Do you stay home or go out when you're sick? This week, we talk to @joshackman.bsky.social about the psychology of pathogens. youtu.be/Jq3K_Ck0EQY podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... www.podbean.com/eas/pb-29ph7...

Pathogens with Josh Ackerman

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Congratulations to Laith Al-Shawaf, winner of the 2026 Evolution in the Public Eye Award! @laithalshawaf.bsky.social's prolific science communication, podcasting, & debunking of misconceptions make him a leading voice in explaining the complexities of evolutionary psychology to a worldwide audience.

I had such a great time presenting at #SPSP2026! Shoutout to my labmates @bzubaly.bsky.social and @nicole-li.bsky.social for their fantastic presentations 😊

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Kaelyn Sabree provides cross-cultural data that people are rating sounds associated with (fluid) expulsion as more disgusting than non-expulsion sounds with 17k participants #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social

Too cold this winter? Get a warm fuzzy feeling by nominating outstanding communicators of human evolutionary science for the 2026 Evolution in the Public Eye award! Self-nominations allowed too. Submissions are open until Jan 31 at: forms.gle/VXJgczHA1irD...

EPE 2026 Award Nominations

Nominations for the University of Michigan's Evolution & Human Adaptation Program award: Evolution in the Public Eye Nomination deadline: January 31, 2026 Award Description: This award honors outsta...

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Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...

Bored during the holidays? Mis/disinformation about evolutionary science keeping you up at night? Recognize efforts to correct the record and spread cheer by nominating a deserving person for the 2026 Evolution in the Public Eye award! Open to nominations worldwide. forms.gle/tZi87Y2KBJjg...

EPE 2026 Award Nominations

Nominations for the University of Michigan's Evolution & Human Adaptation Program award: Evolution in the Public Eye Nomination deadline: January 31, 2026 Award Description: This award honors outsta...

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Want to recognize someone who has gone above and beyond in communicating and countering misinformation about human evolutionary science? Nominate them for the EHAP 2026 Evolution in the Public Eye award! Nominations are now open (until Jan 31) at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evoluti...

New work on resource possession + hierarchy regulation! Do the faces on the left and right look different to you? They were generated using a reverse correlation task by UK ps asked to visualize “poor people”: 🟩 Generated by egalitarians (low SDO) 🟥 Generated by anti-egalitarians (high SDO)

If you’re in Ann Arbor on Oct 24th, come out to the library for the first Evolution in the Public Eye award address featuring Ed Hagen. Refreshments provided!

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Very excited to announce the inaugural Evolution in the Public Eye Award Ceremony and Lecture. Our first winner, Ed Hagen, will be speaking about "The Evolution of 'Recreational' Drug Use" on Oct. 24 @ 5:30pm at the Ann Arbor District Library. More info: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evoluti...

Very excited to announce the inaugural Evolution in the Public Eye Award Ceremony and Lecture. Our first winner, Ed Hagen, will be speaking about "The Evolution of 'Recreational' Drug Use" on Oct. 24 @ 5:30pm at the Ann Arbor District Library. More info: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evoluti...

📣 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...

New paper from Qi, Vul and Powell introduces a clever way to measure a participant's Welfare-Tradeoff Ratio in a single trial: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I had a great time at HBES 2025 @humbehevosoc.bsky.social! I presented my work on a method we developed that allows us to predict who people will choose as partners 3 months into the future—participants chose romantic partners on their own, in their own mating markets—with zero intervention from us!

Another badge for the collection! Had a great time at #HBES2025 :) 📍Atlantic City, NJ

The #HBES2025 Postdoctoral Award (best paper/talk by someone <5 years post-PhD) goes to Ahra Ko for her work on “Politics, Pathogens, and Perception: Tracking Adaptive Shifts in the Behavioral Immune System in Real Time”. Congratulations Ahra!

👋🏻Are you a woman and/or member of the SGM community working in the evolutionary human sciences? We've relaunched W+EBS (@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social) to provide mentorship, networking, and advocacy at major EHS conferences, including HBES, CES, and EHBEA! 👇🏻Will you be at HBES in 2 weeks? 👀 If so... (1/2)

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❗Want to know what W+EBS is all about now? ❗ Check out our updated remit: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 💭 Got ideas for what we should do next? Submit suggestions here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WplusEBS #InclusiveScience #EvolutionaryBehavioralSciences

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

No fools, on April 1st, we welcome Diego Guevara Beltrán to the EHAP speaker series. Come hear his talk about why people cooperate.

🤗 This *will* be a great talk! @chops310.bsky.social joins @rcgd-isr.bsky.social and the Katz-Newcomb colloquium series to give a crash course on optimism, where it comes from, and whether it's a source of resilience or delusion. events.umich.edu/event/134094 @daviddunning6.bsky.social

For the final project in my "Shamanism & Witchcraft" course this past quarter, I gave students a huge amount of freedom: any medium, any tech (including as much AI as they needed), as long as they explored content from the class. I love what they produced. Here's a selection:

Ho et al. (2025) review three decades of work on social dominance orientation (SDO), which represents "individual differences in the preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality." BSky authors: @nourkteily.bsky.social, @jsskeffington.bsky.social, @lottethomsendk.bsky.social

(PDF) Ho, Kteily, Sheehy-Skeffington, and Thomsen, Social Dominance Orientation, IN PRESS AESP

PDF | On Mar 21, 2025, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington and others published Ho, Kteily, Sheehy-Skeffington, and Thomsen, Social Dominance Orientation, IN PRESS AESP | Find, read and cite all the research ...

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Today at 4pm, EHAP is excited to welcome Annie Wertz to our speaker series. Please join us for her talk on infants & plants!

Last, some highlights from the #EPatSPSP2025 datablitzes: 1) A seriously cool talk by @wnmerrell.bsky.social about how we infer clustered (patchy) resource distribution based on an area’s hierarchicalness (& vice versa). Who knew lobstering could be so socially complex?! #SPSP2025

Next up, @joshackman.bsky.social reminded us that disease remains a potent threat post-pandemic, and has been throughout human history - to the point that we’ve got psychological mechanisms dedicated to preventing and coping with it. (1/5) #EPatSPSP2025 #SPSP2025

Lots of lab member content at #SPSP2025! Posters from @kaelynsabree.bsky.social on "Ecology-driven Stereotypes," Savannah Adams on "Moral Judgments of Concealers of Infectious Illness," and Nicole Li on "Cultural Variations in Emotion Regulation through the Body: the Role of Cognitive Styles"...

Whether we're foraging for food or hunting for houses, humans expect resources to be clumped. What are the implications of this'patchiness psychology' for intergroup relations? Excited to share new geospatial approaches tackling this❓at #SPSP2025 this week--stop by and say hi if you're in town!

We’re transitioning the University of Michigan EHAP account to Bluesky! Follow if you’re interested in evolution and behavior, and stay tuned for an announcement about our Winter speaker series. umehap.bsky.social

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The 2025 EHAP Speaker Series is coming! We are thrilled to feature early-career researchers from a variety of fields doing work on evolution and behavior. If you're in the area, check out the talks. sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/