Kyle Fischer

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Kyle Fischer

Kyle Fischer

@Arkyfish

🇿🇦 Postdoc interested in the evolution/neurobiology/behavior of humans & other animals, using an evolutionary lens to examine digital media's effects on us

Cape Town, South Africa Katılım Ekim 2012
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD
Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel·
Social isolation does seem to be increasing, but the loneliness epidemic appears to be vastly overstated ourworldindata.org/loneliness-epi… This articles adds some nuance to this important public health debate.
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Dan Williams
Dan Williams@danwilliamsphil·
“Democracy,” said H.L. Mencken, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” I apply this idea to the democratising character of social media and connect it to the rise of right-wing populism: conspicuouscognition.com/p/is-social-me…
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
Very happy to share the preprint of the study @acerbialberto and I have been working on, showing that, like fake news, factual news uses negative and divisive (including group-binding, anti-outgroup, and dominance-oriented) content to get attention. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
Had fun, met a lot of great people, and saw some very interesting talks at HBES & NEEPS evolutionary psychology conferences in Atlantic City, USA! For HBES, I presented the below work that I'm doing with @acerbialberto
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Alberto Acerbi
Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
Looking forward to be in Paris next week for the conference "Explaining culture: an interdisciplinary approach". I will present some new work with @Arkyfish - first version of slides and abstract at the link! acerbialberto.com/talk/2025_pari…
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
Self-control is crucial for success but is not really something you can get better at. Instead, it's a personality trait. So, if you don't have much of it, you probably never will, and will have to use many life hacks to control your behaviors, e.g., Ozempic.
Michael Inzlicht@minzlicht

I confess: I spent decades selling a self-control narrative that was wrong. My new Substack explains why self-control doesn't work the way we thought, and how we accidentally created a moral meritocracy around personality traits we don't choose.

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Prof Nichola Raihani
Prof Nichola Raihani@nicholaraihani·
I wrote this thing about @JDVance , ordo amoris, and what we owe each other. @nicholaraihani/a-moral-framework-for-understanding-our-political-divide-9b7eb7b9dea2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@nicholaraihan…
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
Economic game studies show conservatives are less prosocial, but it is specifically economic conservatism that is linked to selfishness/competitiveness whereas social conservatism is not, & is instead linked to 'groupishness'/intergroup-biased prosociality osf.io/preprints/psya…
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
Overall, economic game studies show conservatives are less prosocial, but more specifically it is economic conservatism that is linked to selfishness/competitiveness whereas social conservatism is not, and is instead linked to 'groupishness' and intergroup-biased pro-sociality.
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
Ever wondered whether progressives are really nicer than conservatives? Check out our very short chapter that just came out in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics! osf.io/preprints/psya…
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
Preprint of @acerbialberto and my chapter for the EHBEA textbook “Evolution, Culture and Human Behavior”. We harness the explanatory power of an evolutionary perspective to examine digital media’s effects on wellbeing, cooperation, misinfo, and politics. osf.io/preprints/psya…
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
@Russwarne @eawilloughby They did not measure left-wing authoritarianism though. Left- and right-wing authoritarians share many cognitive traits so I'd be surprised if they did not also share similar levels of cognitive ability.
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Jacob Mchangama
Jacob Mchangama@JMchangama·
1/ THREAD 🧵Elite panic over A.I. disinformation and deepfakes in the EU elections was rampant. But did democracy drown in tidal wave of disinformation? 🔎Let’s take a look.
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Glenn Geher
Glenn Geher@glenngeher·
“While some evolutionary psychology research focuses on adverse elements of the human experience, it would be…foolish to think that evolutionary psychologists…are advocating for such phenomena simply by studying and documenting them.” psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwin… @PsychToday
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Kyle Fischer@Arkyfish·
@acerbialberto @GGCanto Haidt's focus is on girls' anxiety/depression. Hancock doesn't look at this & Godard shows actively using social media increases teen depression. The effect size is small but Haidt would argue it's big enough to be concerning & it'd increase for passive use among teen girls.
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Alberto Acerbi
Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
Excellent point. Vaccine-related flagged misinformation was 0.3% on Facebook (usual) BUT non-flagged vaccine-skeptical content was much more diffused and had a 46X estimated effect. Study news not fake news! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Alberto Acerbi
Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
What are the best meta analysis of longitudinal studies in social media and mental health?
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