This is so fun, I love it

What types of things disgust you? Let us know on our new website ickystuff.org! You can write about your experiences with disgusting things in as much detail as you like. And you can take a test that'll tell you how easily disgusted you are. Retweets are appreciated!

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You are looking for a PhD position in psychology and have a strong interest in personality and (im)moral behavior? Apply now and become part of our wonderful team PIC - Personality, Identity, and Crime Lab 🙂! Research only, no teaching; funded by European Research Council (ERC)

'I detect an undercurrent of self-doubt among some Americans about what your role in the world should be...At a time when our world is at history's turning point...Freedom and democracy are currently under threat around the globe.'

— Japanese PM Fumio Kishida addresses Congress

This man arguably just had the best week in human history...

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I told a grad-student co-author 'try to imagine me as the guy from 'Memento' who can't remember anything & needs clues to pick-up the thread on projects' and they said 'I believe you, because you already used that memento analogy'

Academics from psychology, behavioral science, and adjacent fields, here's a challenge for you! Test your skill predicting psychological correlations for a new study. You'll receive $5 for participating.

guidedtrack.com/programs/18bla…

We'd also appreciate you sharing with colleagues!

What an incredible article. One of the most moving I’ve read in a while.

Contender for best paper title: The Fiction That Fiction is Fiction, by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama researchgate.net/profile/Michel…

Agreed. I ask applicants to provide contact information for references. A phone call or email containing a few targeted questions is more informative and less work for all involved.

Here’s the big HBES news!

🙌We want to get students access to evo training!🙌

Awardees receive $ + social support, mentorship + research training—including support to attend + present work at the 2025 HBES Conference.

Apps due June 1!

Help us broaden the evo world by RTing!!

Why do essentially all adults use 'recreational' drugs on a near daily basis? The standard story is that they hijack dopaminergic reward circuits. My colleagues & I are intrigued, however, that all such drugs harm human parasites. Two recent examples (1/2)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Have you ever hidden the fact that you were sick from people around you? If so, you're not alone.

Now out in Psych Science (Association for Psychological Science) we (@choi_soyeonc & UM Evo Social Psych Lab) examined when and why people conceal infectious disease.

doi.org/10.1177/095679…

🐶Now out at EJP🐶
w/ Willem Sleegers Julia Stern Lars Penke Alex Jones p(h|D)

doi.org/10.1177/089020…

We tested how accurate people are at judging others' personality based on a facial photograph & whether they are aware of their own (in)accuracy.
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🚨New Paper🚨Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust. See what Joshua M. Tybur Tom Kupfer @catherinemolho and I found about emotions in aggressive moral punishments. Now online Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… [1/8]

Great lineup of plenaries for #HBES2024 Aarhus: keynote by Brian Nosek, plenaries by Dorsa Amir, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Nicolas Baumard, Judith Maria Burkart, Joseph Carroll, Jaimie Krems, & Manvir Singh! Submit abstracts by Feb 1st, Early Reg. by March 31: conferences.au.dk/hbes2024

Ditching the dress to go #schaatsen op #natuurijs in De Lier at IJsvereniging “Hard Gaat-ie”! Although I had a lot of fun today, I think in order to not further embarrass the 🇺🇸, I will stick with my day job in diplomacy 😉.