theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-18-…

I was really honoured to be invited on one of my favourite podcasts to talk to two of my favourite social scientists David Pinsof David Pietraszewski Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast). Among other things, we talked about: - beliefs - evolution - politics - Jordan Peterson

Big news! HBES President Ed Hagen has been awarded the inaugural Evolution in the Public Eye Award 🎉 The EPE Award honors outstanding contributions to the public understanding of evolutionary perspectives on behavior. For more information, follow this: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evolution…

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

🚨New paper🚨 We’ve repeatedly seen anger fuels confrontation and disgust fuels exclusion—at least in the West. But what about the East, where anger is taboo and harmony valued? We tested this in Japan 🇯🇵. Check our new paper in Cognition & Emotion: doi.org/10.1080/026999… [1/7]

Social Conformity and the Behavioral Immune System: State of the Art and Future Directions. 23-24/10/2025 Università di Padova, with Joshua M. Tybur and Florian van Leeuwen

I’m recruiting #PhD students to join my Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at UCSB! We study how infants learn about the natural world from others 🌱 If you’re interested in development, evolution, and infancy, please reach out and apply! More info below (1/2)

New work on resource possession + hierarchy regulation! Do the faces on the left and right look different to you? They were generated using a reverse correlation task by UK ps asked to visualize “poor people”: 🟩 by egalitarians (low SDO) 🟥 by anti-egalitarians (high SDO)