Kyle Fischer
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Kyle Fischer
@akfischer.bsky.social
Postdoc interested in evolution/neurobiology/cognition/behavior of humans & other animals, currently studying digital media psychology with Alberto Acerbi
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‪🚨New preprint with @akfischer.bsky.social

What drives engagement with *reliable* news on social media?

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June 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Had fun, met a lot of great people, and saw some very interesting talks at HBES & NEEPS evolutionary psychology conferences in Atlantic City, USA! For HBES, I presented the below work that I'm doing with @acerbialberto.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Extremely happy to see some of my PhD work out in Current Anthropology!

"The Dual Foundations of Political Ideology Are Ubiquitous across Human Social Life"

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The Dual Foundations of Political Ideology Are Ubiquitous across Human Social Life | Current Anthropology
Many people in Western countries represent the political landscape as a single dimension of conflict: authority, hierarchy, and tradition on the right versus greater freedom, equality, and systemic ch...
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May 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Economic game studies show conservatives are less prosocial, but it is specifically economic conservatism that's linked to selfishness/competitiveness whereas social conservatism is not & is instead linked to 'groupishness'/intergroup-biased prosociality: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vcgsj_v1
February 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ever wondered whether progressives are really nicer than conservatives? Check out our very short chapter that just came out in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics! osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Preprint of our chapter (for the EHBEA textbook “Evolution, Culture and Human Behavior”) in which we harness the explanatory power of an evolutionary perspective to examine digital media’s effects on wellbeing, cooperation, (mis)information, and politics. osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM