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New Podcast Alert! This one was a lot of fun. @IonaItalia and I talked about my book The Ape That Understood the Universe, evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, altruism, mate choice, and much, much more. Check it out! soundcloud.com/user-761174326…
2019-12-11 09:35:488. Sex differences are often larger during early adulthood than at any other time of life. washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2… sirc.org/publik/driving… youtube.com/watch?reload=9… courses.washington.edu/evpsych/YoungM… pic.twitter.com/5oLOPByXJB
2018-09-01 07:10:387. IQ measured in childhood correlates with important life outcomes, including school success, job success, health, mental health, and longevity. vox.com/2016/5/24/1172… ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… sciencedirect.com/science/articl… pic.twitter.com/k7h8Y6F1pA
2018-08-31 18:00:026. People are more likely to harm, neglect, or kill stepchildren than genetic children (the Cinderella effect) books.google.com.my/books?id=3p4br… martindaly.ca/uploads/2/3/7/… This may be a byproduct of an evolved tendency - common among animals - to favour one's own offspring over others'. pic.twitter.com/tQzb53Euxk
2018-08-31 13:01:515. On average, men engage in more direct aggression than women, and are more often victims of aggression pdfs.semanticscholar.org/54db/f01139a9f… The differences are particular large at the extremes; for example, men commit 95% of homicides and are 79% of homicide victims unodc.org/documents/gsh/… pic.twitter.com/iCrVktuKH7
2018-08-31 08:44:244. On average, men are more interested than women in casual sex and sexual variety. labs.la.utexas.edu/buss/files/201… HT @ProfDavidBuss @PsychoSchmitt (Not to be mistaken for the claim that "Men are promiscuous, women monogamous"; see psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sexual…) pic.twitter.com/zonHdKbtx7
2018-08-31 08:44:233. The heritability of IQ increases with age, while the effect of the shared environment dwindles. In other words, nature gets more important as we get older, nurture less. pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7a6b/ad93d88b0… pic.twitter.com/YBJNGj8qtu
2018-08-31 07:39:242. People who grow up together aren't much more similar than equally related people who grow up apart. This implies that the kinds of environmental variables people share when they grow up together don't have a huge impact on who we are. pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7a6b/ad93d88b0… pic.twitter.com/4cPhcl8Brs
2018-08-31 07:39:23THREAD: Some of the best replicated findings in psychology. 1. All psychological traits are partially heritable: intelligence, personality, self-control, mental illness, criminality, political views - even mobile phone use. www18.homepage.villanova.edu/diego.fernande… static1.squarespace.com/static/58e2a71… pic.twitter.com/Xmdm7xkp4Q
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