Farzan Karimi-Malekabadi

PhD student in social psychology @ USC. Moral psychology, computational modeling, open science.

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

“Privilege includes who gets to decide what research questions are important, as well as who gets to become a research participant”

(Medin, 2017)

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

There's good psychology in this Guardian article on how to talk to people who have embraced a conspiracy theory. Most effective tactic is "pre-suasion," which is the intuitionist tactic of speaking to the elephant first, then to the rider:
https://t.co/D0lioLpkRh

[simine vazire @siminevazire]

When I see an introverted person have to act extraverted towards me because of their job (eg a hairdresser making conversation) I just want to hug them and tell them it’s ok, we can do this silently.

[Joe Henrich @JoHenrich]

The philosopher, Bob McCauley, takes a look at The WEIRDest People in the World at Psychology Today. https://t.co/EXcVtLIAsR

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

Has anyone read a replication paper where Western researchers replicate an effect that was originally found & reported in a non-Western culture?

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

"As AI makes its way into more areas of our lives, rooting out implicit bias is more crucial than ever", says USC computer science student Aida Mostafazadeh Davani.
@USCViterbi @nlp_usc

CC: All computational psychologists.

https://t.co/SPZYlbHYHR

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

Many basic assumptions and old theories across social and behavioral sciences need re-examination. It may be constructive to be cautious with words like “re-discover”; they can discourage junior researchers from asking big Qs, and implicitly encourage too-cool-to-be-true novelty.

[Kaveh Madani @KavehMadani]

#COVID19 is affecting the future of talented Iranian students who were supposed to land in the US in fall 2020.

These students are unable to attend visa interviews at US embassies in Iran's neighboring countries & urgently need your help.

#Iranian_students_visa_appointments

[Zachariah Berry @Zberry37]

Exciting new work showing how moral foundations theory does not apply well to understanding Iranian moral values. See the whole thread and paper for how they constructed a model of moral values in Iran. Nice work @MohammadAtari90 !

[Brandon Ng @kelticwai17]

YES. Cultural contextualization of constructs/ models and within-culture differences are SO important. It is not enough to translate and test a WEIRD idea/model in another culture. Shige Oishi and I wrote about similar things within cultural neuroscience.

https://t.co/VPmzTXTVgH

[Brendan Kennedy @berendennedy]

Most people are familiar with the "WEIRD" problem in psych. Check out this awesome work from @MohammadAtari90 Jesse Graham @MortezDehghani that does something about it.

https://t.co/RaEW8od5T0

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

New paper out!

We (w/ Jesse Graham & @MortezDehghani) examined the foundations of morality in Iran!

To appear in the upcoming Special Issue of @HumBehEvoSoc edited by @JoHenrich & @corenapicella & Ara Norenzayan.

https://t.co/1NAaWpqkZG
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[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

In two nationally representative surveys of American adults, masturbation and hookups were not associated with unmarried men wishing to be married, while pornography use was robustly and linearly associated with a *higher* likelihood of wanting to be married.

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

This is one of the best papers I know with huge implications.

I still don’t understand why this (and Rozin, 2001, PSPR) remain relatively uncited.

[USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science @CSatUSC]

PhD student @berendennedy talks to @DigitalTrends about a new hate-speech seeking AI tool developed @CSatUSC.

https://t.co/kdiAu89G1e

#USC #AI #NLP @USCViterbi

[Morteza Dehghani @MortezDehghani]

Hi @ATT! This is the 5th time you gave us a false promise. I've called you 12 times, and spent over 7 hours with you on the phone since Saturday. We need to teach, and we need internet to do that. How long is this going to go on for? @ATTHelp

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

@SPSPnews is creating a new award called the “International Bridge-Building Award” for researchers from “underrepresented regions of the world”. Good.

BUT an eligibility criterion is being already an “SPSP member”. That’s not how bridges work. This crierion should be waived.

[Carol Folt @CarolLFolt]

USC has joined an amicus brief strongly supporting the lawsuit recently filed by @MIT and @Harvard – and we are actively considering all other legal options.

[Morteza Dehghani @MortezDehghani]

I'm willing to do the same at @USC. If you are an international student who needs an in-person class to be able to stay in the US, send me an email. We can get through this together.

[Farzan Karimi-Malekabadi @karimi_farzan]

@ImHardcory @ExtravertedFace In America