Why you’re wise on Tuesday and foolish on Sunday: Practising #wisdom in uncertain times - a brief sunday read & a mild rant against "one trick" gurus & substakers. theconversation.com/why-youre-wi... @theconversation.com

Can we predict the past? 🔮 New open-access paper in American Historical Review proposes 'Retrodiction'—using gaps in the archival record to test historical theories. Interdisciplinary collab feat. David Gill, Marc Trachtenberg, Phil Tetlock, Cendri Hutcherson, and more 🧵👇

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 "Understanding & Predicting Cultural Change" is accepted at Advances in Experimental Social Psychology! Varnum & I argue that Psychology cannot afford to be blind to time. We need to move from cross-sectional snapshots to dynamic time-series movies. 🧵👇

International students: Were you told "no" to Waterloo recently due to recruitment bans? The door just swung back open. 🚪🔓 Canada just launched the Impact+ Research Training Awards (CIRTA), and my lab is looking for the best global talent to join us. (1/4)

Wrapping up the year feeling very grateful for the brilliant team at the Wisdom & Culture Lab (plus alumni!). End-of-term outing to Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market + the Distillery District—great convos, great company, great snacks. Happy Holidays! 🎓✨🍁

Excited to talk on #AI and #wisdom at the Second Renaissance Conference Online 2025 (Dec 5–7), which explores how we can meet today’s wider poly- and meta-crisis through inner-led change and catalyse a civilizational renaissance. Join us 2rcon.org.

Are you curious about the results of our #wisdomturingtest? Want to find out who was the AI? If so, tune-in to the second part of the ON WISDOM podcast on the "Wisdom Turing Test," with the amazing @steverathje.bsky.social : onwisdompodcast.fireside.fm/67 #TuringTest #ChineseRoom #AIsycophancy

Excited to talk about the #dangers to #science panel on Thursday and to see old and new RSC friends in MTL this week!

Wisdom isn’t about what you think; it’s about how you think. It’s using a set of mental tools. On this week’s episode of How God Works, we explore the science behind wisdom with @igi.bsky.social and take a look at modern & centuries old ways of cultivating it. www.howgodworks.org/podcast/seas...

Enjoyed talking to David Cooper on The Last Show about how to make wise choices @dtcooper.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...

Very much enjoyed joining @daviddesteno.bsky.social on his podcast. I think its the first time the classic contemplative practices are juxtaposed with modern wisdom science. Tune in!

My colleague Falk Lieder and I are hiring a new post-doc at UCLA to join the #WiseJudgementConsortium. The ad is here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10650

Share your thoughts who is an Ai and who is wiser here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Can you pass the #WisdomTuringTest?

Ever heard of the #Wisdom #TuringTest? I thought of creating one for the new #OnWisdom #postcast episode. This is a special episode & I want your help. Tune in: onwisdompodcast.fireside.fm/66

Research can feel like shouting into the void. I’m deeply grateful that Emma Buchtel, Xu Jingya, & Betul Turel built on our “wise reasoning” work to tackle cultural diversity. They presented a large-scale study proposal at the 2025 @psychscience.bsky.social Global Summit. #culturaldiversity

Excited to visit colleagues Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen - first time in Copenhagen! - to talk about (mis)#measurement, and (mis)#construal of #wisdom, incl. #intellectual #humility, #empathy/#perspective-taking, and #openmindedness to diverse viewpoints.

When faced with tough decisions, people across the globe prefer making their own decisions rather than accepting advice or information from elsewhere, according to a study from TWCF #ListeningAndLearningInAPolarizedWorld grantee @igi.bsky.social at @uwaterloo.ca#ListeningAndLearningInAPolarizedWorld 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/49aB0Ad/

If you are @ #SESP2025 in Lisbon and have bold, controversial ideas about psychology/social sciences OR if you want to know more about the process in #Psychological #Inquiry - one of our premier theory journals, please don't be shy - I am around & would love to meet you.

If your at SESP, check out our symposium on intellectual humility on Saturday!

Back in Portugal 🇵🇹 for #SESP2025 — and for the first time, #SESP itself is happening in Europe (Lisbon). This Saturday, 3:45–4:45 PM → Room Milão Chairing a symposium on #intellectual #humility in the #wild: #polarization, rural disputes, and #forecasting #societal #progress.

When science gets misrepresented, trust in science goes down. Good for @jespinosa.bsky.social to call out #misinformation, esp. given how contentious this topic is!

📣 New publication alert! In a large, diverse sample, #CompanionDogs with a history of trauma before 6 months were seen as more fearful and/or aggressive than trauma-free dogs or those with trauma later on in life 🧪 #CanineScience #DogBehaviour #EarlyLifeAdversity doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Science of #wisdom made it to the @hiddenbrain.bsky.social ! humbled to share some insights w @shankarvedantam.bsky.social and his team - www.patreon.com/HiddenBrain. Wisdom does not have a simple story and isn't a story of a single person. I hope you like it.

Our paper “The Reasonable, the Rational, and the Good” is finally out in Open Mind 🎉It spent over a year under review at another place—positive reviews + R&R—before getting rejected. Publishing is slow & messy. If you’re going through it, you’re not alone. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Our recent work (which came out in Proceedings B doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) featured in @nautil.us. Can I Give You Some Advice? nautil.us/can-i-give-y...

Our recent work featured in @Forbes ! www.forbes.com/sites/anurad...

🚨 New paper out in JEP: General! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... Does adversity make us wiser? Spoiler: Not by default.

