🚨🚨Do Americans accurately perceive union benefits? 🚨🚨

Our new paper (led by Jonne Kamphorst) out this week PNASNews finds:

Americans significantly and systematically underestimate material benefits associated with union benefits. 🧵👇

People are using AI for well-being even when its not designed for well-being.

Interpersonal attunement in social interactions: from collective psychophysiology to inter-personalized psychiatry and beyond | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

As promised, here is a 2-minute summary of my newly published paper: “MDMA enhances empathy-like behaviors in mice via serotonin release in the nucleus accumbens.”

Science is not complete until it’s communicated! 🗣️

Enormous thanks to Neuro_y_Moe, Boris D Heifets, & Rob Malenka

🚨New review🚨 Do warning labels on misinformation actually work?

In Current Opinion in Psychology, David G. Rand & I show that the answer is YES: warnings can reduce belief & sharing by ~25-50%!
We also review moderators (eg more visible=bigger effect)
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am excited to announce the 2024 Economics of Mental Health Workshop will take place at the University of Minnesota in collaboration with Ezra Golberstein. The keynotes are Susan Busch (Yale) and Daniel Eisenberg (UCLA). Workshop website sites.google.com/view/christoph…
🧵in the 🔵sky

Princeton is hiring postdocs interested in projects focused on comparing AI systems to human cognition or using ideas from cognitive science to better understand those systems as part of a new initiative studying Natural and Artificial Minds. Apply at puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/posit…

These brave people use their tragedies as an engine for coexistence and reconciliation. This is the only way to move forward.

The only source of comfort in these days are joint Jewish Palestinian efforts to fight darkness. That's our only hope, and the only long-term solution to striving together.
latimes.com/world-nation/s…

חשוב מאוד

In line with current discussions: I don't see LLMs as a replacement to humans in providing emotional support. If anything, I think that humans should interact more with real humans. LLM's best use in this context is by helping humans interact better with other humans.

very cool paper!

A new low: A Palestinian citizen of Israel, who is a professor at Hebrew University, has been arrested for 'incitement.'

haaretz.com/israel-news/20…