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Lars Penke

@larspenke.bsky.social
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Professor of Biological Personality Psychology at the University of Göttingen

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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New episode (1284), my second interview with Dr. Lars Penke (@larspenke.bsky.social). We discuss whether the ovulatory shift hypothesis is supported by the evidence. #evolutionarypsychology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/7DiuuQy-sbM Podcast: bit.ly/3RR9OQU
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#1284 Lars Penke: Do Women's Mate Preferences Change During Ovulation?
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
✨🚨 @ehbea.bsky.social IS GOING GLOBAL🚨✨ #EHBEA2028 will be a fully online global event, opening the door for those who have rarely/never been able to attend. We’re looking for volunteers at all career stages and levels of involvement. 👉 forms.office.com/e/vCT8Dqk1Mp Please share widely 🫶
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Lars Penke @larspenke.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Already in Rabat, Morocco, and excited for the meetings of #ces2026 and #hbes2026! Will present on Friday at 13:15 on how social attention conveys social status, what that does with people, and what extraversion has to do with it. @hbes2026.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social
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Laura Botzet @laura-j-botzet.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
New paper – and my first ✨Registered Report✨: Do hormonal contraceptives affect women’s sexuality? We studied both average effects and individual differences in effects using longitudinal data: doi.org/10.1177/2700...
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Positive Treatment Effects and High Heterogeneity of Hormonal Contraceptive Use on Women’s Sexuality - Laura J. Botzet, Julia M. Rohrer, Lars Penke, Ruben C. Arslan, 2026
Different women experience hormonal contraceptives differently, reporting side effects on their sexuality that range from negative to positive. But research on ...
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David W Lawson @davidwlawson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New paper out today with Zhian Chen. We argue that modern intensive parenting is not only exhausting for parents, but in some cases disrupts healthy child development. What is 'overparenting'? And can evolutionary theory help us understand how we got here? academic.oup.com/emph/advance...
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When parental care hurts: Extended parental care and the evolution of overparenting
Abstract. In recent years, childrearing in high-income countries has become described as ‘relentless’ in its demands on parents. In response to growing del
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
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Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Democratic backsliding often happens *in the name of democracy* Officially, institutions are slashed to make society more, not less, democratic Here, the difference between liberal & majoritarian concepts of democracy is key We need to ensure that publics understand the value of the former 🧵(1/6)
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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The HBES annual conference is approaching - join us June 4th-7th 2025 at Stockton University, Atlantic City. Registration & payments are now open. Abstracts are due Feb 15th - submit today! stockton.edu/human-behavi...
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HBES - 36th Annual Human Behavior & Evolution Society Conference - Human Behavior & Evolution Society Conference | Stockton University
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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Welcome to the official Bluesky account of the Human Behavior & Evolution Society (HBES), an international, interdisciplinary organization serving all those who study the evolution of human behavior. We're excited to now be on BlueSky!
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge... - my response to a paper proposing editing the genomes of human embryos
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Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics
A new paper just out in Nature , by Peter Visscher and colleagues (including bio-ethicist Julian Salvulescu) explores the idea of polygenic...
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Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is timely for my Behavioural Genetics course starting next week, my students will be able to have a more informed discussion, perhaps.....
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Sébastien Martineau @martineauseb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Over 60 German universities & research institutions have announced their #eXit from X today. X/Twitter no longer compatible with their core values: “Open-mindedness, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse.” (Via @amreibahr.bsky.social)
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 23/10/2024
In celebration of SIPS's 10th annual meeting, please join us for a virtual warm-up event on December 18, 2024! Early reformers will discuss challenges and improvements in psychological science. Find out more and register: improvingpsych.org/sips-2025-pr...
A flyer for the event Early-reformers Discussion: Lessons From The Past Decade hosted online by SIPS, the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. The event is on December 18, 2024. Duration 90 minutes. Starting time 11:30am Pacific, 2:30pm Eastern, 8:30pm Central Europe time zone. There are photos of the five speakers: Simine Vazire, Brian Nosek, Dorothy Bishop, Joe Simmons, and Leif Nelson, and the moderator, Balazs Aczel.
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Marcella Woud @marcellawoud.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In meinem Team an der Universität Göttingen ist eine Postdoc (3 Jahre, 100%) / PhD (3 Jahre, 75%) Stelle ausgeschrieben – bitte gerne teilen bzw. bei Fragen melden! Link PhD: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...
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Stellen OBP - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 10/12/2024
New post on The 100% CI: I read @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's and @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social's book on the alleged teen mental health crisis and social media's role in it. Then, I tried to make up my own mind, with limited success. www.the100.ci/2024/12/10/t...
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The Hare-Brained Generation: Teen mental health crisis or lacklustre record keeping?
In The Anxious Generation, Jon Haidt argues that social media is driving a mental health crisis among teens. It's a compelling thesis, widely discussed in the media, mostly accepted by my students and...
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 06/12/2024
Just out: @faridanvari.bsky.social and I were on a podcast with @renemottus.bsky.social to talk about our work on construct and measure proliferation. Learn about this colourful rug, the jingle jangle jungle, bastard measures, toothbrushes and my continuing struggle with metaphor addiction.
