Can you improve student outcomes by promoting growth mindsets? Authors with financial conflicts of interest—for example, with growth mindset books or offering corporate trainings—publish studies that say 'YES!' Authors without financial incentives to say 'yes'... they say 'no'.

Having your phone on your desk or in your pocket reduces working memory and fluid intelligence — even if you're not using it. Want to focus? Put your phone in another room.

Very excited that my new book is coming out tomorrow!

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Remember the expression “don’t bottle up your feelings”? Somehow this idea became conventional wisdom and I heard it constantly growing up—but it never intuitively made sense to me. The same goes for the idea that we need to talk about our traumas. I once had a therapist who

Postdoctoral positions in the cognitive neuroscience of memory at UT Austin! Please share

Of >105,000 participants with 30-year follow-up, only 9.3% achieved healthy aging (age 70, w/o any chronic diseases). Their diet was significantly associated with this outcome🧵 Nature Medicine

Overconfidence isn't rampant among experts or novices. It peaks among dilettantes. Evidence: People who are somewhat informed tend to give wrong answers instead of admitting they don't know—and lack interest in learning. A little knowledge can be more dangerous than none.

out with blindsight in with

Psychological richness offers a third path to a good life Review by Shigehiro Oishi (Shigehiro Oishi) & Erin Westgate (Erin Westgate) tinyurl.com/2w65k9vd

Antisocial and prosocial behaviors differ qualitatively in terms of the neurocognitive processes that underlie them and variables that promote or inhibit them. Here is a taxonomy from my Moral Behaviors chapter in the new Handbook of Social Psychology. openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/moral-beh…

Why not let students farm out all of their writing to AI? Because the process of writing is how we train our brains to think logically and critically. And people with those skills will always be the ones we want in charge, argues Morality Lab Harvard University. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Here we took a novel social-cognitive lens to driving and road safety: we found that theory of mind predicts hazard perception, an important determinant of crash risk: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Autism-related shifts in the brain’s information processing hierarchy Review by Boris C. Bernhardt, Sofie L. Valk (Sofie Valk), Seok-Jun Hong (Suk Jun Hong), Isabelle Soulières, & Laurent Mottron tinyurl.com/2h422ht6

How rethinking difficulties can shape important life outcomes Review by Veronika Job (Veronika Job), Christopher Mlynski, & Christina A. Bauer (Christina Bauer) tinyurl.com/3yt2za55

Writing is thinking. Don't let AI do it all.

A registered conceptual replication of Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008): What drives attentional breadth: valence, motivational intensity, or perceptual focality? tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/02…

I've written a short piece for #TheConversationUK about how our understanding of the role of #emotionregulation and #emotionalintelligence in #narcissism has evolved. Huge thanks to #JennaHutber the editor for all her work! theconversation.com/what-weve-lear…

Selectivity in psychopathy-empathy associations: Primary psychopathic traits associated with the reduced affective empathy and empathic concern, while secondary psychopathic traits associated with reduced cognitive empathy: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…