Diego Guevara Beltran

How do people know whom, and how much, to help? we (@JessicaDAyers @lee_cronk Daniel Balliet Jeremy Koster & @AthenaAktipis) tackle this question among the Mayangna of northern Nicaragua, who rely primarily on horticulture for subsistence 🧵(1/10).

A Registered Report by Batruch et al aimed to replicate 35 key hypotheses from 17 correlational and five experimental studies using quota-based or probability samples from the U.S., France, Switzerland, and India. nature.com/articles/s4156…

What if there’s no such thing as a unified “self”? According to a modular view of the mind, what we call the “self” is really a collection of specialized systems, each shaped by evolution to navigate a messy social world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… #CognitiveScience #ModularMind

This is one of the most exciting and interesting papers I've worked on in a while. I was fortunate enough to have @EdgarDubourg as a collaborator to help bring this idea to life. Vulnerability and the computational logic of fear: insights from the horror genre A short 🧵

🚨New in @BBSJournal: "Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework" is out as a target article & now open for commentary proposals! Ever wonder why an environment once full of promise 🥰 can later feel constraining 😮‍💨? doi.org/10.1017/S01405… 🧵

🎉 New face database just dropped! The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods. Thread 🧵👇

🚨 New preprint! We think we've found something fascinating about prosociality. One of the big questions in social science is: When, and how, do humans become prosocial? To tell something new, we designed a unique experiment combining three characteristics: 1) We tested a…

Are dancing and infant-directed song (incl. lullabies) human universals? Like many people, I've long thought so. But in a new paper in @CurrentBiology, Kim Hill & I report that the Northern Aché (Paraguay) lacked both behaviors, likely losing them during cultural declines.

1. The Santa Barbara school of evolutionary psychology holds that a universal set of complex psychological adaptations evolved in Pleistocene Africa. In no particular order, here are few folks on here doing research in this tradition, highlighting one paper/thread each:🧵

How can risk-pooling systems boost resilience in times of crisis? Our study outlines 7 key principles—from prioritizing unpredictable needs to ensuring transparency and trust—that make these systems effective. #Resilience #RiskManagement #SocialSystems nature.com/articles/s4156…

Important info about what NIH considers health disparities. This statement was just published on March 13th. nimhd.nih.gov/about/overview…