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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

IARR is hosting a mini-conference in Brazil this summer! June 23-25. Who wants to go see amazing science and beaches and mountains with me?

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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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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a rich resource for anyone doing research (scientific or otherwise) on kink, BDSM, and rough sex. I put what I believe are the most load-bearing excerpts from this article below. In short: the community and context where rough sex happens matters.

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Co-wife competition and aggression across 19 cultures. “Resolutions varied, with the most frequent being the husband's intervention or relationship dissolution (both 47.4%).” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 15/08/2026

1. Much human genetic variation has ~zero impact on phenotypes. Why? Cooperative genes are locked in a forever war w/ selfish genes (red queen dynamics). The cooperative genes have won most battles but now our genomes are littered w/ the dead & decaying bodies of a million selfish genes 🧵 🧪 #BioAnth

Illustration from the movie Queen's Gambit, with a red-haired women playing chess with a red queen

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I’ll present analyses comparing the sexual health and functioning of people in monogamous, consensually non-monogamous, and infidelitous relationships in three (N ~ 11,000) international and Finnish population datasets at IASR this week.

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"Evolution should be compulsory viewing for everyone over the age of five." 🫡

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Have you ever been a second partner who was treated like second class? Was your relationship hidden from friends, family, or their partner(s), and this caused conflict? Or were you suddenly cut off because their other partner(s) wanted it? Look in the mirror, ye who offend.

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New pub at Evolution and Human Behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

How would you define “emotional” infidelity? Which behaviors, if performed by your partner, would you perceive as “emotional” infidelity?

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Eric Dolan asked me some questions about our recent publication. You can read my responses, and the PsyPost team’s ever-careful summary, here:

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

On my way to #NEEPS2026 What do we talk about at this conference, anyway? Here’s an excerpt from the program, written by the program co-chairs (Mitch Brown and I):

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Can you be satisfied with a partner who is nurturant but not erotic, or vice versa? Maybe if you have multiple partners. Last year, @mlarva.bsky.social published this. The findings are cool, but it also questions how we conceive of "relationship satisfaction" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Nurturance, Eroticism, and Relationship Satisfaction Among People in Monogamous and Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships

Satisfying romantic relationships often feature high levels of nurturance and eroticism. Consensually non-monogamous (CNM) individuals may experience these with additional partners, potentially red...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Researchers who do activist science: who should I read to learn the gold standard for doing such research?

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Anyone interested in DEI, I stumbled on this resource today: psychgrail.com/resources/ It is a young (incomplete) effort to compile the considerations social scientists ought to make to reduce structural (and other) barriers to DEI in their research design and implementation. What I like…

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Resources

Researchers attempting to recruit diverse samples and conduct inclusive research often run into challenges. Below you can find resources to help navigate some of these barriers. Click on a section …

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is an oddly thoughtful read about the aftermath of DEI from an Afrofuturism perspective. It's a humble hybrid of perspectives and research methods. Most importantly, it cites me in the first sentence to define DEI. www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Part 3 is now live 📜 Here, I discuss what we learned about infidelity from our data, and why I think CNM is a better way of having multiple partners than infidelity. Link and notable excerpts below:

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Our adversarial collaboration is now published. "Defining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by the scientific (de)merits of its programming" In Theory & Society. Thank you to my incisive coauthors: Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, Bryan Love 🧵below t.co/RMfzBfraA7

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Months ago I began an adversarial collaboration with Drs. Lee Jussim, Anne Wilson, and Bryan Love to make sense of DEI public discourse. Today our paper was accepted at Theory & Society. We suggest a scientific standard for adjudicating the (de)merits of DEI 🧵👇

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

My advisee, Faith Swanson, will have a virtual poster tomorrow morning at #NEEPS2025 on mate value discrepancies and conflict among partners in consensually non-monogamous relationships. Collab w/ Rhonda Balzarini and Taylor Himes. She’s brilliant. Ask her tough questions!

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I’ll be at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (#HBES2025) and NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (#NEEPS2025) conferences this week and the following. Looking forward to cracking rocks with ya’ll ;) Say hi if you see me.

