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Agreement with "I look forward to going to school" crashes from 7/10 aged 8 to 2/10 aged 13 in England. 😥

Parents lie to children all the time – but they should think twice about it We don’t casually lie to adults, and we should afford children the same respect.

I was surprised to see many friends habitually lie to their kids for convenience ("the sweet shop is closed today"). Not in our household: theconversation.com/parents-lie-...

YouTube video by Brick Experiment Channel Making Lego Car CROSS Narrow Bridges

Brick Experiment Channel gives such great physical examples of cumulative problem-solving innovation using nothing but legos.

I get how their might be threshold effects for low hand-washing/vaccination rates, but how are seatbelts and raw-milk consumption multiplicative and rather than additive risks?

It's funny how one of the most important improvements in patient welfare in the history of medicine happened for reasons unrelated to measurement of patient welfare.

Bloodletting was sustained - at least in doctors' imagination - by a hydraulic model: good for repairing flow. But as the model of the body become influenced by thermodynamics, doctors took against things that "wasted energy": This included masturbation, shaving and bloodletting.

Abandonment of Bloodletting in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Medicine: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...

Get in touch if you are interested in a funded PhD on the cultural evolution of health behaviour (doi.org/10.1093/emph...) or communication (doi.org/10.1093/phe/...). Deadline 10th Jan www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Res...

People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Fully-funded PhD position available on the cultural evolution of tea!

With me, Sabine Parrish, and David Burslem at the University of Aberdeen (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿), come combine anthropology and biology to think about why people drink tea and how that may change in the future.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I’m sadly not at
#CES2024Durham but a ton of these rockstars are!

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New (open access) article in #ESR with #A_Patzina, #H_Dietrich, #M_Sandner

Key finding: Young people’s life satisfaction strongly declined due to the pandemic. Particularly burdensome were travel restrictions, and the closure of bars/clubs. Mask wearing not so much. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

We find would-be caregivers are more inclined to help people who undergo treatment and that people with chronic pain + legitimacy concerns are keener on aversive treatment.

In other words: we develop signalling perspective on medical (over)use.

Do people undergo medical treatments to demonstrate the legitimacy of their illness? New paper here: academic.oup.com/emph/article...