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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Noëmon Baudouin @noemonbls.bsky.social · Sep 10

My very first paper has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour!

In it, we demonstrate that both a chatbot and a more traditional pedagogical intervention can help improve adolescents' knowledge of vaccines and their attitudes towards vaccination.

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Jean-Baptiste André @jbaptistandre.bsky.social · 17d

Ever wanted to read about an old problem almost nobody cares about anymore?

Well, I wrote about it.

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 19d

#HBES2026 abstract submissions are live! More exciting details to come soon.

Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social

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HBES2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social · 19d

We’re delighted to share that the 37th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference (HBES2026) website is now live!

#HBES2026

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 19d

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr

Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

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Research Fellowships

Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 21d

"From this point of view, fairness really may be a universal law."

Morality Is in Our Brain, in Our Genes, and Even in the Structure of the Universe

In defense of "Natural Law", Nicholas Baumard explains how modern scientific understanding of evolution actually supports the idea of a moral sense.

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xavier roberts-gaal @xrg.bsky.social · May 20

the functional form of moral judgment is (sometimes) the nash bargaining solution

new preprint👇

figure 2 from our preprint, reporting the results from two experiments

we measure moral judgments about dividing money between two parties and manipulate the degree of asymmetry in the outside options each party has

we find that moral judgments track predictions from rational bargaining models like the nash bargaining solution and the kalai-smorodinsky solution in a negotiation context

by contrast, in a donation context, moral intuitions completely reverse, instead tracking redistributive and egalitarian principles

preprint link: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/3uqks_v1

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xavier roberts-gaal @xrg.bsky.social · 26d

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.

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Laudine Carbuccia @laudine.bsky.social · Sep 11

1/ Thrilled to share that my main PhD article has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉

👉 “A randomised controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France” rdcu.be/eFAEA

A randomized controlled trial on the effect of administrative burden and information costs on social inequalities in early childcare access in France

Nature Human Behaviour - This RCT finds that providing information and support to target cognitive and behavioural barriers eliminates early childcare application gaps for low-income and immigrant...

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manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm giving a free book talk next Wednesday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Come by if you're in the Boston area!

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · Sep 2

👏 Huge congrats to @audeber.bsky.social, group leader and head of our Molecular Diversity of Microbes lab, on being named a 2025 Vallee Scholar! Her pioneering work on ancestral immunity opens new perspectives for biomedical innovation. 🔬🌍

@valleefoundation.bsky.social

#Science #Immunity

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manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social · Aug 25

Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions?

In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · Aug 19

This week, we discuss the evolution of cooperation with Pat Barclay.

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Cooperation with Pat Barclay

YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · Jul 23

Very excited to see this published!

Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · Jul 9

📈New meta-analysis reveals when "moral licensing" really happens. After good deeds, people act less morally only when being watched by others, not when alone. This explains why many online studies failed to replicate the effect.

Read more in #PSPB: ow.ly/YFIp50WmjYE

A group of people, shown in silhouette, watching the sun set.

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Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our new paper is out in PNAS: "Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind"!

Humans are the ultimate cooperators. We coordinate on a scale and scope no other species (nor AI) can match. What makes this possible? 🧵

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolving general cooperation with a Bayesian theory of mind | PNAS

Theories of the evolution of cooperation through reciprocity explain how unrelated self-interested individuals can accomplish more together than th...

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Fiery Cushman @fierycushman.bsky.social · Jul 11

Arthur has written a wonderful, clear, super helpful introduction to contractualism as a foundation for moral psychology. Perfect for getting up to speed, teaching, a desk reference, or a sunny day at the beach. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Contractualist Moral Cognition: From the Normative to the Descriptive at Three Levels of Analysis

Visual summary of the paper. Taking inspiration from the contractualist tradition in moral philosophy is helpful to better understand morality at three interrelated levels of analysis: Its evolutiona...

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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · Jul 2

So pleased to have won this award. Thank you @ceciliapad.bsky.social @gregoryfiorio.bsky.social @ruthmace.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social

Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Jun 26

The winners of the HBES Margo Wilson Award (best paper in E&HB the previous year) are Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Gregory Fiorio, & Ruth Mace for the paper “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures”. Congratulations!
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tadegquillien.bsky.social @tadegquillien.bsky.social · Jun 30

Our paper on the logic of guesses is now out!

We provide a new information-theoretic perspective on many phenomena (old and new) in judgment under uncertainty.
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Neil Bramley @neilbramley.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just out in Cognitive Psychology
Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty
By @tadegquillien.bsky.social , me & Chris Lucas

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We find people's 'best guesses' sneakily encode distribution information that guesser & others can reconstruct later

Lossy encoding of distributions in judgment under uncertainty

People often make judgments about uncertain facts and events, for example ‘Germany will win the world cup’. Judgment under uncertainty is often studie…

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Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨

We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Jun 26

The winners of the HBES Margo Wilson Award (best paper in E&HB the previous year) are Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Gregory Fiorio, & Ruth Mace for the paper “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures”. Congratulations!
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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · Jun 12

#HBES2026 will be a joint meeting with the Cultural Evolution Society in Rabat, Morocco: CES is May 11-13, HBES is May 13-16, with one day of planned overlap. It’ll be a great chance for cross-pollination between the two evolutionary societies. Come for one conference, stay for both!

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Edgar Dubourg @edgardubourg.bsky.social · Jun 2

We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...

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Christian Hilbe @chilbe.bsky.social · May 21

This is a great opportunity to work with @yohm.bsky.social, one of the leading researchers in evolutionary game theory these days. 🙂
I can only recommend applying ⬇️

Yohsuke Murase @yohm.bsky.social · May 21

📢 We’re hiring! RIKEN iTHEMS has launched a new Mathematical Social Science Team, and we’re looking for researchers to join us. If you're into cooperation, norms, or networks, check out the call!
🔗 www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Feel free to DM me if you have questions!

Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Social Science Team (W25015)

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Nikoleta Glynatsi @nikoletaglyn.bsky.social · May 22

An incredible opportunity! 📰🎉 Join our research group exploring social questions, work with an amazing supervisor, and live in Japan for a few years while you're at it! 🇯🇵🍜

Yohsuke Murase @yohm.bsky.social · May 21

📢 We’re hiring! RIKEN iTHEMS has launched a new Mathematical Social Science Team, and we’re looking for researchers to join us. If you're into cooperation, norms, or networks, check out the call!
🔗 www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...
Feel free to DM me if you have questions!

Seeking a few Research Scientists or Postdoctoral Researchers at Mathematical Social Science Team (W25015)

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