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Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Happy to be part of this large-scale project led by the great Lasse Laustsen pure.au.dk/portal/en/pers…

Why do we feel shame? According to popular theories, shame is either (i) ugly and maladaptive, or (ii) a tool for conforming to social norms. But what if shame evolved for a different reason entirely? The information threat theory of shame osf.io/preprints/psya… Yunsuh Nike Wee

Do adapted minds spontaneously generate wergild laws? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild I discuss Yunsuh Nike Wee et al.'s recent Science Advances paper on the origins of laws about bodily damage on Pokes PodCAS: 🎧 pokespodcas.podbean.com/e/74-bodily-da… 📄 Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… CAS Research OSU

Friends! I'm featured---along with Eli Finkel---in today's The New York Times article: 🌹25 Questions to Bring You Closer to Your Mom🌹 Check it out here (free link): nytimes.com/interactive/20…

🔥New preprint on why political activists sometimes try to censor free speech🔥 “Speech repression and threat narratives in politics: social goals and cognitive foundations” osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Psychologists: if you want to complain about how our field lacks a theoretical paradigm, try looking for one in evolution—the thing that actually made the human psyche. Seems like a good place to start, no? At least give that a try before throwing up your hands in despair.

There's a special place in hell reserved for anyone whose CV automatically downloads when I click on it.

Wow! Check out this cool working paper. "War Causes Religiosity" The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans. They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.

Interested in 🤖 AI FRIENDS/ CHATBOTS ? 🤖 I talked about their (hidden) costs + some benefits in the National Journal Link to free article (ltd time)👇 nationaljournal.com/s/728495/compu… h/t Molly Smith (👀her PoPS pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psya… )

Bragging that Social Minds Lab RA (+ Psychology Research Opportunity Program student)... 🥳Jaime Cruz🥳 🏆WON🏆the Faculty Award for Best Poster UCLA's Psi Chi Research Conference! Jaime worked with Vanessa Zankich on FRIENDSHIP JEALOUSY!

So the UCLA Center for Friendship Research is planning... 🥇 the FIRST🥇 FRIENDSHIP Conference for 2027 What would YOU like to see? Workshops? Public-facing talks? Typical symposia? Talk to me, Goose (but you all are cooler than Goose + also I'm Iceman, not Maverick)

Jaimie Arona Krems National Journal Molly Smith I imagine chatbots are great when they train conversation skills, but they’re terrible if you don’t move beyond. It’s like playing a video game against AI. You don’t really know the game until you play against the randomness, theory of mind, and meta-strategy of a human player.

🚨New WP🚨 Can AI do "deep canvassing"—the time-intensive, empathic persuasive dialogues that durably reduce prejudice when done by humans? Spoiler: Yes! We find durable reduction in prejudice toward undocumented immigrants LLMs make deep canvassing possible at scale

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