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New paper on cousin marriage and honour cultures. Combining genetic data with survey data on honour cultures we show that the more a population has practised cousin marriage, the stronger the honour culture. 1/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"employing both archival data high in ecological validity and experimental evidence allowing causal inferences, show that men exhibit a stronger aversion than women toward economic inequality" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Can AI uncover the psychology of ancient peoples? Michael Varnum spoke with Scientific American about how training models on archaic texts may provide insights on past cultures: scientificamerican.com/podcast/episod…

A meta-analysis of 100s studies finds that people strongly agree about how beautiful others are (r=.90), including across ethnicities (r=.88) and across cultures (r=.94)

New issue of Evolution & Human Behavior! Check out the articles on war, contraception, cultural transmission, mating, race categorization, friendship (human & non-human), faces, weaponry, genetics, honour cultures, and more: sciencedirect.com/journal/evolut…

Once a CHEATER, ALWAYS a CHEATER? ❌No! People sometimes🤝TRUST🤝BETRAYERS! 1. Yes, ppl trust those who don't betray > betrayers 2. BUT ALSO trust those who betray in ONE'S OWN FAVOR (eg cheat with me) > those whose betrayals cost me (eg cheat on me) Holds in 💘/friend/work

"To the extent that people around the world think about others in terms of their ecology, there may be a range of other social categories, beyond race, that also have the potential to be 'replaced' by ecology." hbes.com/can-race-in-ou…

Happy to see my commentary with David Pietraszewski published today (on page 41).

Can 🤣🤣BEING FUNNY🤣🤣 help you on the MATING market? Yes--if you're a man Women preferred men who had humorous (vs. not) statements in their profiles Men didn't care People also rated humorous (vs. non) targets as less intelligent, less trustworthy, + more socially adept

Two of the most important insights from an evolutionary psychology perspective: 1) universal human cognitive mechanisms help generate behavioral variation in response to particular environmental contexts (what EPers call ‘evoked culture’, somewhat similar to what behavioral

🚨 Laws about bodily damage originate from shared intuitions about the value of body parts science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… New research by the great @YunsuhW, with Jaimie Arona Krems & me, in Science Advances 🧵

Laypeople are surprisingly good at estimating the heritability levels of traits – although they tend to underestimate the heritability of obesity, and overestimate the heritability of breast cancer and sexual orientation. [Link below.]

Tears paper with Asmir Gracanin & Deb Lieberman, now out E&HB. We explore game-theoretic logic of tearing, psychology behind tear production & response, & evidence for signaling hypothesis. 50-day link 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Unpaywalled 👉 drive.google.com/file/d/1Rg7_OI…

The Proximate & Ultimate Reasons For Human Behaviour.

A tribute of remarkable richness and insight by Steven Pinker honouring his intellectual predecessor Donald Symons (1942-2023). Symons' 1979 book "The Evolution of Human Sexuality" gave rise to an entire field of study, and remains influential to this day. quillette.com/2025/02/04/sag…