New Issue Alert: #Psychological #Inquiry, Vol. 36 (3), featuring the #open-access target article by Melody M. Chao: Introducing the ALPs Model for cultural competence. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Full issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/36/3#OpenAccess Check it out & share.

New paper in Proceedings B, forcing us to rethink the canonical understanding of cultural differences in independent and interdependent agency.

1/10 Finally out in Proceedings B @royalsociety.org ! This took a while—big scope, many hands. We started with a worry: maybe Solomon’s paradox (doi.org/10.1177/0956797614535400) is “too obvious.” If stepping back helps wise choices, surely everyone does it… right?

1️⃣ Hot off the press! 🎉 Wisdom = story toolbox + smart shortcuts + metacognition. (Free PDF below.) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

ManyDogs has a new study! If you're a behavior researcher interested in collecting dog behavior data with your lab, get in touch 🙌🤓🐶 #BigTeamScience 🧪 #OpenScience #CanineScience #WomenInSTEM #dogs #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition

"Sage against the machine" — is a behind-the-paywall title of a Hindustan Times article reviewing our paper ( doi.org/10.1038/s414...) on perception of wisdom in people across cultures (thanks to @igi.bsky.social ) there's a paywall but just in case www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...

Wisdom & Culture Lab rocked geo-psych.com in Vancouver! Peter Diep debuted insights on #IntellectualHumility in Africa @maksimrudnev.com tracked shifting European values Plus, sneak peek at futurescape.uwaterloo.ca with Google Arts Exciting things ahead! #SocialScience #Culture

Out today: Psychological Inquiry 36(2) 🌐 Open-access deep-dive into Beyond Identity by Sebben & Ullrich + 8 lively commentaries and a rejoinder. Skim the TOC image & join the discussion on #FundamentalInequalities #SocialChange 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3... @simonesebben.bsky.social

New paper 📄✨The reasonable, the rational, and the good. In press in Open Mind. • Rationality = rule-based, utility-max, perfect for tight problems • Reasonableness = socially aware, context-savvy, perfect for messy dilemmas doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fc8n6_v3 #PsychSci #DecisionMaking #FolkWisdom

Amazing visit to Isabel Thielmann group &colleagues (Hannes Rusch Jean-Louis van Gelder) at the MPI Criminology and Law in #Freiburg to talk about folk standards of #rationality and #reasonableness. Such a fun, intellectually curious and hospitable group!

Just wrapped an inspiring stint with Ralph Hertwig & the @arc-mpib.bsky.social in Berlin to discuss #wisdom + #metacognition. Next stop: my alma mater @uni-freiburg.de‬ & MPI for Crime, Security, and Law to unpack how layfolk judge (econ.) #rationality vs (legal) #reasonableness! Coffee?

Excited about the visit ‪@arc-mpib.bsky.social to talk about the #wisdom #frontier in #judgment and #decision-making. The target JARMAC issue coming out this fall. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... as well as reflect on the ongoing work of the Wise Judgment Consortium wiseminds.uwaterloo.ca

New JEP: General paper: 499 adults • 4 surveys • 12 mo. A network of 4 skills—Intellectual #humility, uncertainty recognition, #perspectivetaking, search for #compromise—fits far better than any “one wisdom trait” Preprint + code: osf.io/9q5ke

Given everything happening to the students and postdocs everywhere right now... reminder we are still looking for a post-doc. A safe position in a stable, highly innovative environment in a safe, public health and public education loving country.

This topic (i.e., belief-behaviour correspondence) looks relevant to most psychologists, regardless of your content domain. If you're not reading Psych Inquiry, give it a whirl. Really nice format of target articles with thoughtful reviews. #PsychSciSky

🚨 New @psychinquiry Issue 36:1 just dropped! Target article: Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence by @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social & @dalbarra.bsky.social. Why don’t beliefs always drive actions? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpli20/3...

Charles and I have a new OnWisdom Episode out, with Neil Van Leeuwen on #religion as #make-belief. Tune in! onwisdompodcast.fireside.fm/65

On getting AI models to "think" (more like humans), in IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/chain-of-tho... They quoted me almost right - what I really asid was that the next frontier is metacognition (not just "better" cognition :)

🚨 FINALLY OUT! We explore how #wisdom evolves—and why psychology needs to take time seriously when studying it. 🧠 + 📏 + ⏳ = better research 🔗 50 free PDFs: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RYITH... #PsychScience #Wisdom #Metacognition #TemporalThinking #OpenScience #PsychTwitter #AcademicTwitter

Stable funding, bold AI—Waterloo 🧭#Postdoc alert! Build wiser #AI at @UWaterloo’s Wise Judgment Consortium & CHARM lab. Topics: cultural reasoning, multi‑agent LLMs, preference modelling. Global, CIFAR backing, CAD 65k + benefits. Apply ➜ forms.gle/bM49EdkkhrXe... #ResponsibleAI #postdocjobs share!

NEW @collabrapsychology.bsky.social paper doi.org/10.1525/coll... by amazing Johanna Peetz and her team about the #goal #construal at the beginning and end of the day #mentalrepresentation #reasoning #chronotype #OpenScience

🚨 JOB! Full professorship (W3) in Personality Psychology / Interindividual Differences & Psychological Assessment at Uni Bremen. I hold the "sister professorship" is social psych & very much recommend this post. Please apply, share widely & don't hestiate to ask me! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

NYU is hiring a Visiting Lecturer in Social Psychology The position is ideal for someone who is applying for academic positions and looking to gain additional research and teaching experience. The salary is $70,000 Applicant review begins MAY 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166631