by Michael Ent In the television show Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls would venture into inhospitable areas attempting to show viewers how one could survive alone in the wilderness. Few people would be enthusiastic about following in his footsteps. This reluctance is partly because humans generally rely on help from others to fulfill even […]
by Jaimie Arona Krems & Daniel Conroy-Beam with thanks to Laureon A. Merrie Lenù & Lila, Gene & Phineas, Thelma & Louise, Cap & Bucky. Best friends are fixtures in our lives. Best friends might not benefit our fitness as obviously and directly as mates do, but having good friends is thought to be […]
by Vanessa Wilson and Drew Altschul Over the last 16 years, the study of human facial morphometry, and its potential links to social behaviour, has received a lot of attention. One metric in particular, the facial Width-to-Height ratio, has been linked to an array of dominance-like traits in males, such as aggression, achievement drive, […]
by Brendan Zietsch Life history theory has been promoted as a unifying framework for understanding trait covariation in the social sciences. Underlying this approach is the assumption that patterns of trait covariation across species, and the Darwinian principles thought to underlie those patterns, can be extrapolated to trait covariation across individuals within human populations. […]
Peter Jonason is looking for two funded (conference travel included) Ph.D. students at the University of Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński (Warsaw, Poland) in the Institute of Psychology to study online dating advertisements from an extended phenotype perspective. The project involves cross-cultural collaborations, psychometrics training, and research in personality, cyber, and social psychology from an evolutionary perspective. […]
Seeking Ph.D. students in psychological sciences at the University of Padova. The psychology program features strong psychometric and experimental methods training with non-human animal facilities; a program that is over 100 years old. University of Padova is nearly 800 years old, is the home of modern medicine, was once the home of noted professors like […]
Dear HBES members, There have been many questions about how our annual society and conference awards will be handled given the cancelation of the annual HBES conference that was scheduled to be held in June. The Executive Council has made the following decisions with regard to the society and conference awards. 2020 HBES Early Career […]
by Oliver Sng, Keelah Williams, & Steven Neuberg The study of sex and age stereotypes—the general beliefs we hold about others based on their sex and age—has had a long history. In a recent paper, we present a new perspective to thinking about this topic. Specifically, we propose that social perceivers are actually “lay […]
by Kristin Snopkowski & John Ziker Life history theory examines how organisms allocate energy throughout the lifespan. While it was originally developed in biology, more recently a large number of researchers have begun to use life history theory as a way to examine phenotypically plastic responses to early life factors in humans. This research […]
Syndicated columnist, author, and longtime HBES member Amy Alkon here. Around March 26, I saw tweets from grad students that American Airlines and AirBnb were refusing refunds for flights and lodging for June HBES, cancelled due to coronavirus. Other airlines may also be refusing to refund. Delta, thankfully, is refunding money. A number of us tried […]