Few evolutionary psychologists engage with the modern genomic literature. Brendan Zietsch is an exception and he has a new paper out, criticising explanations for heritable variation based on balancing selection. He's pulling no punches.

When you manage to pull off a robbery 😌

== Psychology academic life and job market: Collaborative guide == Quick reminder that we have a collaborative guide with lots of helpful links for all that's academic life and job market related: buff.ly/4epPL1K Use, add/edit, and share. Hope you find it useful.

New preprint out! Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration with Isabelle Hoxha & Leo Sperber, where we study the evolvability of reinforcement learning biases osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/n

Understanding the Decline in Cooperation: The Role of Confusion and Social Preferences in Public Goods Games, Investigated Through Manipulation of Other Players' Behavior and Decision-Making Model Comparisons osf.io/3q56n/

Revisiting Working Memory Fifty Years after Baddeley and Hitch: A Review of Field-specific Conceptualizations, Use and Misuse, and Paths Forward for Studying Children

“Whatever you think about, that’s what you remember. Memory is the residue of thought.” Daniel Willingham This year I’m learning about…LEARNING! This is a fantastic article that I highly recommend to ALL teachers, regardless of the grade or subject you teach. The point of our

“…it is not the isolated traumas of childhood that shape our future, but the quality of sustained relationships with important people.” George Vaillant, MD Adaptation to Life

What’s it like to understand an experiment in psychology to it’s absolute limit?

“Together with other recent failures to replicate the original moderation effect, our results cast doubts on the claim that an individual’s view of whether willpower is limited or not affects one’s susceptibility to the ego-depletion effect.” journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Who would’ve thought making your kids cynical about the world is the right way to go about it…

.Ian Hussey might enjoy this

A question to my followers: Is Montessori principle a thing in your country’s education for child development?

Can’t wait for the book!

The Japanese girl studying English is so funny that I can't help but laugh along with her.🤣🤣🤣

Stop saying ecological validity when what you mean is representative design.

I’m currently reading more on EF. Miyake et. al (2000) seems to pick the three functions for practical reasons? I wonder if there’s another way to slice up EF. Have you check out the new conceptualization? semanticscholar.org/paper/Rethinki… Dylan Smith

I’m curious Big Picture Soccer How does EcoPsy deals with cognitive control that are presented in EF tasks? Such as Stroop Task, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, etc.

Curious on how to understand this predicament? Durwez

This is actually scary. Cause it feels like an actual podcast. I’m wondering now can you do this with different languages. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/7f702…