🚨PREPRINT🚨 Excited to share my new theory paper w/ Dan Balliet accepted to Psych Review, “Fitness Interdependence Underlies Cooperation across Human Ecologies” osf.io/preprints/osf/…

"new clarity into fundamental sex differences in global and regional cerebral blood flow regulation prior to aging or pathology" journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.115…

New evidence on the importance of microglia for sexual differentiation..."involves opposing tensions between active masculinization and active feminization, both of which require microglia but are achieved via distinct processes" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Girls exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb have more male-typical toy preferences and color preferences than unaffected girls: They’re less interested in dolls compared to cars, and less keen on pink compared to blue. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/exploring-th…

Jessica D. Ayers & I are so excited for the Evolutionary Preconference at #SPSP2025. There's a star speaker lineup: Daniel Conroy-Beam, josh ackerman, Patrick Durkee, Nora Balboa, Meltem Yucel (Melt-um You-Jell) & William Taylor. Poster & datablitz abstracts are open Sep 5 - Oct 17. Come hang with us in Denver!

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 OPEN-RANK, tenure-track job in SOCIAL INFLUENCE. Come be my colleague UCLA Psychology! Full ad 👉 recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09739 Please RT + spread!

"significant number of [witchcraft] accusations...from co-wives in polygynous marriages...associated with jealousy connected to husband’s attention & investment...New wives may be vulnerable...potentially expendable, at least before arrival of offspring" nature.com/articles/s4159…

📣🔥 New CCE Paper by Brunel Psych Divisional lead Nick Pound led by Jaye Lee McLaughlin 🔥📣 "Economic Inequality, Life Expectancy, and Interpersonal Violence in London Neighborhoods" in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

"In modern Western culture, social and ecological cues which would have signaled need for temporary postponement of reproduction in ancestral environments...now experienced to unprecedented intensity/duration...stress predicted greater disordered eating" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

"COVID-19 pandemic resulted in unusually accelerated brain maturation in adolescents...more pronounced in females than in males...greater vulnerability of female brain...to lifestyle changes resulting from pandemic lockdowns...neurophysiological mechanism" pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Rather than being early in a relationship = more sex, study finds more self-reported sex linked to high extraversion, good health, and especially thinking your partner (but not so much yourself) is high in mate value

"People worldwide invest substantial resources in improving physical attractiveness...By juxtaposing perspectives from culturally and geographically diverse societies, we offer nuanced understanding of the multifaceted nature of self-enhancement practices" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Already excited for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) congress next week in Vienna? 🇦🇹 If you're around on Wednesday 9:30, we'd love to see you in our symposium on social drivers of personality change w/ Manon A. van Scheppingen, Larissa L. Wieczorek, Eva Bleckmann, & Rosalie Andrae (who created this graphic😊)

"need for personalized therapeutic approaches tailored to the distinct immune and hormonal profiles of each gender to improve treatment outcomes for Long COVID" contagionlive.com/view/sex-speci…

"Many people need to hear “they” multiple times to internalize the preference...It’s my own struggle that leads me to insist on patience for others. The gender binary has been taught to us all; I am empathetic to anyone who wants to unlearn it" piratemedia1.com/theeastcarolin…

affiliative behavior from female confederate = perceiving her as sexual interested among testosterone-treated, but not placebo-treated men...but not among men who think of themselves as unattractive...their sexual interest perceptions don't work that way frontiersin.org/journals/psych…