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New replicated, pre-registered finding on IQ and moral foundations: Higher IQ individuals care less about harm and equality and are less loyal, more disobedient, less pure. g works its effects by lowering individualizing and "binding". (open access link below)

XBe We used Mohammad Atari Jesse Graham and Jonathan Haidt's revised MFQ-2: Almost every item is updated, the structure is superb and it has killer predictive validity! Items are now is all one style, just how well each statement describes you or your opinions. e.g., Care: "I am

A study argues that LLMs have developed an emergent capacity for analogical reasoning and blames LLMs’ failures to pass counterfactual analogical puzzles on a different issue: many AIs have trouble counting. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/fo7u50W0U06

APS is hosting the 2nd Global Psychological Science Summit: October 21-23, 2025. Our science faces many challenges right now, and this is a great opportunity for researchers all over the world to come together (virtually). Please submit by June 17. psychologicalscience.org/conventions/gl…

This Perspective by Mohammad Atari, Joe Henrich and Jonathan Schultz argues for psychology to become a historical and geographical science, a transformation they term the chronospatial revolution. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Fascinating point 👇

This is a plug for the big-tent, theory driven field of evolutionary anthropology. We study humans across all of our species' history wherever we are found, from small bands in tropical rain forests or arctic deserts, to urban mega-cities.

Paper w/ Tom Carpenter, PhD (@tcarpenter.bsky.social) & Alexandra Goedderz at PSPB!🚨 The standard IAT is only 5 min long. We found that making the IAT longer by taking it multiple times greatly improves predictive validity. Paper link and 🧵below, with practical advice about how to run IATs!

Association for Psychological Science has included Mohammad Atari, assistant professor at UMass PBS, in its latest list of APS Rising Stars. umass.science/4dSE4l7

Great!

New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organization of families (kin-based institutions) shapes our psychology. Mohammad Atari Edward Slingerland Kevin Hong Jonathan Schulz

To extract psychological measures from historical text, we bolted a pre-processing step (for questionnaires) onto the front end of Mohammad Atari's Contextual Construct Representation (CCR) Approach. This resulted in an important methods paper: arxiv.org/abs/2403.00509

All comments welcome: osf.io/preprints/psya…

New preprint by Mohammad Atari and colleagues. Psychological diversity across 2,000 years and 270 prefectures in China!

New preprint! 🔔 3.5 years in the making. I’m very proud of the work that Yuqi Chen has done in this project over the last few years. We are lucky to have her in the field.