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"I am bullish about psychology. The field has come up with some striking findings that shatter common-sense conceptions about how the mind works. I’ll tell you about four of them." 📝 Professor of Psychology Paul Bloom time.com/6588786/how-ps…

Our team is hiring 1-2 summer interns to help update our work on the religious composition of every country in the world. Please share! (cont'd) pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CenterEx…

Real world debates are not about "foundations" of liberty or fairness. They are about *victims*--who is most vulnerable to mistreatment. Cops? Black people? Fetuses? 8 studies show moral debates are explained by diff "assumptions of vulnerability" (AoVs) btw libs and cons.

What drives innovation? The Collective Brain Hypothesis (Michael Muthukrishna,Maxime Derex) argues that innovation arises from the recombination of ideas that occurs when diverse minds interact and share ideas... Matt Ridley tylercowen royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Morality in the Anthropocene: The perversion of compassion and punishment in the online world. New paper with the excellent @CRobertson500 & the very good Jay Van Bavel, PhD. We discuss how, online, the scale of people and our distance from them befuddle our moral intuitions.

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via John Burn-Murdoch 2024 Democrats are the red dot. Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

Paul Piff picking a post-doc! Strongly recommend. He is a great collaborator in a great department.

PLEASE HELP WITH NAMING LATENT VALUE PROFILES Hi all, Together with two supremely talented grad students at UBC, I am doing a project on latent value profiles. We have the profiles – but what should we call each of these three groups? Please help (and yes, go nuts!). Thank you!