Helicopter parenting is not a human universal! In our sixth episode, @sheinalew.bsky.social discusses studying childhood in the Congo basin. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-bpsfw-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=12mI...

How do filmmakers portray POWER? Pretty closely to how evolutionary social scientists would tell them to. Here's a great video on power in film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaIF... ... ...which echoed this paper beautifully: Durkee et al. PNAS (2020) www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... Science + art 🎨

Big congrats to @rthompkins.bsky.social on this paper! Happy to finally see this out in the world. Our work builds on findings from @juliamarshall.bsky.social on the impact of social relationships on moral expectations, with a focus on how children think about lying and liars.

Thrilled to receive the Postdoctoral Award for our paper @American Psychologist: doi.org/10.1037/amp0.... A deep dive into the 'functional flexibility' of disease psychology. COVID’s natural experiment put long-held theories to the test. Here are 3 contributions from a longitudinal study 🧵

My NEW FAVE PODCAST: Real evolutionary social scientists talking about actual research (+ other weird stuff). I talked FRIENDSHIP with @dpietra.bsky.social + David Pinsof!

What drives policy positions on abortion? In a new👇preprint, Jordan Moon + I take seriously abortion opponents’ frequent argument (sanctity of life) + test if support for abortion-reducing bills is it more consistent w that…or w another explanation. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪#abortion

We're starting something new at HBES! ADAPT aims to reach undergrads who don't have access to evo social science training or research experiences. Want to mentor an ADAPT student? Fill out a short form by Dec 31. Your name + pic will go online for applicants to see. www.hbes.com/the-adapt-mi...

Hi all! A bit late to the Bluesky game, but spreading the word that we have 4 open faculty positions at Ohio State University Psychology Department! Initial deadlines are today, but late applications are still welcome. #psychscisky #academicsky #neuroskyence psychology.osu.edu/current_facu...

APPLICANT PORTAL FOR ASFP 2023 IS OPEN! Applying to Psych PhD programs this cycle? Submit your statement for fast, free, double-blind, expert feedback! Know someone applying for Psych PhD programs this cycle? Spread the word about this awesome program! @asfp.io Portal closes 10/26 at 6PT

PhD Scholarship - call for applications! Go study the cultural evolution of mentalising or religion with @josephwatts.bsky.social at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. For more info visit the link! josephwatts.org/2024PhDschol... #BioAnth

#bioanth jobs from the other place Assistant Professor (tenure track) Biological Anthropology, University of Alberta t.co/4kTaTaSJN3

As a grad student, I got so excited when profs wanted to hear about my work As an early prof, I got so excited when *senior* profs wanted to hear about my work. As a not-that-early prof, I'm SO EXCITED that grad students want to hear about my work. ➡️➡️➡️The future is where it's at. #Psych 🧪

I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Agreed!👇 And if you want to hear more on friendship + why we need to dedicate more resources to exploring it, come see me talk this Fall at UCSD or UCSB 🫶 #psych #socialpsych #friendship www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My social psych lab has moved to UCLA, + we're looking for driven graduate student applicants! (Especially those interested in human friendship.) More on the *NEW* UCLA Social Minds Lab👇. Please RT + share with your students! www.kremslab.com #psych #gradschool 🧪 #Stilldontunderstand#shere

The swell of pride when one of your students asks a super question at a talk 🤩 #Psych #Gradschool #Stilldontknowhowtousehastagshere

Starting off posting here with good news! Our SPSP Symposium was accepted! Come see Meltem Yucel, Jillian Jordan, Ike Silver, + me in February in San Diego! #SPSP #Psych #Idontknowhowtousethe#hereyet 🤷‍♀️

PhD studentship as part of an interdisciplinary project on social norms (a collaboration between economists, psychologists and computer scientists at Royal Holloway). #BioAnth #CulturalEvolution #Psychology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCM632/p...

We are hiring! UC San Diego Psychology will be hiring two Assistant Professors this year in: 1. Social psychology. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683 2. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684 Apply by November 7th :)

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