David Schmitt

@PsychoSchmitt

Professor & Director, Centre for Culture & Evolution, Brunel University London. Tweets my own & are science communications not endorsements of views/findings

Joined March 2009

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    15 hours ago

    I can think of few things less “lively” than rehashing a conversation about the EEA, especially since twin studies are no longer the major workhorses of psychiatric genetics. BUT lest other people be confused that this is still actually a contentious issue....

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    Feb 2

    Baseball players, take note! Keep your head still through the swing!

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  4. Feb 2

    "I’ll tell you this, from the vantage point of the cusp of middle age, loving someone else genuinely is truly a gift. And to the extent that you can cultivate truly loving relationships in your world, positive things will follow."

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    Feb 1

    Hormones and human developmental plasticity: "We evaluate an evolutionary framework that integrates proximate physiological explanations with ontogeny, phylogeny, adaptive function, and comparative life history data"

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  6. Feb 1

    The Hotel Room Purchase Task: Effects of Gender and Partner Desirability on Demand for Hypothetical Sex in Individuals with Disordered Cocaine Use and Controls

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  7. Jan 31

    cross-cultural researchers have been experiencing a lot of scorn lately, here's a post about scorn when failing to find solid metric equivalence...

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    Jan 31

    Abstract submission for HBES 2020 is now open!

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    Decent thread here. And a reminder to people: If you think that the WEIRD paper was really just about the letters that made the acronym rather than a broader call to consider cultural diversity in who/what we study and calibrate conclusions accordingly, you should reread it!

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    Jan 22

    The Big Five Across Socioeconomic Status: Measurement Invariance, Relationships, and Age Trends

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    Jan 28

    Abstract submissions for open Friday, which kicks off all of the important dates and deadlines for the Detroit conference. Stay up to date about the conference here and get those submissions in!

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  12. Jan 30

    "Sociosexual behavior positively related to a woman’s level of masculine gender role orientation, while sociosexual attitude positively associated with masculine and negatively associated with feminine gender role orientation, irrespective of sexual orientation"

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  13. Jan 30

    "adding sex and gender-related measures to identify transgender and other gender minority respondents"

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    Jan 30

    . created a portable device that can measure lower leg growth so accurately he can detect growth over the course of just ONE WEEK. The Shuar kids love it, too; they call it the roller coaster because he rolls them back and forth on the ball bearings

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    Jan 29

    ⏰ Deadlines fast approaching (SEE TWITTER FEED) for our jobs (all levels including Prof) at our 2 research centres: (1) Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (2) Centre for Culture and Evolution

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  17. Jan 29

    omg, it was eyebrows all along..."distinctive eyebrows reveal narcissists’ personality to others, providing a basic understanding of the mechanism through which people can identify narcissistic personality traits with potential application to daily life"

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  18. Jan 29

    some success here "Participants correctly identified high-narcissism male and female prototypes and high-psychopathy male prototype significantly more often than expected by chance...no evidence participants could discriminate between high- and low-Mach"

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  20. Jan 29

    "people react to their avatar being caressed on taboo body parts..induce life-like sensations..Heterosexual men [& lesbians] rated female avatar’s touch more appropriate..gay men & heterosexual women rated female & male avatar touches equally appropriate"

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