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Re the quoted post I figured it was an army v navy type situation. War college trains marines. Starlet academy trains everyone else.

Re the broader point, it's also doing some genuinely Trek things within the teen high school drama concept. I am enjoying it dramatically more than I anticipated.

Went to check X to see if that was real because surely surely we all know by now she wasn't 17! Did not expect, despite everything, to see Bailey's feed be filled with the content it has.

When I was a child in the 80s, the UK vaccinated girls for rubella at age 9 specifically to ensure we couldn't catch it during any future pregnancies.

What are those delightful little confectionaries?

I had all three diseases in childhood - in the case of both measles and rubella, I got the disease several months before I was vaccinated (as a toddler and 9yo respectively). Glad I don't remember the measles as mumps (aged 5) and rubella (aged 8) were miserable.
Go-go MMR!

Pun-tastic. 👍

Five Fall into Adventure - Wikipedia

Ah I guess there are three of them then! Wiki tells me I was thinking of Jo who's in several books starting with this one-
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I usually say cross-cultural psychologist these days as it matches the largest proportion of my current research, but have also used evolutionary behavioural scientist for years as I like the breadth of it over just EP.

Aw thanks, Rebecca. Good job I have a pair of ex PhD students with joint papers/new projects still coming out so this isn't false advertising 😆

Alas, I've been cheating on EP with Cultural and Health Psychology for a while now. 😉

It's easier to tease apart effects where some are in opposite directions as here BUT we can't rule out that ppl get more intolerant as they age but recent period effects obliterate that.
For that we need converging evidence from other attitudes... and dare I say quali research? 😉
#PsychSciSky

Four roughly positive trend lines, roughyl in parallel, with the youngest generations trend line on top and okdest's on the bottom.

I use this plot while teaching longitudinal methods. We see that younger cohorts are more pro gay marriage at all time points but all cohorts are becoming more positive over time. The overlap between cohorts' scores 10 years apart mean its probably period and not aging driving the upwards trends.

IIRC there are two such characters in the Famous Five books. George has a recurrent rivalry with a Romany child who is likewise cropped-haired and 'tomboyish' and they may even get mistaken for each other at some point? (It's been 35 years since I last read these.)

If only.

Really nice discussion of the challenges with age/cohort/time studies.
Reminds me of my issues with age controls when age is part of causal pathway.
Big multi-age group longitudinal studies help here but don't solve it all because some questions you just can't directly answer quantitatively.

She did.

Men and women achieve reproductive success in different ways, and so men and women evolved different psychological proclivities (Geary, 2021).1 To pass on their genes, women needed to prioritize both their own survival and that of their children (Campbell, 1999). Because of the extended helplessness and vulnerability of human offspring, nine months of pregnancy was not enough – women had to survive for many years to nurture and protect their children. Women thus evolved to (i) have higher concern for vulnerable others, and (ii) avoid risks, by preferring kin (those most likely to have their interests at heart), befriending highly trustworthy and equal status others (those who pose no competitive or aggressive threats), and eliminating from their social world anyone who did present risks. For men to pass on their genes, they needed to gain access to women. They did so by (i) competing against peer men to attract women and to gain status and deference from other men and (ii) cooperating with peer men to defeat outgroup men and gain access to their resources and women (e.g., Buss, 1988; Puts, 2010). Men thus evolved to compete in status hierarchies, by displaying competence to their peers, identifying and cooperating with skilled others, and building large coalitions to compete effectively against and defeat enemy groups.

1 Some psychologists remain skeptical of evolved psychological sex differences (female psychologists more so than male psychologists [Clark et al., 2024]), and my argument does not really need the evolutionary claim – one can accept that differences exist without accepting any particular cause of them. Nonetheless, I find the evolutionary account the most plausible, illuminating, and generative explanation, and consider it useful for understanding why these differences exist and the important functions they serve.

Ah ok, I hadn't read this one...

I don't think Cory Clark really counts as doing EP. (Peterson definitely doesn't. )

Sex difference research =/= Evolutionary Psychology.

