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Check out our lab manager Helen Devine 's presentations in Denver next week!

I am excited to announce that we are launching a new CENTER FOR CONFLICT & COOPERATION at NYU (New York University) with Dr. Anni Sternisko See our vision and research team here: centerconflictcooperation.com Please spread the word or reach out!

The Deepest Beliefs Lab will be well represented at next week's Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference in Denver! Come check out these talks and say hello!

New Paper in Philosophical Psychology: Trust in experts is low. Why? How bad is it? And what should we do? To answer these questions, we reviewed philosophy (when *ought* we defer to the experts) and psychology (when *do* people defer to the experts). Link in comments!

I’m excited to share that I’ll be starting a PhD in Psychology at UCLA this fall. I’ll be working in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience lab with Matt Lieberman🇺🇦, studying consciousness and morality. I can’t wait for this next chapter!

I had a great time this weekend presenting with Emily Kubin at the Templeton World Charity Foundation Listening and Learning in a Polarized World meetup in Marrakesh, Morocco. Templeton World Charity Foundation put on an amazing event!

New post: What do a physicist in a strip club, a pop star in a church, and government officials making war plans in a group chat have in common? 🔬🎤💣 The setting is all wrong—so wrong that their decisions start to feel immoral. (🔗 in thread)

First year done! ✅🥳

Smile if you’re moving to Columbus!! It was a great year at UNC Psych & Neuro. This summer, Madhulika Shastry and I are moving with Kurt Gray’s Deepest Beliefs Lab to Ohio State Psychology! Excited to join. (forever Go Blue, though 🤗〽️)

Lots of famous findings about human behavior are built on the results of economic games - tasks where participants allocate resources or make choices with different payoffs. A new study finds that up to 70% of participants don't understand the instructions of these games.

50 years ago Thomas Nagel famously asked "What is it like to be a bat?" Now, some really promising insights into the stream of consciousness.

I recently had the chance to go on the Outrage Overload Podcast with David Beckemeyer. We discussed the psychology of morality, the role of victimhood in political conflict, and how we might lower the temperature on society's biggest divides. Link in the comments!

Link: docs.google.com/document/d/1Jz…

Ever wonder how AI can help improve research? Sam Pratt made a guide (link in quoted thread).