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Can our culture alter how we see the world around us? In a new paper, Dorsa Amir and I dig through >100 years of scholarship on this foundational question in psychology, anthropology, and even philosophy. Take a look here (osf.io/preprints/psya…) and follow the story below 👇

Fantastic Very Bad Wizards episode on top-down effects on perception! And a timely exchange: Tamler Sommers: What about the experiments on cultural variation in the Müller-Lyer illusion? David Pizarro: "I kinda wanted to ask Chaz what he thinks about those" Answer: x.com/DorsaAmir/stat…

Some of us have been meeting up at SPSP for the last few years. This year marks our fifth gathering. Email me or Nazanin Kafaee if you want to join! Morteza Dehghani simine vazire Dorsa Amir Sanaz Talaifar

Beautiful analysis by Dorsa Amir & @Chazfirestone of a classic illusion, which (as I suspected) is probably not a product of living in a carpentered world.

It's a privilege to engage with an expert like Joe Henrich on a question as important and foundational as the role of culture in perception. But Dorsa Amir and I think this thread gets several key details wrong, both bigger-picture and finer-grained. Here's how (🧵):

This bit in particular seemed unhelpful. True, I’m like any other WEIRD-o…but Dorsa Amir is a trained anthropologist whose primary research focus is cross-cultural comparison. You could hardly find a scholar more accepting of the existence and importance of cultural variation.

Been following this with interest.

The debate continues! 👇

Our new target article, "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" by sheina lew-levy and Dorsa Amir is now accepting proposals for commentary! Deadline: March 21st, 2025 Learn more: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Read the paper: cambridge.org/core/services/…

SO love this post from Paul Bloom! Real-world effects are awesome when you can get them, but psychologists run experiments in controlled environments "for the same reason that chemists keep their test tubes clean". YES! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/its-fine-if-…

some fun discussion of Dorsa Amir’s and my new paper on the Decoding The Gurus! thanks Chris Kavanagh Arthur Dent and Michael Inzlicht for their take on this foundational question (and how to approach it)

🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at Johns Hopkins University (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

New post! (link in reply)

Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Out today!

If anyone is looking for a great non-fiction editor, Brian Gallagher is your man. He did brilliant work for me improving the draft of The Anxious Generation, and on Ethical Systems. Highly recommend.

Thank you Decoding The Gurus for having me and Dorsa Amir on your show! A wonderful conversation about visual illusions and the role culture may (or may not) play in shaping them. decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mind-c…