While a major aim of cognitive science is to understand human cognition, our conclusions
are based on unrepresentative samples of the world's population. A new wave of cross …

The importance of social support for parental and child health and wellbeing is not yet
sufficiently widely recognized. The widespread myth in Western contexts that the male …

Sexual division of labor with females as gatherers and males as hunters is a major empirical
regularity of hunter-gatherer ethnography, suggesting an ancestral behavioral pattern. We …

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Like psychology more broadly, developmental psychology has long suffered from a narrow
focus on children from WEIRD societies—or those that are Western, Educated …

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that there are two major dimensions of social perception,
often called warmth and competence, and that warmth is prioritized over competence in …

In this article, I examine children's evolved learning mechanisms that make humans the most
educable of animals. These include (1) skeletal perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that …

Cumulative culture is a transformative force in human evolution, but the social
underpinnings of this capacity are debated. Identifying social influences on how …

In hunter-gatherer societies, women's subsistence activities are crucial for food provisioning
and children's social learning but are understudied relative to men's activities. To …

Teaching is cross-culturally widespread but few studies have considered children as
teachers as well as learners. This is surprising, since forager children spend much of their …