New Research: Validating the dual evolutionary foundations of political values in a US sample #Psychology #Psych frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

What do twin studies really say about identity & genetics? Not a lot: “using twins to discover heritability percentages for human behaviour is inherently unreliable…cannot calculate the impact of diverging environments experienced by most fraternal twins” aeon.co/essays/what-do…

I have my own opinions on this but I’m curious about how representative they are. Biological species are:

Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

*JOB ALERT* 3-yr postdoc available for a modeller / computational scientist on the Evolutionary Dynamics of Multilingualism - join us MPI-EVA Leipzig BirthRites in an international, interdisciplinary European Research Council (ERC) funded project! Deadline October 1st! eva.mpg.de/career/positio…

Final version published: longitudinal study on correlates of growth in political inequality in a small-scale society: doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…

Really happy to share this preprint, a collab with the brilliant @scottclaessens & Quentin Atkinson. we use a battery of experiments to explore the most common motivations underpinning punishment decisions. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Unofficial pre-announcement: I will be recruiting a funded PhD student to work with me The School of Psychology, UoA on global relationships between music and language. Deadline will likely be late February to start after June 2024, but I encourage you to reach out early if interested!

I wrote a quick letter to The Economist (in response to their recent cover story on IQ). I called my piece 'IQ is Stupid'. They removed my title (of course), but they did publish my letter

I'm no longer posting here but you can find and follow me on bluesky instead: bsky.app/profile/guylav…