Wen Zhou

周雯. Ph.D. candidate @EvAnthDuke @DukeU focusing on humanity and human-animal relations. Incoming assistant professor @Dukekunshan

[Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil]

I am trying to understand this article and its implications and I would be really grateful if people with greater expertise could help me out. It's one of the most influential and widely-cited articles in recent social science (over 7000 citations).
https://t.co/7dY4OXZqFs

[Kurt Gray @kurtjgray]

In at JPSP, a multi-study paper on the function of morality

"Generalized morality," the idea that other people are overall good/evil, is *not* universal

Ideas of inner good/evil culturally evolved to simplify cooperative partner choice in big societies

https://t.co/1k7Oew3t8x

[Michael Muthukrishna @mmuthukrishna]

🚨New paper on "What makes us smart?" w/ @johenrich

Unpacked in my soon-to-be-released book, "A Theory of Everyone"

Take home: Studying hardware won't help you understand the capabilities of pivot tables in Excel nor Code Interpreter in ChatGPT.

https://t.co/PF4xleyy91 1/

[Herman Pontzer @HermanPontzer]

There are only 2 kinds of primates in the world: those that pick their nose, and those who haven't yet been caught picking their nose. Probing new study by @Anneclairefabre and @DukeLemurCenter team!
https://t.co/YvAX4uUMp0

[Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh]

New findings about extraordinary altruists' religious beliefs and beliefs in other people by @PaigeAmormino @kmo5128 @KrutiVekaria and @ELRobertson16. Altruists are mainly distinguished by being less likely to believe other people can be truly evil. https://t.co/kf9W0ZJ62g

[Duke Evolutionary Anthropology @EvAnthDuke]

Complicated problems require good tools, so @AmyAGoldberg crafted a uniquely interdisciplinary toolset to better answer questions about human evolution. @DukeTrinity @DukeResearch @DukeBiology
https://t.co/a6iFoKqbBh

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Campus Conversations on JUSTICE - On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It by evolutionary psychologist and 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award winner David Livingstone Smith. https://t.co/xtdJFkjefh

[Wen Zhou @Wen2hou]

@FeldblumJoseph @EvAnthDuke So excited for you, Joseph!!!

[Kurt Gray @kurtjgray]

Moral Psychology People!
I'm teaching a moral psych grad class and want some cool papers to teach my students. What's your favorite new-ish (or old-ish but under-rated) paper?
Thank you!!

[Hidden Brain @HiddenBrain]

“Often we are at our most violent when we are doing it for a cause.” -@profcikara

In this week’s episode, we look at the psychological transformation that happens when we become part of a group. Listen and follow:

https://t.co/2RnNSja81C

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Now out in @PNASNexus

We used machine learning to understand which factors are associated with attitudinal and behavioural responses to the pandemic

The results are quite interesting. A short thread: 1/7

[Aaron Lightner @adlightner]

New paper accepted at Human Nature w/ @ed_hagen on supernatural explanations: https://t.co/7NSb0nEWJ5

We take on the question: why did humans evolve to explain the world with ideas that seem "supernatural," such as spirits & teleological thinking? /1

[Anders Bergström @andersbrgstrm]

Our wolf paper is out! https://t.co/y3KQnxRlYz Analysing 72 ancient 🐺 genomes from the last 100,000 years, we: #1 chart wolf natural history through the Ice Age, #2 directly detect natural selection, #3 reveal that dogs have dual ancestry. A 🧵 (11), illustrations by @jessrpeto

[Mike Berkebile-Weinberg @MikeBerkWein]

Our new paper w/ @AmyKrosch & @david_m_amodio is now published in JESP!

In 3 studies, we found that the perception of economic scarcity increased stereotyping of Black Americans in self-reports and implicit visualizations of Black individuals' faces.

https://t.co/aY0inZB9Dn

[Erin Westgate @ErinWestgate]

In 2015 as he was being roughed up and arrested by Charlottesville police, Martese Johnson yelled repeatedly “I’m a student at UVA!” Gabe Camacho asks: is this a strategy people of color use for countering racial profiling? And does it work? 1/n

[Jared Piazza @jared_piazza]

In today's @PhairSociety blog, I explore research into disgust, how it relates to meat avoidance, and conclude: "disgust may be a useful tool for disrupting people's appetite for meat in the short-term". Warning: disgust content & imagery. https://t.co/kMCpO7T1WN

[Liran Samuni @LirSamuni]

Bonobos are considered xenophilic and regularly encounter other social units. During encounters bonobos behave similarly with both their own unit members & others. They are both aggressive & affectionate, and even form coalitions with others against members of their own unit 2/n

[Dr. Larisa, Assistant (to the) Regional Professor @samclab]

1. Hello, I want your wonderful selves and your fabulous work to win awards. If you also want that, I've put together some thoughts below on navigating early career awards. My experience is in psych & that is what is informing this thread.