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🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola

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Many of us have heard of Hofstede's cultural dimensions (e.g. the individualistic-collectivist (IC) dimension), but few have looked under the hood of how they were constructed. The data, it turns out, come from self-report surveys of IBM employees ca. 1968-72. Here's McSweeney describing the sample:

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Out today!

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Made a "graphic syllabus" this year to encourage students to actually, you know, read the syllabus and maybe even use the information. Stay tuned for results! Here's a link to the Keynote file if you wanna try it out 👇🏼 drive.google.com/file/d/1K6W-...

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Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its style. How does that work? How do we see style? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

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Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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1/ 🧵 🚨New paper!🚨 Cross-cultural research is expanding in the social sciences — but are we measuring what we think we are? Our recent paper argues that construct validity is an overlooked challenge, especially in developmental research. Let’s break it down. 🌍 🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The looks great: “cross-cultural developmental research poses distinct problems for ensuring high construct validity, owing to the nuances of working with children; the standard approach of transporting protocols designed & validated in one population to another risks low construct validity”

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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

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Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc... and careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...

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🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

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The Development of Risk Attitudes and their Cultural Transmission New preprint w/ Alejandro Pérez Velilla & @babeheim.bsky.social. This is one of the best modeling papers I have ever been involved in, tackling developmental, cultural, and class differences in risk attitudes. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Two of my favorite cognitive scientists @dorsaamir.bsky.social & @chazfirestone.bsky.social go after one of the mind's most intriguing puzzles. Good stuff and work a read!

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Wow! Exemplary research by Dorsa Amir ‪@dorsaamir.bsky.social and Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social, highly relevant to the study of cognition and culture

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Can our culture alter how we see the world around us? In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social and I dig through >100 years of scholarship on this foundational question in psychology, anthropology, and even philosophy. Take a look here (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and follow the story below 👇

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been citing the claim that the Müller-Lyer illusion is influenced by cultural environment since I read about it in the 2010 WEIRD paper. Turns out that might be wrong.

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

Cool paper from @dorsaamir.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social on the universality of a classic visual illusion, often the go-to example for "culture determines everything!" types

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to [email protected] by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!

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Came across a fun bit of marginalia from Darwin’s personal library: In a copy of “Principles of Geology”, Lyell argues that animal varieties can change over time, but never deviate enough to form new species. “If this were true,” Darwin scrawls in the margin, “adios theory”.

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Turns out parenthood is mostly Applied Microbiology. You'll learn all about illnesses that seemingly escaped an 18th century cattle farm (hand-foot-&-mouth disease, fifth disease) & their treatments. If you're lucky (& you're always lucky), you'll also get to experience them firsthand!

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We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

This is a really great article with a whole new perspective on cultural evolution

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Excited to share that our BBS target article — "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" — is online & open for commentary! In it, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argue that children's peer cultures might play an important & understudied role in cultural adaptation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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