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🚨 POSTDOC WANTED 🚨 Join the Behavioral Economics of Crime & Conflict Group at MPICSL in Freiburg! We're seeking a behavioral scientist with PhD in economics, psychology, or related. Experience with experiments is key. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Apply now! tinyurl.com/FGR251 #EconSky

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Where do moralizing religions come from? Useless cognitive by-products?Cultural group selection for complex societies? Our Psych Review paper argues: neither. Let’s rethink their cognitive & evolutionary origins🧵 w/ @manvir.bsky.social @nbaumard @jbaptistandre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

For those who missed the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference in Durham last September, the recorded talks are now freely available to watch here: underline.io/events/456/l...

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💥Postdoc Opening! 💥We (@lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Piet van den Berg) seek a postdoc to study social learning and cultural evolution. We are looking for someone with math/computational modeling skills & interest in human behavior. Get in touch if you have any questions! shorturl.at/W6Qsb

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd. We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

My first PhD project is out there. Thank you to my advisor @psmaldino.bsky.social and to mentor, co-author and friend @babeheim.bsky.social for encouraging and helping build this exciting and insightful collaboration. Onwards!

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Spring 2025 Cooperation Colloquia We're delighted to present an exciting line-up of speakers including @ingelaalger.bsky.social, @al-cibiades.bsky.social, @rzultan.bsky.social, @cmolho.bsky.social, @fernandopsantos.bsky.social Every 2nd Friday, 15:00 UTC+1 Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

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The Dissenter, now also on Bluesky. In-depth interviews with leading academics on #psychology, #philosophy, #anthropology, #neuroscience, #economics, #biology, and more.

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Reminder to send in your application and/or tell your students and colleagues about this PhD position! Review of applications will begin in a few weeks, though the position will remain open until filled

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📢 Taking the opportunity to cross-share: "Ostracism in Everyday Life: A Framework of Threat and Behavioral Responses" published in JPSP on the day of my PhD defense - talk about timing! 🔗 doi.org/10.1037/pspi... with @dongningren.bsky.social, O. Stavrova, S. Rudert, K. Williams, & R. Greifeneder

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

How do institutions enable large-scale cooperation? 🤝 Institutions promote cooperation but depend on cooperation to function. In a new study in @pnas.org, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @lfitouchi.bsky.social and I explore this paradox. 🧵 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Next Cooperation Colloquium Kristen Syme @kristensyme.bsky.social Testing the fitness interdependence theory of cooperation across human ecologies Friday Dec 13, 15:00 UTC+1 / 9 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Two PhD openings in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam about adolescents and climate friendly behavior: one co-supervised by me, and another one more on computational modeling. Thanks for sharing werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Tremendous new paper by Pleasant & Barclay showing that reciprocity and stake are not separate processes. Helping a cooperative partner even without immediate expectations of social recognition/returns is adaptive insofar as it promotes the availability of the partner for future ventures.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

New preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? Together with @danielredhead.bsky.social, we explore how two types of knowledge are shared in a BaYaka community: long-term foraging skills and short-term information about food locations

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New paper: in what we think is one of the largest meta-analyses of animal behaviour, we find no evidence for inequity aversion in nonhumans (in accept/reject paradigms) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Led by Oded Ritov & with @engelmann.bsky.social & Christoph Völter

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‼️⭐ ONE WEEK left to submit ABSTRACTS for EHBEA 2025!! ⭐‼️ 🗓️Mon 2 Dec! We have an exciting conference planned for you at Northumbria, April 14-17! Plenaries by @heidicolleran.bsky.social, @drboothroyd.bsky.social, Christine Caldwell & Susan Carvalho! See you there! Plz RT 😊 @ehbea.bsky.social

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In a new paper published today, @yohm.bsky.social and I discuss a general framework to make sense of social norms and different indirect reciprocity models. Below is a 🧵, here is the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Didn't come across a moral psych starter pack (?!), so started to make one—not exhaustive at all, please send suggestions! go.bsky.app/EUdkPZp

submitted 99 days ago • 8 comments

💡 A super interesting paper distinguishing the role of personal and social norms. Shows that social norms are more predictive of economic behavior when decisions are made public and observable.

