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Our lab is recruiting a new PhD student for Fall 2025. Please share! If you're interested in adaptationist/computational approaches to human social reasoning, esp. mate choice, I'd love to see your application. More information here: danconroybeam.com/join-the-lab

Tadeg is one of the best rising evolutionary cognitive scientists (and also a pure joy to collaborate with). Go work with him!

Prospective PhD students: Want to get about 100 PNAS papers? Go work with the one & only Daniel Sznycer !💪

"America is more divided now than ever!" Not even close

Now's your chance to submit to the Religion and Spirituality Precon at SPSP (Feb-8 in Denver) 👼👹 Short talks, data blitz, & posters. We have it all! Submit via the SPSP portal. Go go go (deadline Oct-18)! spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2025-pre…

But wait there's more! Are YOU a student (undergrad or grad)? Your registration to the precon is on us! (Thanks, John Templeton Foundation!) Email Jana Berkessel ([email protected]) for a code.

I am recruiting a two-year postdoc. Please apply if you have a background in the evolutionary social sciences and familiarity with research on disgust, pathogen avoidance, sickness behavior, or hygiene! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/post…

Excited to share that my dissertation will soon be published in JPSP! We show politically motivated reasoning driven by partisans' preferences & priors, and we try to offer some clear thinking about Bayes and biases in political cognition. Prepint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Out today in PNASNews, KNBV's Michael Varnum Kurt Gray Mohammad Atari & Nicolas Baumard argue for the creation of LLM's based on historical texts. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Do women REALLY want 🦾DOMINANT men? Sort of Women DON'T desire men who are dominant towards them+their kin Women desire men to be dominant--even more so than kind or trustworthy--but only when dominance is directed toward other men. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Aaron Lukaszewski

Are equally heavy (big, fat, thicc) women equally stigmatized? No. SHAPE matters! Among White American , Black American, + Indian Ps: Women w fat in their abdomens are more stigmatized than SAME HEIGHT/WEIGT (same BMI) women w fat in hips/thighs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The prevalence of irrational beliefs is better explained by the practical benefits of holding & spreading such beliefs (e.g., signaling ingroup loyalty), rather than alternatives (cognitive deficiencies, feeling good about oneself) Michael Barlev

Most work sees DEPRESSION + SUICIDALITY as pathological Another view? They're (1) HONEST SIGNALS of NEED that (2) can INCREASE SUPPORT from others In experiments, targets were more BELIEVED + SUPPORTED when they showed cues of depression + self-harm sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

When do we think THAT X CAUSED Y? A fire can be caused by a lit match, dry brush, oxygen... But the PSYCHOLOGY of CAUSALITY prioritizes some factors over others Which? Factors correlated with the outcome event ACROSS A RANGE OF possible circumstances sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last week was the anniversary of the death of my brilliant and beloved friend John Tooby. Here I'm with his collaborator and wife (and my dear friend) Leda Cosmides on his memorial bench on the UCSB campus.

We think of our own, biological memory the way we think of computer memory: the more, the better. But that’s not what evolution intended when it created learning. Learning is not just about storing information: it is about choosing what to store and what to discard. 🧵/1

🚨 Laws about bodily damage originate from shared intuitions about the value of body parts science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… New research by the great @YunsuhW, with Jaimie Arona Krems & me, in Science Advances 🧵

SO love this post from Paul Bloom! Real-world effects are awesome when you can get them, but psychologists run experiments in controlled environments "for the same reason that chemists keep their test tubes clean". YES! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/its-fine-if-…

Congratulations to Leda Cosmides on being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! news.ucsb.edu/2025/021817/em…