Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory

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Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory

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The official feed of the Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory at ASU, aka the Ken(rick)(Neu)berg(Beck)er(Varn)um Lab. Also on (@)https://t.co/bjX03RatgC

Tempe, AZ Katılım Haziran 2024
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Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social
1/ NEW in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology — our first review of a decade+ of research on understanding & predicting cultural change, w Michael Varnum. This one is personal. A thread on what we found, what surprised us, and how two kids reading Asimov ended up here. 🧵
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Claire Lehmann
Claire Lehmann@clairlemon·
A tribute of remarkable richness and insight by @sapinker honouring his intellectual predecessor Donald Symons (1942-2023). Symons' 1979 book "The Evolution of Human Sexuality" gave rise to an entire field of study, and remains influential to this day. quillette.com/2025/02/04/sag…
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Jaimie Arona Krems
Jaimie Arona Krems@JaimieKrems·
Why are WOMEN higher in NEUROTICISM? (Across cultures, they are.) Pre-reg'd tests in the US suggest the answer is, in part: PHYSICAL STRENGTH (women = less 💪) The sex difference in 💪 partially mediates the sex dif in Neurot* *Really HEXACO Emotionality, esp. FEARFULNESS
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Chris Williamson
Chris Williamson@ChrisWillx·
The Proximate & Ultimate Reasons For Human Behaviour.
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Daniel Sznycer
Daniel Sznycer@dsznycer·
Tears paper with Asmir Gracanin & @lieberman_deb, now out @EvolHumBehav. We explore game-theoretic logic of tearing, psychology behind tear production & response, & evidence for signaling hypothesis. 50-day link 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Unpaywalled 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1Rg7_OI…
Daniel Sznycer@dsznycer

NEW: Emotional tears: What they are and how they work psyarxiv.com/fht2g w/Asmir Gračanin & @lieberman_deb Tears lubricate&protect cornea. But tears also are signals. Tears a consequence of sadness or gratitude seems obvious. But what computations underlie the obvious? 1/2

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Steve Stewart-Williams
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill·
Laypeople are surprisingly good at estimating the heritability levels of traits – although they tend to underestimate the heritability of obesity, and overestimate the heritability of breast cancer and sexual orientation. [Link below.]
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Will
Will@Evolving_Moloch·
Two of the most important insights from an evolutionary psychology perspective: 1) universal human cognitive mechanisms help generate behavioral variation in response to particular environmental contexts (what EPers call ‘evoked culture’, somewhat similar to what behavioral ecologists call ‘behavioral reaction norms’), 2) universal human cognitive mechanisms help generate eclectic behavioral similarities even in very different environmental contexts (what EP and cultural evolutionists term ‘cultural attractors’). Both of these insights were also presaged by anthropologists working from ethnographic evidence, and the latter was a point Darwin himself emphasized in Descent of Man. The key points are that the same universal human psychology can help explain both the massive differences and surprising similarities we see across societies throughout history
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Jaimie Arona Krems
Jaimie Arona Krems@JaimieKrems·
Can 🤣🤣BEING FUNNY🤣🤣 help you on the MATING market? Yes--if you're a man Women preferred men who had humorous (vs. not) statements in their profiles Men didn't care People also rated humorous (vs. non) targets as less intelligent, less trustworthy, + more socially adept
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Rob Sica
Rob Sica@robsica·
"To the extent that people around the world think about others in terms of their ecology, there may be a range of other social categories, beyond race, that also have the potential to be 'replaced' by ecology." hbes.com/can-race-in-ou…
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Jaimie Arona Krems
Jaimie Arona Krems@JaimieKrems·
Once a CHEATER, ALWAYS a CHEATER? ❌No! People sometimes🤝TRUST🤝BETRAYERS! 1. Yes, ppl trust those who don't betray > betrayers 2. BUT ALSO trust those who betray in ONE'S OWN FAVOR (eg cheat with me) > those whose betrayals cost me (eg cheat on me) Holds in 💘/friend/work
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HBES
HBES@HumBehEvoSoc·
New issue of Evolution & Human Behavior! Check out the articles on war, contraception, cultural transmission, mating, race categorization, friendship (human & non-human), faces, weaponry, genetics, honour cultures, and more: sciencedirect.com/journal/evolut…
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Oliver Scott Curry
Oliver Scott Curry@Oliver_S_Curry·
A meta-analysis of 100s studies finds that people strongly agree about how beautiful others are (r=.90), including across ethnicities (r=.88) and across cultures (r=.94)
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