Developmental & comparative psychologist. Socialisation in people & nonhuman primates. Interests in evolution, culture, experience, social behaviour, learning, sex, gender, parenting, ADHD. Postdoc @DurhamPsych. Fieldwork lover. Cat & plant mother. ADHD.
Dr Eve Holden (she/her)
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Check out our 🌟new paper🌟 on observational data collection in children through adolescence
Such methods can capture complexity & richness of experiences across diverse contexts, something that is missing from a lot of developmental psychology!
Open-access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Talking of talks, if you are at #CES2026 come by the session on "Modes of Cultural Transmission" to see my talk on new methods we've been developing to measure imitation from naturalistic footage!
Also featuring Francesco d'Errico, @ctennie.bsky.social, Yo Nakawake, and @arielevy.bsky.social
Thrilled to have been (and continue to be) a part of this work & very proud of the result!
Thanks for having me on board! 🥰 @larawood.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @jing-xu.bsky.social
What things are often missed out?
Risk! Life history! Individual variation! Inequality!
@psmaldino.bsky.social Speaking my language in his talk on Development of Risk Behaviours and thier Cultural Transmission
#CES2026 @ces2026.bsky.social
🚨 In the first publication from our ESRC-funded project on age-based imitation, we asked parents their views on what and how children in four communities should learn from peers and adults.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
What's really clear from today's #CES2026 - #HBES2026 panel is how much we've come to work together, across the evolutionary social & behavioral sciences. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder sums it up: "The gaps between evolutionary psychology, human behavior ecology, & cultural evolution have narrowed"
