Steven Heine

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! Very happy to announce the release of my new book, Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help us Build Meaning Lives in Absurd Times. A 🧵 hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steven-…

New study: Loneliness predicts seeking AI chatbots for companionship. But chatting with AI makes people more lonely (but on just one measure, not all). psychologicalscience.org/article?ru=htt…

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

Education research the least likely to replicate according to a huge new paper published by Nature

I find it fascinating how huge majorities of almost every group agrees that: People have a soul or spirit in addition to their physical bodies. Even 69% of agnostics agree with that. The huge outlier are atheists. Just one-third think that they have a soul.

New study just out! 🚨 We created a way to rewind and fast forward through cultural differences in China. nature.com/articles/s4159… @NaturePortfolio

New article in JPSP on Apocalyptic Thinking! Takeaways in the title: End of world beliefs are common, diverse, and predict how people perceive and respond to global risks. Cindel J.M. White, @azimshariff, & Ara Norenzayan dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi00… Preprint: matthewibillet.com

@ThomasTalhelm @PsychScience Congrats Thomas! Very much deserved!

I'm honored to be elected an APS fellow! 🥳 Thanks to those who nominated me. @PsychScience psychologicalscience.org/members/fellows

@JoHenrich @HarvardHEB @slingerland20 @JonHaidt @David_S_Wilson @corenapicella @templeton_fdn @DrNathanNunn @fsgbooks @HiddenBrain Congrats Joe!! Very well deserved of course.

Delighted & honored to receive the John J. Carty Award from NAS. Thanks to my collaborators, thought partners, friends and the many communities I've worked with @HarvardHEB @slingerland20 @JonHaidt @David_S_Wilson @corenapicella @templeton_fdn @DrNathanNunn @fsgbooks @HiddenBrain

Why am I talking about being WEIRD? Because people in Western, individualistic cultures tend to choose more of these abstract pairings. @JoHenrich @StevenHeine4 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

NEW EPISODE!! @EricNeumannPsy chats with SHINOBU KITAYAMA about a truly global psychology. Most cultural work has focused on the West and East Asia. What about the rest of the world? What are his hopes for the future of cultural psychology? stanfordpsychologypodcast.com/episodes/episo…

Another finding that suggests that sleep duration is not the key variable associated with sleep health.

I finally made a best books of the year list! Go check it out. It has books from some amazing authors like @kurtjgray @wstorr @StevenHeine4 @olgakhazan @ElieNYC @davidenrich @lindy2350 @PatFlynn @dollarsanddata and many more! Read: open.substack.com/pub/therewired…

Here are some new insights from the science of meaningful lives. greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/t…

@tweet_taiki Sleep duration is an interesting indicator. Yet a recent PNAS study shows that shorter average sleep isn’t necessarily worse for health; instead, health is higher when sleep duration aligns with local cultural norms. x.com/StevenHeine4/s…

In episode 1072, I talk with Dr. Steven Heine (@StevenHeine4) about his great book, Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times. #Psychology #Science youtu.be/oQj1VpqU1kQ

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

Why every behavioral study should be cross-cultural? Because for decades, science got something very wrong... Elena Brandt, Ph.D. and founder of Besample, explains how Western bias in research can lead to catastrophic conclusions when it’s based on data from a single country.

One of things that @jonestony and I hear from non-religious folks is that they are, "Good without God." Our data supports that idea. The "Dones" are about as far away from traditional religion as possible. They score almost the same on the well-being scale vs. Christians.

One of the giants of social psychology was a serial sexual harasser. This new report reveals how Miles Hewstone touched, bullied, and sexual harassed numerous women during his 18 years at the University of Oxford. It's amazing how often bullying and sexual harassment go together in academia. I know several of the women who were harassed by this guy. They had real courage to testify. This article reveals how he engaged in serious professional retaliation against women (and several were clearly afraid of him). This needs to end. I've seen how many people curry favor with known sexual harassers and how the worst can still manage to leap from job to job. But the truth will always out. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Here is the full article from Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

We are deeply saddened to share that Dr. Paul Ekman has passed away. His groundbreaking research transformed our understanding of emotion, facial expression, deception and compassion. We are creating a memorial page if you would like to share a reflection: ow.ly/vvX650XtSyi