Check out our new pre-print on negative perceptions of outsourcing to AI!

Causal inference question! We want to know whether there is a causal path from X --> Y. However, both variables likely share unobserved confounds (U). We have developed an experimental manipulation that directly influences X (Z --> X) but not Y (Z ⫫ Y). Can we use Z as an instrumental variable?

There is a lot of hype about AI and empathy, but what role do we really want AI to play in enhancing empathy? 🤖 Here, Ethan Landes and I argue that AI should only develop human empathy as a tool for moral growth, not replace it 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps... @ethanlandes.bsky.social

Hi new friends! It's great to see the wave of people moving over from the Other Place. I recently started a postdoc at the University of Kent looking at the moral psychology of AI. I'm also interested in cultural evolution, politics, and cooperation. Hoping to share some cool research soon!

We’re excited to announce that Nature Reviews Psychology is now on Bluesky! Please help spread the word by following us and reposting.   #PsychSciSky #Psychology #socialpsyc #cogpsyc #ClinPsych #devpsy

Excited to share this new preprint, a collaboration with Nichola Raihani and Quentin Atkinson. What motivates people to punish others? We find that while many people choose not to punish, those who do punish are motivated by egalitarianism rather than deterrence or norm-enforcement.

I can confirm that these guys are doing awesome work here in Auckland!

Now I'm here, I may as well plug our new paper on the non-independence of nations! 🌏 So happy for this to finally be published open-access at Nature Communications. Worth a read if you're thinking of including any cross-national analyses in your next project!

My first post on Bluesky! Happy to have finally moved here from the other place. Let's hope this is more successful than the Mastodon migration.