New article out exploring great ape name recognition! We find partial evidence that zoo-living chimps & bonobos know each other's names 👀 Huge thanks to Animal Behavior and Cognition (a great open-access journal) & co-authors for your collaboration!🎉🐵
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This week, we talk to @hugoreasoning.bsky.social about all things "epistemic". Are we gullible and prone to misinformation? Are we vigilant in favor of our interests? Enjoy the wide-ranging conversation!
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Yeah that's probably true too, given omnivory and all that. Still my wife and I made our go-to one pot red lentil soup the other day and despite its simplicity I think that recipe punches well above its weight
It's collider bias! People abandon recipes that are more laborious but no tastier than simpler recipes. Recipes only survive if they're simple but tasty enough or complex but worth the added effort.
This week, love and regret with Cari Goetz!
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One of my favorite podcasts interviews one of my favorite mating researchers
Family friendly waiting room for participants
Family friendly waiting room, picture shows children's play area
Room for Research Assistants
Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩
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(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
Looking forward to this!
An especially good episode against even a strong background
Come work with my colleague, @anniewertz.bsky.social. She's awesome, our department is awesome, and if you come here, you'd be awesome, too.
This week, we talk to Keelah Williams about Evolutionary Psychology and the Law.
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An African Paradise Flycatcher, facing right
An African Penguin kicks up some sand on the beach
A Lilac-Breasted Roller perches on a bare tree, facing right
A Secretarybird carrying nesting material back to its nest
Saw some real nice birds in South Africa #birds
For the record, this is not (as far as I'm aware) a popular hypothesis among evolutionary psychologists. It's the first I'm hearing of it, for example
Released today!
SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER
Now available at your favorite bookseller.
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This week, Language and Communication (and the Lindy Hop) with @thomscottphillips.bsky.social!
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I’m admitting 1–2 Ph.D. students to join my lab in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at CU Boulder, starting Fall 2026. We study person perception, stereotyping and prejudice, and intervention science.
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This week: The evolutionary psychology of humor with @davidpinsof.bsky.social! An account of why the mind finds things funny, and why "funny" has the features it has.
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"people are sensitive to the amount of population variance on a trait, and flexibly adjust their partner preferences to focus on traits which vary more among others" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Annie Wertz plants a flag for plan and learning research!
BBS just announced a call for commentaries on @manvir.bsky.social's target article, "Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the origins of the cultural manifold"
Deadline is Sep 10!
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Great episode! Pat is one of my favorite psychologists out there today. And it was super interesting to hear from the Daly and Wilson lineage for the first time on the podcast
Always love a chance to hear Ed Hagen's perspective on...anything
📣From Kyle Landrum:
Good Explanations and the Causal Metasemantics of Inductive Concepts
Late on this one but really enjoyed this conversation.
Let it be known that @dpietra.bsky.social feels affection toward flat earthers
Job announcement 📢
@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction!
Interested? If you’ll be at #rlc2025 (or I missed you at #cogsci2025) feel free to reach out with any questions!
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Our new #cogsci2025 paper led by @maxtaylordavies.bsky.social is a task analysis of agent representation under resource constraints:
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New short paper with @kevingoneill.github.io and Paul Henne: We re-analyse data from a recent study on causal judgment, and find that a counterfactual model explains why temporal order influences people's intuitions.
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I keep looking forward to these conversations every Tuesday
New episode is up! We talk to Deb Lieberman about morality, disgust, and kinship. Had a blast!!
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