manes
@michaelanes.bsky.social
Cognitive psychologist | Wittenberg University
Cog(neuro)(science), gender, race, music, 🇵🇱
Direct Wittenberg Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad & Witt in Poland with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
Cog(neuro)(science), gender, race, music, 🇵🇱
Direct Wittenberg Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad & Witt in Poland with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
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I’m always struck by the number of teachers who *don’t* actively listen to their students and/or actively solicit feedback from them. Massive missed opportunity to not only improve practice, but also find the motivation to keep going when things get tough.
Want to know if you're making a difference?
Just listen to your Ss, says T Matt Johnson! #TeacherSky
Just listen to your Ss, says T Matt Johnson! #TeacherSky
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I’m always struck by the number of teachers who *don’t* actively listen to their students and/or actively solicit feedback from them. Massive missed opportunity to not only improve practice, but also find the motivation to keep going when things get tough.
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Your periodic reminder that people blithely saying things like 'Shop around!' to minimise price rises almost always relies on women spending large amounts of unpaid time having to go to 6 different places just for groceries. I could list others - so many money-savers are just 'women's free time'
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Your periodic reminder that people blithely saying things like 'Shop around!' to minimise price rises almost always relies on women spending large amounts of unpaid time having to go to 6 different places just for groceries. I could list others - so many money-savers are just 'women's free time'
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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Jesus christ
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Jesus christ
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Really interesting new study out in SSM: "Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness”
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness - ScienceDirect
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Really interesting new study out in SSM: "Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness”
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
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"Masculinity at the cultural level has consistent negative associations with well-being."
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
Really interesting new study out in SSM: "Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness”
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness - ScienceDirect
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Masculinity at the cultural level has consistent negative associations with well-being."
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
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a bigger essay on this is coming soon but i do think that hallucinated nostalgia is probably the biggest explainer of the current populist surge, both left and right-wing
people genuinely think they are poorer than their parents despite it being false by every possible measure
people genuinely think they are poorer than their parents despite it being false by every possible measure
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
a bigger essay on this is coming soon but i do think that hallucinated nostalgia is probably the biggest explainer of the current populist surge, both left and right-wing
people genuinely think they are poorer than their parents despite it being false by every possible measure
people genuinely think they are poorer than their parents despite it being false by every possible measure
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This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
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PLEASE TELL ME @democrats.senate.gov how we can be nine years into this dumpster fire and you still have a less nuanced understanding of our plight than my children do?
You are elected and paid to know better.
DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.
#GOPShutdown
You are elected and paid to know better.
DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.
#GOPShutdown
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
PLEASE TELL ME @democrats.senate.gov how we can be nine years into this dumpster fire and you still have a less nuanced understanding of our plight than my children do?
You are elected and paid to know better.
DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.
#GOPShutdown
You are elected and paid to know better.
DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.
#GOPShutdown
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What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture?
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture?
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
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No. 12m from the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets. Another 45m or so from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
No. 12m from the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets. Another 45m or so from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
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I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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I didn't want to get into this discussion, but after seeing strong reactions to Kelly (2025), I think it's worth helping colleagues think more critically about what the paper actually shows—and doesn't show.
Spoiler: not the bombshell some claim.
#SocialPsychology #CognitiveDissonance
Spoiler: not the bombshell some claim.
#SocialPsychology #CognitiveDissonance
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I didn't want to get into this discussion, but after seeing strong reactions to Kelly (2025), I think it's worth helping colleagues think more critically about what the paper actually shows—and doesn't show.
Spoiler: not the bombshell some claim.
#SocialPsychology #CognitiveDissonance
Spoiler: not the bombshell some claim.
#SocialPsychology #CognitiveDissonance
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9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
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Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
journals.sagepub.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
(Even a gratuitous one.)
The Fells were some fine early 90s Arizona garage-rock and no one knows about 'em...
(Even a gratuitous one.)
The Fells were some fine early 90s Arizona garage-rock and no one knows about 'em...
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
(Even a gratuitous one.)
The Fells were some fine early 90s Arizona garage-rock and no one knows about 'em...
(Even a gratuitous one.)
The Fells were some fine early 90s Arizona garage-rock and no one knows about 'em...
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“…the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“…the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM