Alexander Mackiel

PhD student @UChicago; Evolution & development of social cognition, morality & friendship

[Alexander Mackiel @ajmackiel]

New article led by @MitchSBLanders and with Peter DeScioli, me, & Alex Shaw is now out in a special issue on friendship (@JaimieKrems)! Read it here: https://t.co/HOEbpOEwy9
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[Alexander Mackiel @ajmackiel]

NEW PAPER with @yinyuanzheng3, Anam Barakzai, & Alex Shaw in "Developmental Psychology" on children's developing beliefs about loyalty in friendships! In 4- to 11-year-olds we find evidence for when kids think friends will be more upset at each other:
https://t.co/3mzCjEMVLL

[Alexander Mackiel @ajmackiel]

New article led by @MitchSBLanders and with Peter DeScioli, me, & Alex Shaw is now out in a special issue on friendship (@JaimieKrems)! Read it here: https://t.co/HOEbpOEwy9
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[Alexander Mackiel @ajmackiel]

Read the article here: https://t.co/HOEbpOEwy9

[Alexander Mackiel @ajmackiel]

New article led by @MitchSBLanders and with Peter DeScioli, me, & Alex Shaw is now out in a special issue on friendship (@JaimieKrems)! Read it here: https://t.co/HOEbpOEwy9
🧵

[Alexander Mackiel @ajmackiel]

Altogether these findings support the claim of the side-taking theory of morality that siding against allies for the right (moral) reasons uniquely reduces perceptions of disloyalty, allowing people to set aside their allegiances when condemning their immoral actions. 9/9

[Alexander Mackiel @ajmackiel]

“Since far more people are uninformed because they do not follow the news than misinformed because they consume misinformation, the fight against false beliefs is most likely to be effective when pursued in concert with the broader fight for reliable information.”

[Sacha Altay @Sacha_Altay]

One of my favorites paper got published 🥳 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :)

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

LOLLLLLL yes I bet Iranian New Yorkers are feeling VERY unsafe now that the people who just gunned down 30,000 Iranians in the streets have been killed 😂

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

What is happening in Iran now – large-scale protests, effectively an uprising – is a clear sign that things won’t get easier for Russia.

And every decent person on this planet truly wants the people of Iran to finally free themselves from the current regime that has brought so much evil to Ukraine and to other countries.

It is crucial that the world does not miss this moment when changes are possible. Every leader, every country, and international organizations must step in now and help the people remove those guilty of what Iran has sadly become.

Everything can be different.

[Alexander Mackiel @ajmackiel]

“Witnesses spoke of seeing snipers positioned on rooftops…firing into crowds; of peaceful protests turning abruptly into scenes of carnage and panic as bullets pierced through people’s heads and torsos, sending bodies toppling to the ground”
https://t.co/BVxtFGI9i8

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The man who mistook his imagination for the truth. Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova is a warm and generous writer, but here she is (justifiably) scathing about Oliver Sacks's decades of lies about his patients, which damaged treatment and understanding in service of his own narcissistic self-therapy. https://t.co/zlzQnEyb9n

[Mitchell @MitchSBLanders]

🚨🚨 New paper out now in Emotion with the inimitable Alex Shaw🚨🚨: “Green-Eyed Monster or Green-Eyed Mirage? A New Procedure for Telling When Begrudging Others’ Success Is or Is Not Envy.”
Paper: https://t.co/qY2OsSYNn6

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Indeed. Must be time for another lecture from leftists on the dangers of Islamophobia.