Treemap showing fragmentation across subfields. Normalized Shannon entropy 𝜂(𝑋)=0.71
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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Well, this could hardly be more timely (and is very carefully written): Ten Myths About the Effect of Social Media Use on Well-Being by Jeffrey A Hall doi.org/10.2196/59585
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This viewpoint reviews the empirical evidence regarding the association between social media use and well-being, including life satisfaction and affective well-being, and the association between social media use and ill-being, including loneliness, anxiety, and depressive symptomology. To frame this discussion, this viewpoint will present 10 widely believed myths about social media, each drawn from popular discourse on the topic. In rebuttal, this viewpoint will offer a warranted claim supported by the research. The goal is to bring popular beliefs into dialogue with state-of-the-art quantitative social scientific evidence. It is the intention of this viewpoint to provide a more accurate and nuanced claim to
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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Talk I gave at the University of Macau now online: "Challenges in Science: Registered Reports & Peer Community in Registered Reports are the future of science" Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hw... Details 👇🧵
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Registered Reports & Peer Community in Registered Reports are the future of science | Macau
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Eli Finkel @elijfinkel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation" -- a new review paper from Bertram Gawronski et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... After the debunking, the authors offer three empirical conclusions: (1) people are quite good at discerning true from false information
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
If any examiner thinks they can identify essays written by Generative AI, That now seems rather naive.. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Personally, I have totally revised my assessments so as to test AI-complementary skills t.co/XHJzpYDZEA
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Laura Botzet @laura-j-botzet.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Why do women switch their contraceptive method? We have a new preprint led by Chiara Draxler with a focus on sexuality-related predictors: osf.io/preprints/ps... Contraceptive satisfaction - but not sexual satisfaction or sexual frequency - predicts contraceptive switches.
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Now out at EJP w/ @willemsleegers.bsky.social, @juliastern.bsky.social, @larspenke.bsky.social, @alexjonesphd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0890... We tested how accurate people are at judging others' personality based on a facial photograph & whether they are aware of their own (in)accuracy. A🧵
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Die Bauarbeiten beginnen! Das GT besucht das neue Forschungszentrum "HuCaB" geleitet von Anne Schacht; weitere beteiligte SFB-PIs: Alex Gail, StefanTreue, Peter Marschik, @larspenke.bsky.social, @nivimani.bsky.social; Hannes Rakoczy Michael Wibral, Alex Ecker; with @primatecognition.bsky.social
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Uni Göttingen: 60 Millionen Euro für ein neues Psychologie-Forschungszentrum
Es heißt Forschungszentrum Human Behavior and Cognition (HuCaB), 60 Millionen Euro soll es kosten. Nach ersten Abrissarbeiten seit September haben nun die Bauarbeiten auf dem Gelände des Georg-Elias...
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Julia Stern @juliastern.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
I am incredibly excited to be one of the incoming Associate Editors at Psychological Science. Can’t wait to work with this team of brilliant people who value scientific rigour, with the admirable @simine.com leading the way.
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simine vazire @simine.com · 01/12/2023
I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: www.psychologicalscience.org/public… We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!
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Julia Stern @juliastern.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
New paper with Julie Driebe, @larspenke.bsky.social & Tanja Gerlach @EuropeanJournalofPersonality Do our ideal partner preferences predict traits of our future partners? Does the match between ideal preferences and partner traits predict relationship outcomes? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relations...
The current study addresses the open question whether ideal partner preferences are linked to relationship decisions and relationship outcomes. Using a longitud...
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Marcella Woud @marcellawoud.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Join our research group “Translational Research in Anxiety, Cognition & Emotion” (TRACE) in Göttingen (PhD or PostDoc), links below! www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse... www.psychjob.eu/de/job/wisse...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) (Postdoktorand*in)
Am Georg-Elias-Müller-Institut für Psychologie der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ist in der neuen Abteilung für Klinische Psychologie und Experimentelle Psychopathologie eine Stelle als wiss...
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Happy to invite to our next ScienceCampus lecture today, Nov 23, at 3 PM in the Michael Lankeit-Lecture Hall in Göttingen. Excited to welcome Andre Pittig from the Institute of Psychology here in Göttingen to learn more about "Translational Psychotherapy in Fear, Anxiety and Their Disorders"
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 12/11/2023
How has gender bias in hiring changed from 1976 to 2020? (1) "bias in favor of male over female[s] was eliminated and, if anything, slightly reversed ...starting in 2009 for mixed-gender and male-[typed] jobs in our sample [of] 244 effect sizes from 85...audits and 361,645 ...job applications". ...
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/11/2023
Major news 🎉 @gaertneranne.bsky.social just won the Einstein foundation Early Career Award. Very well deserved, congratulations Anne 🥳 mailchi.mp/einsteinfoun...
Early Career Award - Responsible Research Assessment Initiative by Anne Gärtner, TU Dresden
The project aims to identify, test, and establish novel criteria for the assessment of researchers and their output. Moving away from quantity of output and other unsuitable metrics, it will foreground quality of research by taking into account factors such as transparency, robustness, innovation, and cooperation. The Early Career Award winner receives €100,000.
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 11/11/2023
#RIPJohnTooby. If you ever catch me wanting to unpack & understand each & every assumption behind something: that's John's influence. He taught several generations of us to ask all the questions & turn over all the rocks. That game-changing mentoring is something to aspire to. Rest in peace John.
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Happy to join the bluesky world. We are the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition. As a joint initiative of the University of Göttingen and the German Primate Center, we promote collaborative research. Starting off with an invitation to our lecture on Thursday, Nov 9 with @marcellawoud.bsky.social
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Michael P. Grosz @mp-grosz.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
🎉 Thrilled to share that our manuscript on natural experiments has just been accepted at AMPPS! with @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Adam Ayaita @ruben.the100.ci @p-hunermund.com @azwpsy.bsky.social Susanne Bücker, Sven Rieger, Sandrine Müller, and Tobias Ebert! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Two of my favorite things: using twins for something more useful than estimating heritability, and letting people know about the excellent work of my grad students, in this case Sean Womack (along with others). scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
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Arno Van Hootegem 🌱 @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Did educational expansion make cognitive ability more predictive of attainment? Meritocratic logics would suggest so. Our results reveal the opposite pattern: a decoupling between ability and education over birth cohorts! Out now in Scientific Reports! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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