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Chris Martin
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Psychology. Education. Happiness. Piano. PhD (sociology) @ Emory. Masters (HCI; psychology) @ William and Mary + Georgia Tech. BA (psychology; music) @ Davidson College.
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“Poor people deserve bigger houses”
November 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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There are quite a few important methodological papers by Aiken, West, Mackinnon, and even Jacob Cohen that have modest citation counts.
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Reached the point where I can't tell if "Cancelled" is the name of a special, or if a show has actually been cancelled.
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Election Day visit to the Georgia Aquarium
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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A good album that I just discovered.
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Cooperation in the sense of being fair leads to other types of cooperation
October 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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David Sloan Wilson speaking at Emory about mind, brain, and culture from a Darwinian perspective
October 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Palestinian and Israeli war victims are not considered equal in media coverage. New work by AlShebli, Casara and Maass showing three systematic biases in coverage.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.06453
October 7th 2023 marked the start of a war against Gaza, which is considered one of the most devastating wars in modern history and has led to a stark attitudinal divide within and between countries. To investigate the role of media bias in reporting on this asymmetrical warfare, we analyzed over 14,000 news articles published during the first year of war in three Western (The New York Times, BBC, CNN) and one non-Western English-language outlets (Al Jazeera English). Exploring the media narratives concerning Israeli and Palestinian victims experiencing hardship, we found three systematic biases in Western media. 1) Compared to Palestinian victims, represented mainly as undifferentiated collectives, Israeli victims were more likely to be portrayed as identifiable individual human beings. 2) Despite the striking difference in all forms of hardship (casualties, displacement, etc.), Western journalists created a false balance, equating Israeli and Palestinian suffering, by persistently referring back to the 7th of October massacre, even in the absence of new events involving Israeli victims. 3) When reporting on numbers of Palestinian (vs. Israeli) victims, journalists used language that casts doubt about the credibility of the information and the reputation of the source providing it, thereby selectively undermining the reader's trust in the information regarding Palestinian suffering. Together, our analysis reveals a series of systematic journalistic biases in high-profile Western media that are absent or greatly reduced in Al Jazeera.
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Happening today.
October 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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by ChangHwan Kim shows strong evidence in favor of the hypothesis. It shows that Asian American achievement was high in the 1940s when there was no hyperselective immigration.
Utilizing the full-count 1940 Census linked to the full-count 1930 Census, this study investigates the Asian American Achievement Paradox in 1940. This is the first systematic test of competing AAAP hypotheses using data prior to the 1965 Act. Our results reveal that, contrary to conventional wisdom in this area of research (Lee and Zhou 2015), the AAAP is not a new phenomenon originating from the influx of hyper-selected Asian immigrants in the late twentieth century. Instead, the AAAP is a century-old phenomenon with a previously unknown rich complexity. This study provides several important empirical findings. First, the contextual selectivity of Asian immigrants accounts for the AAAP to varying degrees depending on how educational outcomes are measured. In terms of average years of schooling and high school graduation, contextual selectivity accounts for a third of the Asian American advantage over 3+ generation Whites. As for attainment of a bachelor’s degree, contextual selectivity explains most of the advantages. One caveat is that Asian Americans’ educational advantage compared to other immigrant groups remains unchanged or becomes even stronger after controlling for contextual selectivity.
October 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Does Asian American success emerge from Confucian values in Japan/Korea/China? This hypothesis has been controversial, and sociologists are rewarded for "falsifying" it, but a new paper (1/n)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract: Asian Americans, even those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, achieve extraordinary educational outcomes, defying the expectations of the well-established status attainment theory that family background is strongly associated with educational attainments. This phenomenon is known as the Asian American Achievement Paradox (AAAP). Positive selectivity of Asian immigrants and cultural accounts are two competing explanations, but they are rarely disentangled empirically due to the high collinearity between immigrant selectivity and culture. This study offers a modified version of cultural explanations, clarifies the distinctions between competing explanations based on the same criteria, and tests them by investigating the educational achievements of second-generation Asian Americans using the full-count 1940 Census matched to the 1930 Census. During this period, Asian immigrants were not hyper-selected, so the entanglement of immigrant selectivity and culture is less of a concern. The results are largely consistent with the cultural explanation, revealing the AAAP to be a century-old phenomenon with a previously unknown complexity. The transmission of culture from the society of origin is further evident in that the AAAP is limited to East Asians and does not apply to Filipino Americans, even though contextual selectivity in education is similar across Asian ethnic groups in 1940.
October 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Cold as ice. - at Georgia Aquarium
October 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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John beluga
October 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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It makes me happy to see a message like this as though I’ve reached the end of the Internet
October 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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From Bayard Rustin's The Failures of Black Separatism. Still relevant todya.
September 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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India wins again!
September 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Does nature exposure help children with ADHD? In what appears to be the first pre-registered trial, the evidence suggests maybe not. Medication helps but nature exposure has no significant effect.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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There isn't one set of elites.
Source: Thomas Piketty
September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Thomas Piketty in the LSE webinar happening right now, "Global inequality in historical and comparative perspective"
September 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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At the aquarium
September 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Calling all social and personality psychologists: SSSP is in St. Petersburg Florida this year on November 7-8. It's a conference I have been attending since 2011 and a great one to attend if you're a grad student in the Southeast.
Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists
September 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Never forget
September 2024 Events September 8, 2024: Kendrick Lamar confirmed he would headline the 2025 Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show, a move seen as a challenge to Drake's earlier comments about wanting a "Game 2" rematch. Lamar's announcement video included the line, "You know it's only one opportunity to win a championship. No round two's". September 11, 2024: Lamar released a surprise, untitled track to his Instagram Reels, later referred to by media as "Watch the Party Die" after its chorus. The song was seen as a critique of the music industry and culture, potentially aimed at Drake. September 11, 2024 (Drake's Response): Drake responded in his song "The Heart: Part 6," addressing allegations from Lamar and expressing his frustration with the ongoing feud.
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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New study on teaching in social work shows that straight, white man are perceived as the most privileged students but actually are the most reluctant to speak.
September 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Nice to hear this criticism, but we simply need to expand the court at this point. Just look at the number of baseless 6-3 rulings

NBC | In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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And a paper sculpture
August 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM