women with chronically high levels of mating motivation weigh physical attractiveness more heavily in their happiness than others...as do women primed for mating and women in high-fertility ovulatory phase link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our Perspectives paper is out--led by grad students Ahra Ko 고아라, CMP, Yul Kwon, w. Michael Barlev, Jaimie Arona Krems, Becca Neel, Michael Varnum, Doug Kenrick, + many more! (1) In 27 societies people view familial motives as more important than mating. doi.org/10.1177/174569…

New paper asks people around the world about their fundamental motivations. Despite evolutionary psychology's focus on sex, status, and disease, people around the world say family is far more important to them--even MTurkers: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

What is most striking to me here is the amazing alignment of MTurk with the average of samples from 27 other countries! Pretty damned good generalizability...

Free access link! Did people's values change during COVID-19? Values surprisingly STABLE. But concern about romantic partners decreased, while caring for children and concern about disease increased. authors.elsevier.com/c/1fsz53tz48~w… Cari Pick @MeVarnum Ahra Ko 고아라 Douglas Kenrick's Stone Age Brain

A new megastudy led by Profs. @AngelaDuckw and @Katy_Milkman, Co-Directors of Behavior Change for Good Initiative, examines whether low-cost nudges informed by behavioral science can help teachers accelerate student progress in math: whr.tn/3QUnJSb The study is one of the largest of its

Friends!!!! It’s that time again…. Submit abstracts for Society for Personality and Social Psychology EP preconference: my.spsp.org/Events/Submiss… We are accepting submissions for data blitz and posters! We (Ahra Ko 고아라 & me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!!! ep2026.mystrikingly.com #EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026