Half of psychology is missing; the half where we derive what we should be looking for. There are many ways to do this: (evolutionary) task analyses; problem de-composition; tractability analyses; ABM. Yet so much of the publishing model is experimental effects first.

We’re hiring in social psych at Harvard!! Deadline is 9/15. Please share far and wide 🙏🏼 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12624

Wonderful keynotes by Professors Anna M. Shields and Leda Cosmides for Day 1 of our Emotions in History symposium! Look forward to presentations and roundtable discussions by our Team Psychology and Team Humanities tomorrow (7am PT, Aug 11). Zoom: ucsb.zoom.us/j/88393915476?…

Just had lunch with Gordon jose enriquez villa Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) and he was talking about this paper; sounded amazing; glad it’s out. Another instance of where we likely have to move down a level of analysis to a plurality of sub-personal mechanisms—the functional level—and let go of the homunculus.

Good to see people entering their info on the new Evolutionary Social Sciences crowdsourced wiki on Places to Study & Job Opportunities. If you haven't added your info yet, now is a great time. evosocialscience.wikidot.com/?mc_cid=d16d7b…

Success hinges on our connections with others. But why do certain relationships help us succeed more than others? Our new JPSP (w/Maya Rossignac-Milon, Dr. Kori Krueger, Mandy Forest, Tory Higgins, Abby Scholer) identifies shared reality as an important predictor of goal success! 🧵1/

New publication! I respond and add to Neil Van Leeuwen and Tania Lombrozo's interesting letter on the puzzle of belief by suggesting that solving the puzzle also requires a theoretical perspective anchored in evolutionary science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Finally out: evolutionary model of ownership psychology: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… Interaction of competitive acquisition + cooperation → ownership intuitions, norms, institutions. For free proofs: pascalboyer.net/articles/2022B…

I have two bluesky codes for those who’d like them.

"Psychologists use their evolved psychology when studying the mind. How does this affect our science?" -David Pietraszewski osf.io/preprints/psya…

Deadlines coming up soon! I finally updated the (way out of date) research page on the lab website with current projects: goard.mcdb.ucsb.edu

Newly posted interview with @ThDissenterYT …covering groups, alliances, politics, and my newest work on free will and the science (and evolutionary psychology) of psychology Aaron Lukaszewski @Pr David Pinsof David Buss Daniel Conroy-Beam

First Episode arrives May 20th. epthepod.podbean.com youtube.com/@EvolutionaryP…

My very personal story about how I discovered evolutionary psychology. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…

The great David Pinsof ROCKED the UCLA Marschak Colloquium last week--- on alliances + politics pics👇

Episode Three is up! Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology. This is one to listen to through to the end! See (some of) you at HBES ! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con… podbean.com/ew/pb-fexyz-18… youtu.be/vtJlNgsSymw?si…

Fifth episode is up: Jaimie Arona Krems on friendship! youtu.be/fbrW4Hq0hFc?si… epthepod.podbean.com/e/friendship-w… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…

Sixth episode is up! Childhood in the Congo Basin with Sheina Lew-Levy sheina lew-levy David Pinsof youtu.be/12mIU7_YcM0?si… podbean.com/ew/pb-bpsfw-18…

Nicolas Baumard & Jean-Baptiste André’s “ecological approach to culture” provides an exciting new perspective that reconciles Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology, & Cultural Evolution. Read more in their EHB blog post: hbes.com/reconciling-ou…

Job in cultural psychology at my institution: richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/staff_faculty/…