“You have no chance, no chance as an average reader to try to understand what is going on in the scientific literature. Your signal-to-noise ratio is basically one. I can barely go to these conferences and figure out what the hell is going on.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Stoic philosophy has been central to modern psychotherapy yet there has been confusion about the role of stoic attitude, b/c of negative association with mental health. We went back to philosophy basics, developed a Stoic philosophy scale & show it is beneficial for health: rdcu.be/eDdRn

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Amazing opportunity to discuss how to research culture across disciplinary boundaries coming up - free to attend! Register now if interested www.ln.edu.hk/sys/regbuild...

If you are in HK in 2 weeks, consider coming to this event: www.ln.edu.hk/sys/regbuild... I for one am really looking forward to discussing different perspectives on researching culture across disciplines

Important analysis of the science - policy relationship in the US www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... a sobering read overall considering the 5% baseline

Um lindo resumo do nosso projeto sobre religião, experiências fora do comum e saúde mental youtu.be/ee6WdeJ35FY?...

Useful reflections on how to work in science under political pressure: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Proud to share our new conceptual paper link.springer.com/article/10.1... we bring together different strands of research focusing on rituals, social media and nature connectedness and interpret the intersection through a broad evolutionary niche construction lens W/ @jkarl.bsky.social

Our new study is out - developing a new big five taxonomy for portuguese & demonstrating semantic effects on personality structure! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... very proud of PhD student Gabriel & the student team

Led by @mind-evoculture.bsky.social, "Why We Need to Rethink Measurement Invariance: The Role of Measurement Invariance for Cross-Cultural Research", is out now. doi.org/10.1177/1069... #academicsky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #philsci /cc @jkarl.bsky.social

These findings uncover a mechanism wherein AI systems amplify biases, which are further internalized by humans, triggering a snowball effect where small errors in judgement escalate into much larger ones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have there been any empirical studies on honor vs face vs dignity culture logic with Brazilian populations? Any pointers much appreciated

Massive dataset with full data from 443,655 participants across 261 samples in 39 countries form 2002 to 2024! Major finding is the temporal change - values worked much better in the early 2000s than more recently

After a few weeks with long nights & lots of coffee... Our new preprint on the comparability (equivalence) of human values in the European social survey osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hoje é o dia grande dos alunos! Entrevista da fase seletiva do mestrado no #IDOR Boa sorte pessoal!

Excited to join, curious to see how this app & community is going to fly! Hoping for positivity & constructive shared learning