Bruce Rawlings
@brucerawlings.bsky.social
Associate Prof. Durham University (Psychology)
Studying cultural evolution, innovation, creativity in kids cross-culturally, chimps and other animals.
DE&I Associate Editor, Developmental Science
Ipswich Town
Studying cultural evolution, innovation, creativity in kids cross-culturally, chimps and other animals.
DE&I Associate Editor, Developmental Science
Ipswich Town
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New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is
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Creative minds, equal ground: no socioeconomic gaps in UK children's divergent and convergent thinking
Creativity is seen as a critical 21st-century skill that should be identified and harnessed early. Despite much work suggesting enriched environments …
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October 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Creative minds, equal ground: no socioeconomic gaps in UK children's divergent and convergent thinking
Creativity is seen as a critical 21st-century skill that should be identified and harnessed early. Despite much work suggesting enriched environments …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
New study with a clutch team. Using the index of multiple deprivation we tested whether SES is linked to 4-12yos divergent & convergent thinking, finding no relationship. Suggests SES isn’t critical in creativity, but we found verbal fluency and no. siblings is
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
Lovely surprise in the post today - a hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evoltuon, superbly edited by @rachkendal.bsky.social @jeremykendal.bsky.social and Jamie Tehrani, featuring a chapter by @simonreader.bsky.social and I on Innovation!
August 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Lovely surprise in the post today - a hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evoltuon, superbly edited by @rachkendal.bsky.social @jeremykendal.bsky.social and Jamie Tehrani, featuring a chapter by @simonreader.bsky.social and I on Innovation!
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Just launched! Professional short online courses in behavioural science at Durham University.
👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3
👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK
👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3
👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK
July 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Just launched! Professional short online courses in behavioural science at Durham University.
👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3
👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK
👉Behavioural Science at Work: Applying Behavioural Insights to Boost Business Performance bit.ly/3U5szh3
👉Identity & Inclusion: Behavioural Insights for Leaders bit.ly/4flkMFK
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Tagging @rkapitany.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @brucerawlings.bsky.social and the tireless @lhlidborg.bsky.social who actually coordinated and compiled all the stydent power reviews and read every chapter TWICE for English-as-second-language checks.
June 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Tagging @rkapitany.bsky.social, @sheinalew.bsky.social, @brucerawlings.bsky.social and the tireless @lhlidborg.bsky.social who actually coordinated and compiled all the stydent power reviews and read every chapter TWICE for English-as-second-language checks.
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Intense but fun day as the (almost) full editing team for 'the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook' met to go through the entire book post 'user' peer review. Glad to say we've got some amazing reviewers in @durhampsych.bsky.social - I'll never write student-facing material without their input again!
#LTHE
#LTHE
June 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Intense but fun day as the (almost) full editing team for 'the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook' met to go through the entire book post 'user' peer review. Glad to say we've got some amazing reviewers in @durhampsych.bsky.social - I'll never write student-facing material without their input again!
#LTHE
#LTHE
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🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟
I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠
Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob
Deadline: 20th July ⏳
Start: From September 🗓️
Please share 🔁
I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠
Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob
Deadline: 20th July ⏳
Start: From September 🗓️
Please share 🔁
Research Associate - School of Psychology - 104433 - Grade 6
The role is to provide Research Assistant services to Dr Jo Cutler for her projects on social decision-making and information seeking. Tasks include helping with participant recruitment and testing, c...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🌟 Research Assistant opportunity 🌟
I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠
Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob
Deadline: 20th July ⏳
Start: From September 🗓️
Please share 🔁
I'm looking for an RA to support research @thechbh.bsky.social on social information seeking and decision making, including fMRI and MEG 🧠
Details: tinyurl.com/chbh-ra-uob
Deadline: 20th July ⏳
Start: From September 🗓️
Please share 🔁
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🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
Career Opportunities: PhD position Cooperative Sustainability (14208)
career2.successfactors.eu
June 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
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I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇
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Championing Equity in Developmental Science: A Conversation with Bruce Rawlings
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June 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇
www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...
www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...
I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇
www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...
www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...
Championing Equity in Developmental Science: A Conversation with Bruce Rawlings
www.wiley.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I recently joined Developmental Science as DE&I Associate Editor, and I had a nice opportunity to share some of my thoughts on the role, and inclusivity in developmental research 👇
www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...
www.wiley.com/en-us/networ...
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Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Scholarship for Durham University Students
£15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26.
Durham people please spread the word!
Application form 👇
£15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26.
Durham people please spread the word!
Application form 👇
Microsoft Forms
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June 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Scholarship for Durham University Students
£15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26.
Durham people please spread the word!
Application form 👇
£15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26.
