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Diego Guevara Beltran @psycheddiego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Only 1 week left to apply for the 25th Evolutionary Psychology Preconference at #SPSP2027 @SPSPnews 🌐Feb 9: Full-day Virtual Preconference Send us your Datablitz & Poster proposals by Oct 8! ep2027.mystrikingly.com

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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨 Applied Cultural Evolution Brownbag Series 🚨 Two inaugural discussions: Oct 7 What is (uniquely) applied cultural evolution? Caroline Graf, U. Zurich Dec 9 What can cultural evolution offer climate adaptation practitioners? Christine Lindell, World Vision Australia tinyurl.com/3st6zy79

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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨Call open for manuscripts on 'Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences' for a Special Collection in EHS, co-edited by @louisbachaud.bsky.social, @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social and myself. @ehbea.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Call for papers

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David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"increased emphasis on big data...could shift the field from ‘theories-guide-data’ to ‘data-guide-theories’...how big data might be harmonized with experimental approaches...enable scholars to harness power of big data while avoiding its pitfalls" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Opportunities and risks of big data for the methods and culture of psychological science - Nature Reviews Psychology

Big data can address problems with generalizability and enable the study of real-world behaviours. However, the overuse of big data could lead to over-reliance on correlations bereft of explanatory po...

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David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Open Rank Faculty Position at OKState Psychology...particularly interested in candidates with specialties in Clinical Child Psychology, Pediatric Psychology, or Behavioral Medicine/Health Psychology jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/open-ra...

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Open Rank Tenured/Tenure-Track Professor of Clinical Psychology AF7754 - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Campus OSU-Stillwater Contact Name & Email Dr. Stephanie Sweatt, stephanie.sweatt@okstate.edu Work Schedule TBD Appointment Length 9 months or less Hiring Range Commensurate with education and exp...

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David P. Schmitt, Ph.D. @psychoschmitt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Assistant Prof Faculty Position at OKState Psychology...particularly interested in candidates with research in neuroscience, neurobiology, biological basis of behavior...who can teach courses in neurobiological bases of behavior at graduate and undergraduate levels jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor of Psychology AF7760 - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Campus OSU-Stillwater Contact Name & Email Dr. Sheila Kennison, sheila.kennison@okstate.edu Work Schedule TBD Appointment Length 9 months or less Hiring Range Commensurate with education and exper...

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Ahra Ko 고아라 @ahrako.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Join us for the 25th Evolutionary Psychology Preconference at #SPSP2027 & showcase your research ✨ 🌐 Feb 9: Full-day Virtual Preconference featuring top international speakers 🚨 Submissions close Oct 8! Send us your Datablitz & Poster proposals. 💌 ep2027.mystrikingly.com

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 14/09/2026

"Violence was endemic in Neolithic Europe, sometimes reaching levels of intergroup hostilities that ended in the utter destruction of entire communities" 🧪 #BioAnth www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe | PNAS

Bioarchaeological evidence of interpersonal violence and early warfare presents important insights into conflict in past societies. This evidence i...

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There's just one(!) week (!) left (!) to submit an abstract for the SPSP 2027 Annual Convention in Philadelphia! Join us from Feb. 11-13 to present your work to thousands of scholars from around the world at #SPSP2027. Submit here before Sept. 15: ow.ly/NhPE50ZKGBa

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A second Ig Nobel Prize winner! 🏆 Congratulations to Jaimie Krems, Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters, Laureon Merrie, Keelah Williams, and Daniel Sznycer on their 2026 Ig Nobel Peace Prize! 🏆👏 Read the award-winning research in Evolution and Human Behavior: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The fever dream of the @ignobel.bsky.social awards with @matildabrindle.bsky.social and Kate Talbot. And our amazing support team! The original paper - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @biology.ox.ac.uk

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Congratulations to @matildabrindle.bsky.social , @stuwest.bsky.social , and Talbot on their Ig Nobel Prize win! 🏆 Their award-winning study, "A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing,"💋 was published right here in Evolution and Human Behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you attended HBES, please provide feedback in our survey(wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). If you didn't attend, we still value your opinions, and want to know more about you! Give your thoughts on how to shape HBES for the future, including the conferences.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Cultural Evolution Job Alert 🚨 culturalevolutionsociety.org/jobs/postdoc...

