Published version of Aaron Lightner & Ed Hagen's intriguing paper: [link.springer.com/article/10.100…]

This is such a cool paper. Elegant evidence that children sample one possibility out of many and treat it as actual. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

How do people intervene in a dynamic system to learn its causal structure?🔧⏰ In this new Cogn Psych paper, we found people generate causal events that are both informative and simple to interpret. W/Tobias Gerstenberg, Ralf Mayrhofer, and Neil Bramley authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… 🧵

1/12 🚨 New publication in Social Media+Society 🚨 with Sacha Altay and Alberto Acerbi “Misinformation on Misinformation: conceptual and methodological challenges” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

HB out today from RCC's BGP and Theiss Bendixen! With contributions from many of the RCC crew including Aaron Lightner and Anne Lundahl Mauritsen! A stellar group of chapters from Rita McNamara Adam Baimel Wesley Wildman Here Be Humans and more! Bloomsbury Books UK Religious Studies Lily Mac Mahon

New theory paper on the sociocultural dynamics of medical technologies: I show that when individuals can entertain multiple treatments simultaneously, both ineffective and effective medical treatments may stably coexist: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Need is central to many models of human cooperation including need-based sharing: asking for help only when in need & sharing when asked. But it ends up that even if individuals ask when *not* in need, sharing can still enhance survival for all involved 1/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

More special issue content just dropped! This one from Aaron Lightner Anne Pisor & Ed Hagen In need-based sharing, sharing is more important than need sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"[R]eligious narratives, though false or seemingly irrational, often turn out to reflect concerns about behaviors that matter for people's livelihoods. With radical uncertainty, they are often all we have." -Aaron Lightner cambridge.org/core/journals/…

David Sloan Wilson Jody Hoffer Gittell ProSocial World This View of Life Association for Contextual Behavioral Science In case you haven't seen it (ABM and field study of interdependence). Project led by Aaron Lightner, with Anne Pisor sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

GPP PI Edouard Machery has a new paper on psychological essentialism. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Opportunity for a fully funded PhD Research Fellow position (3 year-scholarship) to study the #cross-cultural patterns of #nomadic #pastoral #cooperation on my European Research Council (ERC) project. Deadline 15th of June.👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/103014

(1/5) New paper out in Cognitive Psychology with Ralph Hertwig (Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin)) and Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development). We investigate how participants infer Bayesian posterior inferences based on an analysis of >10,000 human inferences and computer simulations. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The project I've been working on since Day 0 of grad school is finally published! We find that ecology explains a decent chunk of cultural variation-- across 66 different cultural variables royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Is misinformation a dangerous virus? Are we living through an infodemic? Is there a vaccine for misinformation? In this review of Sander van der Linden's (Sander van der Linden) new book 'Foolproof', I argue that the answer to these questions is "no". A thread: bostonreview.net/articles/the-f…

In those cases, the result is not an "infodemic" but what I have elsewhere called a "marketplace of rationalizations" in which misinformation behaves more like a consumer good than a contagious virus. cambridge.org/core/journals/…