Professor | University of Chicago Cognitive Neuroscience - Social Neuroscience - Psychology - Morality - Evolution
United States
Joined October 2009
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๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐จ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ?
Our new computational neuroscience approachโผ๏ธ
Temporal horizons of moral consciousness:
Trends Open cell.com/trends-open/fulltexโฆ
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Why Americans Stopped Falling in Love. Another great column from @DKThomp featuring an interview with @dcoxpolls on his new book Generation Uncoupled. Technology, loneliness, despair, and society. Lots of great figures and data in here too! open.substack.com/pub/derektโฆ
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๐ช"As research on topics such as stereotype threat & implicit bias were found 2 have problems, the scholars who had been citing that work in support of policy changes didnโt change their policy views [or] else just made the empirical claims w/o any cites"speakandregret.michaelinzlicโฆ
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Hunter-gatherers are romanticized as naturally generous. But this generosity is the result of repeated resource extraction through forceful demands, complaints, ridicule, gossip and ostracism. Equality emerges from self-interest and coercion.
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๐ช"the danger of placing social concerns at the fore is that doing so can lead to a biased understanding that ultimately puts well-intentioned social policies on a collision course with the facts"
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๐ช๐ต๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ผ๐๐ (๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐บ๐, ๐บ๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ)?
Maybe it contributes to large scale dynamics.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2532072โฆ
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What happens when a field has a history in which an ascendant faction within a scholarly community misrepresents evidence in order to punish a political rival. My take on some disputes in anthropology: chronicle.com/article/anthroโฆ
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9/10 students across 5 universities reported that pro-Western views are viewed negatively on campus researchgate.net/publicationโฆ
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Cool system to study the evolution of cooperation and division of labor. Marine bacteria cooperate to break down complex algal carbohydrates nature.com/articles/d41586-0โฆ
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Does ingroup love lead to outgroup hate? NO!
I often try to explain to people that identifying with ingroups does not necessarily lead to outgroup discrimination. I call this the "Myth of tribalism". A new paper provides strong and robust evidence for a positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality.!
Across six datasets that span multiple domains of prosociality and group distinctions with 743,402 individuals in 121 societies, finds that people who are prosocial toward the ingroup also tend to be prosocial toward the outgroup.
"The results offer an optimistic message for prosociality across group boundaries. When people are not made to choose between the ingroup and outgroup, they are generally prosocial toward both."
Here is the new research: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25โฆ
Here is an article I co-authored for The Atlantic on the Myth of Tribalism in 2022: theatlantic.com/ideas/archivโฆ
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"Little evidence supports the central idea that belief in big gods enabled largeโscale cooperation."
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.โฆ
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Compared to members of higher-status groups, members of lower-status groups often show no implicit ingroup preference
Among lower-status groups, ingroup preferences are accompanied by greater self-regulatory control than outgroup preferences (according to an analysis of 5.7 million implicit bias tests).
This suggests people are engaging in self-regulatory control when they are lower in the social hierarchy.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.26โฆ
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Why are men and women different?
This week on The XX Lab, Dr. David Puts and I dive into hormones, the brain, and the biology behind sex differences.
๐ง Watch or listen now.
#Hormones #TheXXLab #science #psychology
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๐จ It's finally out! ๐จ This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. Join me for a fun thread! ๐งต @NatureHumBehav nature.com/articles/s41562-0โฆ
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Be the hunter, not the hunted: Marines conduct a live-fire range with M27 infantry automatic rifles. Marines are strategic warriors who fight on behalf of our Nation.
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Interesting and counter-intuitive (sounding) findings in @PNASNews from a large, multi-national team of scientists: People in more individualist cultures are more motivated to make others feel better. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnaโฆ
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Is AI making us stupid?
Many people worry that AI use will erode human cognition. A new paper reviews evidence that offloading cognition to AI can impede skill acquisition and lead to skill decay.
However, this is not inevitable. It depends on how you use the technolog.
cell.com/trends/cognitive-scโฆ
