In our new paper (with Keelah Williams and her amazing undergrads), we examine cross-societal evidence for sex difference in preferences for emotional support in friends. We find that women place more importance on this trait than men do kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
and is also featured in the EHB blog, in both English and Spanish! www.hbes.com/whom-should-...
@jessicadayers.bsky.social @jeremykoster.bsky.social @athenaaktipis.bsky.social + Daniel Balliet, Lee Cronk
She provided a framework she is working on! Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get a picture of the slide!
What our current habitats look like
Our current habitats look very different from the habitats we evolved to live in, and this has major implications for how we feel in the modern world
Our last talk of the day is Kristina Durante talking to us about dealing with the mismatch of how are brains are built and the world we live in currently #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
Some preliminary ideas about how we gain information about status and update our estimates of status
Humans form groups. So we can’t just assume that individual formality equates to who will win contests
Mitchell Landers talks to us about how status helps us predict coalitions #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
Ultra prosocials are the least desirable as a partner, even though they are considered to be the kindest and most wanted as a community member
Hojeong Lee talks to us about why REALLY kind people do not make the best romantic partners #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
Interdependence strongly guides partner choice, giving help, and getting help from people in your network #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
@psycheddiego.bsky.social talks to us about cooperation and interdependence in the Mayangna
It seems that humans prefer punishments of the same kind and have deterrence premiums for these punishments
Eyal Aharoni talks to us about punishment preferences #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
Marius Unnvik talks about the 5 meta analyses that show germ aversion and pathogen disgust are moderately correlated, only germ aversion is associated with SOI, and political orientation changed its association post 2020 #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
Kaelyn Sabree provides cross-cultural data that people are rating sounds associated with (fluid) expulsion as more disgusting than non-expulsion sounds with 17k participants #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
Do people bond or bridge in their social networks when under pathogen threat? Ocla Jeong says we bond, more than bridge, using multi decade pathogen threat data
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Next we have our fabulous panel with @sarahehillphd.bsky.social Damian Murray and Steve Neuberg on the challenges and opportunities facing the field #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
There are so many things we don’t know about friendships, and the fact that we are just scratching the surface on the darker sides of friendship goes so much promise to future research! #EPatSPSP2026
The coolest thing so far is that there seems to be a loyalty psychology (that comes online 7/8/9 years of age) and makes younger kids (5-6) upset at neutrality from everyone, not just friends! #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
We don’t like neutral responses, but ONLY when it’s our friends that stay neutral when something happens to us!
Next Alex Shaw talks about my favorite topic: friendship! But we get to talk about the dark side and when we are upset with them (we need more research!). #EPatSPSP2026
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We can look at community patterns in DNA 🤯 we see that Neanderthals had small groups, which meant their genetic relatedness is similar to modern gorilla groups #EPatSPSP2026
Looking at genetic variation across the world, and finding support for genetic variation starting in Africa
The graphs and figures in these slides are fantastic! Humans have moved everywhere, yet humans are “uninteresting” to study from the terms of genetic variation. So many knowledge drops in Maanasa’s talk and we still have so much more to talk about!
And now we have Maanasa Raghaven is giving us a great talk in paleogenetics and and appreciation of how we became who we are #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
Turned out that social unpredictability and resource unpredictability are conceptually distinct and predict different outcomes/ solve different problems #EPatSPSP2026
Next Krystina Boyd-Frenkel talks about how different forms of unpredictability are associated with different forms of problems humans have to solve #EPatSPSP2026 @spspnews.bsky.social
We also see seasonal implicit prejudices too! But not for explicit attitudes and prejudices.