Are equally heavy (big, fat, thicc) women equally stigmatized? No. SHAPE matters! Among White American , Black American, + Indian Ps: Women w fat in their abdomens are more stigmatized than SAME HEIGHT/WEIGT (same BMI) women w fat in hips/thighs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

If I get a job located far-ish from a city, you can bet your bootie that I'm going to buy a small farm, raise chickens and sheep, and pick up yet another hobby of spinning and dying yarn.

In the stats course I'm teaching, one homework was making me memes to show they understood the logic of hypothesis testing. One student gave me three cat memes. She knows me well.

It's that time of year again! I am serving as the program chair and guarantee a fair evaluation of your submissions.

Can't wait to watch this one!

I am once again asking authors of psychometric scales to include all items in an appendix.

Twitter-verse: Is anyone aware of good papers looking at prevalence of intimate partner violence in arranged vs. love marriages?

What do we want in FRIENDS? We SIMPLY want the 😇KIND😇+ AVOID the👹VICIOUS👹---right? No! People want friends who are KIND👉TO US👈 ...👉kindER to us👈than to others ...MORE👹VICIOUS THAN KIND to our enemies (We like monsters who are OUR monsters) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Who do WOMEN see as 🤨MATING RIVALS⚔️? Women track (1) INTENT to compete for mates (flirting) + (2) CAPACITY to compete (beauty💅) Intent + Capacity=Threat BONUS: Women enhancing their looks (w makeup) = BIG THREATS (have⬆️perceived intent + capacity) osf.io/preprints/psya…

Why do we 🤬HATE HYPOCRITES🤬? Hypo.s = FALSE SIGNALERS 1.🫵CONDEMNING immoral behavior🫵signals that hypo.s are highly MORAL😇 2. DOING the SAME BEHAVIOR they OUTWARDLY CONDEMN shows their signals are false Hypo.s are liked less than outright liars! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

It's going to be a great line-up this year! I just submitted my abstract, and you should too!

I'm banning student use of electronic devices in my classes this semester. Why? Student use of electronic devices in class reduces exam performance - even for those who aren't using these devices.

Helloooo do you like evolution and psychology and feminism and writing? Then join the Feminist Evolutionary Psychology Society's new writing group! Send me a dm with your email address and submit your availability here to join: bit.ly/feps_writing

Happy to announce that I successfully defended yesterday. Now off to Indiana State University to start my assistant professorship. 🤩

Very proud of Bianca for winning the Best Student Poster award at #NEEPS2025 for her poster on the universal structure of sexual disgust. #ProudMentorMoment

I also will not be attending for this reason.

🚨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… 🧵

I received the keys to my office today. Pinch me; I'm dreaming. Thank you to everyone who's supported me along the way, David Buss, Elizabeth Pillsworth, Center for the Study of Human Nature, Aaron Lukaszewski, @jaimie

AI “friends” - comfort with a cost Spoke w National Journal about why chatbots pals can feel good—but quietly erode our ability to handle real friendships If friends never ask stuff of you, you don’t learn to navigate real bonds Bots don't replace the hard, human parts of love