This. An understudied topic is the benefit (I assume) of discretizing/dichotomizing for explaining or presenting.

Just added ANU anthropology as a place to study evolutionary social sciences on HBES new places to study wiki #anthropology evosocialscience.wikidot.com/places-to-study

Please consider signing a 90th birthday card for Lyudmila Trout of fox domestication fame. Her friend Lee Dugatkin will give it to her on 6 November. docs.google.com/document/d/1pV…

In response to the disciplinary realignment of Anthropology, we’ve created nine, one-member anthropology departments. Everyone is a chair, but no one gets a stipend or course release. Your strategic plans are due next Wednesday.

HBES mourns the death of one of its founders, John Tooby (1952-2023), on Fri Nov 10th. John was co-director of the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology with Leda Cosmides, and was HBES President (1999-2001). He had an enormous impact on the field & will be sorely missed.

"We thank the reviewers for the helpful suggestions" x.com/Culture_Crit/s…

More in the CharlesEfferson paper including insights on one-off cooperation, added troubles for group selection, social dilemma expts in PNG. I provide an explainer in Nature News & Views Mary Elizabeth Why reciprocity is common in humans but rare in other animals nature.com/articles/d4158…

More reliability measures needed. Holds true also for other fields, such as archaeology.

Our new pre-print: A methodological critique of the Anderson et al 2023 women’s hunting paper in PLoS ONE. 🧵below biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/13

Back to the Field -- after 5 years! geokush.com/2024/03/11/bac… via Geoff Kushnick

Our latest paper extends an existing game theory model of mate choice copying to include generalization, a cost to immediate copying, and both previous extensions. 📖👉mdpi.com/2673-9461/4/4/…

Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/si…

I am increasingly convinced we have a reproducibility crisis in Ecology because of the abuse of statistics and its explanatory power, particularly of complex models and analysis that many researchers do not fully understand. This paper should be an alarm call.

My new book goes on sale today in the UK! If you love nature, birds, evolution or...sex, then this is the book for you! It argues that mate choice is a powerful driver of evolution.

HBES has released a statement with regard to recent US funding changes that are currently affecting HBES members. See our statement here: hbes.com/hbes-executive…

New paper🎉 just published🎉 in Biological Reviews 🎉 We propose a new gold standard to avoid “just-so” storytelling in evolutionary inference & apply it to autism. It’s been 9 years (!!) in the making.

Check out this R Shiny App by Ben Rottman designed to explore causality and multiple regression: pitt.shinyapps.io/Rottman_Causal… This tool helps you understand possible relationships between variables, including noise, confusion, alternative effects, mediation, and

🧵 I finished reading Thibault Le Texier's book, Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie. This is the most thorough treatment of the real history behind the Stanford Prison Experiment. Buckle up for a doozy of a thread! ⬇️👇

Today is publication day for my book, Shamanism: The Timeless Religion. To celebrate, here are some of my striking clips of shamanic rituals that I came across while working on the book:

If you work in psychology in an area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/251524…