Top 12 Jane Goodall Quotes
Remembering a scientist who changed the way we see ourselves
Top 12 Jane Goodall Quotes
Remembering a Scientist Who Changed the Way We See Ourselves
#RIPJaneGoodall
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02.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Therapy by the Numbers
Talking works - but some problems listen more than others
Therapy by the Numbers
What a new meta-analysis reveals about the effectiveness of psychotherapy
My latest post on Substack!
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01.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"A massive UK study found that genes associated with earlier childbirth in women and higher BMI in men are being favored by natural selection. Meanwhile, genes associated with intelligence and educational attainment are being selected against."
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26.09.2025 23:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Survey: “How many unarmed Black men were killed by police in 2021?”
-40% of "Very Liberals": 1,000+
-16% of "Very Conservatives": 1,000+
-Actual number: 11
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26.09.2025 23:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
NYAS Publications
Why do political activists repress speech, especially to protect simplistic ideological narratives? I argue that speech repression stems from at least three key motivations: hypersensitivity to socia...
"Self-censorship skills are deeply ingrained in nonclinical human psychology, and their expression comes in degrees... Psychologically, the default state of political cognition with respect to free expression may be a state of moral hypocrisy"
26.09.2025 22:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Problem of Free Will, Part 2: Determined to Be Free
Can free will and determinism co-exist?
The Problem of Free Will, Part 2: Determined to Be Free.
Can free will and determinism co-exist?
My latest post on Substack!
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13.09.2025 11:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"We’ve got good evidence, for instance, that prenatal testosterone helps explain why, on average, men are more aggressive than women, why they’re less parental, and why they’re more interested in things and less interested in people." www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/testostero...
28.08.2025 00:17 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Can Life Events Change Your Personality?
Yes, but there's a catch
Can life events change your personality?
Yes, but there's a catch.
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14.08.2025 10:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ll be discussing and defending the gametic definition of sex in my next book, A Billion Years of Sex Differences. x.com/hoovlet/stat...
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06.08.2025 21:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Problem of Free Will
Part I: It was always going to be the case that I would write this post
The Problem of Free Will
It was always going to be the case that I would write this post...
The first part in my two-part series on free will and whether we have it!
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02.08.2025 09:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Politicization of Medicine
How ideology has infiltrated medical institutions, distorted their priorities, and politicized the physician's role
The Politicization of Medicine: How Ideology Has Infiltrated Medical Institutions, Distorted Their Priorities, and Politicized the Physician's Role
My latest post on Substack
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31.07.2025 00:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Natural Selection in Modern Humans
Three generations of selection against educational attainment in the US
Link: Natural Selection in Modern Humans: Three generations of selection against educational attainment in the US www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/natural-se...
30.07.2025 23:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Are humans still evolving? A new study looks at natural selection in modern Americans. It finds that genes associated with educational attainment are being selected against, while genes associated with depression, asthma, and earlier first birth are being favored.
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30.07.2025 23:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My all-time favourite example of survivorship bias.
From the Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Linkfest for July 2025: "Survivorship Bias, the Myth of the Shrinking Middle Class, and What Men Will Do to Avoid Baldness"
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26.07.2025 19:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Professors Behaving Badly
How self-interest and bad incentives corrupted the Ivory Tower
Professors Behaving Badly: How Self-Interest and Bad Incentives Corrupted the Ivory Tower
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23.07.2025 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PhD student of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
MSc Psych: Evolution & Culture Brunel University London ‘21
Accidental behavioural economist
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Knowledge would have little allure if we did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to acquiring it. -Nietzsche
Director of UQ Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences. Editor of the Journal of the Economic Science Association. Book: ‘Optimally Irrational’, Substack: https://www.optimallyirrational.com/
Senior Fellow Emeritus, American Enterprise Institute, former philosophy professor, author, dog lover.
Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
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