The Pandemic Should Encourage a New Alloparenting Future
The need for parenting allies isn’t unique to our time and place in history—it’s part of our biology.
The need for parenting allies isn’t unique to our time and place in history—it’s part of our biology.
We are experiencing too much of the wrong kind of light at the wrong part of the day, writes Ainissa Ramirez. Here’s how these lights affect our health and some ideas for what we can do about it.
Von Hippel puts forth an evolutionary metaphor for two very different types of leadership.
No one quite knows how a local radio station in Texas managed to have one of the most popular posts on Facebook.
How we conceive of behaviors like self-control, overconfidence, and happiness today bears little resemblance to their evolutionary origins, argues psychologist William von Hippel.
We are excited to introduce a new feature, the Research Lead. Each month, we will highlight a handful of academic papers that we find interesting and important.
We’ve been here before. What are the consequences of imbuing brains with a special mystique?
Too many people think evolution demeans our species. But maybe evolutionary theory indicates the opposite: our special place among life on Earth.
Ancient Man might have liked a smartphone. Our cave-dwelling ancestor would have wanted to know whether a storm was coming or if his friends had spotted a herd of predators nearby.
Reputation is the oil that lubricates social interactions.