Diego Guevara Beltran
@PsychedDiego
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Social psych + evo anthropology: Cooperation, interdependence, emotion. Assistant Professor @uarizona, Department of Psychology
Tucson, AZ
Joined June 2019
How do people know whom, and how much, to help? we (@JessicaDAyers @lee_cronk Daniel Balliet Jeremy Koster & @AthenaAktipis) tackle this question among the Mayangna of northern Nicaragua, who rely primarily on horticulture for subsistence 🧵(1/10).
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Tenure track assistant professor @uarizona Psychology Department Clinical Area; many areas of emphasis including the development of next generation, scalable assessment or intervention tools. Come be our colleague! Supportive/awesome colleagues & students
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Missed the deadline? This just in!! Preconference submissions will remain OPEN until Monday (10/27) at 8 am ET!!! Don’t let this opportunity pass you by! @ahra_ko @SPSPnews #EPatSPSP2026
Friends!!!! It’s that time again…. Submit abstracts for @SPSPnews EP preconference: https://t.co/J0wdIwONyE We are accepting submissions for data blitz and posters! We (@ahra_ko & me) are so excited to see y’all in Chicago!!! https://t.co/w7fUxeR4Hb
#EPatSPSP2026 #SPSP2026
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🚨🚨 New paper out now in Evolution and Human Behavior: "The evolutionary logic of anger and hatred: an empirical test" with Aaron Sell, Coltan Scrivner @MorbidPsych, and Anthony Lopez. https://t.co/IV1ddNYTmx View the full paper here:
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Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026! The Coupled Minds Lab at @TAMU will use a multimodal approach combining fMRI hyperscanning, computational modeling, and natural language processing to study how conversations transform minds. Learn more: https://t.co/de533Yp5vy Due Dec 1
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📢 The HEALab at @uarizona is recruiting a Clinical Doctoral Student for Fall 2026! Interested in Latino/e health, social networks, and data-driven approaches to understanding health resilience? Join us! #LatinoHealth #HealthEquity #PhD #ClinicalPsych #AcademicTwitter
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💞 Friendship isn’t about keeping score. It’s about helping when it counts. In our new @ConversationUS article, @JessicaDAyers & I explore why true friendship works like risk-pooling, not exchange. Read here 👉 https://t.co/nw4T5ifwLU
#Friendship #Psychology
theconversation.com
Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.
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Do we really keep score in our friendship? See what @AthenaAktipis and I have to say about why this isn’t always the case
theconversation.com
Friendship isn’t a tit-for-tat balance sheet, but that’s how researchers have traditionally defined it. New studies are refining the model to be less about transactions and truer to real life.
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Come be my colleague! We are HIRING in the Dept. of Psychology at University of Arizona! Looking for a TT Assistant Professor in Clinical Science w/ expertise in neuropsych, clinical neuroscience, health psych, and/or intervention. Sound like you? Apply at the link below! 🌵🐱🧠
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🧠🔥 Join us at #ZAMM2025! Got a theory too wild for peer review? A study too ambitious to fund? Pitch it at Extreme Experiments & Unhinged Hypotheses — 5-min lightning talks where imagination rules. Submit here 👉
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Did you know that PHYSICAL STRENGTH is an important calibrator of behavioral strategies, attitudes, & psych disorders? Because: how 💪 a person is has massive effects on the cost-benefit calculus of decision-making across a range of social domains. 🧵 re: strength &
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🚨🚨 New paper out now in Emotion with the inimitable Alex Shaw🚨🚨: “Green-Eyed Monster or Green-Eyed Mirage? A New Procedure for Telling When Begrudging Others’ Success Is or Is Not Envy.” Paper:
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We’re recruiting a new Director for @uarizona's newly renovated Behavioral Health Clinic, a core member of our clinical faculty who will help lead clinical training. Review starts soon and will continue until we fill the position. Please share widely! https://t.co/zSseQKzTsl
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🔍 We review how organisms—from bacteria to parasites—interfere with pain systems, and what it means for: ⚕️ Public health 🧪 Infectious disease 💊 Pain treatment and management https://t.co/fAJ4qoKfK0
#Neurobiology #GlobalHealth
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Recent studies highlight extensive crosstalk that exists between sensory neurons responsible for pain and the immune system. Cutaneous pain neurons detect harmful microbes, recruit immune cells, and...
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This Fall Only ⚡️ Free Demographic Report for Your Next Study Get key demographic insights from 500 respondents in any country available on Besample — to check parameter distributions and sample feasibility before designing your study and applying for IRB approval. Beyond age
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Can shared faith help people cooperate on something as complex as health care? In the U.S., health care sharing ministries (HCSMs) offer a powerful real-world example of how religion can facilitate cooperation. https://t.co/xIQ8sZuHc7
#Religion #Cooperation #HealthCare
tandfonline.com
Religion has been theorized and empirically shown to improve groups' abilities to initiate and maintain cooperation. In the United States, risk-pooling organizations known as health care sharing mi...
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I will be reviewing applications this fall for @ASUPsych’s clinical psych PhD program. Please send any prospective students with interests in alcohol, cannabis and co-use my way! My lab’s current and future priorities can be found here
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Fitness interdependence can unify insights from psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology—offering a framework to solve long-standing puzzles of human cooperation. https://t.co/yhMZWCa65I
#Cooperation #HumanSociality #EvolutionaryTheory
nature.com
Nature Human Behaviour - Some acts of human cooperation are not easily explained by traditional models of kinship or reciprocity. Fitness interdependence may provide a unifying conceptual...
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Does gender diversity in peer groups benefit performance? I ran a 7-year field experiment with 3,000+ students to find out Key findings: As gender diversity increases – Course grades in short & longer run⬆️ – Dropout rates⬇️ – Performance inequality in groups⬇️ Details below🧵
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🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. https://t.co/kKM5JWoSNX
pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de
What does a universal basic income really achieve? Find the results of the first long-term German study here.
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A Registered Report by Batruch et al aimed to replicate 35 key hypotheses from 17 correlational and five experimental studies using quota-based or probability samples from the U.S., France, Switzerland, and India. https://t.co/3MQt9M5VYA
nature.com
Nature Human Behaviour - Social class is assumed to be associated with many different individual outcomes and behaviours. This Registered Report aimed to replicate 35 key hypotheses from 17...
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