Mohammad Atari
@mohammadatari.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology at UMass Amherst.
Director of the Culture and Morality Lab.
Director of the Culture and Morality Lab.
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New preprint! 🔔
We apply computational text analysis to over 2000 years of historical corpora in Classical Chinese. Beyond descriptives, we test the hypothesis that kin-based institutions shape important aspects of socio-cooperative psychology.
We apply computational text analysis to over 2000 years of historical corpora in Classical Chinese. Beyond descriptives, we test the hypothesis that kin-based institutions shape important aspects of socio-cooperative psychology.
June 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
New preprint! 🔔
We apply computational text analysis to over 2000 years of historical corpora in Classical Chinese. Beyond descriptives, we test the hypothesis that kin-based institutions shape important aspects of socio-cooperative psychology.
We apply computational text analysis to over 2000 years of historical corpora in Classical Chinese. Beyond descriptives, we test the hypothesis that kin-based institutions shape important aspects of socio-cooperative psychology.
Our new paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour:
The chronospatial revolution in psychology.
With Joe Henrich & Jonathan Schulz.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The chronospatial revolution in psychology.
With Joe Henrich & Jonathan Schulz.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Our new paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour:
The chronospatial revolution in psychology.
With Joe Henrich & Jonathan Schulz.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The chronospatial revolution in psychology.
With Joe Henrich & Jonathan Schulz.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new paper, with my amazing PhD student, Aliah Zewail, is published in the European Review of Social Psychology.
We review (and encourage) historical and geographical research on morality from a pluralistic perspective.
Link:
doi.org/10.1080/1046...
We review (and encourage) historical and geographical research on morality from a pluralistic perspective.
Link:
doi.org/10.1080/1046...
May 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Our new paper, with my amazing PhD student, Aliah Zewail, is published in the European Review of Social Psychology.
We review (and encourage) historical and geographical research on morality from a pluralistic perspective.
Link:
doi.org/10.1080/1046...
We review (and encourage) historical and geographical research on morality from a pluralistic perspective.
Link:
doi.org/10.1080/1046...
A really important study with comprehensive analyses! I love this plot:
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
A really important study with comprehensive analyses! I love this plot:
It’s a privilege to work with this awesome team. Check out my students’ presentations at SPSP.
February 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It’s a privilege to work with this awesome team. Check out my students’ presentations at SPSP.
Some of us have been meeting up at SPSP for the last few years. This year marks our fifth gathering. Email one of us if you want to join! Location TBD.
@mdehghani.bsky.social @drsanaz.bsky.social @simine.com @dorsaamir.bsky.social
@mdehghani.bsky.social @drsanaz.bsky.social @simine.com @dorsaamir.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Some of us have been meeting up at SPSP for the last few years. This year marks our fifth gathering. Email one of us if you want to join! Location TBD.
@mdehghani.bsky.social @drsanaz.bsky.social @simine.com @dorsaamir.bsky.social
@mdehghani.bsky.social @drsanaz.bsky.social @simine.com @dorsaamir.bsky.social
🚨New Preprint🚨
*Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models*
We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways.
Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail
osf.io/preprints/ps...
*Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models*
We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways.
Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail
osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM
🚨New Preprint🚨
*Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models*
We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways.
Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail
osf.io/preprints/ps...
*Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models*
We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways.
Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail
osf.io/preprints/ps...
This is, of course, a very short opinion piece.
We get more technical here: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.00509
and we have some benchmarking against historical ground truth. BTW, the first author is a historian :)
We get more technical here: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.00509
and we have some benchmarking against historical ground truth. BTW, the first author is a historian :)
October 10, 2024 at 3:59 AM
This is, of course, a very short opinion piece.
We get more technical here: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.00509
and we have some benchmarking against historical ground truth. BTW, the first author is a historian :)
We get more technical here: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.00509
and we have some benchmarking against historical ground truth. BTW, the first author is a historian :)
The Historical Psychology Pre-conference at SPSP is up! We have a fantastic lineup!
Themes include the role of historical processes in psychological/economic outcomes today & historical narratives in intergroup relations.
Send your abstracts!
W/ @ashwinia.bsky.social & @joshcjackson.bsky.social
Themes include the role of historical processes in psychological/economic outcomes today & historical narratives in intergroup relations.
Send your abstracts!
