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

#1284 Lars Penke: Do Women's Mate Preferences Change During Ovulation?

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✨🚨 @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 🫶

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

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...

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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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...

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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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.

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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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)

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...

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!

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

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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This is timely for my Behavioural Genetics course starting next week, my students will be able to have a more informed discussion, perhaps.....

Francis Villatoro@emulenews.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Nature Human embryo editing against disease is unsafe and unproven — despite rosy predictions https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04105-7 Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08300-4

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)

Amrei Bahr@amreibahr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Starkes Signal!! Über 60 dt. Hochschulen & Forschungsinstitutionen haben heute ihren Ausstieg bei X bekanntgegeben, s.u. #eXit X sei nicht mehr vereinbar mit ihren Grundwerten: „Weltoffenheit, wissenschaftliche Integrität, Transparenz und demokratischer Diskurs.“ Liste der Beteiligten hier:

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...

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...

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...

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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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.

Personality Psychology Podcast@pepsypodcast.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are back with a new episode! @renemottus.bsky.social spoke with @ruben.the100.ci and Farid Anvari about the jingle jangle jungle of measurement and the unchecked proliferation of psychological tests. While there’s a lot of good in our field, there’s also room for improvement. Check it out!

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

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 👇🧵

Registered Reports & Peer Community in Registered Reports are the future of science | Macau

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"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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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

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.

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🧵

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

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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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.

simine vazire@simine.com · 3y ago

I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/2024-editorial-board We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!

I'm thrilled to announce the new Psych Science editor team! We'll start on Jan 1, 2024. Check us out: here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/psychological_science/2024-editorial-board We're spread across 15 countries in 5 continents! 🌍🌎🌏 Here’s a thread to introduce the team!

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/...

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...

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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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"

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". ...

Major news 🎉 @gaertneranne.bsky.social just won the Einstein foundation Early Career Award. Very well deserved, congratulations Anne 🥳 mailchi.mp/einsteinfoun...