1/5 🧠 Our new 𝑇𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 article challenges characterizing people as irrational. We argue behavioral science aimed at policy should start by assuming people are reasonable.

PDF: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our mega project, jointly led with Manuel Anglada-Tort, is out now as preprint! We monitored millions of daily music discoveries across 1,423 cities and use this data to probe worldwide cultural shifts in real-time during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
osf.io/preprints/psya…
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New essay 👇 exploring the evolutionary roots of human kindness and why the subtle incentives of reputation management explain why human altruism is both sincere and strategic. Our moral psychology is more Machiavellian than we like to admit. 🧵
conspicuouscognition.com/p/strategic-al…

In Father Time, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy traces the deep history of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.

Father Time is out now: hubs.ly/Q02tQ2Gr0 #Evolution #Biology #Anthropology

🚨 New paper 🚨

We analyzed the DNR survey data from 46 countries (N = 500k) and found that news participation has declined between 2015-2022📉

The only form of participation that has steadily increased is news sharing via messaging apps👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… 🔓

I'm delighted to announce a new book coming out this month: The Oxford Handbook of Evolution & the Emotions (TOHEE)!

t.ly/YKFyF

This book took several years and a whole LOT of teamwork to put together.

It's an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural effort. 👇🧵

FT asks: 'Can Europe’s economy ever hope to rival the US again?'

A reminder that once you strip out population and dollar strength (which doesn't impact living standards in Europe), countries in the EU are *converging* with the US, not falling behind. ft.com/content/93f882…

Great new paper by Nicholas Restrepo Ochoa and Stephen Vaisey Cohort replacement explains more change in sensitive issues. Issues that are hard to talk about change more privately | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3QxjE6N

Dan Sperber & Deirdre Wilson (preprint 2024) 'Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective'
osf.io/preprints/psya… via Center for Open Science

Our failure to reproduce Anderson et al (2023), The Myth of Man the Hunter, an effort led by Vivek V. Venkataraman, is now published: authors.elsevier.com/c/1j2qf3tz496Y…

Hello à toutes et à tous,

Je recrute un ingénieur ou d'une ingénieure dans notre équipe à l'ENS pour travailler sur des sujets d'IA, et de Big Data appliqués aux datasets d'entrainement de LLMs et à la cartographie des comportements culturels.

N'hésitez pas à me contacter !

Some reading recommendations on the topic of misinformation in case of interest 👇
conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-misinfor…

Newly posted interview with @ThDissenterYT …covering groups, alliances, politics, and my newest work on free will and the science (and evolutionary psychology) of psychology Aaron Lukaszewski @Pr David Pinsof David Buss Daniel Conroy-Beam

An updated version of our AI-chatbot-conspiracy-intervention working paper is posted. The bigger changes in thread below:

(great explainer in Dave's thread + listen to me talk about the paper here: cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…)

🚨New WP🚨

Repetition increases belief ('illusory truth'). Does this mean politicians can just repeat any claims and make them widely believed by everyone?

NO! We find repetition does NOT increase belief in claims from politicians who one DISTRUSTS
osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/8

The recruitment window is still open for a postdoc to join my lab at Duke in the fall! Feel free to email or DM me if you wanna chat.

We didn't think we had to explain this to an economics professor but ...

Despite running for over seven years with millions of accounts on dozens of platforms, China's state-run disinformation campaign has been an utter failure.

I spoke to Elise Thomas and Clint Watts to try and figure out why.

wired.com/story/china-ba…

26% of US graduate degree holders agree that 'SchooI shoot!ngs, like those at Sandy Hооk, CT and ParkIand, FL, are f aIse fIag attacks perpetrated by the government'

twice the rate of others (13%)

aren't 'conspiracy theories' supposed to be for the uneducated??

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Allez les bretons, allez m’acheter le Ouest-France du jour ! Gros merci Nicolas Blandin pour l’interview !

Le livre est en vente ici homofabulus.com/soutien

et j’en ferai régulièrement gagner des exemplaires sur ma newsletter ici : homofabulus.com/newsletter/