Jason Weeden
jasonweeden.bsky.social
Jason Weeden
@jasonweeden.bsky.social
Psychologist interested in modern sex/fertility patterns (how they reflect trade-offs, how they relate to religiosity, etc.); demographics of party identification and voting.
Baumard, Andre, and colleagues are really firing on all cylinders these days -- super impressive. A suggested next step: The role of developmental neuroscience here needs to be made more explicit. I'm far from an expert, but here's an attempt to nudge that:
chartyarps.substack.com/p/strategic-...
Strategic flexibility with evolved goals-and-hints
Some early thoughts on integrating lessons from neural networks into evolutionary psychology
chartyarps.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Ahh, well that explains it!
June 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Nat. Survey of Fam. Growth is showing similar trends -- recent large declines in fertility expectations for young women and smaller-but-still-pretty-big declines for men. I was suspicious about the extent of the drop NSFG was showing, especially the youngest ages, but I'm starting to believe it.
June 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM