Quentin Atkinson
@DrQueue
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Evolutionary psychologist, cyclist, eco-ninja, baker
Joined April 2009
!!New preprint!! We have to stop saying humans are not designed to solve the #ClimateCrisis. Forthcoming in Perspectives on Psychological Science, with @jenniferjacquet -
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RT @Joseph__Watts: PhD Scholarship - call for applications. Come study the cultural evolution of mentalising or religion with me at the Uni…
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RT @SimonJGreenhill: Lots of hot takes on our latest Indo-European paper. I’ll try respond to some of the general complaints about methods,…
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We have a new paper (round 3!) on the origins of Indo-European out this week in Science. Kudos to the amazing work by Paul Heggarty, Cormac Anderson and team producing the new IE database that underpins this analysis -
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@RChvaja @corenapicella @chammeeno @RCC_AU @GuessRita Thanks! This is helpful. Will contact the original authors.
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Check out our new political ideology scale...
A new theory-driven scale for studying political ideology! “Validating the Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Values in a US Sample” 🧵1/7
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Sign the petition: Provide tertiary institutions a funding boost to enable good long-term staffing decisions.
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NEW PAPER! Climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour more likely among those who cooperate with strangers in lab-based social dilemmas that make no mention of climate change or any other real world social dilemma -
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Out this week in Science Advances, our long-awaited Grambank paper, documenting global variation in grammar across 2400 languages. 10 years' work by an amazing team (too many to mention in one tweet). We have to protect this linguistic diversity -
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Our paper showing how responses to COVID-19 across the political landscape make more sense when you consider the dual dimensions of political ideology...
My study with @DrQueue & @ProfAnanish on political ideology & covid attitudes, showing for example that high-RWA conservatives were pro-lockdown & high-SDO conservatives were anti-lockdown, has been published in the British Journal of Political Science!
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A wide ranging chat covering democracy, religion, climate change and cross-cultural databases, with Ricardo Lopes @TheDissenterR -
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RT @tavitonst: Partner choice does not predict prosociality across countries @scottclaessens and @thkyritsis
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RT @HaydenDonnell: It scored poorly on fuel economy and price but destroyed the competition when it came to its ability to smoothly and eff…
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New paper in Nature Human Behaviour...How do religious and political authority co-evolve and which comes first? We take a look across Austronesian-speaking communities of the Pacific - @olcsheehan @Joseph__Watts RDGray @scottclaessens @prof_joe_ @err_ring
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RT @SuzannePurdy3: University of Auckland is looking for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology. v…
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Out NOW in @Journal_EHS, we find evidence to suggest that democratic outcomes diffuse more readily between linguistic and religious relatives. If we want to spread democracy, we need to consider culture -
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