It's that time of year. Want to format & randomize your exam questions and response options with a little R code? I know I do. https://t.co/bciCzxfx4o
A diet w pork & poultry is planet-friendlier than lacto-ovo-vegetarianism (& easier for most people), because cattle are the real environmental villains. Veganism is best of all. https://t.co/O80KkoyLZA
Do hot shirtless men at store entrances (like A&F) increase women’s spending, as lay consumer theory suggests? Nope! Hot men present increase male-male competition and men actually spend more money. #HBES2018
“My analyses are unequivocal that racial resentment is reliably the largest and most precise predictor of attitudes toward immigration.” https://t.co/Wd6oTXfK9M
Here's the first-ever map of relational mobility around the world! Very ambitious study by Robert Thomson, Masaki Yuki, and many others. I was happy to play a small role. Guess where societies with a history of rice fall on mobility 🤔 https://t.co/4sGVrdlJDF
European women in their 30s are way higher educated than men. Women still tend to want a partner with higher or at least equal education. This means highly educated women and uneducated men remain single. Source: https://t.co/j583506qn6
The Graduate School needs current students to serve as volunteers for the Grad Student Orientation taking place on 8/16. Meet some new friends and enjoy pizza on us! If interested, please email [email protected] by Thursday, July 26.
Such cool new work from @DanTGilbert & co: when a property becomes rare, people relax their threshold for perceiving it.
This applies to everything from color to threat, and might explain why it's hard for us to detect positive social change.
https://t.co/ER1LhCBG8T
"Individuals of higher social class, whose abundant resources make it possible to focus on self-development, were made happier by experiential over material purchases. No such experiential advantage emerged for individuals of lower social class."
https://t.co/QvoycPCAJS
"In a world filled with machines that learn and interact with us, it’s important that they are able to respond to all parts of our humanity—including the things that make us laugh." https://t.co/i7T9RgWvOF
"we could wake up to what we were
— when we were ocean and before that
to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was
liquid and stars were space and space was not
at all — nothing...
before this awful loneliness."
Beyond beautiful: https://t.co/Y4D6uNSrtf