It's about time!!!

Looking for a reason to be outdoors this weekend? Here's a bunch. Pleased to share our new review paper on nature and sociality, co-authored with Sean Goldy. Toward a Social Ecology of Prosociality: Why, When, and Where Nature E... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #nature #awe

To what extent are voters willing to apply dehumanizing metaphors to out-partisans? James Martherus, A Martinez, Paul Piff & Alex Theodoridis find that inter-partisan dehumanization is related to extreme affective polarization UC Merced Political Science Vanderbilt University Political Science politicalbehavior.wordpress.com/2019/07/09/par…

does making more money relate to making mean jokes? interesting work on facets of social class and the use of aggressive humor via empathic concern sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Do drivers of fancy cars yield less for pedestrians? Interesting replication of prior work. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Have you been thinking about inequality in the age of #COVID19? Our new work on why are the poor poor and why it matters, with Dylan Wiwad, Lara Aknin, Brett Mercier, Azim Shariff nature.com/articles/s4156… Shifting beliefs about poverty increases egalitarianism up to 5 mos. later

Does engagement with an extremist online forum simplify your worldview? In a large web scraping study, Andrew Gregory finds it does: integrative complexity decreases as engagement increases. Ideological echo chambers become more insular psyarxiv.com/uf2gr/ via Center for Open Science

very proud of this work. Dylan Wiwad deserves all the props. mapping out an inequality intervention with the potential for long-term efficacy.

Commentary: Coronavirus crisis may help Americans remember that economic inequality is not fair or just latimes.com/socal/daily-pi… Dylan Wiwad Lara Aknin

Excited to share new work led by Pia Dietze. In it, we find that social class is inversely related to Theory of Mind (ToM) performance in adults. 1/6 bit.ly/3cT8oLu

New paper out today in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology with my co-authors Brett Mercier, Paul Piff, Azim Shariff, & Lara Aknin! [1/9] sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The top 10 insights from the "science of a meaningful life" in 2020 ow.ly/Rkm750COpTc Kira M. Newman @jeremyadamsmith Elizabeth Svoboda Sonja Lyubomirsky @eeweisz Jillian Jordan Paul Piff Isaac Prilleltensky

The 2022 World Happiness Report (WHR) just pubbed. Lots of powerful insights, but I want to highlight one that doesn't seem to show up in the news: Around the world, people have become *much* kinder during the pandemic, and that kindness is likely supporting our reslience. 🧵

Love the concept of the Umwelt in how Animals See Themselves: "bespoke slivers of reality" nytimes.com/2022/06/20/opi…

Who is more sympathetic & supportive towards the poor--those born into wealth or those who moved up the ladder themselves? People tend to think it's those who Became Rich. Our new paper, led by twitter-free PhD student Hyunjin Koo, suggests otherwise. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 🧵

My TED Talks on why we moralize effort is now up. Based on work w/ Paul Piff (who gets a cameo), Peter Ditto, Andrew Gregory, Hyunjin Koo & led by Jared Celniker. Thanks to TED (who chose against my suggested title: Working in the Age of Effort Porn) ted.com/talks/azim_sha…

Cool analyses using large cross-national data on effects of social class and income inequality on morality and prosociality. Led by Christian T. Elbaek nature.com/articles/s4146…

Want to be as happy studying happy as UC Irvine psychological science Associate Professor Paul Piff and the Anteaters behind him? Apply to become a postdoctoral scholar in his Morality, Emotion, and Social Hierarchy Lab: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09482

REMINDER: Feb. 28 is the deadline to apply to be a postdoctoral scholar starting this May or June in UC Irvine psychological science Associate Professor Paul Piff 's Morality, Emotion, and Social Hierarchy Lab: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09482