Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺

Professor | University of Chicago
Cognitive Neuroscience - Social Neuroscience - Psychology - Morality - Evolution

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

The "editorial" parts of NEJM, Science, etc. do so much harm to public perception of science. Why do this? Are we going to publish (basically the exact same essay) from a Pentecostal preacher? Science is too important for human prosperity to do this: https://t.co/asUT7zNluT

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

Sex differences reflect a broader, coherent organization across the cortex.
https://t.co/k5GGQ5xS9u

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

@SteveStuWill It's important to consider chromosome morphology in addition to sexual selection & environment as potential drivers of sexual dimorphism. In mammals, reptiles, and many insects, males are heterogametic (XY) and die earlier.
https://t.co/n9Hc7KqmQI

[Oliver Scott Curry @Oliver_S_Curry]

A study of 93k people in 93 countries finds "behaviors such as applying makeup…hair grooming, clothing style…body hygiene, and exercising or following a specific diet for the specific purpose of improving ones physical attractiveness, are universal" https://t.co/QwG7ugNWKD

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

@robsica Upstate New York?

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

@nikitakarachoi Why people shouldn't trust Wikipedia
https://t.co/iV4nr2nNd2

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

I've enjoyed and learned a lot from reading this article‼️
"We are obsessed with race because being honest about class would be too painful."
https://t.co/kfcqtdquT1

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬?

Our new computational neuroscience approach‼️

Temporal horizons of moral consciousness:
Trends Open https://t.co/118fh7bcUu

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

@JoshuaBarzon F or E

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

@avidseries D obviously! I lived in South Africa

[Michael Platt @MichaelLouisPl1]

Why Americans Stopped Falling in Love. Another great column from @DKThomp featuring an interview with @dcoxpolls on his new book Generation Uncoupled. Technology, loneliness, despair, and society. Lots of great figures and data in here too! https://t.co/8UQ0hNNiaN

[Rob Sica @robsica]

🔪"As research on topics such as stereotype threat & implicit bias were found 2 have problems, the scholars who had been citing that work in support of policy changes didn’t change their policy views [or] else just made the empirical claims w/o any cites"https://t.co/BqOBbhvDmW

[Diana S. Fleischman @sentientist]

Hunter-gatherers are romanticized as naturally generous. But this generosity is the result of repeated resource extraction through forceful demands, complaints, ridicule, gossip and ostracism. Equality emerges from self-interest and coercion.
https://t.co/3VfQsro2VN

[Rob Sica @robsica]

🔪"the danger of placing social concerns at the fore is that doing so can lead to a biased understanding that ultimately puts well-intentioned social policies on a collision course with the facts"
https://t.co/pE7FBPNUFK

[Luiz Pessoa @PessoaBrain]

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗼𝘂𝘀 (𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗺𝘆, 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿)?
Maybe it contributes to large scale dynamics.
https://t.co/xehI7jstrl

[Len Gutkin @GutkinLen]

What happens when a field has a history in which an ascendant faction within a scholarly community misrepresents evidence in order to punish a political rival. My take on some disputes in anthropology: https://t.co/MpRIfKAwBH

[Peter Turchin @Peter_Turchin]

https://t.co/hSyOEzRQG0

[Kevin Waldman @KevWaldman]

9/10 students across 5 universities reported that pro-Western views are viewed negatively on campus https://t.co/hVERZsJCPU

[Jean Decety 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 @Decety]

@ProfAliceS @RichardDawkins I can't wait to read it. I preordered it a while ago!

[Luke Glowacki @HSB_Lab]

Cool system to study the evolution of cooperation and division of labor. Marine bacteria cooperate to break down complex algal carbohydrates https://t.co/rkrBp9fjxC