W/ @ashwinia.bsky.social & @joshcjackson.bsky.social
September 26, 2024 at 1:03 PM
The Historical Psychology Pre-conference at SPSP is up! We have a fantastic lineup!
Themes include the role of historical processes in psychological/economic outcomes today & historical narratives in intergroup relations.
Send your abstracts!
W/ @ashwinia.bsky.social & @joshcjackson.bsky.social
Themes include the role of historical processes in psychological/economic outcomes today & historical narratives in intergroup relations.
Send your abstracts!
W/ @ashwinia.bsky.social & @joshcjackson.bsky.social
The Historical Psychology preconference at SPSP is back!
See you in Denver!
Co-organized with Joshua Conrad Jackson and @ashwinia.bsky.social
See you in Denver!
Co-organized with Joshua Conrad Jackson and @ashwinia.bsky.social
August 31, 2024 at 4:26 AM
The Historical Psychology preconference at SPSP is back!
See you in Denver!
Co-organized with Joshua Conrad Jackson and @ashwinia.bsky.social
See you in Denver!
Co-organized with Joshua Conrad Jackson and @ashwinia.bsky.social
Our paper, on honor culture, self-reliance, and family relations, is now published in PLOS ONE.
Led by Peter Wang. With my wonderful mentor, Daphna Oyserman.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Led by Peter Wang. With my wonderful mentor, Daphna Oyserman.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
August 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Our paper, on honor culture, self-reliance, and family relations, is now published in PLOS ONE.
Led by Peter Wang. With my wonderful mentor, Daphna Oyserman.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Led by Peter Wang. With my wonderful mentor, Daphna Oyserman.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
We (w/ Josh Jackson) are very excited to announce the Special Issue “Historical Psychology” to be published at CRESP.
Send your papers our way!
Deadline: 9/1/24
Send your papers our way!
Deadline: 9/1/24
April 5, 2024 at 7:25 PM
We (w/ Josh Jackson) are very excited to announce the Special Issue “Historical Psychology” to be published at CRESP.
Send your papers our way!
Deadline: 9/1/24
Send your papers our way!
Deadline: 9/1/24
Some papers have recently argued that GPT-4 has the same personality as a “random human.” So I asked OpenAI’s DALL•E to depict a random human...
#WhichHumans
#WhichHumans
February 25, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Some papers have recently argued that GPT-4 has the same personality as a “random human.” So I asked OpenAI’s DALL•E to depict a random human...
#WhichHumans
#WhichHumans
Come see our awesome students’ research at SPSP!
February 6, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Come see our awesome students’ research at SPSP!
🚨New preprint🚨
Led by Jackson Trager
“The Morality of Too Much Money”
We ask: Is it morally wrong to have an excessive amount of wealth?
In 20 countries, most people think it’s not too wrong, but there is substantial cross-cultural variation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Led by Jackson Trager
“The Morality of Too Much Money”
We ask: Is it morally wrong to have an excessive amount of wealth?
In 20 countries, most people think it’s not too wrong, but there is substantial cross-cultural variation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 5, 2024 at 8:13 PM
🚨New preprint🚨
Led by Jackson Trager
“The Morality of Too Much Money”
We ask: Is it morally wrong to have an excessive amount of wealth?
In 20 countries, most people think it’s not too wrong, but there is substantial cross-cultural variation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Led by Jackson Trager
“The Morality of Too Much Money”
We ask: Is it morally wrong to have an excessive amount of wealth?
In 20 countries, most people think it’s not too wrong, but there is substantial cross-cultural variation.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
About 6 months ago, I was on a 12-hour flight and was not only bored, but also frustrated with some GPT applications in some psych papers. So, I began drafting a critique of "GPTology" — the unjustified reliance on LLMs in psychology.
The preprint is out:
osf.io/tg79n/
The preprint is out:
osf.io/tg79n/
November 16, 2023 at 5:32 PM
About 6 months ago, I was on a 12-hour flight and was not only bored, but also frustrated with some GPT applications in some psych papers. So, I began drafting a critique of "GPTology" — the unjustified reliance on LLMs in psychology.
The preprint is out:
osf.io/tg79n/
The preprint is out:
osf.io/tg79n/
Puritanism needs purity, and moral psychology needs pluralism.
October 4, 2023 at 7:26 PM
Puritanism needs purity, and moral psychology needs pluralism.