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@michael_barlev I’m not sure if you’ll get human nature insights from it, but James Acaster’s 4-part Netflix special is a masterclass in structuring storytelling and playing with conventions.

Nietzsche said that Dostoevsky is “the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.” Who have we learned more from about human nature, comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David or social scientists? Bonus: Recommend what comedy special I should watch next.

@jcbeehner And it technically is in a field, so tick off ‘research’ too.

@Chops310 At my last job, the office thermostat had no markings other than warmer/colder. I heard from maintenance it was intentionally designed for illusion of control. Actual temperature range it allowed = 1 degree.

The Illusion of Control: Extension to Office Thermostats We have control over nothing in life, including how hot/cold we are at any moment. Nevertheless, thermostats ostensibly provide control while expending no effort to make a hospitable workplace. In this study, I examined...

@michael_barlev Way back when, I really liked this one. Not sure how well the science holds up these days, but the writing is great. amazon.com/Natural-Histor…. Also I second Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice book.

Folks, any recommendations for an exciting popular book that explains the natural world using insights from evolutionary biology & behavioral ecology for someone who knows little about the topic? (Simpler than e.g. The Selfish Gene; analogous to Hawking's A Brief History of Time)

@RebeccaSear Wondering - are you referring to some explicit rejection of interdisciplinarity or a lack of operational interdisciplinarity through collaborations across disciplines?

Great to see evolutionary psychologists making explicit calls for interdisciplinary research. Lot of damage to the evo human sciences was done in 1990s by Ev Psych's rejection of interdisciplinarity (of other evo disciplines & by demonisation of 'Standard Social Science Model')

@RegretLab Unpleasant... unpleasant... <sneeze> ... pleasant.

What are the best academic papers and popular science pieces on the pandemic you’ve seen to date? Compiling a list to use in a class on the psychology of infection.

@minzlicht Red House Painters - Shadows. Bon Iver - Holocene.

@siminevazire I actually agree with the intent of this policy. Reviewers don’t have a right to attack authors, if that occurs. But confirming w reviewer or redacting is better than outright changing text.

Just got a review request that says: “if language used in reports seem to us to be especially harsh, we may edit the phrasing, while leaving the content as intact as possible.” Not ok, imo. They should have to run planned edits by me & give me option to ok or withdraw my review.

@jayvanbavel Where is the “I don’t know” option?

If re-opening universities during a pandemic turns out to be a disaster, who deserves the most blame:

@NeilLewisJr About half of these are preprints. Maybe I’m in the dark, but should we consider these being removed because of feedback “retractions” or “the point of using a preprint?”

@NeilLewisJr Is fear of moral contagion enough of a reason to not teach class in person this fall?

@NeilLewisJr @JonathanLWai Very interesting paper. Key line for me - ...”we should be more openly willing to say to our students, colleagues, the me-dia, and practitioners: “I don’t know.”’

@talyarkoni @spinicist Sure, but how many times was the wheel invented before it caught on?

@MikeShor @GC_CUNY @JohnJayCollege @threadreaderapp unroll

107/ "Perhaps the individual police officers do not intend to discriminate. ... The question of intent should be reframed. Do we as a nation intend to collectively consider the evidence, or will we exercise the collective intent to ignore the evidence?"

A majority of white people *still* don't believe in racial disparities in policing. This is just willful ignorance.

@robchavez Favorite is tough but maybe... youtu.be/vPzDTfIb0DU

@Ivuoma May be helpful to include the other side of the discussion as well. Here’s Ed Hagen with a take: evolution-institute.org/is-evolutionar…

Fascinating. I missed this discussion apparently. gizmodo.com/this-philosoph…

@joshtybur Isn’t the real question what’s going on over at Ohio State??

Neat illustration of participants recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk passing attention checks at a higher rate than participants recruited at universities. Consistent with other published work (link.springer.com/article/10.375…)

@zerdeve @dstephenlindsay I’m not sure I see it as punching down without more explanation. However, I do see it as incredibly frustrating and something *requiring* explanation from the editor. It shouldn’t be a “long shot” to expect feedback in this kind of situation.