"Critics charge EP with producing unfalsifiable 'just-so stories.' Yet EP explicitly employs Popper’s hypothetico-deductive method: abductive reasoning from proximate data to hypothesize evolved functions, deduction to generate novel predictions, and empirical testing to confirm or falsify them."

A decimation of the caricature of evolutionary psychology that Red Pill Manosphere gurus appeal to. Myself and other graduate students, regularly challenge this in our publications and online (i.e., the only place we'll change any of their followers minds). datepsychology.com/rollo-tomass...

🧠💥 What Drives Incels to Harmful Beliefs? A new study finds two main routes: one shaped by pain from bullying and poor mental health, the other by anger, control, and extreme ideas. Feelings and beliefs mattered more than time spent online. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #SciComm🧪 #Incels

Interested in #HBES2026 in Rabat? The hosts have drafted a FAQ regarding the location: www.hbes.com/announcing-h... Overall, this is an exciting opportunity for a great location, hosted by a great team, joint with another evolutionary society, and with perspectives we seldom hear

Dr. Norm Li delivers #HBES2025 plenary #5, applying a life history framework to declines in fertility worldwide. Li reviews several known sources of fertility decline but calls attention to a potentially underappreciated factor: evolutionary mismatch.

In his #HBES2025 plenary, Norm Li presents a series of experiments providing evidence that exposure to some modern challenges --climbing modern status ladders, economic uncertainty, & population density--induces shifts toward slower reproductive strategies

I’ll be busy on the Saturday of @humbehevosoc.bsky.social I'm on a panel on Evolutionary Perspectives on Singlehood & Giving a talk on our data showing that in Cross-Sex Friendships: Men (But Not Women) Put Their Money Where Their Mating Motivations Are. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

. @humbehevosoc.bsky.social members, I will always advocate for you and our field no matter what, but I would love your vote so that I could do so in an official capacity as student representative! Go to the HBES website to vote or follow instructions in your email.

My very personal story about how I discovered evolutionary psychology. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

🔥🔥🔥 "understanding the human mind will require eventually understanding the evolutionary psychology of psychologists"

A new podcast, @epthepod.bsky.social: Actual evolutionary psychology by actual evolutionary psychologists. In the first two episodes, the hosts, @davidpinsof.bsky.social and @dpietra.bsky.social, interview each other 🧪 www.youtube.com/@Evolutionar...

If you haven't checked out the list of talks for #HBES2025, it's available online: stockton.edu/human-behavi... Lots of great talks and plenaries coming!

Want to attend #HBES2025, but can’t in person? Stockton University can provide online access for $30/members, $60/non-members. (This is usually *way* too costly to provide.) To register: stockton.edu/human-behavi...

Can’t wait to share some exciting new work at #HBES2025! Join me for my talk: “Is Mate Choice Predictable? Using Agent-Based Modeling to Prospectively Predict Successful Blind Dates” 🗓️ Thursday, June 5 ⏰ 10:50 AM Check out my abstract below ⬇️

The number of adult virgins is at a record high. Many of these folks would like to be having sex, but cannot find a partner--they are involuntarily celibate. In today's show, we're diving into the psychology of incels with @williamcostello.bsky.social www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast...

Fellow Celt (Welsh) and colleague Andrew Thomas pushing in on my Irish media turf! 😂 Great writeup on what he's learned about incels from our research and his own experience at the coalface of counselling incel clients. m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

🚨New WP🚨 Can AI do "deep canvassing"—the time-intensive, empathic persuasive dialogues that durably reduce prejudice when done by humans? Spoiler: Yes! We find durable reduction in prejudice toward undocumented immigrants LLMs make deep canvassing possible at massive scale osf.io/preprints/os...

🚨 New publication 🚨 Out now and open access in Archives of Sexual Behavior. The Dual Pathways Hypothesis of Incel Harm: A Model of Harmful Attitudes and Beliefs Among Involuntary Celibates 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Results indicate a gap between fertility desires & intentions, with a significant proportion of men & women 35–45yr desiring more children but not intending to follow up on their desires...gap is higher among those close to the end of their reproductive careers, facing infertility barriers & women"

Looking forward to @humbehevosoc.bsky.social conference next month! Although clearly hyperbolic, this iconic line from When Harry Met Sally speaks to a real insight. I’ll be presenting new findings that add to growing evidence that mating motivations often underlie cross-sex friendships.

"good sociological theories must be compatible with good psychological theories, which in turn must be compatible with good biological theories, which must be compatible with good chemical theories, which must be compatible with good theory from physics"

🧵New paper out in Cognition Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)? @danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module. 50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...

“Birth rates would sky rocket if girls wore this at home instead of some oversized homeless core outfit,” a tweet that's going viral says. I beg to differ! www.huffpost.com/entry/linger...

