Hostile and benevolent sexism are both on the decline in 1,097 studies, N = 339,740 since 1996. Note that "3" on these scales is already a neutral response. Even bigger progress in countries with more hostile sexism. From Matthew D. Hammond psycnet.apa.org/psycarticles... #phdsky #psych

On average, it takes a little more than 4 years for a person’s emotional attachment to an ex-partner to dissolve halfway and around 8 years for the bond to fade fully, suggests research in Social Psychological and Personality Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"by thoughtfully designing decision-making environments, we can encourage reluctant individuals to act altruistically" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"if we allow science to become just another tribe, we will be asking people to choose between their loved ones and abstract principles. However that ends, it won’t end well" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"Narcissism, both adaptive and maladaptive traits, varies across cultural contexts...This study examines the measurement invariance of the Five-Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI) between the Brazilian Portuguese and the US versions"  econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/full/10....

🧵 1/ New paper co-authored by Francisco Gomez Jimenez from the CCE and colleagues explores same-sex sexuality within an evolutionary framework published in Archives of Sexual Behavior 🧪

"participants who met their partners online reported lower relationship satisfaction and lower intensity of experienced love compared to those who met offline, with effect sizes ranging from small to medium" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"sexless individuals (never had sex) tend to be more educated and less likely to use alcohol and drugs...sexless men more likely to live in regions with higher proportion of men, greater income inequality" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

"diversity of happiness conceptions and their links to well-being...interventions should be tailored to individuals' specific belief systems, as a one-size-fits-all approach may be insufficient" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"girls who more strongly associated spatial ability with boys performed more accurately [mental rotation] than those who associated it with their own gender...This unexpected direction of this effect is difficult to reconcile with existing theoretical frameworks" www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

"provide the earliest and the latest ages they think appropriate for engaging in several life events...social clock was more rigid in China than in the United States, and filial piety beliefs are likely explanations" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"a higher number of past partners, especially recent ones, led to less favorable evaluations. The only difference was that for individuals high in sociosexuality, the negative effects were somewhat muted, though not reversed" www.psypost.org/large-cross-...

"both male and female participants rated male professors higher across nearly all dimensions...clarity, interest, competence, self-confidence. Women rated more highly on care. This pattern held even for participants who reported egalitarian views about gender roles" www.psypost.org/students-rat...

At the core of this is a student saying she refuses to engage with class material that goes “against our President’s laws”

"we contribute to the refinement of cross-cultural research methodology by advocating for a tailored approach to addressing non-independence that models the real-world processes under examination" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"people are sensitive to the amount of population variance on a trait, and flexibly adjust their partner preferences to focus on traits which vary more among others" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We will also use funds to support the re-launch of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society in Denver, CO alongside the #HumanBiologyAssociation meetings, including funds for prizes.

Male Sex, Masculinization, Sexual Orientation, and Gynephilia Synergistically Predict Increased Sexual Jealousy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How much does the environment we’re raised in change how we see the world? Wonderful piece in @sciam.bsky.social by @norabradford.bsky.social, ft. an interview with @dorsaamir.bsky.social about our work on the 'cultural byproduct hypothesis'. www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

None of this makes sense since we just got a huge $25 mil donation for global studies...which many of these fall under! This is an attack on higher ed and the humanities...UO admin has gotten emboldened to act as recklessly as our US administration...😡 newsletter.uauoregon.org/after-accept...

"Traditionally viewed as uniquely Korean, nunchi involves sensitivity to subtle social cues and adaptive behavior promoting harmony...validation Nunchi Scale...two-factor structure comprising Grasp (perceiving social cues) and Adjust (responding appropriately)" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"88% of females outranked at least one adult male in multi-male group" www.cell.com/current-biol...

50 nations..."participants who met their partners online reported lower relationship satisfaction and lower intensity of experienced love compared to those who met offline" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley seeks to fill a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in the area of social/personality psychology aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020

Cultivating Wisdom Through Metacognition www.researchgate.net/publication/...

In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) anthropology.unm.edu/news-events/...

Applications now open for the SSE GREG Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 to expand your dissertation work. Submit your proposal by September 15! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Metascience Here, Lee & Ashton show how a single dataset can seriously skew the results of a meta-analysis. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"female professors attract smaller audiences, even when presenting on similar topics and having comparable productivity to male professors" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"identification of sex-specific mechanisms supporting affective processes in early adolescents may reflect risk factors that can be intervened upon before the crystallization of internalizing pathology" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"continuous representation of sex, the ECG Sex Index (ESI), derived via artificial intelligence analyses of electrocardiograms...outperformed binary sex in predicting...all-cause mortality, heart failure" bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

"how varied cultures can arise from species-typical mind; how cultural content transmitted; how culture normative force...non-reductive nature of evolutionary psychological approach, generative benefits in stimulating enquiry into commonalities and specificities of culture" osf.io/preprints/ps...

“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart." During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:

"early caregiving disruptions come at an epigenetic cost...greater caregiving disruptions during childhood predicted greater telomere erosion through an acceleration of pubertal tempo" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"model integrates evolutionary and biological processes with social customs and mores—that is, combines nature and nurture—into a cohesive framework to explain historical and cross-cultural variation in the magnitude of many sex differences" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...

"23 countries...greater bias toward transgender women (vs. men) overall...Men (vs. women) and conservatives reported higher prejudice, and this was more pronounced in Western (vs. non-Western) countries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"capitalism generates distinct cultural syndromes that emerged from the unique historical experiences of Western societies and are deeply rooted in the core principles of capitalism: profit motive, market competition, and private property ownership" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"grandmother hypothesis holds that senior women's foraging and food sharing led to life history changes that favored mate guarding, not paternal provisioning, in the formation of nuclear family-like social units" doi.org/10.1002/evan...

"The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

"extent to which countries and US states = aversive societal conditions associated with individuals’ aversive personality levels about 20 years later...aligns well with theories suggesting that socioecological factors coshape development of personality traits" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cultural "emancipation" (living in wealthier, more egalitarian, individualistic nations) strengthens the links between attachment/personality and relationship satisfaction journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... "Latent class analysis revealed three distinct bisexual subgroups with varying patterns of gender-based sexual attractions, gender of sexual partners, gender conformity...associated with unique patterns of psychosocial stressors and mental health"

"robust "Gender Attractiveness Gap"...female faces rated significantly more attractive than male faces...more pronounced among female than male raters...processes that extend beyond heterosexual mate choice" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"early social ostracism may lead to loneliness, which in turn fosters the development of traits like those in the Dark Triad, as individuals may adopt these traits as coping mechanisms in response to prolonged social stress and vulnerability" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"patterns of transcriptomic sex biases...abundance of sex differences in expression (sex-DEs) in prenatal brain, driven by both hormonal and sex-chromosomal factors, and considerable consistency in sex effects between developing and adult brain" www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

20th-century anthropologists called romantic love a Western invention – new paper, with data from 9 non-WEIRD societies (N = 937), finds high levels of passion, intimacy & commitment everywhere, adding evidence for the universality of love hypothesis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...