We Need to Tax Billionaires -- Gabriel Zucman

In bookstores in the UK on May 21

Very much looking forward to this

bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! et merci pour la bonne science!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Participants from a small- & a large-scale society "demanded that victims be rewarded in the currency of their loss & that more severe punishment be imposed when victims suffered more, holding aggressor benefit constant." osf.io/preprints/ps... @lfitouchi.bsky.social @manvir.bsky.social

#EvPsych

Thrilled to share that our new paper is now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social: "Who knows what? Bayesian Competence Inference guides Knowledge Attribution and Information Search," with @oliviermorin.bsky.social , @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & @tadegquillien.bsky.social!

Link: tinyurl.com/ykyhxcc6

Couldn’t agree more — clearly the worst side effect of AI 😭

Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager - Cognitive Construction Lab) - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Title: Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager - Cognitive Construction Lab) Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work Locat...

The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j

Wow, that looks so interesting — looking forward to reading it!!

What does it mean for culture to “shape” cognition?

In our new TiCS paper, @benjaminpitt.bsky.social & I offer a typology of four possible effects: culture
can Privilege one cognitive process over others, Prune out disfavored ones, Produce new ones, or have no effect.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

New episode of Crossing Channels now live!

What can't money buy?

@annaalexandrova.bsky.social & lfitouchi.bsky.social talk to Richard Westcott about the limits of markets & why not everything of value—such as dignity, fairness & trust—can be priced.

bit.ly/3MPULEM

@iast.fr @tse-fr.eu

Thank you for the platform! I don't like the phrase 'money can't buy x' (for any x), it's just too vague and not true when taking literally. It was great to juxtapose the ideas abt wellbeing @markfabian.bsky.social and I have been developing with those of @lfitouchi.bsky.social and moral psychology.

Autoritarisme, coopération, évolution, mindfuck et blabla YouTube video by Cog Sci, Phil & Chill

Nouvel épisode de CSPC ! On a eu la joie d'accueillir @lfitouchi.bsky.social, qui nous a parlé de morale, de contractualisme, et de la logique évolutive de l'autorité. Et comme d'hab, le quiz de Joffrey, de la culture, et du blabla!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7iC...

open.spotify.com/episode/2WkG...

Thanks a lot!!

Thank you Oleg!

Thanks Jorge!! I wil!

Merci Hugo!!

Thank you!

Yes with pleasure! I also enjoyed your last punishment paper very much

Looking forward to work with @fierycushman.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social on the moral psychology of authority!

New @aeon.co essay just out! On how institutions let us scale trust and cooperation - and when things start to unravel.

Big thanks to editor Sam Dresser.

For the more technical version, see thread & paper below👇

Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences Application Application to the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences taking place from May 25th to June 19th, 2026 in Toulouse, France Application deadline: January 15th, 2026 Applicants will be ...

Applications for our upcoming Summer School have been extended until January 15! 🤝

Apply now: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

@olkcampbell.bsky.social @maximederex.bsky.social @lfitouchi.bsky.social @cmolho.bsky.social @ccavaille.bsky.social

Moralizing Self-Control with Léo Fetuchi YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)

This week, we talk to Léo Fetuchi about the moralization of self-control and the lack thereof.
youtu.be/duLUU9e0i0k
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-99f5i...

Evolutionary Social Sciences with Dan Nettle YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)

This week, we talk to @danielnettle.bsky.social about big picture issues in the evolutionary social sciences, craving sugar, income inequality, running, and more!
youtu.be/-NPuZSolsEs
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9hsnf...

How experience shapes extraordinary beliefs The ubiquity of extraordinary beliefs across human societies, such as conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and supernatural beliefs, is a long-standing…

In a new Review for @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social -- and my first first-authored paper! -- @manvir.bsky.social and I argue that experience shapes the emergence and evolution of seemingly extraordinary beliefs.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For the curious, I have put the author accepted manuscript of our new BBS Target Article on researchgate.

You can view it here:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Thrilled to teach again this year, on the evolution of social cognition, at the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences! Apply before December 15th 👇

Brochure: lnkd.in/e_R7cQTP
Application: lnkd.in/eey-fEJ

📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣

"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."

doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences Application Application to the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences taking place from May 25th to June 19th, 2026 in Toulouse, France Application deadline: December 15th, 2025 Applicants will be...

Happy #WplusEBSWednesday, folks!

This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr .

Applications due Dec. 15!

Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :)
www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

👋 Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer!

@haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers.

As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2)

#WplusEBS

The Multi-Capital Leadership Theory - Human Nature Human leadership and followership take many forms, shaped by the social, economic, political, and cultural contexts of our groups and societies. Underlying this complexity, we argue, are key elements of human social psychology regarding social comparison and the resolution of coordination and collective action problems. The Multi-Capital Leadership (MCL) theory posits that leader emergence and effectiveness depend on perceptions of individuals’ abilities to provide benefits or impose costs in solving challenges of group living, through the deployment of different forms of capital: material, social, somatic (e.g., physical formidability, height, immune functionality), and neural (e.g., knowledge, intelligence, personality, supernatural abilities). We integrate this framework with a review of leadership across human societies, including in non-state and non-industrial contexts, and with novel comparative analyses of ethnographic data. This synthesis highlights how context-specific demands for coordination and collective action, and the accuracy of social comparison, shape the structure and dynamics of leadership and followership across cultures.

>The Multi-Capital Leadership theory explains why #leadership emerges and why it varies among human societies and throughout individual life histories.

w/@chrisvonrueden.bsky.social & @edhagen.net

#LeadSciSky #HBES 🧪

link.springer.com/article/10.1...