Joshua M. Tybur
@joshtybur
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Professor of Psychology and Infectious Disease at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined October 2016
Really cool (and, perhaps, even inspiring) example of an adversarial collaboration, with important implications for how to measure and interpret racial bias.
1. New adversarial collaboration on implicit racial bias and racial discrimination including >2k White American subjects, four measures of implicit bias, four measures of explicit attitudes, and four measures of racial discrimination, now in press at JPSP: https://t.co/WxLMKmdNjH
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To all PhD students and supervisors: consider applying for a Besample Dissertation Grant for financing cross-cultural data collection.
🚀 Announcing the Besample Dissertation Grant (N = 3,000) When I was a grad student, I received a $1,000 university grant for my dissertation. It might not sound like much, but that small grant allowed me to collect pilot international data across 12 countries — data that helped
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Why every study should be a cross-cultural study Spoiler: because for decades, science got something very, very wrong. In this Medium piece, I share (with details and citations) my favorite example of Western bias in behavioral research. It perfectly illustrates how even good
blog.besample.app
Let me tell you a story. It’s one I often use in pitches, or when talking to people who don’t work in behavioral science and wonder why…
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The CDC changed their webpage to suggest vaccines might cause autism. This is upsetting! If it comes up at Thanksgiving, here's how to debunk this and other vaccine claims https://t.co/3qIK0Qaad1
parentdata.org
Whenever I write about childhood vaccines, I almost immediately get follow-up questions about vaccine safety. Specifically, concerns that readers hear from
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I’m recruiting PhD students at NYU (start Sept 2026). Focus: cultural evolution, innovation & cooperation, AI & society, progress studies & development. Deadline to apply is Dec 1- very soon. I’ll share more about the move & new work soon. Please share with students & retweet!
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I'm hiring a postdoc, to be based at Arizona State University, to research the PSYCHOLOGY OF ANTISEMITISM. Start date as early as Jan-12-25. Email for questions. Details:
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Updated real-time survey of outcomes from Covid, RSV, and flu vaccines by big nationwide team of researchers reveals startling news that they work pretty well in reducing serious illness and death. https://t.co/UUMhnG4T5F
nejm.org
Changes in the vaccine advisory process in the United States have disrupted immunization guidance, which reinforces the need for independent evidence review to inform decisions regarding immunizati...
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New work on resource possession + hierarchy regulation! Do the faces on the left and right look different to you? They were generated using a reverse correlation task by UK ps asked to visualize “poor people”: 🟩 by egalitarians (low SDO) 🟥 by anti-egalitarians (high SDO)
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Social Conformity and the Behavioral Immune System: State of the Art and Future Directions. 23-24/10/2025 @UniPadova, with @joshtybur and Florian van Leeuwen
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🚨New paper🚨 We’ve repeatedly seen anger fuels confrontation and disgust fuels exclusion—at least in the West. But what about the East, where anger is taboo and harmony valued? We tested this in Japan 🇯🇵. Check our new paper in Cognition & Emotion: https://t.co/OivTpAFlLy [1/7]
tandfonline.com
Anger and disgust often underlie responses to social transgressions, yet their links to aggressive punishments have been primarily studied in Western populations. Across two studies sampling from J...
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Big news! HBES President Ed Hagen has been awarded the inaugural Evolution in the Public Eye Award 🎉 The EPE Award honors outstanding contributions to the public understanding of evolutionary perspectives on behavior. For more information, follow this:
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Full guidelines and requirements are available on the conference website. 🔗 Submit here: https://t.co/y0IQtR2Lmz We look forward to your contributions to HBES2026! #HBES2026
We’re delighted to share that the 37th annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference (HBES2026) website is now live! #HBES2026
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I was really honoured to be invited on one of my favourite podcasts to talk to two of my favourite social scientists @DavidPinsof @DavePietrasz @EPthepod. Among other things, we talked about: - beliefs - evolution - politics - Jordan Peterson
This week we talk to @danwilliamsphil about belief. Is it veridical or social or both or neither? https://t.co/4XXSCZHthl
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“The demise of writing matters because writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking.” A warning from @DKThomp.
theargumentmag.com
The real deadline isn’t when AI outsmarts us — it’s when we stop using our own minds.
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"When it comes to epistemology, we are neither gullible nor skeptical, let alone Bayesian, but rather *thuggist*. We’re all thugs, just waiting for the chance to attack whoever or whatever gets painted with an accusation." -@rkurzban @LivingFossilsSS
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🚨 TT job alert! The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych. Review begins 10/10. Job ad here: https://t.co/3oGU1pY3Yi I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵
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Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2026 in Rabat, 11-13 May. Submissions opening in two days. https://t.co/o5VATJc39h
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