ehbea2025.bsky.social
Feed of the 2025 European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference. Hosted at Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK). https://www.ehbea2025.com/
- Dates: 14 to 17 April 2025.
- Programme: https://tinyurl.com/EHBEA2025
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2/ Shout out to the extraordinary organizing team for #EHBEA2025 ✒️🐧📝
@tvpollet.bsky.social
@jeannebovet.bsky.social
@francescadp.bsky.social
@amrotella.bsky.social
@gillianpepper.bsky.social
@mdconstable.bsky.social
@lrrenner.bsky.social
Martin Tovee
Connor Leslie
Tamsin Saxton
& Kris McCarty
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Oh no! We're sorry to hear that you got sick. We hope the recovery was quick and that you are feeling better now!
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Happy to hear you had a great conference! Hope to see you next year 😁
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Many thanks to all the @ehbea2025.bsky.social organizers for all their running around to ensure we had a wonderful conference. Hope you have a restful weekend!
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Here are the fantastic people who made the conference 🎉
@jeannebovet.bsky.social
@mdconstable.bsky.social
@francescadp.bsky.social
Connor Leslie
Kris McCarty
@gillianpepper.bsky.social
@tvpollet.bsky.social
Liz Renner
@amrotella.bsky.social
Tamsin Saxton
Martin Tovée
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How does economy & male absence patterns impact marriage in Vanuatu?? 🇻🇺
➡️ there's within-society variation in residence systems 🏘
➡️ neither male absence nor market integration predict matrilocality
#ehbea2025 #marriage #MarketIntegration #change
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What drives the evolution of #monogamous marriage?? 💒
➡️ there's considerable cultural variation in marriage practices, monogamy remains a puzzle 🧩
➡️ Gabriel Saffa models alternative hyotheses, ⬆️ support for rival wealth hypothesis, ⬇️ Intergroup competiton
#ehbea2025 #marriage #monogamy #ecology
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Rounding out the session, we have a great talk by Saein Lee talking about #conformity & #prosociality!
➡️ Comparing tight vs loose: Tighter cultures show more prosociality, only for behaviours, not self-report! 🌏
#ehbea2025
#SocialNorms
@saeinlee.bsky.social
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Then... Gregoire Darcy finds that in tighter cultures, people who are less cooperative also want to #punish noncooperators 🤯🔒
#SocialNorms #Culture
#ehbea2025
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Michal Stefanczyk looks at moral judgements in front of attractive women! ⚖️
➡️ finds more likely to pull lever in trolley dilemma in front of attractive women 👩
➡️ but this is because they are less #delontological - less normative!
#ehbea2025
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John Lazarus argues that behavioral economics & games can be used to inform #SocialPolicy
#ehbea2025
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Gillian Pepper looks at #risk in high/low volcano risk areas in Sicily! 🌋
➡️ people weren't more like to help in or out group members 🇮🇹
➡️ but! Less likely to wear seat belts in high risk areas! 🚗
@gillianpepper.bsky.social
#ehbea2025
#volcano
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How to align individual & group interests?? 🤔
➡️ Gilbert Roberts models how honest signaling of cooperative intent can do this in a public goods game!
➡️ signallers are chosen as partners
#cooperation #pgg #ehbea2025
@gilbertroberts.bsky.social
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Next up: Emily Jeffries on the co-evolution of #storytelling & #cooperation! 📚
➡️ storytelling is a human universal
➡️ finds that most folktales are prosocial
#ehbea2025 #folktales #punishment