Newly Published: @ygirme.bsky.social & Overall examined how feeling loved and connected in a relationship can reduce attachment insecurity over time, using two long-term studies. doi.org/10.1177/0265... #AcademicSky #Psychology #SocialPsychology #FamilySci #ResearchPublishing

"Although fewer women apply for tenure-track jobs, those who do apply are more likely to be interviewed and more likely to get offered the job... These findings run directly counter to the claim that women are discriminated against in STEM hiring." www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/rethinking...

❗Want to know what W+EBS is all about now? ❗ Check out our updated remit: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 💭 Got ideas for what we should do next? Submit suggestions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WplusEBS #InclusiveScience #EvolutionaryBehavioralSciences

"Williams and Ceci sent fake job applications to more than 800 faculty members in engineering, economics, biology, and psychology... As shown in the graph below, faculty expressed a strong preference for the female candidates - a 2:1 preference overall." www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/rethinking...

"people who are more dissatisfied with their own lives are less likely to expect a child" [US] www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

First Episode arrives May 20th. epthepod.podbean.com www.youtube.com/@Evolutionar...

🔥🔥🔥 "Actual evolutionary psychology by actual evolutionary psychologists. Hosted by Dave Pietraszewski and David Pinsof. Every week, Dave and David bring cutting-edge work in the evolutionary behavioral sciences to you."

Contrary to the popular perception that feminists dislike men, the average feminist is about as positive about men as the average non-feminist – and no more negative about men than the average man. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/three-inte...

"Academics and journalists shine a spotlight on studies that appear to show bias against women, while downplaying - or simply ignoring - studies that don’t. The result is a distorted view of what the science actually shows." www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/rethinking...

. @humbehevosoc.bsky.social members, I will always advocate for you and our field no matter what, but I would love your vote so that I could do so in an official capacity as student representative! Go to the HBES website to vote or follow instructions in your email.

Women Are Judged More Positively at Work Than Men ...and they're probably worse off for it. My latest post on Substack! www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/women-are-...

I’ll be busy on the Saturday of @humbehevosoc.bsky.social I'm on a panel on Evolutionary Perspectives on Singlehood & Giving a talk on our data showing that in Cross-Sex Friendships: Men (But Not Women) Put Their Money Where Their Mating Motivations Are. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Friendly advice to haters of evolutionary psychology: (1) read Al-Shawaf's four-part primer: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/six-... (2) subscribe to Pietraszewski & Pinsof's podcast: www.youtube.com/shorts/CBjJ3... (3) subscribe to Bering's Substack: beringinmind.substack.com/about

The sexualization of female breasts is often attributed to modesty norms (i.e., they're alluring because they're hidden). However, research finds no differences in men's arousal to breasts based on exposure to toplessness during youth. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"The numbers tell us these lessons don’t improve mental health. The qualitative data tells us that many young people don’t like or want them. We need to listen." @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"What has emerged is that a lot of psychological behavioral sex differences preferences and so forth are actually becoming larger as countries become more egalitarian wealthier and healthier"

New episode (1092), with Dr. Mads Larsen. We talk about his book, Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse. #Science YouTube: youtu.be/r2uXlZBl1uM Podcast: bit.ly/4cZF9Xy

We know that moms say that "baby looks like daddy", but it turns out they also say that "fetus looks like daddy!" Read Carlota Batres' discussion of her latest research in the HBES blog: www.hbes.com/investigatin... Or read the original article in E&HB: doi.org/10.1016/j.ev...

Looking forward to @humbehevosoc.bsky.social conference next month! Although clearly hyperbolic, this iconic line from When Harry Met Sally speaks to a real insight. I’ll be presenting new findings that add to growing evidence that mating motivations often underlie cross-sex friendships.

Buss lab 2025

A decimation of the caricature of evolutionary psychology that Red Pill Manosphere gurus appeal to. Myself and other graduate students, regularly challenge this in our publications and online (i.e., the only place we'll change any of their followers minds). datepsychology.com/rollo-tomass...

To be clear, Red pill Manosphere gurus like Rollo Tomassi are not respected in evolutionary psychology, and in fact they’re routinely ridiculed for distorting the science. That’s why many of us actively highlight their flaws in both our published research and online presence.

It is weird everyone knows ego-depletion as one of the research lines where hundreds of studies were performed, but there was no effect - but the Mortality Salience literature has become a historical example of much larger research waste. 825 studies, absolutely nothing real about it.

David Buss, 1997: "TMT [Terror Management Theory] is anchored in an outmoded evolutionary biology" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#science on #incels #boys #an_eye_for_the_boys #Adolescence For those who are interested in #nonfiction after #fiction. William Costello is a researcher who is familiar with the topic. Moral panic is rarely a good advisor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1nd...

Looking forward to writing an invited commentary on this target article for Behavioral and Brain Sciences. So...Why DO Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men Than to Women? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...