Abigail Marsh

Studies empathy, altruism, aggression @Georgetown. Author of The Fear Factor Co-Founder of

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

Parents, you really shouldn't constantly surveil your kids. From @SarahZhang https://t.co/YzFoSX6M9o

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Religious participants exhibit in-group neural synchrony while watching neutral and religious videos

And synchrony values predicted religious orientation with an accuracy of up to 92%

These results suggest that neural synchrony is a potential signature of group cohesion beyond explicit behavioral measures:

https://t.co/vHT8CrI52x

This is a similar finding to our own research, where we find neural synchrony in teams which predicts collective performance: https://t.co/L9kOWJnMWH

[Thomas Talhelm @ThomasTalhelm]

And it's time to retire the old scales and old mixing of warm fuzzies and responsibilism. You can try out the new scale and country scores at https://t.co/GfibdV2nAp

[Thomas Talhelm @ThomasTalhelm]

New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! 🚨 A new way to think about collectivism and how an intuitive mix-up knocked a field off course for 30 years. https://t.co/1OTUmBccA7

[Dr. Camilo Ortiz 👨🏼‍🎓 @DrCamiloOrtiz]

The tide may be turning on overprotection! The Atlantic is asking what constant surveillance is doing to children, in Sarah Zhang's new piece. My work with Independence Therapy featured!

Free link: https://t.co/obvV9pXEZM

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

As you get older, it’s amazing how fast bird-watching creeps up on you.

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

When Reddit shut down toxic forums, it reduced slur usage by the users who frequented that forum, even in different forums.

[JAMA Psychiatry @JAMAPsych]

🧠 Among young adults at varying #ManiaRisk, greater left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activation during reward expectancy was associated with lower delay discounting, consistent with greater sensitivity to reward value. https://t.co/3kbxDC7kP7

[Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh]

Household chaos is an underappreciated source of adversity for many children, and leads to challenges in many domains.

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

Standard screens for childhood adversity ask about abuse, neglect and household dysfunction. A study of nearly 30,000 children found that also asking about unpredictability at home identified some kids at risk for depression whom the standard screen missed. dlvr.​it/TWDFNX

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

https://t.co/CYDxGerlZL @TIME

[Katie O'Connell @kmo5128]

Thanks for the coverage, @PsyPost!

[Morality Lab @MoralityLab]

New paper in @NatureComms by Lucas Woodley and Joshua Greene: Americans appear deeply divided over “capitalism” vs. “socialism.” But across a series of studies, we find that this divide is largely illusory.

https://t.co/1H1lN6F8fq

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[The Asturias Project @AsturiasProject]

What actually gets a committed liberal to reconsider a view? I tested 14 honest persuasion approaches, no tricks or spin, on 1,000 AI-simulated liberals across about 3,000 conversations.

One approach clearly beat the rest. Two backfired almost every time.

[Elissa Silverman @tweetelissa]

Hey @nytimes, your graphic is confusing. Why instead of a footnote no one reads, just say I won this elect 2 race? Thank you.

To all the DC residents who only read the @nytimes and cancelled their @washingtonpost subscription: I won re-election. This is why we need local press!

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

If a pharmaceutical could double the rate of learning and, under the right conditions, eliminate socioeconomic achievement gaps, we'd be falling over ourselves to make it available to every child.

In education, we call it Direct Instruction. And we're still arguing about whether it's too scripted and authoritarian.

[Psychology @ Georgetown @GUPsychology]

Congratulations PhD student Kibum Moon and Associate Professor Kostadin Kushlev on being selected for Georgetown University’s inaugural AI Fellows Program!

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

My long time experience of recorded material is that it provides a permission scaffold for students to not turn up, knowing that they didn’t have to be there. ‘Catching up with material missed’ is a life skill worth encouraging.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Spending time outdoors provides opportunities for physical activity, exposure to natural light, and social contact.

Over the past 20 years, outdoor time among boys has declined sharply and been replaced by computer-based leisure.

"The implications of the observed declines in outdoor time may extend beyond recreation, contributing to population-level increases in sedentary behavior and greater disconnectedness from the natural world."

This was based on an analysis of the American Time Use Survey, a nationally representative survey of the US population using diary data from 14,235 individuals aged 15 to 19 from 2003-2023 https://t.co/rxFvfs5E9g

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Every two years, the people have their say.
Sometimes, the results may not be what you want. Other election nights, you may find the verdict sublime.
But regardless, when that big wheel of democracy turns, it's an absolutely awesome thing to behold!
God bless America!

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

A massive analysis of millions of social media posts by members of Congress shows that politicians receive vastly more online engagement when they launch negative partisan attacks rather than highlight their legislative accomplishments. dlvr.​it/TWBPCj