🧵 New paper w/ Guillaume Cheikbossian: "Evolutionary branching of social preferences in a public good provision game" (ideas.repec.org/p/tse/wpaper...). Can behavioural heterogeneity in cooperation be an adaptive outcome? We think the answer is yes.
Looks like you got lucky with the Dutch weather - enjoy! 🔆
Excited to launch the website for our EASP pre-conference on Prosocial & Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods
📅 June 30 | Strasbourg
⏰ Early bird deadline: April 14
Program: sites.google.com/view/prosocial-and-antisocial/
@easp2026.bsky.social @shuxianjin.bsky.social
How does social influence shape collective outcomes? When does it lead to lock-in on inferior options?
In our 🚨 new preprint 📝 osf.io/preprints/so... we make three contributions
w/ @alexgelas.bsky.social Alex Jochim @leostnbrk.bsky.social Peter Steiglechner & @pantelispa.bsky.social
🧵1/4
Hi everyone! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026.
forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
Looking forward to work with @fierycushman.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social on the moral psychology of authority!
📢 New Paper 🚨
Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.
In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.
bit.ly/4kvLOwA
Finaliza el Workshop Internacional del proyecto #NORPOL en la Residencia de Estudiantes.
Dos jornadas de debate interdisciplinar con investigadores de Europa y Estados Unidos, organizadas por @luismmiller.bsky.social y @amaliaab.bsky.social
Compartimos algunas imágenes de esta última jornada.
"I will share this with a few of your friends..." Oops 🫣
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files
He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
www.justice.gov/epstein
Abtract: Prosocial behavior is key to addressing global collective-action challenges. Two prominent tools to promote prosociality are incentives and the use of conditional preferences, yet existing evidence is mixed and largely based on WEIRD populations. We study how incentives and conditionality shape prosocial behavior across diverse cultural contexts, and how cultural characteristics moderate these effects. 15,600 participants from 42 countries completed an online experiment in which prosociality was measured as the donation of earned bonus points to international charities (e.g., UNICEF). In the incentive condition, donors received additional points worth half of the donated amount. In the conditionality treatment, participants could condition their donation on the share of other donors in their country. Preregistered analyses show that incentives increase prosocial behavior overall, but that their effectiveness varies across societies. Incentive effects are stronger in societies where the reputational costs of benefiting personally from prosocial acts are lower, that is, where incentivized donors are perceived as relatively more likable. Conditional giving also increases prosocial behavior, yet the effects are larger in societies characterized by a higher prevalence of conditional preferences and stronger generalized fairness concerns. Together, these findings highlight that the effectiveness of behavioral interventions depends systematically on cultural context, underscoring the importance of moving beyond WEIRD samples not only for advancing theory, but also for culturally tailored policy design.
First Cooperation Colloquium of the year:
Caroline Graf (University of Zürich):
Boosting prosocial behavior through incentives and conditional giving: Experimental evidence from 42 societies
Friday, January 30 | 15:00 UCT+1 Vienna / 9:00 ET NYC
Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
The ENDOW project is seeking a Research Officer in Research Data Management to be based at the London School of Economics. - Oversee and extend our database covering geospatial, demographic, economic & social network data from 50+ communities in 30+ countries! - Contribute to research on the dynamics of social and economic inequality! - Join a stellar interdisciplinary team! - funded by the ESRC and the NSF [world map showing location of ENDOW communities; photos of some of the team members and some of the ENDOW communities showing their diversity
Research Officer in Research Data Management Salary from £43,277 to £48,220 pa inclusive of London allowance Fixed-term appointment for 18 months This research officer position is to work with Eleanor Power as part of the ongoing "ENDOW" project (Economic Networks and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality), funded by the UKRI and US National Science Foundation. The research officer will be based in the Department of Methodology, a leading centre for research and education in social science research methods. While we expect this to be a full-time appointment, we are open to considering the possibility of a part-time appointment. The post entails overseeing and extending the database of the "ENDOW" project, which includes data from over fifty communities around the world, comprising economic, demographic, and social network data characterising each community, its resident households, and the individuals within them. The research officer will be responsible for the expansion of this database to include longitudinal data from each community site, implementing a robust data infrastructure to manage and curate this information. The research officer will work closely with Dr Power and data contributors to ensure data quality, standardisation, and appropriate governance. They will contribute to core analyses of the ENDOW project and develop tools and resources that will be of wide utility for the collection, curation, and analysis of cross-cultural data. This role is central to building the data infrastructure that will enable meaningful, productive comparisons across these diverse field sites and will ultimately serve as a resource for the broader scientific community. The successful candidate will: Have a completed PhD, be close to completing a PhD, or have other research experience that demonstrates the capability to produce independent original research Have experience with database design, data management and data governance Have experience with programming in R or Python
🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social.
Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality.
Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching
Deadline: Jan 23
Please share and spread the word!
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
I am hiring a 4y postdoc for my Leverhulme-funded project on the role of beliefs about what in/outgroup members believe/do about climate change in shaping pro-climate behaviours🌏
Start date: May 2026 at latest
Deadline: Feb 8
Please share it widely!
jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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
🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨
Join our EASP pre-conference on 'Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods' on June 30, 2026.
We invite flash talk submissions from researchers at all career stages.
📝 Deadline: January 5 2026
🔗 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
📣 One week left to apply to our Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences!
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄
Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr
@joshtybur.bsky.social (VU Amsterdam) presents new work testing the universality of disgust across 36 societies and 30k+ participants. Pathogen, sexual & moral disgust show striking cross-cultural consistency! Fascinating dataset & big implications! @iast.fr
#disgust #crossculturalresearch
A fantastic first plenary talk in « Disgust across borders » @disgust-nerds.bsky.social by Caroline Amoroso on the evolution of parasite avoidance using c. elegans as a model species @iast.fr
Thread of French and Dutch research institutes slowly unsubscribing from web of science (and thence impact factors).
🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨
We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full time, 2 years, no teaching.
Deadline: Jan 23
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!
That's so good. Wait, why am I crying?
Please considering signing this petition! My institution is unilaterally trying to change my working conditions (choice between keeping my pension scheme or indefinite pay freeze).
In case you can't access the original article in full: archive.is/M2wK8
What role does disgust play in politics?
Our final keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Cindy Kam
@vanderbilt.edu presenting "The Politics of Disgust".
Want a taste? Her TED Talk is here: tinyurl.com/62ynau6s
📍@iast, Toulouse 🇫🇷
🗓️ Dec 4–5
📖 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