1. In the debate over whether social media caused the teen mental illness epidemic, the loudest voice is the complete absence of Gen Zers saying “no.” I have spoken at many high schools. Not once did a student say that social media was on the whole good for them.

4. It is time that we listen to Gen Z, and to the experimental studies, which now show clear evidence that social media is a cause, not just a correlate of mental illness: jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media…

Is cancer a novel problem or an ancient companion to all multicellular life? Read my article in This View of Life about evolutionary mismatch and cancer thisviewoflife.com/is-cancer-a-di…

"As women move up the corporate ladder they’re more likely to become divorced but that’s not true for men. Losing female political candidates have longer lasting marriages than candidates who win. This is an uncomfortable reality." — Kristina Durante 🔗 sptfy.com/N1PF

An amazing blockbuster paper (about 8 papers in 1) from @BenjaminEnke 👏👏👏 tldr: analysis of ethnographic atlas etc: + family ties = + group loyalty, - trust for strangers, + guilt, + interpersonal revenge, + respect for authority, + shame, - fairness doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Why do most conservatives endorse the view that abortion in the case of rape or incest should be allowed if a fetus is a moral person regardless of how it came into being? Some evidence that one of the main drivers of anti-abortion attitudes is casual sex- in this conservative

Evolutionary psychology “remains popular” because it is the best meta theory from which we can derive testable hypotheses about a universal human nature that accounts for cross cultural differences and individual differences. Findings which are (for the most part) remarkably high

I chase love and I run from it. This is what I've learned while Recovering From Disorganized Love | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-we… #love #relationships #evolutionarypsychology #childhood #trauma Psychology Today

Whether you realize it or not, you are always choosing what you give a fuck about.

My social psych lab has moved to UCLA, + we're looking for driven graduate student applicants! More on the *NEW* UCLA Social Minds Lab👇 Please RT + share with your students! kremslab.com

The strongest predictor of happiness has been found to be relationships. Harvard psychologists tracked people over 84 years, found that good relationships are the greatest guarantor, particularly romantic partnerships. More important than wealth or class newstatesman.com/comment/2023/0…

Using both historical data and experiments, Kristina Durante et al. showed that a scarcity of men led women to seek high-paying careers and to delay starting a family. psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-08…

My research team recently teamed up with the scientists at @ Natural Cycles to look at the relationship between day length, ovulation rates, and sexual desire. Link to publication: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Your relationships with others are merely reflections of your relationship with yourself. Get right with yourself; get right with the world.

Sex ratio and women’s career choice: Does a scarcity of men lead women to choose briefcase over baby? "When men become a rare commodity, women gravitate towards high-paying careers and postpone starting families." psypost.org/2024/01/scarci…

I dont know who the cartoonist is but this is the most succinct framing if this issue Ive seen.

"Hormonal birth control changes women’s sex hormones, which means that it changes women." Period. This is the real story about women and birth control that was missed by The Washington Post, from Sarah E. Hill the leading expert on the science of women's health.

Daniel Conroy-Beam calls influential evolutionary psychologists 'provocateurs' and 'charlatans' who are culpable for incel violence and manosphere sexism. Should evolutionary psychologists communicate more carefully and stop "grifting"? My rebuttal below:

Want happier, healthier kids? Offer them autonomy. Massive new meta-analysis makes it plain: In every culture, control leaves children worse off — but autonomy helps them people engage, learn, and grow.