David Chester
@davidchester.bsky.social
Associate Prof at VCU. Experimental psychologist. Aggression scientist. Dad.
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Analysis of mouse-tracking data reveals support for both dynamic competition and impulse inhibition accounts of self-control, thought inhibition is relatively rare. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Analysis of mouse-tracking data reveals support for both dynamic competition and impulse inhibition accounts of self-control, thought inhibition is relatively rare. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
A neural signature for self-focused thinking. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A neural signature for self-focused thinking. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
A helpful way to think about traits (a la Whole Trait Theory) is that they are within-person density distributions. This paper examined how these density distributions varied by different kinds of situations. A really nice way to quantify person-situation interactions. osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A helpful way to think about traits (a la Whole Trait Theory) is that they are within-person density distributions. This paper examined how these density distributions varied by different kinds of situations. A really nice way to quantify person-situation interactions. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Artificial selection on dogs has served to expand cortical regions and reduce subcortical/insular regions of the brain. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
July 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Artificial selection on dogs has served to expand cortical regions and reduce subcortical/insular regions of the brain. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/2...
Taxonomic Graph Analysis --- a new technique that does a bass-ackwards-esque hierarchical representation of scale items but also deals with independence violations + wording effects and estimates the robustness of the hierarchical structure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
June 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Taxonomic Graph Analysis --- a new technique that does a bass-ackwards-esque hierarchical representation of scale items but also deals with independence violations + wording effects and estimates the robustness of the hierarchical structure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Wife got me farmers market flowers on Father's Day, felt like a very lucky guy.
June 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Wife got me farmers market flowers on Father's Day, felt like a very lucky guy.
The continuing irrelevance of that tawdry group of self-serious hacks is a wellspring of schadenfreude that never runs dry.
June 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The continuing irrelevance of that tawdry group of self-serious hacks is a wellspring of schadenfreude that never runs dry.
No meta-analytic effect of tDCS cortical stimulation on aggression (k = 25, power = 33%). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
June 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
No meta-analytic effect of tDCS cortical stimulation on aggression (k = 25, power = 33%). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A nice tractographical study on my favorite stringy neural structure --- the caudolenticular gray matter bridge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
June 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A nice tractographical study on my favorite stringy neural structure --- the caudolenticular gray matter bridge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The data do not support 'the neural separability assumption' of emotions --- in which separate systems exist that generate or regulate emotions. Value-based and constructionist approaches fit better. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
May 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The data do not support 'the neural separability assumption' of emotions --- in which separate systems exist that generate or regulate emotions. Value-based and constructionist approaches fit better. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
I love this figure because spider haters and controls think spiders are unpleasant, but spider experts are like "no, they're great."
May 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I love this figure because spider haters and controls think spiders are unpleasant, but spider experts are like "no, they're great."
People who are scared of spiders overestimate their size (controls and "spider experts" do not). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
People who are scared of spiders overestimate their size (controls and "spider experts" do not). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anyone else getting AI-generated homework answers in their Google Scholar Alerts for new articles?
April 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Anyone else getting AI-generated homework answers in their Google Scholar Alerts for new articles?
I've seen some wacky ways of measuring psychopathy, but applying this unvalidated equation to the text of Amazon product reviews might be the wackiest. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
April 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I've seen some wacky ways of measuring psychopathy, but applying this unvalidated equation to the text of Amazon product reviews might be the wackiest. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
People hold sympathetic and patronizing views of ostracized people. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
March 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
People hold sympathetic and patronizing views of ostracized people. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Me in that bathroom
March 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Me in that bathroom
Happy Sauron Overthrow Day to those who celebrate the toppling of tyrants.
"Sing now, ye people,
For the Realm of Sauron is ended for ever,
And the Dark Tower is thrown down.
Sing and rejoice, ye people,
For your watch hath not been in vain."
"Sing now, ye people,
For the Realm of Sauron is ended for ever,
And the Dark Tower is thrown down.
Sing and rejoice, ye people,
For your watch hath not been in vain."
March 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Happy Sauron Overthrow Day to those who celebrate the toppling of tyrants.
"Sing now, ye people,
For the Realm of Sauron is ended for ever,
And the Dark Tower is thrown down.
Sing and rejoice, ye people,
For your watch hath not been in vain."
"Sing now, ye people,
For the Realm of Sauron is ended for ever,
And the Dark Tower is thrown down.
Sing and rejoice, ye people,
For your watch hath not been in vain."
"The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Looks like the horns, spikes, scales, plates, and clubs that adorned dinosaurs were ~40% bigger than we see in their fossils. Ankylosaurs, the best dinosaurs, "are now envisioned as low, extrawide battering rams rather than vaguely melon-shaped." www.scientificamerican.com/article/dino...
March 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Looks like the horns, spikes, scales, plates, and clubs that adorned dinosaurs were ~40% bigger than we see in their fossils. Ankylosaurs, the best dinosaurs, "are now envisioned as low, extrawide battering rams rather than vaguely melon-shaped." www.scientificamerican.com/article/dino...
Facts. This led me to turn my backyard into a makeshift berry farm. Every summer, I get a break from the berry bill.
March 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Facts. This led me to turn my backyard into a makeshift berry farm. Every summer, I get a break from the berry bill.
and for the low, low price of . . . . . . ..
March 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
and for the low, low price of . . . . . . ..
Spot the toddler hiding from his dad and his bedtime.
February 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Spot the toddler hiding from his dad and his bedtime.
I have obtained an orb.
February 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I have obtained an orb.
Angriest Cardinal Ever.
February 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Angriest Cardinal Ever.
In the harder early days of parenting, it would've been nice to know that one day I'd be able to get back into Pokemon cards with my oldest and watch him unbox a fucking Registeel!
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In the harder early days of parenting, it would've been nice to know that one day I'd be able to get back into Pokemon cards with my oldest and watch him unbox a fucking Registeel!