In our new paper, we investigated whether learning that institutional representatives are corrupt undermines trust and prosocial behavior among strangers 📢Now out at Nature Human Behaviour: buff.ly/3Nboa86 🧵1/6

When you format your article to a journal’s terrible style guide and still get rejected

As a supervisor and colleague, I am happy to welcome Cian Lin as our new PhD student in psychology and decision science!

👇Check out this paper (first in a series), on the cognitive science of moral narratives!

🚨Combining AI analysis of 7.7M tweets with survey data, our new Nature Communications study uncovers psychological factors linked to belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories. The most consistent risk factor? Being politically extreme (left- and right-wing). nature.com/articles/s4146…

I'll be recruiting a graduate student and a postdoc to start in Fall 2025! Looking for applicants w/interests in cultural evolution, narratives, morality, AI, social media, & epistemic (in)justice. See here for more info & please share 😊 crockettlab.org/joining-the-lab

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Doing good is hard. Many well-intentioned initiatives don't work, and it takes a lot of courage to admit failure. Here is an amazing example of two founders who *did* have that courage. I wish there was a big glittering awards show where they would receive the award for

📢New publication in the Journal of Experimental Social Pyschology 🗒️nhh.no/en/research-ce…

I am visiting France this week for the first time, and in many ways it makes me feel like a savage from the north. And yes, the food is ridiculously good.

🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/

Prejudice is often rooted in misperceptions: that the outgroup are lazy, unpatriotic, etc. Our new field experiment asks: to reduce misperceptions, is it better to become close with one outgroup member (deep contact), or to have brief encounters with many (broad contact)?