Ian Hohm

Social Psychologist | Postdoc at McGill University

[Ian Hohm @Ian_Hohm]

Thrilled to announce our new paper in @PNASNews!

Do the moral values people endorse change with the seasons 🌤️?

My co-authors and I present evidence that suggests (for some moral values) the answer is yes. https://t.co/MM03tNIHzq

[Zachary Witkower @ZakWitkower]

Excited to share our paper in @PNASNexus, with @ProfJessTracy, Nick Rule, & Laura Tian! We show that the muscles people use to pose a smile—and the intensity of those activations—reveals personality, enabling others to form accurate personality judgments.

https://t.co/ZBkpmXmZrw

[Jess Tracy @ProfJessTracy]

Does materialist science destroy existential meaning? @Ian_Hohm, @LiminusVisuals, and I argue here that yea, it does. But that doesn't mean you have to choose between science and meaning ...https://t.co/D9g6f3o3Pw

[QJE @QJEHarvard]

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture,” by Andrea Matranga (@andreamatranga): https://t.co/zJKcSRREXs

[Eric Mercadante @EricMercadante]

Super excited to announce our new paper in @PNASNews! @ProfJessTracy, @FriedrichMGoetz, and I analyzed all US senators' tweets from 2013-2021 and found that tweets discussing greed in society receive greater support and spread more widely

[Ian Hohm @Ian_Hohm]

Very excited about this paper!!

We argue that seasonal effects are important. We review some of the diverse literature on seasonal effects, outline a conceptual framework for thinking about them, and give practical suggestions for studying them.
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[Alexandra Wormley @AlexandraWorm]

@Ian_Hohm and I (with our fantastic advisors) have spent the last few years working on this review on the significance of seasons in human behavior and cognition. Now accepted at PoPS, you can read the preprint here: https://t.co/Vx8TIoG0f7

[Azim Shariff @azimshariff]

My @TEDTalks on why we moralize effort is now up. Based on work w/ @pkpiff (who gets a cameo), @BizarroPolitix, @gregoryscience, Hyunjin Koo & led by @JaredCelniker. Thanks to TED (who chose against my suggested title: Working in the Age of Effort Porn) https://t.co/wZL3j6rQl5

[Keith Payne @bkeithpayne]

This study🤯Tracked tax records from Florence, Italy in 1427 (before Leo DeVinci was born) and matched them with descendants in 2011. Descendants of the richest decile are 12% wealthier than descendants of the poorest decile. Wealth inequality inherited across 600 years!

[David Pietraszewski @DavePietrasz]

This paper argues that the massive modularity debate is confused, ill-posed, and based on the most fundamental misunderstanding one can have in psychology: a confusion about the level of reduction (or analysis) at which one is approaching the mind.
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https://t.co/OLFDjG7214

[Thomas Talhelm @ThomasTalhelm]

The average length of written English sentences went from 63 words in the 1500s to 14 in 1950. Artifact or some sort of cultural change?

[Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto]

Individual-based model of cultural evolution. A step-by-step guide using R - my blog post https://t.co/Q2XR9DAsvc

[Keelah Williams @kegwilliams]

Surprised by this level of arbitrariness? Don’t be. Discretion is the silent killer in our justice system, and it haunts every step—from decisions to arrest, if/how to charge, bail, plea offers, peremptory challenges of jurors, and, of course, sentencing👇 https://t.co/hpaXBIh4Wl

[Jaimie Arona Krems @JaimieKrems]

New in Emotion! Congenitally deaf adults' vocalizations of fear, disgust, + 5 other emotions were recognized at better-than-chance levels, suggesting that emotion vocalizations "are shaped by specialized innate mechanisms that guide learning"! https://t.co/ywOFS8wf2L

[Thomas Talhelm @ThomasTalhelm]

Analysis: If the US were less relationally mobile--on par with Japan--coronavirus deaths would have been just 8.2% the actual number. https://t.co/4GZnXG3xSH

[Laith Al-Shawaf ليث الشواف @LaithAlShawaf]

My latest piece is out today in @AreoMagazine. It’s on the crucial distinction between the proximate and ultimate levels of analysis -- and the utility of that distinction for psychology.

Hope you find it interesting.

https://t.co/41sol1KW1B

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

"Henrich argues that kinship intensity does not just describe or predict psychological variation, it explains it."

@ajmackiel's review of @JoHenrich's new book which is likely to become _the_ foundational text of cross-cultural psychology 👇

https://t.co/93mCnFIY1Z

[Daniel Dennett @danieldennett]

Some recent thoughts of mine.
https://t.co/ntzRbcVccd

[Keelah Williams @kegwilliams]

We've seen lots of comparisons between countries and U.S. states on distancing measures to reduce disease spread - but how do we measure up to other species? (Worse than ants, but better than Tasmanian Devils.) See interview on my new co-authored paper: https://t.co/FpT8pocsmy

[Azim Shariff @azimshariff]

Even if told it means fewer patients surviving, 50% of the US believes that scarce ventilators should NOT be preferentially allocated to the young and those with the best chance of recovery. https://t.co/IfnqdW1L48