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

In 2021 Sari van Anders published a fascinating piece about diversity in sex/gender research (link below). The excerpt here is what inspired me to post. I have not seen privilege in social power defined this way before. This is "overempowerment":

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This is my last entry for “Making Sense of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”. Here, I revisit the prediction that I made about DEI before reading this book. I then draw my conclusions and levy a few critiques. I'll leave highlights in the comments. open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If I redid this, I'd add porn more explicitly. If you treat porn as a sexual partner with whom your other partner(s) feel they must compete for attention, resources, etc., you've run into some of the challenges of managing multiple relationships. link.springer.com/referencewor...

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Types of Multi-partnering

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Making Sense of DEI - part 4 open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Making Sense of DEI - part 3. Here, I delve into how organizations build trust from accountability, accountability from power, and power from people. open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Such a learning experience to help with the design, lit review, and analysis of this project. We asked people to retrospect how psychedelics changed the quality of their relationship(s), their number of partners, and their gender/sexuality. #JSexResearch www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Perceived Impact of Psychedelics on Sexual, Gender, and Intimate Relationship Dynamics: A Mixed-Methods Investigation: The Journal of Sex Research: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access

We’re here to help

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My second entry on "Making Sense of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion". I summarize the history of DEI as presented in Lily Zheng's "DEI Deconstructed". If you want to learn a bit about the origins of DEI in North America and Europe, take a look. justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

If it weren’t for the women in my life, I think I would have broken a lot more. Happy #internationalwomensday

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Here, I engage with the debate around DEI by reviewing the book "DEI Deconstructed" by Lily Zheng. It appears on the Spring 2025 reading list for a professional administrator training program that serves all of North America (CAWA). Walk with me... justinmogilski.substack.com/p/making-sen...

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Making Sense of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

How I learned to build trust for DEI, from DEI.

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I listened to the most recent episode of the "Beat Your Genes" podcast where Dr. Doug Lisle was asked how a wife should handle interest in extra-pair sex. I disagreed with him. So, I wrote this article. Unexpectedly, I also talk about incels. open.substack.com/pub/justinmo...

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Bad Arguments against Non-Monogamy - part 1

There's a better way to beat your genes than coalitional mate retention.

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Now in Denver for SPSP until Sunday. Look up my talks if you’re interested in: 1) psychedelics + sexuality, or 2) how stigma against consensual non-monogamy might be explained by false inferences about sociosexuality. So, only boring stuff. Say hi if you see me!

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What are the best published, peer-reviewed article(s) on the psychology of *devotion* to someone? Not just commitment, investment, or loyalty. I mean: enthusiastic, adoring, filled-with-fervor, willingness to sacrifice yourself in service to someone who you perceive is powerfully worthy.

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I liked this article published by Aporia for its clarity and most of the logic. I’m also cautious that it links to white pride news in the last sentence. I want to engage because its first premise about marriage is the same that I make, but we draw diff conclusions👇

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I decided that I had some things to say about the term “gender”, given what I've seen discussed in the past week. Link below.

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Yeah, this gets at it. Though, I also think Sam Harris overuses "psychotic", "barbarian", and other ~vague terms to describe groups whose beliefs detract from secular improvements to wellbeing. He's right: how influential people say things matters. open.substack.com/pub/samharri...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Addendum: if you balk at “vast majority”, please take stock of how many parasocial relationships (e.g., via movies, shows, video games, fantasy role play, religion, history, science) you currently have. If you’re not a massive socialite, you’re probably here already.

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I think it’s OK if the vast majority of a person’s relationships are parasocial, as long as they have at least a few deep personal relationships that they maintain. Sometimes you want a relationship without the baggage of the reality of a personal relationship, and it might...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

"These results suggest that the shift towards more lucrative foraging strategies may have been a key event in body size and SSD evolution in crab spiders". I think widespread, lucrative foraging pushes humans into scramble (vs. contest) competition, too. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Michelle’s writing is so direct and clear, and Shari kept our analyses sane and stringent. Don’t let the humble title fool you. We tackle some critical questions about how people derive satisfaction in their relationships. My favorite excerpts are below👇

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