New article in JPSP on Apocalyptic Thinking! Takeaways in the title: End of world beliefs are common, diverse, and predict how people perceive and respond to global risks.
Cindel J.M. White, @azimshariff, & Ara Norenzayan
https://t.co/L2bIhsNaRd
Preprint: https://t.co/VpGlKY4AjZ
New episode (1210), with Dr. Cristina Bicchieri. We discuss what social norms are and how they change.
YouTube: https://t.co/JlQUVdCX3t
Podcast: https://t.co/XWaIcYCH9g
What is it about some stories and situations that make them more effective at evoking fear? One way to answer this is to reverse engineer the emotion of fear 😱
➡️ A short blogpost on the HBES website about our recent article with Coltan Scrivner.
https://t.co/WStvNzCBo9
New episode (1207), with Dr. Alberto Acerbi. We talk about his book, Tecnopanico, and how to approach digital media with reasonable caution. #Sociology#Science
YouTube: https://t.co/oft1riUQDi
Podcast: https://t.co/gKGnVTvHg2
When did animal societies start in evolutionary history? Learn about it in my interview with Dr. Tim Clutton-Brock. #Biology#Science
Full interview: https://t.co/VpBNFyrufZ
People hallucinating all these elaborate 3D strategic chess reasons, when it's really easy:
Every president on Rushmore added at least one state
Trump unilaterally charges $1 trillion on your credit card for Greenland, now the 51st State of Trumponia
charges another $50 billion to add himself to Rushmore, 3x the sized of other heads, gilded in gold leaf, with a 50 foot tall wedding invitation golden script lettering
New episode (1201), with Dr. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. We talk about her new book, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us. #Philosophy
YouTube: https://t.co/OmeYrOmlo9
Podcast: https://t.co/5rrEPF9xER
What is democracy, and how do we measure it? Learn about it in my interview with Dr. Honorata Mazepus (@HMazepus). #politics#Science
Full interview: https://t.co/ifoWoTG4EH
Excellent essay by Peggy Sastre on Napoleon Chagnon's persecution by his anthropological colleagues for his empirical approach & politically incorrect findings about the Yanomamo. (I knew him well from 2 sabbaticals at UCSB, & Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's characterization is right on.) https://t.co/Xza72FS93U
"when anthropologists measure hunter-gatherers’ competence and warmth, they find that people prefer to spend time with campmates who are warm and friendly over campmates who are the best hunters, even when they’re heading out on a hunt together."
How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked. By Patrick Whittle.
https://t.co/d7sCyIHtHc
Richard Lee, author of the ethnography The Dobe !Kung (Ju/'hoansi), a staple of Anthro 101 courses, w/ Ju/'hoansi women & their kids in 2013.
Lee & colleagues' research on this south African hunter-gatherer population profoundly shaped our perceptions of human evolution.
Terrific social psych paper ( how often do you hear that from me?). Adversarial collab on how much measures of "implicit bias" predict racial discrim.
tl;dr:
N>2000
1. Pro-Black discrimination>pro-White discrimination
2. Implicit measures predicted discrim (std reg coeff=.16) a hair above their agreed-upon threshold for considering the effect trivial (.15), controlling for explicit prejudice.
3. Explicit prej powerfully predicted discrim.
Authors include @jordanaxt, @ImHardcory, @PTetlock, @tomstello
https://t.co/NlUUUGKded
ht @robsica
Bombshell: Oliver Sacks (a humane man & a fine essayist) made up many of the details in his famous case studies, deluding neuroscientists, psychologists, & general readers for decades. The man who mistook his wife for a hat? The autistic twins who generated multi-digit prime numbers? The institutionalized, paralyzed man who tapped out allusions to Rilke? Made up to embellish the stories. Probably also: the aphasic patients who detected lies better than neurologically intact people, including Ronald Reagan's insincerity. https://t.co/77nQRF8kp6