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Postdoctoral Visitor in Social Psychology and Religion - Cultural Evolution Society

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just three(!) weeks(!) left(!) to submit a poster or roundtable unconference for the SPSP 2027 Annual Convention. Don't miss your chance to lead a session at #SPSP2027 - submit your proposal by September 15: ow.ly/aM8l50ZFhnK

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Clinical psychopathy includes the co-occurrence of interpersonal (e.g., manipulativeness, dominance), affective (e.g., callousness, disaffiliation), and behavioral (e.g., sensation seeking, disinhibition) domains of functioning, which when combined, result in an antisocial cluster of traits

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Psychopathy and Evolution - HBES

– by Kristopher Brazil What kind of characteristics come to mind when you think of a “psychopath?” Callous, cruel, calculating? Ruthless, reckless, remorseless? Daring, dominant, disaffiliated? No…

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Membership fees will increase starting September 15 (see below for details). If you are currently on a one-year membership, you can upgrade to a three-year plan at the current prices. You have until September 15 to upgrade your one-year membership. www.hbes.com/hbes-members...

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HBES membership fees are increasing starting September 15 - HBES

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Since behaviors spread among familiars (via social learning or genetic transmission), familiars behave similarly. Conditioning cooperation on familiarity—i.e. empathy—concentrates the benefits of cooperation among cooperators, allowing this behavior to evolve.

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Social context and the evolution of empathy - HBES

– by Jeremy Garrison We are a social species. Whether in the context of mammoth hunts, food sharing, child-rearing, war, or climate change, cooperation has always been instrumental to our individual…

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our paper revisits the long-debated idea of Man the Hunter and asks what the term has actually meant over time. We argue that the debates surrounding it inspired important research on cooperation, food sharing, women’s subsistence labor, and human behavioral flexibility.

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our new study provides empirical evidence for the proverb “actions speak louder than words,” especially in the context of reputation maintenance or self-presentation. When you see someone’s wrongdoing and hear them say, “I didn’t intend to do it,” you may doubt it. Your doubt has empirical support!

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Can we trust the cheap excuse: “I didn’t intend to do it”? - HBES

– by Yohsuke Ohtsubo When you inadvertently step on someone’s foot, what would you say or do? Perhaps, you would say something like “Oops, I’m sorry. I didn’t intend to do that.” Most likely, both…

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 20/04/2026

What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When someone we love gives time, care, or valuable resources to someone else, jealousy may signal more than insecurity. In this post, we explore jealousy as an evolved response to shifts in resource allocation—revealing how deeply humans need to feel chosen, prioritized, and uniquely invested in.

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When Love Feels at Risk: The Hidden Logic of Jealousy - HBES

– by Ana María Fernandez, María Barbato, Michele Dufey Jealousy is often portrayed as irrational, possessive, or simply unpleasant. Yet from an evolutionary and developmental perspective, jealousy may...

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Julien Lie-Panis @jliep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The engravings from the Blombos Cave and Diepkloof Rock Shelter in South Africa are made by early Homo sapiens and dated from ~100 thousand years ago. They are interpreted as intentional markings—but what functions did they actually serve?

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How Function Shapes Form - HBES

– by Murillo Pagnotta Symbolic artefacts as tools of the mind In the study of human evolution, evidence of symbolic behaviour is often taken to indicate when the mind of our deep past relatives became...

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Gaming is found in every human society, but why do we spend so much time competing under artificial rules? Our new research explores the possibility that games evolved as low-risk ways to assess skill, strategy, and reliability when forming alliances. www.hbes.com/evolutionary...

