I'm looking forward to speaking @humbehevosoc.bsky.social in a couple of weeks. Here's the abstract of my talk:

how it works

A meta-analysis of 100s studies finds that people strongly agree about how beautiful others are (r=.90), including across ethnicities (r=.88) and across cultures (r=.94) doi.org/10.1037/0033...

NEW PAPER Never mind moral universals in 60 cultures, how about moral universals in 256 cultures?! doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

Name a band you’ve seen live with a picture

We often worry about Evil AI... but what if we created Very Good AI... that punished us for our sins? Presumably, there will be more than one AI – good, bad and indifferent. Perhaps there would be a Manichaean battle between them? Perhaps we will create a new pantheon of Olympians?

"daily life is filled with cooperative interactions"; "the most commonly reported situation…was perceived very similarly to the average rating of the [Stag Hunt]" Great work from
@simoncolumbus.bsky.social and team 👏👏👏

More impressive! A huge meta-analysis of personality and prosocial behaviour: "770 studies reporting on 3,523 effects of 8 broad and 43 narrow personality traits on prosocial behavior in…economic games…correlations ranged between -.18 ≤ ρ ≤ .26" 👏👏👏 doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Impressive: "meta-analysis of 1,506 studies of impersonal cooperation…across 70 societies" found "that cooperation did not differ much at all between regions, societies, & cultures…did not find any support for theories that explain variation in impersonal cooperation" psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...