The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Call for 5-years research fellowships at PSL university! @psl-univ.bsky.social Join the CultureLab team to research computational social science. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o5mkp...

No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. 🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2025 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...

Prosocial behavior among familiars in the context of "spontaneous requests for immediate, low-cost assistance (e.g., to pass a utensil)" reveals that "cultural variation is limited, pointing to a common foundation for everyday cooperation around the world." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

☁️Le chauffage au bois résidentiel cause + de pollution aux particules fines que le trafic routier et l'industrie. Une étude @normalesup.bsky.social @coraliechevallier.bsky.social montre que la connaissance du niveau de pollution fait changer les comportements : www.ens.psl.eu/actualites/p...

Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action Our new paper (N=6,132, across 63 countries) suggests that focusing on subtle terminology in climate messaging is not an effective use of resources. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @kimdoell.bsky.social

Why are blue-collar voters drifting from the Democratic Party? Is it due to shifts in voter preferences or shifts in party positions? What role do cultural versus economic policies play? My Job Market Paper presents an empirical model that unpacks these dynamics. 1/N

as an experiment, I posted the same post to twitter and bluesky. here is the time series of engagements (sum of comments, reposts, likes) from the two platforms. Note that I have 39K followers on twitter and 7K here, so engagement per follower here is more than 10 times higher here on bluesky.

This paper is a year old but I like it so much that I’m reposting :)

“Disclaimers such as “we are simply describing cross-sectional associations” are common, but they do little to prevent causal interpretations when the motivating research question is causal.” I’d also add that… (cont’d)

My book SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION will be out on May 20, 2025! Shamanism characterized the earliest religions, echoes in often unappreciated ways in the world around us, and will long outlive us. Pre-order it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730339...

not only does music training *not* make kids smarter (far transfer) but it also apparently does not alter low-level audition (near transfer) New multisite study from the wonderful Andrew Oxenham with many others www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... "music for music's sake" wins again

Does social media use impact mental health? A principled re-analysis of Rausch and Haidt’s re-analysis. Short answer: no evidence that reductions in social media time improve adolescent mental health.

A favorite paper, with great coauthors. Birthweight inequalities were surprisingly similar in FR, UK, US, but mechanisms were very different. Income was important in the US but not at all in FR. In FR: mostly due to smoking, which was not important for US. And the UK? Somewhere in the middle!

This is the best Dennett obituary so far, not least because it mentions this perfect passage from 'Consciousness Explained' arstechnica.com/science/2024...

New post! I take you through what it's like to explore data through data visualization, focusing on causes of death. How do you decide which chart is best? What do different visualizations tell you about the data? And why does dataviz matter at all? www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/four-chart...

EP #7 OUT! What is the difference between social motivation and social cognition? How does understanding this difference impact the design of therapies and public policy? Jay and I discuss this & much more with @coraliechevallier.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4LYM...

Exciting summer school in Budapest: "The Human Mind and the Open Society" summeruniversity.ceu.edu/courses/2024...

📣We are hiring!! We are looking for two tenure-track assistant professors, one in Human Evolutionary Social Science and one in Computational Social Science. 🚨Deadline Jan 31st Please retweet! Details are here: www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

We are opening two tenure-track positions (please repost!) Human Evolutionary Social Science Computational Social Science Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France! Deadline Jan 31st www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

The abstract deadline for #EHBEA2024 is December 15th - get those ideas flowing! www.ehbea2024.com

Today I finished going through the final edits for my second book. I’ve been writing it since mid 2021, and it’s really, really nice to at last be able to say it’s done www.penguin.co.uk/books/451093... /1

New paper from Daniel Nettle, with Kate Pickett, @coraliechevallier.bsky.social, Eliott & Matthew Johnson "Short-term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: The Changing Cost of Living Study" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Preregistering a one-sided test when you test a directional prediction increases statistical power with on average ~11% at no cost whatsoever compared to doing a (logically incoherent) two-sided test. You are welcome.

@hugoreasoning.bsky.social !

New paper in TiCS : "Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history" www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Interview with The Dissenter: The Psychological Effects of Living in Harsh and Unpredictable Environments. #psychology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/dzbIkj9tkKg Podcast: bit.ly/40fOlRh Thanks Ricardo!

New paper out! "Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments" #CulturalEvolution #cssky 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"We show that Guinea baboons (Papio papio) can use direct reciprocity and partner choice to develop and maintain high levels of cooperation in a prosocial choice task." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hello! We're Malengo, a non-profit whose mission is to facilitate international educational migration. This year we're supporting 120 young Ugandans with finance and mentoring on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. You can learn more about us at www.malengo.org! #EconSky

Not just NPR but scientific publications also… Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We started @malengo.org in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany. We admitted 10 students in 2021; 30 in 2022; and 120 in 2023. Our next goal: FOUR HUNDRED! We urgently need both investors and donors — please read and spread widely! 1/n

New paper with Mathilde Mus and Hugo Mercier on designing an acceptable and fair carbon tax: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

When the abstract says ❝We exploit the quasi-exogenous assignment of 1.5 million patients to physicians in US military, using the difference in ranks to measure their power differential❞ you know you're in for something great @vinisingh.bsky.social stschwab.github.io/images/power...

Just finished making a monster slideshow aimed at covering the basics of measuring poverty. It has a tilt towards Canadian content, but is pretty general and is for an intro international development MA course. Slides are temporarily here in case anyone wants them: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q3f4l...