Konstantinos Kafetsios, Ph.D.

Tweets on emotion, culture, relationships.

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

About a year ago, a Princeton student named Kyler Zhou was sitting in traffic in New Jersey. At some point he was so bored that he put on a podcast with… me 🙃

It was my usual talk about the talent crisis. About the smartest kids of a generation going to work for McKinsey and Goldman Sachs, while the biggest problems in the world go unsolved, blablabla, you may have heard it by now ;)

What’s interesting is what happened next. As soon as Kyler got home, he emailed me and The School for Moral Ambition (the organization we started to get talented people working on the world's biggest problems).

Kyler wanted to bring this to Princeton.

Well, we told him no 😅. We had just launched our first university fellowship at Harvard, and there was no capacity for a second campus...

Kyler decided to ignore us. Three days into the semester, he launched the first* Moral Ambition Chapter at a university in the United States. In just a few days, more than 120 Princeton students signed up. In November of last year I visited, and the energy was simply AMAZING.

Since then, everything has been escalating. Students have started Moral Ambition Chapters at Brown, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Georgetown and 5 other campuses – often before we've heard of them.

Which brings me to today. After the launch of our Harvard Fellowship (8% of ALL Harvard juniors applied to the first cohort!), we're now also launching Moral Ambition Fellowships at Princeton, Brown, Vanderbilt and Stanford. The program is simple: twelve super talented students per campus, a $15,000 stipend, and a summer working full-time on the most important causes of our time, like lead poisoning or child poverty or ending factory farming or AI safety etc. – instead of polishing a boring corporate pitch deck.

It's just incredible to see how quickly this movement is growing. Every year, thousands of brilliant graduates are funneled into corporate careers that add little to the world. More and more of them are starting to walk the other way.

(For students: applications for Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Vanderbilt are open now. Stanford opens October 6. https://t.co/3dM17vtNbC)

* Brown University claims that they were actually the first – I've decided to stay neutral in this quarrel 😅

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

Two days left!

[Dr Effie Mitsopoulou  @EffieMitsop]

Opportunity for a fully funded PhD position at Swansea University :

https://t.co/ONSEjZH3yR

[Konstantinos Kafetsios, Ph.D. @kafetsios]

Thank you to a truly interdisciplinary team for making this possible!

[Konstantinos Kafetsios, Ph.D. @kafetsios]

Genuinely excited and happy to share a key new study on Emotion decoding accuracy is now out: https://t.co/28P9egAjxk

[Konstantinos Kafetsios, Ph.D. @kafetsios]

Important, emotion perception
in group context (ACE task) was linked to activation of areas associated with social cognition:
perspective taking, thinking about others/min dreading

[Ayşe Üskül @UskulAyse]

colleagues working on culture and cognition, please spread the word on the 👇PhD studentship to work on perceptual diversity with @anilkseth

https://t.co/SuIOVlIX1z

[Journal of Experimental Social Psychology @JExpSocPsych]

The new August/September issue of JESP is online now, and there is so much new science, we have to split the list up over two posts! Check it out! @SPSPnews @SESPcon @APAScience @PsychScience @SPSSI @socialpsychUK @easpinfo @SPN_Listserv #psychtwitter

[Christoph Bock Lab @ CeMM & MedUni Vienna @BockLab]

INVITATION: We're organizing a Symposium & Workshop exploring interfaces of artificial intelligence, biomedicine & the human body. Join us in Vienna & propose your contribution: https://t.co/7HVvWYObWK. Terrific list of invited speakers & free attendance thanks to @oeaw & @WWTF !

[Konstantinos Kafetsios, Ph.D. @kafetsios]

Thank you to Professors @bamidis and Vassilios Papaliangas for joining us in the half-day conference of the RSECURE project in Thessaloniki https://t.co/YInn7CaWuA. A great opportunity to share
finds of the first wave of the project: https://t.co/MtDWQaZSMu.

[Manos Tsakiris @manos_tsakiris]

We will soon advertise an RA position for @labactionbody to assist on the last phase of our @ERC_Research research on interoception. Ideal for BSc/MSc graduates who want more research experience before embarking on a PhD. Please share with interested parties 🙏🏽 Ad coming soon

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Representative samples may be overrated.

A replication of 27 survey experiments (n = 101,745) finds that convenience samples overwhelmingly produce similar findings to representative samples. https://t.co/liPoUk0xtj

In 0 of 393 analyses were the effects in opposite directions.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Cultural diversity broadens social networks

Living in more culturally diverse social environments endows people with socially adaptable behaviors that help them connect broadly when they enter new, diverse communities.
https://t.co/kgWlwmequP

[EASP @easpinfo]

SISSP: SPSP-EASP summer school 2023 applications open! https://t.co/obrI8AvBV8

[ISRE @ISREorg]

📢 [FUNDING OPPORTUNITY] Emotional Well-being and Health Data Analysis Award!

To utilize large-scale cohort studies to examine health & aging trajectories!

Applications deadline: November 11th, 2022

Follow for more details: https://t.co/eE6wy6aByU

[Konstantinos Kafetsios, Ph.D. @kafetsios]

Science Training Sessions https://t.co/XhevpjoXS5 via @APA

[Susan Boon @sdboon]

Our virtual IARR conference starts just 2 weeks from tomorrow! With over 250 presentations, registration is free for all students and non-students residing in under-represented regions https://t.co/KjHfr2LeQq