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Evolutionary and social functions of gaming - HBES

– by Yago Moraes Imagine two strangers meeting for the first time. Instead of making small talk, they either play an ancient strategy game or role-play a mild disagreement between friends. Weeks later...

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Why is romantic kissing so common yet not Universal. Samani & Thomas argue that it is easy for people to learn because of universal intuitions about close bodily contact and social intimacy, and that it arises when people need to distinguish romantic relationships and other intimacy relationships!

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Abstract core knowledge may shape the basins of cultural attraction: romantic kissing as a case study - HBES

– by Hossein Samani & Ashley J. Thomas It may be easy for many readers to assume that romantic kissing (lip-to-lip contact between romantic partners) is universal. While romantic kissing is common aro...

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

📢 Deadline extended! Abstract submissions for the 2026 FOSSIL conference are now due June 30. Join us Aug 7–8 at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK. All career stages & all areas of evolutionary human science welcome—please share widely! 📝 Submit: fossilconference.mystrikingly.com

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Flyover State Scientists Integrating Evolution (FOSSIL) Conference---a new regional conference for evolutionary social scientists

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Congratulations to Yukino Watanabe, winner of the #HBES2026 Poster Award! 📌

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Plenary 3 at #HBES2026 🎤 Sara Lowes on "Culture, Policy, and Economic Development." Three big ideas: culture shapes policy outcomes, culture persists, and culture responds to policy. A thread 🧵

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 22/05/2026

Isotopes and food residue show that as people in Kenya’s Turkana Basin transitioned from fishing and foraging to herding cattle, around 5,000 years ago, they took a full millennium to fully shift to a specialized diet centered around livestock. In PNAS: ow.ly/NTIa50Z3eRr

Domestic cattle in the Turkana region, Kenya.
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

And Julien Lie-Panis presented his work on trade and how Intermediaries concentrate exchanges, creating incentives for reliability! (4/4) #HBES2026

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

@olkcampbell.bsky.social gave an interesting talk on the relationship between cousin marriages and exposure to intimate partner violence and coercive control. She finds that women in cousin marriages reported less intimate partner violence and less coercive control! (3/4) #HBES2026

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

@anthroliz.bsky.social discussed parental influence on mate choice in Nepal and the effects of different levels of parental vs offspring choice on reproductive success. One key takeaway: we need to stop dichotomizing arranged marriages when studying these effects! (2/4) #HBES2026

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Some amazing finalists for the #HBES2026 Postdoctoral Investigator award! A thread 🧵👇 (1/4)

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Plenary 2 at #HBES2026 🎤 Hanna Kokko on "A long life: how desirable is it, evolutionarily speaking?" A walk through why species vary so dramatically in lifespan, and a deep dive into one classic hypothesis. A thread 🧵

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 18/05/2026

A recently discovered femur and tibia of a 1.8-million-year-old hominin, Paranthropus robustus, allows researchers to recreate its locomotor patterns, suggesting it spent a lot of time in trees—much more than its contemporary, Australopithecus africanus. In PNAS: ow.ly/89AT50Z1bTI

Colormap of trabecular bone density in hip, knee, and ankle, reflecting joint flexion in Paranthropus robustus likely linked to frequent climbing.
CREDIT: Marine Cazenave, Andrea Luková, Annalisa Pietrobelli, and Christopher Smith

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Congratulations to Joakim Zahl, winner of the #HBES2026 New Investigator Award! 🎉 For his work “Return the Favor: Preverbal Infants Represent and Emotionally Value Direct Reciprocity.” 👏

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Congratulations to Elizabeth Agey, winner of the #HBES2026 Postdoctoral Investigator Award! 🎉 For her work on “Parental influence on mate choice shapes reproduction and socioeconomic resources in Nepal.” 👏

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Congratulations to the winners of the #HBES2026 Don Symons Adaptationism Award: Michael Barlev & Steven Neuberg, for “Rational Reasons for Irrational Beliefs” (2025) psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Congratulations to Steven Neuberg, recipient of the #HBES2026 Lifetime Career Award! 🏆

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