@dremalt

British Academy postdoc @ Edinburgh uni. Living organism. Psoriatic arthritic. Age dyschronic. Keystroke enthusiast. "And if not now, when?"

 Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined May 2010
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👇 Read a thread about this newly published #OpenAccess review below, by the author @dremalt 👇
D.M. Altschul@dremalt15 Jan 2024
My new review paper out (open acess) in @PNeuroscience! @CambUP_Psych All about great ape trait dominance, what it is, why it appears less prominently in humans, and why it is still important to study. cambridge.org/core/journals/… Thread (1/x):

Whither dominance? An enduring evolutionary legacy of primate sociality | Personality Neuroscience...

Whither dominance? An enduring evolutionary legacy of primate sociality - Volume 7

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My new review paper out (open acess) in @PNeuroscience! @CambUP_Psych All about great ape trait dominance, what it is, why it appears less prominently in humans, and why it is still important to study. cambridge.org/core/journals/… Thread (1/x):

Whither dominance? An enduring evolutionary legacy of primate sociality | Personality Neuroscience...

Whither dominance? An enduring evolutionary legacy of primate sociality - Volume 7

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In these scenarios, its important to note that D did *not* disappear. It is still with us; in personality science it is a major aspect of E, and it has a large, valid, unique network of associations with other meaningful constructs. 8/9
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Which means there are many questions we can potentially address re: human and nonhuman primate D traits. Tho we might have been egalitarian, most of the world is clearly hierarchical, and D traits are very relevant to living in a hierachical world. 9/9
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To all my loyal followers: I am going to take a break from this platform. I'm not deleting my account, but I won't be accessing twitter (and won't be able to). If you want to connect find me on the other site or email me.
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Strong gibbon representation at the Edinburgh festival fringe this year.
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Odesa Zoo rescues animals displaced by Kakhovka Dam catastrophe english.nv.ua/nation/odesa-z…

Odesa Zoo rescues animals displaced by Kakhovka Dam catastrophe

The Odesa Zoo has taken care of pets whose owners were forced to flee the country since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. Now it also cares for wildlife affected by flooding after the Russian...

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"If it pays to be a jerk, why isn’t everyone that way?" @EurekAlert A new paper published in @PeerJLife showed that male chimps with more brutish behavior were more successful than their more conscientious counterparts. 🧵 #ScienceTwitter eurekalert.org/news-releases…

If it pays to be a jerk, why isn’t everyone that way?

A new study appearing April 24 in the journal PeerJ Life and Environment found that male chimps with more bullying, greedy and irritable personalities reached higher rungs of the social ladder and...

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Hot off the presses! New Gombe chimpanzee personality paper led by Alex Weiss @EdinburghUni and @FeldblumJoseph @PeerJLife peerj.com/articles/15083 #AnimalBehavior #Anthropology #EvolutionaryStudies #Zoology

Personality traits, rank attainment, and siring success throughout the lives of male chimpanzees of...

Personality traits in many taxa correlate with fitness. Several models have been developed to try to explain how variation in these traits is maintained. One model proposes that variation persists...

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Our new paper on dominance and fitness across the lifecourse in male chimpanzees!
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This week at 2pm @dremalt will be leading discussion on "chapter 10: Socialization of Bowles & Gintis "A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution" Link to text available in the discord. All welcome.
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A @PsychScience article by @ScottSleek on how #machine #learning is transforming psychological science features a study with #LBC1936 data examining the most significant predictors of #loneliness: edin.ac/3VMA9eS @dremalt @MatthewIveson @UoE_Psychology @EdinUniMentalH
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📢 New article alert❗️Proud to have contributed to The Evolution of Primate Short-Term Memory, and so thankful to MP1 coordination team (@elManuBohn, @dremalt, @LydiaMHopper, @MarineMJoly, @cvoelter & @watzoever) and all @ManyPrimates for such great large-scale collaboration! 💪
ManyPrimates@ManyPrimates3 Nov 2022
We are excited to share that MP1 is out now in Animal Behavior and Cognition! 🎉 The Evolution of Primate Short-Term Memory animalbehaviorandcognition.o… Many thanks to everyone who contributed and to the editors and reviewers at ABC! Check out our 🧵 below for more info on MP1:
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