Why loneliness is bad for your health

A lack of social interaction is linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia and more. Researchers are unpicking how the brain mediates these effects.

go.nature.com/3TWOBlG

CBT is so effective for high-risk groups. Could it also be effective for police, who are under extreme stress on the job? This RCT tests the effect of a new training that tries this. It finds great effects, from less use of force to fewer injuries of officers. Check it out:

Harvard is announcing requiring SAT/ACT going forward

🚨NEW: We found that 10 hate spreaders are exploiting the Israel-Gaza conflict to boost their accounts on X - and Elon Musk’s platform is profiting from ads on their extreme content.

Their accounts grew 4 times faster after October 7🧵
techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/ccd…

900 million people worldwide (142 countries) are dissatisfied with their lives and careers

Are you one of them?

We interviewed John R. Miles about his new book Passion Struck and how to craft your own identity powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-to-craft…

Sure, you can pull apart the business and tactical parts of social media all day long but every channel reflects and/or amplifies human behaviour. Jay Van Bavel, PhD thinking on the psychology of this stuff is fascinating

Academic chapter and two books authored by Francesca Gino appear to plagiarize from sources including student theses, blogs, and news reports, via ⁦Cathleen O'Grady⁩ science.org/content/articl…

Check out Jay Van Bavel, PhD talking about some of our lab's research, (including research led by yours truly) with Derek Thompson on Plain English!

Our new paper is out now in JECP: Among 6-8 year old American kids, recalling experiences of scarcity reduces generosity (as compared to recalling abundance). Even at a young age, subjective views of resource access have behavioral consequences. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

AI creates a new form of the Bias Blindspot!

People see more of their biases (age, gender, race) in algorithms than their own decisions.

Because they see more bias in algorithms, they are more likely to make debiasing corrections to an algorithm than to themselves.

maybe: leif weatherby The real ideology of elite academia and elite media is not left-wing, it's an unholy matrimony of front-of-house, extremist progressivism with back-of-house extremist neoliberalism. I've called this left-right hybrid ideology 'corporate radicalism.' 7/

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

many people assume that non-fiction books are fact-checked—they are not! this is a bigger scandal than Naomi Wolf’s Outrages (and White Rural Rage has far more cultural impact than her book).

great reporting by Tyler Austin Harper

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Republicans remain more ideologically homogenous than Democrats, even as they have reached partisan parity; still a lot of moderate Dems

Lots of interest in the new Pew report, tracking partisan change:
pewresearch.org/politics/wp-co…

Why does our internet feel broken, and how do we fix it? Lavin speaker and psychologist Jay Van Bavel, PhD joins fellow Lavin speaker Derek Thompson to discuss how the psychology of groups influences the negative behavior we see online. Listen now: theringer.com/2024/4/9/24124…

Why is politics (literally) a firestorm?

In the The Guardian, I argue that bc we evolved feeling threatened, it's easy to convince ourselves that *we* are victims and *they* are evil predators bent on destruction.

But in reality, everyone is afraid.

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Curious about how to pre-bunk #disinformation & convey credibility in your reporting?
Join us tomorrow for a free #webinar with Tiffany Hsu of The New York Times, Shannon Jankowski of PEN America, Jay Van Bavel, PhD of NYU Psychology & Beth Francesco.
American Psychological Association National Press Club pressclubinstitute.org/event/why-we-b…

The typical American is said to scroll through an estimated 300 feet of social media newsfeed per day.

Derek Thompson and New York University psychology professor Jay Van Bavel, PhD unpack four ways the internet shapes our identity.

open.spotify.com/episode/5axHxi…