"How defence rhetoric escalates untergroup conflict" spkl.io/63325AbcXh Luuk Snijder, Jorg Gross, & @dedreu.bsky.social @cp-iscience.bsky.social

🚨New article in Proc B: "Reciprocity evolves more readily in competitive than cooperative socio-ecologies" Using agent-based evolutionary models, we show that reciprocity emerges more reliably in competitive environments with high exploitation risk. 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Did cooperation evolve because of conflict? Or is conflict an (avoidable) ‘by-product’ of evolved capacities to cooperate. I think the latter—> journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Not too long ago I had my inaugural lecture @RuG.nl I talked about #conflict — why we have them, and why we join. Here is the published version books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/...

💡 𝐎𝐨𝐠 𝐨𝐩 𝐖𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩: 𝐖𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧 (𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧) 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐧? Wat kunnen wij leren van groepsconflicten bij dieren? En hoe je zelf een conflict het beste aan kunt pakken? 🐆 👉🏻 Dat hoor je in deze aflevering van OOG op Wetenschap, met @dedreu.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/1JxX...

We're searching for a new colleague at Uni Bremen: *Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience*! Includes researcher positions to fill & use of labs for e.g. (f)MRI,fNIRS,EEG, eyetracking. fMRI expertise desired. Please share! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

🎓 𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐮: Op vrijdag 21 maart om 16.15 uur houdt @dedreu.bsky.social zijn oratie. De Dreu bekleed een interfacultaire leerstoel Fundamenten van samenwerking en sociale organisatie. 👉🏻 In de 'Liekuut' van vandaag schrijft de Dreu dat er veel te leren is over conflicten bit.ly/4i8t1p9

Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence

Please stop posting messages assuring foreigners that "Not all Americans!" The fact that this country is run by thugs is a collective responsibility. Accept that.

US — Behave!

Solidarity and conflict. Great PhD work by Luuk Snijder www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨🚨New paper out at with Jörg Gross & @dedreu.bsky.social: The nasty neighbor effect in humans. Across 51 societies and >14,000 participants, and against pre-registered predictions, we find that humans compete more within than between groups: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Beginning August 2024, I start as research professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Much looking forward!

@lhoenig.bsky.social 's groundbreaking project (the first from her PhD, with me and @dedreu.bsky.social ) is out, in JEP:G no less! See the comments for open access links.

On being unpredictable and winning… In a world ripped apart by conflict, leaders often are hard to predict. Why? We show it is to win at all cost. Yet everyone pays—victors and victims alike Opponents want to win no matter what. These opponents, that’s you and me www.linkedin.com/posts/carste...

Late March the German @humboldt-foundation.de organized a wonderful Award Ceremony in Bamberg. I was one of the lucky recipients of the Humboldt Forschungspreis to work with the Primate Research Center at Georg-August Universitat Gottingen 🥳

Happy to share that I’m joining the board of NWO Social Science and Humanities Council. www.nwo.nl/nieuws/carst...

🚨Job Alert🚨 We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work with us on how value is represented at the psychological and neural level. Details: universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20... 🔈Deadline: 20 February Please spread the word!

The abstract submission portal for the International Conference on Social Dilemmas is open! Make sure to send your submission until 15th of January 2024.  We look forward to learning about your interesting research! socialdilemma.com/icsd2024-abs... #PsychSciSky #BehSci #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

Advances Experimental Social Psychol (in press): Human creativity — what is it for (functions), how does it work (neurocognitive mechanisms), what personality and social factors make or break it? With Matthijs Baas and Bernard Nijstad: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Extended deadline — 31/01/2024.

📢 Job alert! Come do your PhD with Angelo Romano (@aromano.bsky.social) and me at Leiden on a cool topic on the effects of inequality on cooperation & competition between groups. 📝Deadline: 18 December Please share widely! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... #AcademiSky #PsychSciSky

The British Academy runs a multiyear trial on randomizing grant allocation among proposals that exceed quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi... Looks like a lottery increases diversity of recipients on many dimensions. 1/

I’m very honoured and happy with being awarded a @humboldt-foundation.de Research Award🥳. Big shout out to Peter Kappeler @George-August Universitat Gottingen / primate-cognition.eu/en/about-us/... for nominating me 🙏

!!Conference on Social Dilemmas!! in Leiden July 2-5 2024. Call for Abstracts is open. Keynotes are announced. Good weather ordered. Reposting appreciated! More information on: socialdilemma.com/icsd2024/

"We show that Guinea baboons (Papio papio) can use direct reciprocity and partner choice to develop and maintain high levels of cooperation in a prosocial choice task." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great inaugural lecture by Jorg Gross at Uni Zurich. How humans use cooperation to adapt to unwelcoming environments, with some tragic consequences (e.g. conflict, climate change

Fresh out in www.nature.com/articles/s41... —When people can choose whom to work with, and some are just more economically attractive than others, closed elites form. We cooperate b/c of ‘enlightened self-interest’ with segregation and polarizarion the ‘collateral damage.’ #PsySciSky #AcademicSky

Nobel economics prize awarded to Claudia Goldin for work on gender pay gap

Call: Special Issue of Journal of Economic Psychology - ISSN 0167-4870 (elsevier.com) on Social Institutions and Cooperation Failures. Public good provision, social dilemmas, intergroup conflict. Theory and experiments. Reposting appreciated!

Submission Deadline is December 25, 2023

Leaders can be important in group conflict, but only when followers align behavior and brains: Supported here with fNIRS and intergroup contest games, and find better coordination during group defense than exploitative attacks. With Yina Ma and team.   Nat. Hum. Behav.: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A related paper on social engagement and learning can be found here. With Michael Rojek-Giffin and Mael Lebreton in the lead #PsySciSky In Proceedings National Academy of Sciences: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Before Blue Sky we wrote about group formation and evolution. With Angelo Romano and Jorg Gross, in Perspectives Psychological Science: doi.org/10.1177/1745...