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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · 6d

🦠 Hi disgust nerds! Our 1st keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Caroline Amoroso (@cr-amo.bsky.social, Univ. of Virginia).

She’ll dive into evolution & ecology of infection avoidance — how organisms detect, avoid, and resist pathogens.

tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn

📍 Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5
👀 More 🔑🗒️ soon!

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 12d

In an online study with 3,371 participants from 13 societies, Jin et al. found that perceived societal honour norms predicted both greater competition and cooperation.
@shuxianjin.bsky.social
@ayseuskul.bsky.social
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Honour, competition and cooperation across 13 societies - Nature Human Behaviour

This online study with 3,371 participants from 13 societies found that perceived societal honour norms predicted both greater competition and greater cooperation at both societal and individual levels.

www.nature.com

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 16d

📢 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.

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

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...

www.iast.fr

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 24d

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

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Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

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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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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Aug 18

📣 New registered report in @nathumbehav.nature.com with Ivan Soraperra, @jonathanschulz.bsky.social, and Shaul Shalvi: rdcu.be/eAcMA

With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.

Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries

Nature Human Behaviour - This Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries found that guilt and information about consequences drive prosocial behaviour. Guilt-prone individuals gave more when...

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · Aug 26

⚡ Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia ⚡

We are excited to announce the next run of Cooperation Colloquia. With @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, @setayeshradkani.bsky.social, @kris-smith.bsky.social, @alexmesoudi.com, & more.

Every second Friday, 15:00 CE(S)T

Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Speaker list for the Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia:
2025-09-12 | Doruk İriş (Sogang University)
2025-09-26 | Talbot M. Andrews (Cornell University)
2025-10-10 | Setayesh Radkani (MIT)
2025-10-24 | Christian Ruff (University of Zürich)
2025-11-07 | Bianca Beersma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
2025-11-21 | Kristopher M. Smith (Washington State University)
2025-12-05 | Alex Mesoudi (University of Exeter)

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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · Aug 22

🧠 What?! A meeting just on disgust?! Yes!!
📍 @iast.fr, France | 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025
💥 Keynotes by Paul Rozin @upenn.edu, @cr-amo.bsky.social, Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social & Cindy Kam
🌍 From Psychology to Politics, Biology & beyond
🎓 Abstract submissions until Aug 31: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'!

🗓️ Dec 4 & 5
📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr
💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more

Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Aug 18

♥️ Many thanks to all the colleagues who helped us translate and implement this research across 20 countries.

🔗 A Research Briefing describing our key findings is available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The pre-print is available on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Wilfully ignoring inconvenient information decreases prosociality across diverse cultures - Nature Human Behaviour

In a cross-national behavioural experiment, we examined how providing information about negative externalities and making decisions observable influence prosocial behaviour. Across countries, we found...

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Aug 18

💡 Across countries, we found that knowledge of negative externalities (compared with ignorance) robustly increased prosociality.

Guilt-prone individuals were more responsive to information about the negative consequences of their actions.

Observability by strangers only had negligible effects.

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Aug 18

🔎 We asked how different mechanisms that activate guilt or shame influence prosociality across culturally diverse societies.

In a cross-national behavioral experiment, we examined how providing information about negative externalities and making decisions observable influence prosocial behavior.

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Aug 18

📣 New registered report in @nathumbehav.nature.com with Ivan Soraperra, @jonathanschulz.bsky.social, and Shaul Shalvi: rdcu.be/eAcMA

With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.

Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries

Nature Human Behaviour - This Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries found that guilt and information about consequences drive prosocial behaviour. Guilt-prone individuals gave more when...

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Aug 11

A Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries by @cmolho.bsky.social et al finds that decision-makers willfully ignore inconvenient information. Information about the negative consequences drives prosociality, especially among guilt-prone individuals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries - Nature Human Behaviour

This Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries found that guilt and information about consequences drive prosocial behaviour. Guilt-prone individuals gave more when they were informed about th...

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Jul 23

Through experiments and simulations, this study shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. @davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social
@lucasmolleman.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Feature-based reward learning shapes human social learning strategies - Nature Human Behaviour

This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments and simulations, it shows how individuals learn to learn from others, dynamically shapin...

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Jul 2

The conference is organized by Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social, Arnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social, and Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social.

Thanks to the support of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr

Don't hesitate to reach out at [email protected]. Please share!

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Jul 2

📣 We are excited (or should we say disgusted?) to announce the conference 'Disgust across borders' at IAST! @iast.fr

🗓️ Join us on Dec 4 & 5 for two days full of disgust research across species and disciplines.

Registration and abstract submission are open (until Aug 31): forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

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IASToulouse @iast.fr · Jun 30

🎉 The Friends of IAST conference kicks off today in Toulouse!

Held every two years, this event brings together IAST alumni and new research fellows—two days of reconnecting, sharing ideas, and sparking new collaborations.

👋Organizers: @minhuayan.bsky.social S. Mitter J. Stieglitz

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · Jun 26

💥New postdoc position! 💥

Join us to explore how people learn from each other—and how that drives cultural evolution.

Run experiments, build computational models & collaborate across Europe w. @lucasmolleman.bsky.social
📍 Stockholm
More info: shorturl.at/CY4wk

Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified

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Jorge Peña @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Here, weird guy from X, I fixed it for you:

"If a scientific society wants to be welcoming to [...] students & researchers [from the Global South], does it make sense to hold its next annual conference in a country that's notorious for [being located in the Global South]?"

The answer is Yes.

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Jun 25

I'm so glad you enjoyed the summer school and your stay in Toulouse, Devi! Lovely photos! 😊

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Devikrishna N B (She/Her) @devikrishna.bsky.social · Jun 25

I had the most incredible opportunity to attend the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences at @tse-fr.eu and learn from @lfitouchi.bsky.social , @cmolho.bsky.social & @jorgeapenas.bsky.social on the "Evolution of Human Sociality"
Toulouse was warm and welcoming, so was TSE !!

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thank you, Amalia! <3

Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Jun 24

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