Thomas Talhelm

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@koenfucius @pj_lambert @ymschindler That's interesting. I wish they'd expand more on why WFH is doing this (beyond the small speculation in the thread).

A drop in demand for staff with limited experience is widely ascribed to the adoption of AI. However, research by @pj_lambert and @ymschindler finds exposure to working-from-home is a better predictor for the decline: buff.ly/aVujamJ TL;DR:🧵buff.ly/rTrvxY9

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@RyanBruno7287 Perry the Peregrine 👍

@ThomasTalhelm Finally he gets a name!

Perry joined me for a nap today! 😮 #Chicago

@ShinobuKitayama Looks great! Hope I can make it.

来週はバルセロナでAPS。 ウイーンのAmber ThalmayerとアムステルダムのDaniel Bilettと、「協調の多様性」についてのシンポジウムです。僕の発表は２番目です。 Amberはアフリカにおける多様な協調性の研究を、Danielは協調性の進化についてのABM（agent-based modeling）研究を紹介します。 僕自身は、DanielのABMの議論を引き継ぐ形で、文化によって異なる協調性が、どのような社会的ダイナミクスを通して進化しうるのかについて、ABMを用いた分析の方向性を議論したいと思っています。そして、それをAmberがアフリカの具体的事例へと接続する、という構想です。 ＃文化心理学　＃計算論的アプローチ

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@koenfucius That makes sense 👍

@ThomasTalhelm I don’t think it’s so much that the understanding is wrong. AIUI it’s the *learning* that is impaired rather than a distortion of *what* is being learned. Imagine trying to learn a causal pattern when you’ve just seen someone being mugged. 1/2

New research suggests that negative facial expressions (sadness, anger or fear), compared to happy or neutral ones, interfere with the learning of causal patterns: buff.ly/ZK4A8Tz

@JohnHolbein1 Interesting! I hadn’t thought in that direction. I was thinking along the lines of programs targeting specific groups making those groups more aware of being outsiders, different. I think your co-author’s explanation is more direct. 👍

@ThomasTalhelm My coauthor, Hans, had this to say on BSKY. I wonder if mentoring programs increase cautiousness.

Did APSA's mentoring program for women PhDs... Improve their sense of belonging? ✅ Increase number of presentations? ❌ Lead to more internal/external grants? ❌ Increase submissions to top journals? ❌ Increase pubs? ❌ If anything, it may have actually decreased submissions/citations (barely not stat sig)

What do people notice about their environments? This large-scale study identified four key factors: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-53…

@JohnHolbein1 @usnews What are the top 3's?

What if @usnews ranked poli sci schools only on their # of recent Top 3's? Top 10: 1. UC-Berkeley 2. Rochester 3. Stanford 4. Yale 5. Columbia 6. WashU 7. Penn 8. Harvard 9. UChicago 10. Princeton Big risers: Rochester, Penn, Temple, FSU, GWU, UVA Big fallers: Princeton, Michigan, MIT

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Falcon + rainbow in Chicago. I decided to call him “Perry,” since he’s a peregrine falcon. 😃

Original study: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

People overestimated their accuracy when the other language was similar. Mandarin Chinese speakers overestimated their accuracy when listening to Jiangsu dialect too.

I studied Spanish, so I understand Portuguese! This new study tested people's confidence in understanding people's meaning for similar dialects versus totally different languages.

@koenfucius @JZBerman They might be right! 🧐

Research by @jzberman et al suggests lay people see utilitarianism as self-defeating. People believe a society adopting a utilitarian, welfare-maximizing moral code would lead to more suffering than one adopting a rule- or virtue-based moral code: buff.ly/g9P3oHm