The new low-fertility, secular, sober, queer virgins are distinct from familiar Freewheelers

The number has fallen over the past decade from ~87% to ~74%

All 74 Feels, organized like a biological taxonomy — into five Kingdoms, eleven Phyla, and individual Feels. The fifth is Monera: the dessert course of oddballs and mysteries.

How total fertility rates reflect both declines and delays in childbirth

Shifts in Americans’ time-use patterns from 2003 to 2025

Why I keep saying that this stuff is mainly about the modern U.S. and similar countries

<p><em>For millennia, we have assumed that self-knowledge begins with looking inward. But psychologist <strong>Nick Chater</strong> argues that this is impossible: the mind does not store beliefs and ...

And what do those differences mean for recent evolutionary theories of morality and religion?

And what do those differences mean for recent evolutionary theories of morality and religion?

Big predictors from NSFG data: husband’s education and her premarital sex/children

A big-picture look at large-scale patterns across cohorts, current trends, and drivers of individual differences.

YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)

Age, education, marriage, and childbearing in the 21st century

YouTube video by Bamboo Books – Concise Summaries

A quick sketch of a cynical take

An estimate of both levels and distributions of surviving offspring over time.

NPORS is an annual survey of U.S. adults conducted by the Pew Research Center used to to produce benchmark estimates for several topics.

A look at both levels and distributions of childbearing over time.

– by Nicolas Baumard & Jean-Baptiste André The evolutionary social sciences are grounded in the idea that evolutionary theory provides a unified framework to explain human behavior, including social n...

A look at some of the features that drove the 2024 U.S. coalitions

I combine the major available surveys (AP VoteCast, CES, Edison exit polls, and ANES)

Age, gender, race, education, income, religion, sexual orientation, guns, and urban/rural

In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses. Pew Research Center.

Modelling the big picture of how voters have shifted in recent presidential elections

After years of decline, the U.S. Christian share now shows signs of leveling off. The new Religious Landscape Study explores trends in identity, beliefs and practices. Pew Research Center.

The “Need for Chaos” and Motivations to Share Hostile Political Rumors - Volume 117 Issue 4

Race, religion, sexual orientation, education, guns, and church

It’s all very preliminary.

And putting them on a single chart.

Subtle realignments and demographic change

Impacts of religiosity, sociosexuality, and race.

Some early thoughts on integrating lessons from neural networks into evolutionary psychology

If new data are to be believed, I don’t know that anyone really understands the depth and rapidity of the unprecedented shifts unfolding in Gen Z.

Religious congregants are primarily those who abstain from nonmarital sex and partying in favor of stable marriages and larger families.

One is parental attendance, but there’s another that matters at least as much.

Which Gen Zers are more and less likely to identify and be actively involved with a religion?

What's driving young women’s recent outsized decline in religiosity?

Just 40 years ago, being liberal on abortion actually predicted being conservative on economics (and vice versa).

What they suggest about the shifting party coalitions

My nominee for the biggest, cleanest single split in basic voter demographics

How the parties flipped places