Thomas Beuchot

Cognitive science PhD candidate at ENS-PSL. I study why and how people change.

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Or read the original in French, published on 'Prise en charge préventive': https://t.co/l3Flpavh3m

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and discussing this with you!

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Have we evolved to smoke?

I’ve just published a blog post that answers this question.

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To find out, you can read my blog post (in English) on my Substack: https://t.co/04bBejiY3l

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@EdgarDubourg @APA_Journals This has been an amazing collaborative effort! I’m proud to have been part of such a wide-ranging synthesis of human motivations, their evolutionary origins, and how they shape our preferences for fiction. Congratulations and thank you for leading this project!

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Our paper 'Carving Stories at Their Natural Joints' is out in Psychological Review (@APA_Journals).

It means a lot to me, especially because I got to collaborate with many researchers from different disciplines whose work I truly admire.

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@EdgarDubourg @TrendsCognSci A real pleasure to have worked on this with you all!

What I find exciting is how Openness can link individual psychology to cultural change: the same trait tied to science, art and values may help explain why safer, resource-rich environments foster new cultural practices.

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New in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (@TrendsCognSci) 👇

Why do people who love abstract art or imaginary worlds 🎨 also tend to get vaccinated 💉, support redistribution 💸, endorse animal rights 🐥, and try novel foods 🫐?

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Want to know more?

Link to the article: https://t.co/YUTbUXyyoV

Link to my blog post: https://t.co/HcgyVCE6n6

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🎉 Our paper is out in Communications Psychology: a perspective on behavioural public policies & the psychology of poverty.

Core idea: poverty can shift psychology, so the same intervention won’t work the same for everyone.

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👉 Design behavioural policies with motivations from the target group in mind.

If poverty affects preferences, ignoring heterogeneity risks weak effects, and sometimes unfair ones.