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

I was angry. I wrote a thing. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

I suppose my first post should promote my 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. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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PNAS special feature: Half a Century of Cultural Evolution www.pnas.org/topic/565

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1/ 🌟 @PNASNews Special Feature: Half a Century of Cultural Evolution 🎉 With @amesoudi.bsky.social, @glupyan.bsky.social & Pierce Edmiston, we review the field's key experimental methods, findings, and critiques—and present a new lab experiment. 👇 www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

The first Behavioural Economics starter pack has reached its limit. I have started a second one. Do not hesitate to nominate and self-nominate! go.bsky.app/SRQAioh

submitted 102 days ago • 32 comments

📢 Please repost 📢 Applications for the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26 - Jun 20 2025) are now open. Brochure and more info: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul... Application form (deadline, Dec 15 2024): www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

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Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

submitted 104 days ago • 8 comments

Today, in Dutch academia… faced with enormous budget cuts we are denied the right to demonstrate ⬇️

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🚨Excited that our meta-analysis is out in JPSP @APA_Journals. We synthesized 6 decades (1958-2017) of empirical evidence on social dilemmas and tested which structural features (most strongly) promote cooperation: doi.org/10.1037/pspi... 1/10

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Cooperation Colloquium this Friday: Hirotaka Imada (Royal Holloway) Indirect reciprocity and psychology of ingroup favouritism Friday, Nov 15 15:00 UTC+1 / 9 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

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We are organising an interdisciplinary meeting on the Mediterranean region. Come join us in Crete between 6-8 April 2025 Submit your research from topics related to the Mediterranean region and groups originating from the Mediterranean societies on this website: honorlogic.org/cretemeeting/

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HARTELIJK DANK to everyone who joined us for the joined Cognition, Behavior & Evolution Network (CBEN) & MVE 2024 meeting in Maastricht! Your participation made this event truly special.

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Cooperation Colloquium this week: Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social Just desert: Compensatory computations explain moralistic punishment October 4, 15:00 UTC+2 / 9 am ET Sign-up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

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📣 New paper "Do institutions evolve like material technologies?" with @jorgeapenas.bsky.social, @manvir.bsky.social, & @maximederex.bsky.social. Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jrQt_,5MJ.... Feedback very welcome! Part of a special issue on Norm Change: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Come do a Research Fellowship (postdoc) with us at IAST! - Work 100% on your own research - Contract for 2 +1 years - Top scientific environment - anthro, bio, psych, poli sci, econ, soc and more - In a paradise city in the south of France Apply by Nov 15 www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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Applications for Research Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) are open 😍: www.iast.fr/research-fel... If you're considering joining us and have questions, feel free to reach out - I'm happy to provide more info!

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RT @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social Job alert! 💣💣 Join my ERC-funded team as a postdoc, and study the mechanisms of human social learning! We're looking for innovative, computationally minded candidates. Please RT ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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🏳️📝 Giuliana Spadaro and I are looking for someone who can assist us with the Swedish translation of study materials for a cross-cultural study on corruption and social decision-making. We need your help to spread our call to any potentially interested person!📣

submitted 163 days ago • 1 comment

Postdoc opportunity to work with me in the UK! We're looking for a PhD (submitted or awarded) to work on a social psychology grant for 2 years, investigating the moral role of heroes. See the job ad here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJH266/r...) and pass it on- deadline 18 Sep!

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PhD position with Lucas Molleman at UvA: 4-year interdisciplinary project on social learning and cultural evolution in Amsterdam. Computational modelling, agent-based simulations, network analysis. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...

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Thanks to JEP:G, my collab. Ruthie Pliskin & Carsten De Dreu, and some constructive reviewers, our paper sees the light of day! Honoring that humans often have multiple public goods in which they can choose to invest resources, we explore the realm of ✨multiple-public-goods provision problems✨

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The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) and the Toulouse School of Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences (TSE) will host the 11th annual Economics and Biology Workshop. This year's theme is Inequality in Networks. www.iast.fr/11th-toulous...

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I'm hiring a post-doc for a 2-year position to study ritual, religion, & explanations of misfortune in Indonesia. Applications will be reviewed starting March 1. Please spread the word & reach out if you have questions! Job ad: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06264

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New special issue on ‘Social Norm Change’ out in Philosophical Transactions B: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/.... With @zhgarfield.com, Francesca De Petrillo, and Sam Slewe, we review the socio-ecological and cultural underpinnings of norm enforcement across societies.

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We are opening two tenure-track positions (please repost!) Human Evolutionary Social Science Computational Social Science Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France! Deadline Jan 31st www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

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