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dedreu.bsky.social
Behavioral scientist; curious about mechanisms and functions of cooperation, conflict and creativity in humans and other animals. Spinoza Laureate | Humboldt Forschungspreis. Research professor at German Primate Center (affiliate) and Univ. of Groningen
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Solidarity and conflict. Great PhD work by Luuk Snijder www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨New paper out at with Jörg Gross & @dedreu.bsky.social: The nasty neighbor effect in humans. Across 51 societies and >14,000 participants, and against pre-registered predictions, we find that humans compete more within than between groups: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 236 days ago • 0 comments

Beginning August 2024, I start as research professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Much looking forward!

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@lhoenig.bsky.social 's groundbreaking project (the first from her PhD, with me and @dedreu.bsky.social ) is out, in JEP:G no less! See the comments for open access links.

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On being unpredictable and winning… In a world ripped apart by conflict, leaders often are hard to predict. Why? We show it is to win at all cost. Yet everyone pays—victors and victims alike Opponents want to win no matter what. These opponents, that’s you and me www.linkedin.com/posts/carste...

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Late March the German @humboldt-foundation.de organized a wonderful Award Ceremony in Bamberg. I was one of the lucky recipients of the Humboldt Forschungspreis to work with the Primate Research Center at Georg-August Universitat Gottingen 🥳

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Happy to share that I’m joining the board of NWO Social Science and Humanities Council. www.nwo.nl/nieuws/carst...

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🚨Job Alert🚨 We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work with us on how value is represented at the psychological and neural level. Details: universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20... 🔈Deadline: 20 February Please spread the word!

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The abstract submission portal for the International Conference on Social Dilemmas is open! Make sure to send your submission until 15th of January 2024.  We look forward to learning about your interesting research! socialdilemma.com/icsd2024-abs... #PsychSciSky #BehSci #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

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Advances Experimental Social Psychol (in press): Human creativity — what is it for (functions), how does it work (neurocognitive mechanisms), what personality and social factors make or break it? With Matthijs Baas and Bernard Nijstad: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Extended deadline — 31/01/2024.

submitted 451 days ago • 0 comments

📢 Job alert! Come do your PhD with Angelo Romano (@aromano.bsky.social) and me at Leiden on a cool topic on the effects of inequality on cooperation & competition between groups. 📝Deadline: 18 December Please share widely! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... #AcademiSky #PsychSciSky

submitted 457 days ago • 2 comments

The British Academy runs a multiyear trial on randomizing grant allocation among proposals that exceed quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi... Looks like a lottery increases diversity of recipients on many dimensions. 1/

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I’m very honoured and happy with being awarded a @humboldt-foundation.de Research Award🥳. Big shout out to Peter Kappeler @George-August Universitat Gottingen / primate-cognition.eu/en/about-us/... for nominating me 🙏

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!!Conference on Social Dilemmas!! in Leiden July 2-5 2024. Call for Abstracts is open. Keynotes are announced. Good weather ordered. Reposting appreciated! More information on: socialdilemma.com/icsd2024/

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"We show that Guinea baboons (Papio papio) can use direct reciprocity and partner choice to develop and maintain high levels of cooperation in a prosocial choice task." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Great inaugural lecture by Jorg Gross at Uni Zurich. How humans use cooperation to adapt to unwelcoming environments, with some tragic consequences (e.g. conflict, climate change

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Fresh out in www.nature.com/articles/s41... —When people can choose whom to work with, and some are just more economically attractive than others, closed elites form. We cooperate b/c of ‘enlightened self-interest’ with segregation and polarizarion the ‘collateral damage.’ #PsySciSky #AcademicSky

submitted 503 days ago • 2 comments

Nobel economics prize awarded to Claudia Goldin for work on gender pay gap

submitted 507 days ago • 2 comments

Call: Special Issue of Journal of Economic Psychology - ISSN 0167-4870 (elsevier.com) on Social Institutions and Cooperation Failures. Public good provision, social dilemmas, intergroup conflict. Theory and experiments. Reposting appreciated!

Submission Deadline is December 25, 2023

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Leaders can be important in group conflict, but only when followers align behavior and brains: Supported here with fNIRS and intergroup contest games, and find better coordination during group defense than exploitative attacks. With Yina Ma and team.   Nat. Hum. Behav.: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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A related paper on social engagement and learning can be found here. With Michael Rojek-Giffin and Mael Lebreton in the lead #PsySciSky In Proceedings National Academy of Sciences: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Before Blue Sky we wrote about group formation and evolution. With Angelo Romano and Jorg Gross, in Perspectives Psychological Science: doi.org/10.1177/1745...

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