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📢 Job Opportunity! The University of Pittsburgh is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate to work with Professor Machery on his new project, Philosophy for Better Minds. cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

Post-doc position in social/personality psychology at UC Riverside, deadline July 14. 📣 higheredjobs.com/faculty/detail…

Why do we keep choosing authoritarian strongmen as leaders? Find out in Lasse Laustsen & Mark van Vugt’s HBES blog post about their cross-cultural study in 25 countries on the link between intergroup conflict and face preferences in leaders: hbes.com/why_we_keep_ch…

When & why did our ancestors switch from bullying in traditional dominance hierarchies (e.g. many species) to the “reverse dominance hierarchy” where bullies are suppressed by coalitions? Find out in Michael McBride’s latest HBES blog post: hbes.com/when-our-ances…

What language precursors are found in chimpanzees? Do they share they turn-taking of signals that humans do? Find out in Bas van Boekholt & Simone Pika’s latest HBES blog post: hbes.com/blueprints_of_…

What language precursors are found in chimpanzees? Do they share they turn-taking of signals that humans do? Find out in Bas van Boekholt & Simone Pika’s latest HBES blog post: hbes.com/blueprints_of_…

Nicolas Baumard & Jean-Baptiste André’s “ecological approach to culture” provides an exciting new perspective that reconciles Behavioral Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology, & Cultural Evolution. Read more in their EHB blog post: hbes.com/reconciling-ou…

The winners of the Don Symons Adaptationism Award (paper in any journal in previous 3 years that best exemplifies the adaptationist programme) goes to Joseph Billingsley et al for their paper in EHB on relationship value, exploitation risk, & forgiveness: doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…

The winners of the HBES Margo Wilson Award (best paper in E&HB the previous year) are Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Gregory Fiorio, & Ruth Mace for the paper “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures”. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Jaroslava Valentova for her work on human sexual orientation, masculinity & femininity, sexual strategies, mate preferences, & romantic relationships, + her contributions to the growing Brazilian evolutionary community. ip.usp.br/site/jaroslava…

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Catherine Salmon for her research on many topics (e.g., birth order, parenting, siblings, female sexuality, media, eating disorders) and her exceptional service to HBES (incl. conference host, Member-at-Large, Treasurer). redlands.edu/faculty-and-st…

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow James Roney for his research on behavioral endocrinology, especially how hormones produce coordinated adaptive responses to specific input conditions (motivational priority shift hypothesis). sites.google.com/site/behaviora…

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Thom Scott Phillips, for his research on the evolution of communication in humans and non-humans, especially the foundations of language, using a combination of theory, experiments, and computational models: thomscottphillips.com

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Martie Haselton, for her work on cognitive biases in communication, intimate relationships, sexuality, & the effects of reproductive hormones on human behavior, and for her editorship of E&HB. psych.ucla.edu/faculty-page/h…

Congratulations to new HBES Fellow Laith Al-Shawaf, for his work on the evolution of emotions, cognitive biases, & individual differences, and his public communication of evolutionary psychology. You can check out his research here: psychology.uccs.edu/laith_al-shawaf

Congrats to the 2025 HBES Fellows! Laith Al-Shawaf psychology.uccs.edu/laith_al-shawaf Martie Haselton psych.ucla.edu/faculty-page/h… Thom Scott Phillips thomscottphillips.com James Roney sites.google.com/site/behaviora… Catherine Salmon redlands.edu/faculty-and-st… Jaroslava Valentova sites.usp.br/bes/membros/me…

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Julia Stern, for her evolutionary work on personality, including its effects on well-being, mate choice, as well as the development and hormonal correlates of personality: uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team/p…