Yunsuh Nike Wee

Social psych PhD student @OCEAN_okstate | studying #value #emotion #evolutionary psychology

[Yunsuh Nike Wee @ynikewee]

Happy to share my first paper, now out in @ScienceAdvances [https://t.co/r9tJ6xTie7]

Can human laws about bodily damage be traced to evaluative mechanisms in the mind-brain? We find cross-cultural and historical regularities in how laypeople and lawmakers appraise body parts.

[Daniel Sznycer @dsznycer]

🚨 Laws about bodily damage originate from shared intuitions about the value of body parts https://t.co/8MArv2Mv1N

New research by the great @YunsuhW, with @JaimieKrems & me, in @ScienceAdvances

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[HBES @HumBehEvoSoc]

🚨 Call for abstracts open! 🚨
2026 FOSSIL Conference (OSU, Stillwater | Aug 7–8)
🌱 Evolutionary human science | 👩‍🔬 All career stages
🗓️ Abstract deadline: June 10, 2026
Submit here: https://t.co/0SAA5TjwOF
Please share!

[Daniel Sznycer @dsznycer]

Last year @ynikewee et al. argued that the cognitive architecture computes the value of body parts & these valuations underpin laws about bodily damage https://t.co/8MArv2Mv1N. Turns out the CNS is wired to trade 2 arms for a head/torso https://t.co/oc1xobUp2O

[Jaimie Arona Krems @JaimieKrems]

My student Nina Rodriguez—winning awards + pushing theory forward!

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

In this study, Tamnes et al. explore the complex relationship between illbeing - including mental and behavioural disorders - and mental wellbeing. https://t.co/NnQBkdgvjB

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

A study of millions of couples shows spouses often share psychiatric disorders. This pattern is consistent across cultures and has persisted for generations, impacting how these disorders are inherited.
https://t.co/rajUjmP04r

[Hunter Schone @HunterSchone]

Now out in @NatureNeuro

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after undergoing an arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

https://t.co/ffWmt20DGF

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[Society for Personality and Social Psychology @SPSPnews]

"The more highly American laypeople tended to value a given body part, the more valuable this body part seemed also to Indian laypeople, to American, Korean and Emirati lawmakers, to King Æthelberht and to the authors of the Guta lag." https://t.co/iigDVVs2nG via @PsyPost

[Bonan Zhao / 赵博囡 @BonanZhao]

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle!

We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate.

It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations.

Spread the words!

[Hanbo Xie @PsychBoyH]

Centaur, a foundation model of human cognition, out in @Nature recently has demonstrated impressive predictive performance on human behaviors, especially compared against domain-specific cognitive models. But do you know what makes their performance so great?

[Jaimie Arona Krems @JaimieKrems]

So @OCEAN_OKState’s Nike Wee gave an amazing talk on human value computation!!

Value is cool—and if we’re told aliens value, say, 💩, then we expect them to be grateful when we give them poo and angry we take poo away!

[Oliver Scott Curry @Oliver_S_Curry]

Why do people follow rules? Because they have an intrinsic respect for rules. 🤷‍♂️ Ok, but why do people have an intrinsic respect for rules?! #dormativepower

[David Pinsof @DavidPinsof]

There is no legit evolutionary psychology podcast. My friend @DavePietrasz and I thought this was a dire situation, so we set out to fix it. I’m excited to announce the start of Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast). I wrote a little something about it on my blog. (Link below).

[The Dissenter @TheDissenterYT]

Is there a “human nature”? Watch my first interview with Dr. Joseph Henrich (@JoHenrich). #Anthropology #psychology #Science

Full interview: https://t.co/Weqmd4cyTv

[The Dissenter @TheDissenterYT]

In episode 225, I talk with Dr. Daniel Sznycer (@dsznycer) about the #evolutionarypsychology of emotions. #Science

https://t.co/sHtgifPtMx

[Jaimie Arona Krems @JaimieKrems]

Out today in @EvolHumBehav---

after nearly 40 YEARS---

"The evolution of war and its cognitive foundations" from Tooby + Cosmides

Interested in the history + slow progress of science?
🚨Don't skip the Author's Note🚨

Link 👇

[Daniel Sznycer @dsznycer]

Despite being thirsty, both monkey subjects sacrificed juice to view female perinea and the faces of high status monkeys but required fluid payment to view the faces of low-status monkeys

https://t.co/SkqKvQsGlM

[Kaylo Littlejohn @KayloLittlejohn]

1/n) Our latest work is out today in @NatureNeuro! We developed a streaming “brain-to-voice” neuroprosthesis which restores naturalistic, fluent, intelligible speech to a person who has paralysis.

https://t.co/EAk1Wz25TH

[Aaron Lukaszewski @SpeciesTypical]

‼️New paper alert @EvolHumBehav‼️

Adaptationist models predict that individual differences in present vs future orientation will be calibrated to mortality risk - such that people who are more likely to die care less about the future.

But how can individual mortality risk be operationlized in an actuarially valid way?

@josephhmanson & I found a way

(Link to full text below)

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[Daniel Sznycer @dsznycer]

Otto von Bismarck pushed welfare not for fairness, but to prevent revolution. Are people intuitively Bismarckian?

New pre-print w/ @timothycbates: Fear of being violently dispossessed motivates support for redistribution.

https://t.co/e4Qe1DIQ1b