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Is Your Life Due for a Meaning Audit? #buildingmeaningfulconnections #b... youtube.com/shorts/xAfdiea… via YouTube

New PNAS paper led by Will Gervais The question: Do people implicitly see atheists as morally bad? The paper uses an implicit measure that draws on experimental philosophy — asking people whether certain behaviors were performed intentionally

The new reading list is up, and we have 11 books from some amazing authors like Steven Heine Ezra Klein Derek Thompson Brian Tyler Cohen Tom Nichols Emre Soyer Ramit Sethi and more! Read: open.substack.com/pub/therewired…

How might we best evaluate the evidential value of a large literature? link.growkudos.com/1e1kqk4wdfk

Optimal Sleep Duration Varies Significantly Across Cultures ift.tt/dbq8e1s

Just finished "Abundance" by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Fantastic book! I found myself thinking, "I couldn't agree more." Well done! If I may offer one critique...however...

A reminder that not all replications are equal. Online replications can't always be expected to replicate findings that are contingent upon in-person cues.

睡眠の各国比較において、日本人の睡眠時間は6:18で20カ国中最も短い。しかし日本人が望む理想の睡眠時間は約7時間と考えられており、そこに近いほど健康状態は良い。睡眠時間が長くても文化的に理想とする睡眠時間の差が大きいと健康によくない。PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Here's a nice summary of our PNAS paper showing that healthy sleep durations vary across cultures. youtube.com/shorts/MJNX0DN… pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Very nice in pnas - people who slept closer to their own culture's norms for sleep duration had better overall health. Sleep duration is more complex than often considered in a strict neuroscientific or biomedical sense. Christine Ou Steven Heine pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

On CTV Morning Live with Keri Adams, Dr. Steven Heine of UBC Sociology & Dr. Christine Ou of University of Victoria - School of Nursing share study findings on quantity & quality of healthy sleep! 😴 ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vide…

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. 92–97% of experts

Sleep Like A Local: Why One-Size-Fits-All Sleep Advice Doesn't Fit Anyone / American Council on Science and Health While sleep is universally acknowledged as vital to health, how much we should and do sleep depends heavily on culture, geography, and social expectations. What's

Finally a serious effort to make sense of the diverse set of ways that people present their distress across cultures and history.

New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organization of families (kin-based institutions) shapes our psychology. Mohammad Atari Edward Slingerland Kevin Hong Jonathan Schulz

Perhaps the most striking cultural differences are findings that people literally see the world differently depending where they grew up.

Oof. Polygenic scores for IQ lose 75% of their explained variance when adding family controls, even worse than the attenuation for Educational Attainment. These are the scores Silicon Valley is using to select embryos 😬. A few thoughts on this study ...

Peter misses the argument here, making the entire piece misleading. Once you understand the actual argument, the aDNA data is largely supportive. See below

In the 18th century, there was a real chance of death at any point in life, and there wasn't a big peak in old age. It wasn't just higher infant mortality - the whole distribution was completely different. Great chart by Inquisitive Bird.

WEIRD Physiology: while psychologists continue to insist that they can infer 'human' thinking from narrow American samples, data from on physiology, health & anatomy confirms the phenotype-altering impact of WEIRD lifestyles. Fascinating piece Michael Gurven nature.com/articles/s4358…