Evolutionary Social Psychology

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

🧠🐒 New in Science: Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs!

Schleihauf et al. show that chimps weigh strong vs. weak evidence and update their choices accordingly — a hallmark of human-like reasoning.

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An article summarizing the latest views on the evolution of the human brain:

The Multivariate Basis of Human Brain Evolution: The Prerequisites of Fire Control and Cooking

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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

- Prof. Richard Feynman

On the emergence of metabolism: the evolution of proteins that powered life | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Life is far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Hence, life must extract energy from the environment. On Earth, that energy is driven by networks of metabolic reactions in all cells which ultimately move ...

To explain how life emerged through natural processes, we need to understand how proteins evolved.

A new paper presents a three-stage model of protein evolution. 🧬✨

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Humans can read dog emotions from their faces better than chance—owning a dog doesn’t help.

Reading human vs. dog emotions isn’t linked.

Westerners struggle with anger; Japanese with happiness. 🐶🧠🌍

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As religious beliefs increase, the perception of compatibility between religion and science on existential issues rises.

Conversely, as belief in science grows, the perception of conflict between religion and science increases.

The data comes from the UK, the Netherlands, and Kazakhstan.

Validation of the moral foundations questionnaire-2 in the Turkish context: exploring its relationship with moral behavior - Current Psychology Despite the considerable attention it has received, Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) remains open to criticisms regarding failure to conceptualize the moral domain. MFT was revised in response to these ...

We tested MFQ-2 and MAC-Q in a Turkish sample (N=1099).

1️⃣ Both fit well.
2️⃣ MFQ-2 explained more variance in psychological variables.
3️⃣ MAC-Q better predicted moral behavior (e.g., generosity, cooperation).

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Whale song shows language-like statistical structure Humpback whale song is a culturally transmitted behavior. Human language, which is also culturally transmitted, has statistically coherent parts whose frequency distribution follows a power law. These...

Whale songs follow a Zipf-like distribution, similar to human language.

This suggests both species' communication systems might be governed by the same cultural evolution laws.

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Cognitive reflection was negatively correlated with belief in God & disbelief in evolution—for both Christians & non-believers.

This challenges the idea that reflection simply reinforces prior beliefs—challenging ERM and supporting DPM.

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/jdm....

Heroism as Moral Intuition 'Heroism as Moral Intuition' published in 'Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies'

🚨 Our chapter, "Heroism as Moral Intuition," is now available in the Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies.

We explore heroism as evolved moral intuition for conflict resolution from the perspective of Morality as Cooperation Theory.

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Generalized morality culturally evolves as an adaptive heuristic in large social networks.

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