People misremember powerholders as looking more dominant sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The number of articles in JPSP (2017) presenting studies in which the dependent variable consisted of a real behavior was 4 out of 49 (8.2%). Follow the discussion on Dolinski's paper "Is Psychology Still a Science of Behaviour?" spb.psychopen.eu/issue/1339/

From an early age, children show an innate tendency to sort people into groups and discriminate among them. But observing out-group members performing good actions reduces such biases and increases resource allocation for out-group members: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Adrienne Wood at #SPSP2020 now going to share an amazing field study looking at behaviour at a new student orientation cocktail party to predict later networking/success

A few million years ago, our ancestors started walking upright. Big mistake! (Only slightly kidding). Bipedalism helped us a lot: it freed up our hands to use tools & engage in cool new behaviors. But it also came with a lot of costs, many of which we're still paying today (1/7)

A new review article on 'Advances in subjective well-being research' by Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi & Louis Tay go.nature.com/2H7t8jz

#IStudyEvolution to understand how and why individuals help one another, when natural selection emphasises individual self-interest and survival of the fittest. This puzzle was Darwin’s “one special difficulty” with his theory.

Our new paper at PNAS (with Stephanie Sloane & Renee Baillargeon) shows that, when resources are enough for everyone, babies expect an fair share to both outgroups and ingroups; When resources are more limited, babies expect a distributor to keep the resources for her own group.

Accepted! Happy to Help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor (d=0.28) Journal of Experimental Psychology doi:osf.io/preprints/ytj5… kindness.org @cjvanlissa #boomshakalakalaka youtu.be/3fZBaPS_XvQ

HUMAN ALTRUISM I didn't know there were so many theories of human altruism. Here's a systematic review of all of them: vipoa.org/neuropsychol/1…

Kinship underlies costly cooperation in Mosuo villages rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/2/17… "These patterns of kin-driven cooperation show the importance of inclusive fitness in understanding human social behaviour."

Super interesting new work: people who live in diverse countries or zip codes act more prosocially, in part bc they identify more with people of all sorts. theconversation.com/people-who-liv…

Integrating group membership information with individual experiences when learning whom to trust sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New preprint! Our findings suggest a dynamic rather than fixed architecture of face impressions, such that how we form these impressions and the trait space structuring them may be shaped by a perceiver's unique conceptual knowledge x.com/rystoli/status…

Women are more altruistic than men, both women and men expect women to be more altruistic than men "Gender differences in altruism on Mechanical Turk" mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/86238/1/MPRA_p… … Now forthcoming Economics Letters, @BehSnaps from LoyolaEcon EVELYN LOYOLA, Valerio Capraro E. Rascon. x.com/patilindrajeet…

How different life events impact life satisfaction. There is surge of happiness on the year of marriage. But it goes back down afterwards. People are significantly more happy five years after a divorce. Parents a significantly less happy at the time of the "terrible twos".

"Twin and family studies suggest that uniquely human characteristics such as empathy, altruism, sense of equity, love, trust, music, economic behavior, and even politics are partially hardwired." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

- Previous work on sex differences in cooperation has been mixed and inconclusive - To shed light on this topic, I analyze all the studies conducted by my research group (N=10,451) - Women are slightly more cooperative than men (49.2% vs 45.7%, p<.0001) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Our new paper shows that judgments of facial trustworthiness can be modified when individuals perceive threatening information at the same time in the background sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #Jesp Jon Freeman Freeman Lab @ Columbia Marco Biella phd -marcobie-hachyderm.io

New preprint (incl. prereg & open data): We find evidence that people prefer to stay with attractive Airbnb hosts, which allows them to charge higher prices for their apartments w/ Willem Sleegers @tony_m_evans & some twitterless folks x.com/PsyArXivBot/st…