Durham people please spread the word!
Application form 👇
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If you have a hunter-gatherer related paper sitting in your file-drawer with excellent methods but a 'null' finding, please consider the Journal of Hunter-Gatherer Research.
Submission instructions are on our website:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr
Submission instructions are on our website:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr
Keep calling for a better publishing model. Keep pushing for preprints, preregs, replications. Keep publishing 'null' findings as reviewers and editors. Push for open data and celebrate authors who have the integrity to make retractions. Keep pushing to improve statistical literacy.
June 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you have a hunter-gatherer related paper sitting in your file-drawer with excellent methods but a 'null' finding, please consider the Journal of Hunter-Gatherer Research.
Submission instructions are on our website:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr
Submission instructions are on our website:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr
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It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.
the deadline for the special issue on the development of innovation and creativity in children and other animals is soon - led by @karrineldner.bsky.social, Gökhan Gönül and myself. Do get in touch if you have any questions (or need a little more time!).
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Acta Psychologica | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Acta Psychologica | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of Acta Psychologica at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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May 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
the deadline for the special issue on the development of innovation and creativity in children and other animals is soon - led by @karrineldner.bsky.social, Gökhan Gönül and myself. Do get in touch if you have any questions (or need a little more time!).
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Our brilliant @proftammiwalker.bsky.social is speaking on this important topic today at the Public Policy Exchange event 'Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system'
Very honoured to be speaking at this event next week - Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system. 😀
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Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system | Public Policy Exchange
In May 2024, the UK government reported that there had been a 25% increase in the remand women’s population for December 2022-December 2023. Women were sent to prison on 5,164 occasions in the y
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May 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Our brilliant @proftammiwalker.bsky.social is speaking on this important topic today at the Public Policy Exchange event 'Supporting Women in the Criminal Justice System: Reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system'
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And if you are a senior researcher, attend! This was such a fun day full of cutting edge metascience last year.
May 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
And if you are a senior researcher, attend! This was such a fun day full of cutting edge metascience last year.
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10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity
The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications!
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
ACE Outreach Awards
CES will give out two awards of up to $2500 each to support activities that translate cultural evolution research for a non-academic audience or for students outside of the field of cultural evolution...
forms.gle
May 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
10 days left to apply for our CES awards for Outreach, ECR grants or for building capacity
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Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught!
Videos will worth watching
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Videos will worth watching
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Tool use aids prey-fishing in a specialist predator of stingless bees | PNAS
Tool use is widely reported across a broad range of the animal kingdom, yet comprehensive
empirical tests of its function and evolutionary drivers ...
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May 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught!
Videos will worth watching
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Videos will worth watching
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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really cool paper by @vkempe.bsky.social tracking child directed (well, broadcasted) speech over several decades to assess cultural variability of cds acoustic features: eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50... I suspect vowel space area might also have changed?
scholar.google.dk
May 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
really cool paper by @vkempe.bsky.social tracking child directed (well, broadcasted) speech over several decades to assess cultural variability of cds acoustic features: eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.50... I suspect vowel space area might also have changed?
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I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!
OUT NOW: A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning reimagines how we study kids—globally. With voices from 21 countries, this inclusive, practical guide bridges disciplines and challenges Western-centric research. buff.ly/0qk1cOs
May 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!
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And in an exciting new development, @emilymljeffries.bsky.social of @durhamanthropology.bsky.social wins the other best student talk prize!
Amazing day for @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and @durhamdcerc.bsky.social PhD students.
#ehbea #ehbea2025
Amazing day for @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and @durhamdcerc.bsky.social PhD students.
#ehbea #ehbea2025
April 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
And in an exciting new development, @emilymljeffries.bsky.social of @durhamanthropology.bsky.social wins the other best student talk prize!
Amazing day for @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and @durhamdcerc.bsky.social PhD students.
#ehbea #ehbea2025
Amazing day for @durhamuniversity.bsky.social and @durhamdcerc.bsky.social PhD students.
#ehbea #ehbea2025
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As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
Wonderful resource crafted by a global team of experts, led brilliantly by @sheinalew.bsky.social and Stephen Asatsa - happy to have contributed and inspired by the amazing scientists throughout the book that do genuinely awesome work. Completely recommend 👇
I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!
OUT NOW: A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning reimagines how we study kids—globally. With voices from 21 countries, this inclusive, practical guide bridges disciplines and challenges Western-centric research. buff.ly/0qk1cOs
May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Wonderful resource crafted by a global team of experts, led brilliantly by @sheinalew.bsky.social and Stephen Asatsa - happy to have contributed and inspired by the amazing scientists throughout the book that do genuinely awesome work. Completely recommend 👇