Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc

MSc Psych: Culture & Evolution @BrunelCCE 🧠🌍

I like exploring why humans do what they do. Evolutionary theory and bayesian modeling help me do that.

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

Working on getting this bad boy up as a preprint... stay tuned 😜🤓

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

New year, new me! 👩‍🎓🍾

I am now *officially* Miss. Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc.

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& that alone cannot explain these parental investment sex differences. There are other factors specifically ones related to indirect vs. direct fitness, such as paternal desertion.
https://t.co/caFwqM6rc9

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Thread on Dr. Scelza's article on mulitple mating in females 👧👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨

'Choosy But Not Chaste: Multiple Mating in Human Females'

https://t.co/Xf0DVhfIJE

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Okay also, the idea that it's an asymmetrical investment that leads to 'coy' females and 'competitive' males is entirely more complicated than the 'costly' egg vs. 'cheap' sperm debate.

https://t.co/S0Ti1CkZki

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"Love": the brain's process of caring about others ❤️🧠

"Some of the neurophysiological underpinnings of the emotions we call "love" trace back to these first glimmerings of *caring about someone outside oneself.*" (Carter, 1998)

https://t.co/BI3KLb25CI

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

In my first order of business back, I will be posting all the sources/papers I found interesting while reading through Dr. Sarah Hrdy's newest book 'Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies.' A super interesting read with incredible sources. 10/10.
https://t.co/gKfWbHoJww

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

I'm baaack. I took a little hiatus to situate some personal life stuff post-msc BUT I'm back and better than ever. Ready to return to tweeting alll the interesting papers I find under the mating psychology, female reproduction, and evolutionary + cultural psych research umbrella.

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

New year, new me! 👩‍🎓🍾

I am now *officially* Miss. Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc.

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

'Energetics and reproductive effort'

https://t.co/wphj1oRziS

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Energy should serve as the fundamental unit of measurement for the quantitative study of reproduction. ⚡️🤰👶

'Impact of energy availability and physical activity on variation in fertility across human populations'

https://t.co/jnaob7okhF

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

Couldn’t love this quote more. Women are *people*; not *property*. Treating people as property was determined inhumane a longgggg time ago…

[Alanna Vagianos @AlannaVagianos]

“Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote,” Fulton county judge Robert McBurney wrote.

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

ever since i was a little girl i wanted to fill a gap in the literature

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

Ever read a paper so good it literally makes you want to cry?

I mean LOOK at this model integrating mechanisms of perception and mating.

https://t.co/Qc8nTSuvZq

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knew it.

https://t.co/WBMH0uAFmg

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But the more interesting question for me is: why did the males evolve to be more physically dominant? If physical dominance wasn't required before... could it have to do w/ the fact that pregnancy is so energetically costly? And energy allocation optimizes for reproduction? 🤔

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

But the more interesting question for me is: why did the males evolve to be more physically dominant? If physical dominance wasn't required before... could it have to do w/ the fact that pregnancy is so energetically costly? And energy allocation optimizes for reproduction? 🤔

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

How sex differences led to gender roles: acquisition of resources became more physically demanding, making it male-dominated and therefore, male-controlled. 👨‍🌾💰

from 'Modern gender roles and agricultural history: the Neolithic inheritance'

https://t.co/U2iSiWnQz0

[Keeley Mei-ling Meetze, MSc @TheKeeleyComp]

How sex differences led to gender roles: acquisition of resources became more physically demanding, making it male-dominated and therefore, male-controlled. 👨‍🌾💰

from 'Modern gender roles and agricultural history: the Neolithic inheritance'

https://t.co/U2iSiWnQz0