New paper out today with Zhian Chen. We argue that modern intensive parenting is not only exhausting for parents, but in some cases disrupts healthy child development. What is 'overparenting'? And can evolutionary theory help us understand how we got here? academic.oup.com/emph/advance...

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Democratic backsliding often happens *in the name of democracy* Officially, institutions are slashed to make society more, not less, democratic Here, the difference between liberal & majoritarian concepts of democracy is key We need to ensure that publics understand the value of the former 🧵(1/6)

The HBES annual conference is approaching - join us June 4th-7th 2025 at Stockton University, Atlantic City. Registration & payments are now open. Abstracts are due Feb 15th - submit today! stockton.edu/human-behavi...

Welcome to the official Bluesky account of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES), an international, interdisciplinary organization serving all those who study the evolution of human behavior. We're excited to now be on BlueSky!

Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge... - my response to a paper proposing editing the genomes of human embryos

This is timely for my Behavioural Genetics course starting next week, my students will be able to have a more informed discussion, perhaps.....

Over 60 German universities & research institutions have announced their #eXit from X today. X/Twitter no longer compatible with their core values: “Open-mindedness, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse.” (Via @amreibahr.bsky.social)

In celebration of SIPS's 10th annual meeting, please join us for a virtual warm-up event on December 18, 2024! Early reformers will discuss challenges and improvements in psychological science. Find out more and register: improvingpsych.org/sips-2025-pr...

In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine Postdoc (3 Jahre, 100%) / PhD (3 Jahre, 75%) Stelle ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden! Link PhD: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

New post on The 100% CI: I read @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social's book on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success. www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t...

Just out: @faridanvari.bsky.social and I were on a podcast with @renemottus.bsky.social to talk about our work on construct and measure proliferation. Learn about this colourful rug, the jingle jangle jungle, bastard measures, toothbrushes and my continuing struggle with metaphor addiction.

Well, this could hardly be more timely (and is very carefully written): Ten Myths About the Effect of Social Media Use on Well-Being by Jeffrey A Hall doi.org/10.2196/59585

Talk I gave at the University of Macau now online: "Challenges in Science: Registered Reports & Peer Community in Registered Reports are the future of science" Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hw... Details 👇🧵

"Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation" -- a new review paper from Bertram Gawronski et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... After the debunking, the authors offer three empirical conclusions: (1) people are quite good at discerning true from false information

If any examiner thinks they can identify essays written by Generative AI, That now seems rather naive.. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Personally, I have totally revised my assessments so as to test AI-complementary skills t.co/XHJzpYDZEA

Why do women switch their contraceptive method? We have a new preprint led by Chiara Draxler with a focus on sexuality-related predictors: osf.io/preprints/ps... Contraceptive satisfaction - but not sexual satisfaction or sexual frequency - predicts contraceptive switches.

Now out at EJP w/ @willemsleegers.bsky.social, @juliastern.bsky.social, @larspenke.bsky.social, @alexjonesphd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0890... We tested how accurate people are at judging others' personality based on a facial photograph & whether they are aware of their own (in)accuracy. A🧵

Die Bauarbeiten beginnen! Das GT besucht das neue Forschungszentrum "HuCaB" geleitet von Anne Schacht; weitere beteiligte SFB-PIs: Alex Gail, StefanTreue, Peter Marschik, @larspenke.bsky.social, @nivimani.bsky.social; Hannes Rakoczy Michael Wibral, Alex Ecker; with @primatecognition.bsky.social

I am incredibly excited to be one of the incoming Associate Editors at Psychological Science. Can’t wait to work with this team of brilliant people who value scientific rigour, with the admirable @simine.com leading the way.

I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/2024-editorial-board We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!

New paper with Julie Driebe, @larspenke.bsky.social & Tanja Gerlach @EuropeanJournalofPersonality Do our ideal partner preferences predict traits of our future partners? Does the match between ideal preferences and partner traits predict relationship outcomes? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Join our research group “Translational Research in Anxiety, Cognition & Emotion” (TRACE) in Göttingen (PhD or PostDoc), links below! www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse... www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse...

Happy to invite to our next ScienceCampus lecture today, Nov 23, at 3 PM in the Michael Lankeit-Lecture Hall in Göttingen. Excited to welcome Andre Pittig from the Institute of Psychology here in Göttingen to learn more about "Translational Psychotherapy in Fear, Anxiety and Their Disorders"

How has gender bias in hiring changed from 1976 to 2020? (1) "bias in favor of male over female[s] was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed ...starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-[typed] jobs in our sample [of] 244 effect sizes from 85...audits and 361,645 ...job applications". ...

Major news 🎉 @gaertneranne.bsky.social just won the Einstein foundation Early Career Award. Very well deserved, congratulations Anne 🥳 mailchi.mp/einsteinfoun...

#RIPJohnTooby. If you ever catch me wanting to unpack & understand each & every assumption behind something: that's John's influence. He taught several generations of us to ask all the questions & turn over all the rocks. That game-changing mentoring is something to aspire to. Rest in peace John.

Happy to join the bluesky world. We are the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition. As a joint initiative of the University of Göttingen and the German Primate Center, we promote collaborative research. Starting off with an invitation to our lecture on Thursday, Nov 9 with @marcellawoud.bsky.social

🎉 Thrilled to share that our manuscript on natural experiments has just been accepted at AMPPS! with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Adam Ayaita @ruben.the100.ci @p-hunermund.com @azwpsy.bsky.social Susanne Bücker, Sven Rieger, Sandrine Müller, and Tobias Ebert! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Two of my favorite things: using twins for something more useful than estimating heritability, and letting people know about the excellent work of my grad students, in this case Sean Womack (along with others). scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...

Did educational expansion make cognitive ability more predictive of attainment? Meritocratic logics would suggest so. Our results reveal the opposite pattern: a decoupling between ability and education over birth cohorts! Out now in Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41...