RT @Wharton: A new megastudy led by Profs. @AngelaDuckw and @Katy_Milkman, Co-Directors of @BehaviorChange, examines whether low-cost nudge….

We illustrate our framework through 3 key dimensions: kin presence, violence, and sex-age ratio. Building on Lewin’s field theory & integrating affordance management with life-history perspectives, we offer a more nuanced, temporally dynamic, & evolutionarily grounded framework

We actively manage ‘ecological affordances’ by:.1️⃣ fine-tuning how attentively and emotionally we respond to environmental cues,.2️⃣ adjusting how we think, feel, and behave,.3️⃣ restructuring our environments (e.g., relocating).to align with shifting life-stage goals 🎯

Why does living near family feel essential in childhood, suffocating in young adulthood, and lifesaving in parenthood? Because you changed! What the environment affords (aka ‘ecological affordances’) depends on one’s goals, which shift across life stages. So do your strategies.

🚨New in @BBSJournal:. "Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework" is out as a target article & now open for commentary proposals! Ever wonder why an environment once full of promise 🥰 can later feel constraining 😮‍💨? 🧵.

3️⃣Feeling disgust bridged threat perception and avoidance behavior—within the same individual over time (again!) . Our research revealed just how flexible the ‘behavioral immune system’ can be—long-theorized flexibility, finally demonstrated using real-world longitudinal data!

2️⃣Threat perception shifted dynamically within the same person over time. Americans who became more disease-avoidant (than their own baseline) when new COVID cases surged, saw Republicans as more infectious—even among Republican supporters. Real-time ecological recalibration!

1️⃣Our disease psychology can quickly learn new, socially constructed cues. Though conservatives are typically more threat-vigilant & voters favor them in crises, COVID flipped the script. Americans believed Republicans were more likely to infect others than Democrats.

Thrilled to receive the Postdoctoral Award for my paper American Psychologist: A deep dive into the functional flexibility of disease psychology. COVID’s natural experiment put long-held theories to the test. 3 contributions from a longitudinal study 🧵.

RT @ThomasTalhelm: Free access link! Did people's values change during COVID-19? Values surprisingly STABLE. But concern about romantic par….

RT @DG_Rand: What is most striking to me here is the amazing alignment of MTurk with the average of samples from 27 other countries! Pretty….

RT @ThomasTalhelm: New paper asks people around the world about their fundamental motivations. Despite evolutionary psychology's focus on s….

RT @JaimieKrems: Our Perspectives paper is out--led by grad students @ahra_ko, @blueb_ari, Yul Kwon, w. @michael_barlev, @JaimieKrems, @bec….

RT @PsychoSchmitt: women with chronically high levels of mating motivation weigh physical attractiveness more heavily in their happiness th….