The much-anticipated report "A Healthier Canada" is here! 🔎Every $1 invested in social prescribing can return $4.43 to society by reducing healthcare costs & improving quality of life. Learn more about how it supports aging adults, youth, & more: bit.ly/47i9X2Y

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

New research alert! PNAS Nexus People systematically and selectively underestimate the income of the top 1%, but not of other percentiles. This matters for policy and redistribution! Read the thread for more or check out shorturl.at/92olj... Jon M Jachimowicz Hooman Habibnia 1/8

When the scientific consensus diverges from people’s political beliefs, people change their political beliefs. Just kidding! As shown in the graph below, people often just change their beliefs about scientists, seeing them less favorably and as less moral. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/political-bi…

Remote work is not a distraction. It's a chance to concentrate. Government workers were 28% more productive on days when supervisors assigned them tasks to do at home, because they were more focused. The office is good for interaction, but it's not always ideal for deep work.

Somewhere along the way “correlation is not causation” morphed into “until the causal link is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, ideally with a large scale RCT with global external validity, than the correlation likely reflects the impact of some unobserved factor I can’t name.”

bias taxonomy: many human biases can be summed up as a few basic biases/beliefs, with confirmation bias [peoples’ tendency to process information in a way that is consistent with their prior beliefs] amplifying/combining with all of them journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17… h/t Steve Stewart-Williams

How couples met (1930-2024)

"We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists.... Studies have shown that a person-centred, non-diagnosis-led and least-medicalised approach is more effective, quicker and with fewer clinical returns over the longer term." theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

App usage is - contagious (sd increase of roommates’ in-college app usage raises own by 4.4%) - detrimental to academic performance and labor market outcomes (sd increase reduces GPAs by 36% and wages by 2.3%) App restriction policy would boost wages! nber.org/papers/w33054

Wow this NPR article on internal TikTok documents that were unintentionally leaked by the company is WILD. Major points in the thread 👇 npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s…

A cross-national study on the bystander effect, looking at actual behavior recorded on CCTV. Do people intervene to help strangers in public? Yes, almost always (90% of the time) Further, they are even more likely to intervene when the situation is dangerous! (Study 2 below)

The right says the country is dying so you should vote for Trump despite his flaws. The hard left says the country is a hellscape so you may as well vote in protest for a 3rd party or sit out the election. My NYT op-ed this morning shows in 8 graphs why these are seriously

Who would have thought high intensity interval training would be so controversial. As I've always said, the best #exercise, is the one people will do. If that's HIIT- great. If not- that's fine. There is no one-size fits all. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/ap…

If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.

Here's our statement on the results of the 2024 presidential election:

This is a controversial claim, but in my experience, more than 90% of the time, when people bring up neuroscience during explanations of psychological phenomena, the neuroscience adds nothing of value to the explanation other than making the explanation *seem* more authoritative

@MOHOspark 100%! 4-6 intimate connections is said to protect our health and happiness, along with joining 3 or more groups and communities (online or offline) Check out my podcast announcing the new social connection guidelines for Canada with Prof. Kiffer Card youtu.be/SmOfm6d0KA4?si…

This platform’s vibe is off. Follow me at Prof. Kiffer Card.bsky.social

📣 Join us for our next webinar on Feb 17th📣 Registration is now open for our webinar w Dr Nina Goldman and Dr Prof. Kiffer Card talking about their intl perspectives on loneliness & social connection policies and guidelines, followed by a Q&A. More info here: lonelinessresearch.org