Duncan Stibbard Hawkes

dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social

03 October 2026 20:28

⚠️ New Paper! 📣 Egalitarianism has been tied to hunter-gatherer subsistence - but is that justified? In synthesising 30 expert commentaries, we argue that the processes underwriting hunter-gatherer egalitarianism appear in most all human societies; though their efficacy is context dependent.

Ruth Mace

ruthmace.bsky.social

30 September 2026 08:26

Religious celibacy driven by marriage and wealth inheritance across cultures. brideprice=monks, dowry=nuns. New paper by Gabriel Saffa, Sara Serbaji and yours truly www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jay Van Bavel, PhD

jayvanbavel.bsky.social

28 September 2026 07:17

Intergroup contact is recognized for its positive effects on intergroup relations. A new paper finds that one of the best predictors of intergroup contact is when people perceive that their community values intergroup contact (ie pro-contact community norms) journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7V473...

simine vazire

simine.com

28 August 2026 12:03

Psych Science (the journal) is broader than you might think! Do you do descriptive research? Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks? Or research on AI/LLMs for psych? Or research testing lab findings in the real world? We have a special issue for that!

Dominik Deffner

dominikdeffner.bsky.social

07 August 2026 07:18

Learning from the most successful people makes sense? We show that social learning, and especially payoff bias, is bad when choice outcomes are dependent on prior success💰 As such "rich-get-richer" dynamics are everywhere, this shows fundamental boundary conditions for the benefits of SL!