I will be sharing the stage with Chris Williamson (Chris Williamson) at the Moody Theatre, Austin, TX - September 7th. Chris is the host of the Modern Wisdom Podcast. There’ll be a Q & A at the event. And I’ll be signing any or all of my 19 books, including The Genetic Book of the

Brain imaging study finds large sex-differences in regions tied to mental health psypost.org/brain-imaging-…

"WEIRD" samples in psychological studies might be unfairly maligned. When the Many Labs 2 replication effort split their derived replication effect sizes by sample WEIRDness, there was actually little WEIRD-related heterogeneity:

Our lab is recruiting a new PhD student for Fall 2025. Please share! If you're interested in adaptationist/computational approaches to human social reasoning, esp. mate choice, I'd love to see your application. More information here: danconroybeam.com/join-the-lab

Heterosexual people. Which would be more upsetting to you, if your partner cheated on you with another man or another woman? Are you male or female?

Which of these two hobbies would cause women to feel the most "ick" towards a prospective partner? Women, answer for yourself. Men, predict what most women will choose.

So far the results are more 'ick-ual' than I'd have guessed! ;)

I have learned two things from this poll. 1 - Women find magic as icky as video games, and men predict this correctly 2 - Too many people think of magic the gathering when seeing the word "magic" than card and coin tricks. Wtf.

"There is no theoretical or empirical support for the Handicap Principle and the time is long overdue to usher this idea into an ‘honorable retirement’."🤔doi.org/10.1111/brv.12…

“Men tend to get longer sentences than women for the same crimes, even controlling for potential confounds such as crime severity, criminal history, parental commitments, and so on.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/iq-and-menta…

Awwwww yishhhhh

Will likely have space for one (maybe two) new therapy or coaching clients in late September/October. International clients welcome. Check out andrewthomas.org for more info.

From my conversation with Glenn Loury:

aspredicted.org is a fantastic site for pre-registering scientific predictions. Critics of it are wrong, as the lead author succinctly explains here: datacolada.org/119 researchbox.org is also a great spot to link all your scripts, data, pre-reg, pre-prints.

— Charles Bukowski

Pop psychology on social media has reached peak stupidity. It feels like it’s poisoned a lot of peoples’ minds with a misunderstanding of many basic concepts.

Reminder...Funded PhD Positions: Personality and Culture Lab accepting PhD students for Fall of 2025. Training in Social/Personality Psych specializing in cross-cultural & evolutionary perspectives on gender/sex/orientation diversity. Apply by Dec 1, 2024: k-state.edu/psych/academic…

To be clear… (because this seems complicated for some…) Good guy Bad guy