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Plot showing simulated energy balance (production - consumption) across the lifespan of a hunter-gatherer family. Left plot, which includes child food contributions shows simulated trajectories that dip below and then above 0. Right plot, which includes only food produced by the wife and husband, shows chronic energy deficits.

Inspired by the work of @lallailaria.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @jeremykoster.bsky.social & many others, I've simulated hunter-gather family energy balance across the lifespan. If kids contribute, families can (barely) maintain energy balance, but if they don't, it's impossible 🧪 #BioAnth

Women report worse metrics of positive body image and fat talk: Findings of an exploratory study in a Chilean sample This study aimed to investigate the correlation between a positive body image and fat talk, along with the influencing factors shaping their relationship within a cohort of Chilean participants. A ...

Paper 4 - in urban Chile, women have lower body appreciation levels than men, and are exposed to higher levels of (negative) fat talk. Few/no differences in terms of socioeconomic group, age or BMI. Fat talk exposure correlated negatively with body appreciation in all subgroups.

Self‐Disgust, Body‐Related Attentional Bias and Body Dissatisfaction: A Virtual Reality and Eye‐Tracking Exploration Objective This study examines the relationships between self-disgust, body dissatisfaction (BD), and attentional biases (AB) toward weight-related body areas, exploring whether self-disgust predicts...

Paper 3 of the day - body dissatisfaction predicts proportion of time spent fixating on weight-related body areas when looking at oneself in a virtual mirror. Weight related self-disgust correlates with time/fixation proportion but doesn't have explanatory value beyond body dissatisfaction.

I should tag @jamiechan.bsky.social, first author on that paper.

(And who may be amused to hear that I thought I identified two separate people's quotes as my own, so good to see the convergence across respondents on some issues!)

Themes in body image researchers' free text responses to questions about challenges to anti-racism and inclusivity in body image research: 1. Body Image Researchers as Individuals Within Systems 1.1. Limited Individual Power in Disrupting Systemic Racism 1.2. Lack of Anti-Racist Education and Training 1.3. Complicity vs Resistance in white supremacist Body Image Practices 2. Lack of Diversity Amongst Body Image Researchers 2.1. “Echo chamber of white-ness” 2.2. Researchers of Colour Disproportionately Obstructed 3. Barriers Within the Research Process 3.1 White Centricity Creates Blind Spots in Body Image Research 3.2 Practical Methodological Barriers 3.3 ‘Publish or Perish’ Culture

Table of researchers' perceived responsibility and impact in addressing white supremacy.

Second skeet-worthy paper of the day:
Global north body image researchers identify a range of challenges and barriers to addressing implicit white supremacy in the field.
Depressingly, senior/mid career ppl feel less responsibility in this domain than juniors.

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“No one wants to see curvy women”. The absence of diverse models in magazine advertisements: A 10-year perspective With the body positivity movement being popularized through the internet (e.g., social media, websites) around 2010, the question remains whether fash…

I'm having a paper-reading day. First addition to my Zotero library: no evidence that the #BodyPositivity movement has lead to any real change in the models featured in adverts in traditional media (women's magazines in this case).
Still c.85% thin models, no reduction in sexualisation levels.

Oh yes, that was the other programme I remember her from.

There's also Baroness Berridge, a Tory peer in the House of Lords but a. She's not actually famous, and b. It's probably more relevant that she used to lodge in my house when I was 10...

Huh, to my surprise, someone kinda famous did once go (briefly per wikipedia) to my old secondary school:

Nina Sosanya (the mean aide to the PM in Love Actually, one of the nuns in Good Omens, amongst other things.)

Based on some of the examples that have been in the news, I would be astonished if there's a proper vetting process.

Ah okay - I knew that for funnel plots but I thought the ones on the right can be p-hacking (because of the spikes at thresholds). Been a while since I read papers on those curves!

So studies showing negative effects have been (potentially) p-hacked to show zero effect AND there's some p-hacking potentially happening around the significance boundary for positive effects, yes?