Hossein Samani

Basement Cults Podcast Episode · Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) · 05/27/2025 · 2h 10m

My very personal story about how I discovered evolutionary psychology.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

27.05.2025 12:43 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Many people from my lab are presenting exciting work at SRCD!

24.04.2025 21:28 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Yay for replication! I'm thrilled that scholars I admire so much put the time and effort into replicating our work!

09.04.2025 16:12 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Belief in belief: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences favoring religious belief | PNAS We find evidence of belief in belief—intuitive preferences for religious belief over atheism, even among atheist participants—across eight comparat...

🚨New Paper Klaxon 🚨

Belief in Belief: Even Atheists in Secular Countries Show Intuitive Preferences Favoring Religious Belief.

Now out at PNAS

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Here's a quick 🧵 on what we did and found!👇

1/ 11
🧪
#atheism
#religion
#culture
#evolution

28.03.2025 10:33 — 👍 69    🔁 29    💬 5    📌 5

The world is on fire, but three post-baccs from my lab got offers to PhD programs! All women of color who are going to do amazing things! And whose research interests and amazing ideas are informed by their lived experiences as a Black woman, a Taiwanese woman, and a Mexican woman.

14.03.2025 21:01 — 👍 59    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

Conveniently published for Valentine's Day, here's a cute study about the evolution of teddy bears we did with @hsamani.bsky.social, @edgardubourg.bsky.social, @oliviermorin.bsky.social & many others 🐻

brill.com/view/journal...

14.02.2025 11:40 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Daedalus Home Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

New Daedalus issue on the science of caregiving. In our paper, we ask, how might infants experience caregiving? Writing this paper with Christina Steele,
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here:

www.amacad.org/daedalus

13.02.2025 17:06 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

I do not know the organizers of this event personally, but I'm thrilled to see that there are still people in Iran determined to break through the regime's barriers and passionately connect with cutting-edge science of the mind. Kudos to all of them :)

10.02.2025 16:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0