Centre for Culture and Evolution

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Exploring the intersection of culture, evolution, psychology and anthropology. We study how culture and evolution shape human behaviour and society

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🥳CCE members @abbeyepage.bsky.social and @rebeccasear.bsky.social with collaborators Best Beginnings @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and Emily Emmott have just published a pre-print on new methodological approaches to getting in-depth and nuanced data on the postnatal period using app-based surveys

📢 New pre-print on methodological development of mHealth tool for #infantfeeding data collection 📢 osf.io/preprints/ps... funding from @britishacademy.bsky.social and Wellcome Trust Developed and written with Best Beginnings, @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and Emily Emmott

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Today CCE is being treated to an excellent talk on 'why people still pray to Krishna and not Zeus' 🙏 by Feral Badiani based on research in Baroda and Kolhapur 🇮🇳

CCE member @wgervais.bsky.social has been very busy the synthesise the literature on the origins of atheism you're welcome

I’ve got a book out soon, grandiosely entitled “Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species.” What’s my book all about, you ask? A thread 🧵👇 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species: Gervais Ph.D, Will M.: 9781633889248: Amazon.com: Bookswww.amazon.com Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species [Gervais Ph.D, Will M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species

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I’ve got a book out soon, grandiosely entitled “Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species.” What’s my book all about, you ask? A thread 🧵👇 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

These conversations will keep on being had when issues remain and we look away I really nice blog post on the topic from a evolutionary psychologist and therapist www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/darw...

The evo behav sciences seem doomed to repeat the same conversations over again. From 2000: “Can we blame the field of ev psych for Kevin MacDonald? Intellectually speaking, no. But it’s the job of a scholarly association not just to foster discussion but also police the boundaries of its discipline”

Evolutionary Psychology's Anti-Semiteslate.com What scares people about the trial going on in London over whether Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt libeled Holocaust denier David Irving by calling...

Combating the Misuse of Evolutionary Psychology Researchwww.psychologytoday.com Evolutionary psychology findings have been misunderstood and misused, sometimes by extremist groups. Here's what researchers and readers can do to promote more accurate interpretation.

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Yesterday @brunelcce.bsky.social hosted Nicole Lozano, who gave a fantastic talk on how to properly engage with the community when doing research. Really inspiring stuff, including lots of practical advice. Nicole was also kind enough to spend the afternoon talking with our ECRs. Thank you Nicole!

Nicole Lozanowww.angelo.edu

🥳 CCE's newest winner is Natalie Asamoah Russell ( @loraadair.bsky.social PhD student ofc) Natalie has won £5k grant via Brunel's Innovation Voucher scheme which promotes collaborative innovation with social enterprises and third sector organisations www.brunel.ac.uk/business/Hel...

Innovation Voucher Schemewww.brunel.ac.uk The Brunel Innovation Voucher Scheme is a government grant for small businesses and is specifically designed to promote collaborative innovation between Brunel and UK SMEs. The vouchers are to be used...

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Dr Tris is a star - she also won the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Research! 🤩

🥳 Newly minted DR Tristin Agtarap is another CCE award winner 🥳 Tristin has won the Brunel University London CHMLS Executive Dean's Community Prize in Doctoral Research

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my heart just grew three sizes - thrilled to receive this acknowledgement for my work with the incredible students at @brunelcce.bsky.social

We have amazing, dedicated and inspiring staff members in CCE, of @loraadair.bsky.social is a ✨✨✨✨ example Lora has been awarded the Ken Darby-Dowman Memorial Prize for her contribution to the student experience, in terms of exceptional and inspiring teaching and more

CCE member @michelleakline.bsky.social had just published the chapter “Teaching: what, when, where and why” academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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👀 Next Monday CCE member @aiyanakoka.bsky.social is organising the 2024 Capstone 'Atheism Explained?' conference with colleagues from Queen's University Belfast and University of Kent 👀 www.explainingatheism.org/atheism-expl...

Events: Atheism Explained capstone conference — Explaining Atheismwww.explainingatheism.org In addition to our core research, the Explaining Atheism programme is providing £1.17M for other researchers to examine the causal origins of atheism. Awards are being made across three grant initia...

✨shiny new ✨ CCE member @jordanmoon.bsky.social recently published 'Religion as a natural laboratory for understanding human behavior', a write-up of his talk as Early Career Award winner 🎉 from the International Association for the Psychology of Religion 💪 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journalsjournals.sagepub.com Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Our director @rebeccasear.bsky.social (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) has just published an edited volume of Human Evolutionary Demography 32 excellent chapters completely free to read 🔓 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Human Evolutionary Demographywww.openbookpublishers.com Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights c...

📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture and Evolution are open for 24-25 at Psychology in Brunel University brunel.ac.uk/study/postgr... interested in an interdisciplinary take on psychology and behaviour using cross-cultural and evolutionary approaches? Then come study with us 🤓

Psychology, Culture and Evolution MSc | Brunel University London brunel.ac.uk

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