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"I listen as she explains it all to me, but in my head I’m thinking something else: she shouldn’t be learning mindfulness at school." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A truly original, thoughtful, and challenging paper about the social psychology of intoxication and its role in enhancing intellectual creativity and social cohesion. In press Theory and Society (Springer Nature), and part of our special issue on Normative Scientific Conflicts (submissions still

Hot off the press: Laban, G., Morrison, V., Kappas, A. et al. Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers. Int J of Soc Robotics (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s12369… #socialrobotics #pepperrobot audio: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/eae92…

Very interesting paper! "Our results show that caregivers increasingly self-disclosed to the robot over time, perceiving it as more social and competent. Participants’ moods improved following interactions, and they viewed the robot as increasingly comforting. They also reported

Agree to disagree? That's the goal of Kellogg's Center for Enlightened Disagreement, led by Eli Finkel and Nour Kteily. Read more about how two leading scholars of conflict and polarization want to help us have more productive conversations. magazine.northwestern.edu/features/cente…

Collecting an extensive publicly available dataset on 4 inhibitory control tasks, Caterina Gratton et al. show that more than 1000 trials/participant are necessary to reduce within-subject variability and improve the reliability of the congruency effect. nature.com/articles/s4156…

"We should learn how the AI beat us at Go, rather than just lamenting our defeat" from my awesome UofT colleagues Jessie Hall & Karina Vold iai.tv/articles/ai-ca…

Whoever you think I think this cartoon refers to, you're probably right.

Elaine Hoan and I got a chance to write a more conversational piece about our gender and singlehood work for Psyche. Link in comments.

My paper with Michael Inzlicht on how trait empathy and features of the context such as valence predict everyday state experiences of empathy is now published #OpenAccess in Sage Journals' #PSPB🥳. Check it out here and let me know if you have any questions: doi.org/10.1177/014616…

Exerting effort increases how meaningful people find an activity, find Michael Inzlicht and colleagues--a caveat to the widespread claim that our goal is always to avoid effort. You just have to look around to see that's not true (and also data back it up).