Here's our BBS open peer commentary on "Reconsidering the link between past material culture and cognition in light of contemporary hunter–gatherer material use" 🪓🪚🪛doi.org/10.1017/S01405…; you can read it here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🤓 Centre of Excellence IMSErt NCU UMK Torun

Here is a preliminary outcome of project TIPPS in a form of a BBS commentary: Higher-order motivational constructs as personal-level fictions: A solution in search of a problem doi.org/10.1017/S01405…

Sports, team games, and physical skill competitions appear to be a human universal and may have been prevalent throughout the hominin lineage. New @BBS commentary with Omar Tonsi Eldakar on an excellent target article by Duncan Stibbard Hawkes bit.ly/3EtRKp6

Our new target article, "Two tiers, not one: Different sources of extrinsic mortality have opposing effects on life history traits" by Bruce J. Ellis, Brie M. Reid, Karen L. Kramer is now accepting proposals for commentary! Deadline: March 5th, 2025 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our new target article, "Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" by Ashley J. Thomas, is now accepting proposals for commentary! Deadline: March 13th, 2025 Learn more: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Read here: cambridge.org/core/services/…

New in Behavioral and Brain Sciences with Roy Baumeister: Why do humans form large, cooperative groups—tribes, nations, teams? We explore the deep psychology of belonging and coordination. 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S01405… #psychology #BBS #teams

Ed Hagen Luke Glowacki Joe Henrich manvir singh There's also a forthcoming bbs congruent with Paris School contractualist approach: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS! Steve Fleming and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S01405…. A thread🧵

"Do humans calibrate the onset, termination, and/or lengths of life stages at biological, psychological, behavioral, and societal levels in response to ecological affordances?" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The indefatigable Kim Bard, Heidi Keller, and I wrote a critique and remedy for Western-oriented developmental psychology. Call for Commentary Proposals will likely be out soon. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"we present scientific arguments, w/ evidence, that developmental psych theories, & in consequence developmental research, need to be updated, considering the diversity that exists in the human species but is ignored w/in current theories of human nature" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

1/ Can AI be conscious? My @BBSjournal target article on ‘Conscious AI and biological naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

10/ There’s also another Behav. Brain. Sci. target article open for commentaries, and well worth reading. It’s by Steve Fleming & Matthias Michel: Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

14/ .. and the Ernst Mach Forum in Prague, which in 2025 is all about AI consciousness (emw.flu.cas.cz) - great talk just now from Kathinka Evers. Here's the Behav. Brain. Sci. call again: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

1/ Good to see OpenAI Joanne Jang Jakub Pachocki thinking about #AI consciousness, & distinguishing 'perceived' from 'ontological' machine consciousness. I make this distinction in this Behav. Brain. Sci. article - it would be great to get a comment from OpenAI cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Submit here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Submit your proposal to comment by EOD tomorrow: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Read the full paper: cambridge.org/core/services/…

Submit by the deadline for commentary proposals on July 15! Read the full paper here: cambridge.org/core/services/… And follow the instructions to submit here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨New in Behav. Brain. Sci.: "Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework" is out as a target article & now open for commentary proposals! Ever wonder why an environment once full of promise 🥰 can later feel constraining 😮‍💨? doi.org/10.1017/S01405… 🧵

Propose your commentary by Aug 15! Learn more: cambridge.org/core/journals/…