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Interested in measuring individual differences in altruism/prosocial behavior? Paige Amormino has developed a new, brief assessment that (in my view) is much better than self-report measures or existing economic games. It's called The Social Discounting Short-Form (SDT-SF)

I’m really getting annoyed at these statistically illiterate comments. Obviously, autism is not caused by organic food sales. What’s really going on is that autistic people are buying a lot of organic food.

Andy Masley is doing heroic work trying to explain to people why not to worry about the climate impact of their LLM searches:

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

Finally an explanation of OpenAi’s model naming that gives me some idea of how they’re different. blog.ai-futures.org/p/making-sense…

An episode I've been wanting to make for awhile. I'm so glad Amori (who was last on the pod for the very well-received ADHD episode) was up for it.

Why Should You Trust Research Published in #PsychologicalScience? Read simine vazire's Editorial, NOW online journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

New from Phoebe Maltz Bovy: Yoel Inbar explains how DEI programs were only ever designed to accept diverse viewpoints... but not resolve conflict between them. thecjn.ca/news/campus/ha…

Thanks Phoebe Maltz Bovy for having me on. A great conversation, and she even bought me a muffin afterwards.

smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/why-are-so-f…

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the all-new 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

New episode! Returning guest Spencer Greenberg (Spencer Greenberg 🔍) joins the show to talk about replications, what psychologists think about controversial topics, and more: share.fireside.fm/episode/Ah1OZy…

“Donating to effective charities is obvious”

🎙️ Spencer Greenberg 🔍 on Two Psychologists Four Beers: new psychology replication effort finds p-hacking way down (yay), but ~half of replicated studies don't mean what the authors implied they did (oof). This is not just a problem in psychology, in my experience! fourbeers.com/120

Great!

Been unusually tired with mood swings and brain fog lately. Finally got blood work done: significant B12 and iron deficiencies. Will take time to rebuild, but I'm fixable with vitamins! If you've been feeling off, this is your reminder: get your labs checked!

Hi Prolific, your platform is great (I am one of your first users, and very pleased) but recently there is a huge uptick in AI use in tasks that require open text. We explicitly tell participants not to use GPT et al., disallow copy+paste, but it is still quite clear that in

open.substack.com/pub/paulbloom/…

I had a great time recording this. What they are proposing is new, interesting, and weird in the best possible way. If you sometimes have a nagging feeling that we are missing something important as a science, this is well worth a listen.

we had a great time talking to Yoel! is your mind nothing but a great big giant thermostat? like the man says, listen and find out!