Money increases happiness, but Nobelists argued this stopped at $80k. A new paper shows that for the vast majority, the effect of higher income works all the way up with no limit in sight barring scales not going high enough to capture the joy.

When is #nonconformity valued, not condemned? Our new paper found that group orientations matter: Children disapprove of nonconformists by default, but they value nonconformity when it's evident that nonconformity may benefit one's group and foster intergroup connections.

Join us for our next lecture livestream on Human Nature & Potentials by Dr. Fan Yang: Monday Feb 26 at 1:30 pm CST at the The University of Chicago UChicago Social Sciences Center for Practical Wisdom. wisdomcenter.uchicago.edu/news/wisdom-ne… #Wisdom #WisdomResearch

Thrilled and honored that our paper on #meaning (doi.org/10.1037/xge000…) has received the Best Paper Award! It was a great collaboration with Mengdi Huang, and the recognition means a lot to us. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported our work!🩷

I was so sad to learn that Frans de Waal has died. He put so many bold ideas out there and influenced the careers of countless scholars across biology, anthropology and psychology. Here's a lovely piece that Emory produced: news.emory.edu/features/2024/…

.Fan Yang’s talk on children’s need to create had just the right amount of nihilism for the last talk at #CDS2024.

New paper out! We all want our kids to be happy, but what does happiness mean to them? My review of recent evidence shows that no single philosophical theory fully captures children's perceptions of happiness—it's about both feeling good and being good😃srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Is the purpose of a life at all related to the purpose of a knife? They seem totally different. Yet, 3 large experiments (total N = 13,720) revealed a striking degree of similarity in purpose judgments across domains osf.io/preprints/osf/…

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae and in collaboration with Fan Yang explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

🧵 What makes someone truly devoted? Fan Yang and I uncover a key behavioral cue: rejecting alternatives. People perceive greater devotion when someone actively turns down other options—but not all rejections are equal. Here’s what we just published in Philosophical Psychology: 👇

Who should have a voice in a just society? 🗳️ Our new JEP:G paper finds that young children and adults believe voting should be for everyone—not just the elite or the most capable. But being morally bad is seen as a fair reason to lose this right. doi.org/10.1037/xge000…