It’s that time of year, and the Dispute Resolution Research Center DRRC - Kellogg at Kellogg School is inviting applications for our prestigious postdoctoral 2024 fellowship. We seek research excellence in areas broadly related to conflict or cooperation. kellogg.northwestern.edu/academics-rese…

Many of us measure altruism and selfishness in dollars and cents. If you want to know how selfless someone is—the logic goes—add up how much money they give to strangers or charity. New work w/ M.J. Crockett complicates this picture: osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵

Just to put this in perspective, the cost of running Open Mind for a year is roughly the total APCs collected by Nature Communications in a single day. Journals can be run inexpensively, without gouging authors (and by extension taxpayers).

New research in Motivation Science discusses interventions that promote learning from #failure to overcome emotional and cognitive psychological barriers at each stage of goal pursuit. Read the open access article from Ryan Carlson & Ayelet Fishbach: bit.ly/3XSa9lp

Excited to announce that Columbia's Department of Psychology is hiring a tenure-track faculty member! Emphasis on multi-method expertise and research programs that complement current strengths in the Department. Come join us! Review begins Nov. 1: apply.interfolio.com/157376

In our new PNASNews paper, across 21 experiments with 23,000+ participants, we identify a critical distortion that shapes decisions involving tradeoffs: we find that people systematically overweight quantified information in such decisions. Paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵

If you are heading to APS in May and/or study motivation, you should check out SSM (5/22 in DC). The lineup is *stacked* this year, and super interdisciplinary. Submissions are due tomorrow (Feb 1)! scienceofmotivation.org/content.asp?co…

It's a privilege to engage with an expert like Joe Henrich on a question as important and foundational as the role of culture in perception. But Dorsa Amir and I think this thread gets several key details wrong, both bigger-picture and finer-grained. Here's how (🧵):

Are we “strangers to ourselves”? Classic theories say people have limited insight into how they decide. Our new paper at Nature Communications challenges this view. With Ryan Carlson, hedy, & M.J. Crockett. nature.com/articles/s4146… 🧵