Nick Buttrick

Socioecological and cultural psychology. Inequality, guns, & bootstraps aka why America is strange. Asst prof at Wisconsin-Madison. Tweets are not my own.

[Nick Buttrick @NickButtrick]

Who owns guns in America today, and why? We argue White Southerns responded to the emancipation of Black Southerners by buying firearms, and this culture continues: slavery in 1860 predicts today's gun ownership in the US South.

Now out at @PNASNexus : https://t.co/hRfo8jkzkM

[Paula Niedenthal @PaulaNiedenthal]

@UWPsych @UWMadison is hiring 2 social psychologists, one TT (deadline 9/15/24) and one tenured, open rank (deadline 10/08/24)! Info here: https://t.co/1thAem5iy7
RT far and wide! @SESPcon @SPSPnews @SASstudents @affectScience @SPSSI

[Nick Buttrick @NickButtrick]

Come join us, and I'll take you sailing!! (Plus do some very cool science with very cool colleagues in a very cool department)

[Paula Niedenthal @PaulaNiedenthal]

@UWPsych @UWMadison is hiring 2 social psychologists, one TT (deadline 9/15/24) and one tenured, open rank (deadline 10/08/24)! Info here: https://t.co/1thAem5iy7
RT far and wide! @SESPcon @SPSPnews @SASstudents @affectScience @SPSSI

[Erin Westgate @ErinWestgate]

Are political conservatives better off? It depends how you define it: while conservatives tend to report happier and more meaningful lives, this isn't true of folks living a rich interesting life.

New paper w/@Shige_Oishi @samjheintz @NickButtrick, now in press at JRP 🧵

[Trends in Cognitive Sciences @TrendsCognSci]

Our March issue is online! Why birds are smart, vagal signals and goal-directed behavior (@glassybrain @cornu_copiae), what LLMs can tell us about human cultures (@NickButtrick), and more: https://t.co/E91w1mP42G

[Ali Mohebi @mohebial]

Gotta read it carefully, but I love the idea proposed here... Decent

[Nick Buttrick @NickButtrick]

You can read the whole thing here: https://t.co/zLncMSgZum

10/10

[Nick Buttrick @NickButtrick]

What can ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) tell us about people? As a collection of compressed cultural artifacts, LLMs potentially allow for the study of culture at a massive scale. But caution is needed. 1/n 🧵

Now out at TiCS

[Nick Buttrick @NickButtrick]

Understanding how given groups are represented in the broader culture is still interesting of course, but it is not necessarily the same as understanding ground-truth differences in how groups understand the world themselves. 9/10

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@Ugo_alves Here you go! https://t.co/zLncMSgrEO

[Paula Niedenthal @PaulaNiedenthal]

Come work with my amazing colleague! @SPSPnews @SASstudents

[Nick Buttrick @NickButtrick]

With #SESP wrapping up, it’s a good time to say I’m hoping to recruit a grad student (or 2!) this year! If you’re interested in guns, culture, or novels/reading, please reach out - I’d love to hear from you and chat about Madison.

(Pls share!)

[Nick Buttrick @NickButtrick]

With #SESP wrapping up, it’s a good time to say I’m hoping to recruit a grad student (or 2!) this year! If you’re interested in guns, culture, or novels/reading, please reach out - I’d love to hear from you and chat about Madison.

(Pls share!)

[Erin Westgate @ErinWestgate]

“What is it about fiction, about poetry, about narrative that makes it so powerful? …that makes philosophers think of mass murder?” - @NickButtrick on Plato

#SESP2023