Abigail Marsh
@aa_marsh
Studies empathy, altruism, and aggression @Georgetown. Author of The Fear Factor (https://t.co/iSO3TcUhAV). Co-Founder of @PsychopathyIs
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The development of human causal learning and reasoning
New Review by Mariel K. Goddu & Alison Gopnik
Web: go.nature.com/3Uy0WhG
PDF: rdcu.be/dFT5p
“Marital quality is, far and away, the top predictor I have run across of life satisfaction in America,” I wrote in *Get Married*.
Derek Thompson isn’t totally convinced.
He offers his own fascinating take on marriage, money & happiness The Atlantic:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Research by Shawn Rhoads (he/him) et al examines what traits characterize real-world extraordinary altruists—finding it’s not self-reported empathy, agreeableness, or boldness, nor self-focused motivations, but an unusually high valuation of others’ outcomes:
buff.ly/3JAPPhB
Universities are failing. They badly misunderstand crowd psychology.
'By aggressively treating crowds as if they are dangerous monoliths, the police...create identities bound together in opposition to the authorities'
We wrote about this research in Power Of Us
Abigail Marsh Nature Communications Does this ever ring true—a lot of people expressing the most empathy on social media are simultaneously trolls half the time.