Still believe that Jonathan Haidt misrepresents the effects of porn use- it indexes sexual drive and possibly sensitizes people to sex, see Dr. Nicole Prause . But his suggestion to restrict porn use till age 16 sounds reasonable.

Rob Henderson Guess what. Guys who view more porn?
More turned on by real partners than men who view less porn.
We have the only data in real partners in the lab.
publish.csiro.au/sh/sh21219
Haidt is completely wrong about porn.

This does *not* bode well for Haidt’s new book. A renowned sex researcher just refuted the book’s claims about the alleged ill effects of porn consumption.

Rob Henderson Oh my word, Haidt is so bad at porn (and has never studied it himself). People who view more porn have more, not fewer, sex partners. Men report dissatisfaction first and start masturbating/viewing to address the dissatisfaction, not the reverse.
The book is grossly incorrect.

I believe Dr. Nicole Prause’s research has more or less refuted these notions. Porn use mainly seems to reflect high sex drive. So male porn users would probably have sex with women if they could.

'studies like ours, rooted in science rather than misconception, could inform future policies about consumption. Not every chronic user is as checked out as The Dude of The Big Lebowski fame.'

Happy 420!

nautil.us/the-psychology…

'Depression was significantly more contagious than happiness or good mental health...depression spread only from women. When a woman became depressed, it increased the odds of depression in her close friends (male and female) by 142%.' a.co/d/3zCAK6f

A new study in Frontiers in Psychology finds that AI models like ChatGPT-4 can outperform human psychologists in understanding and responding to emotions during counseling. dlvr.it/T5k7Z9

Such sad news. He was a brilliant philosopher who had a profound influence on cognitive science. And he was hugely supportive to young scholars—including me, long ago. A great loss.
dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

A must read!

Main thread:
My first project in CANlab tor wager has finally been published in Nature Neuroscience ! In this work, we aimed to take a new look at the brain mechanisms underlying emotion regulation from a slightly different perspective:
nature.com/articles/s4159…

In recent years, I have grown to value simulation studies. They address complexities in a way that would be very hard to do empirically. This paper with Sophie Hendrikse and Jan Treur is a nice example. We explored how people adapt their behavior to another within and across

Lovely set of studies of interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life among couples.

Key points
-Giving advice/encouraging emotion suppression was associated with lower partner wellbeing
-Distracting partner associated with partner's positive affect & increased closeness
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This is a Big Effin’ Problem, my fellow humans. When deep fakes become indistinguishable from the real thing, we will not be able to believe our eyes. When we can’t trust information, we have no information. We must work together to solve our shared problems or pay the price.

1/8 New tutorial preprint led by Björn Siepe in which we present different descriptive statistics & data visualization techniques with the goal to better understand EMA item functioning.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Brief overview thread 🧵: