Alberto Acerbi

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Alberto Acerbi

Alberto Acerbi

@acerbialberto

Cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics. Associate professor sociology @UniTrento - more info in the pinned tweet.

Trento, Italy Katılım Ekim 2012
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Oliver Scott Curry
Oliver Scott Curry@Oliver_S_Curry·
World Happiness Report finds "a significant *positive* cross-country relationship between communication hours and life satisfaction (r = 0.46, p = .001)…*no* significant relationship between social media use and the relative happiness of the young" #smma #internet-use-social-media-and-teenage-life-satisfaction-in-47-countries" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/intern…
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And learning is mostly interactive (vs individual or observational)
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
Genuine question: excluding recent ones (e.g., smartphones, social media, genAI...), which technologies do you think made the human condition worse?
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
First guest lecture in my cultural analytics module! Thank you to Nadia von Jacobi, introducing a new ~27,000 folktales dataset, and testing presence of moral foundations themes. Preprint presenting the dataset: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
Another proposal in line with "The cultural ecology of social media". Platforms reward engagement over accuracy: counter misinformation incentivising producers with a "Trust" button. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…
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Koenfucius 🔍
Koenfucius 🔍@koenfucius·
Online success on social media is increasingly a question of how well posts serve the poster’s strategic goals (reputation/identity management, coalition building) and less of pure content transmission (and reader psychology), argues @acerbialberto: buff.ly/fDUfOYU
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
Nice systematic review of how emotions affect engagements in social media. The effect is context- (e.g. negative bias in politics and positive in health) and platform-dependent. emerald.com/oir/article-ab…
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
What about evaluating researchers/academics on one paper/year at their choice?
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
As I switched completely to Claude in the last few weeks, I did feel a little sad for ChatGPT when I went there to ask for an image. Humans are weird.
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David Pinsof@DavidPinsof·
@bsgallagher @acerbialberto There’s recent scholarly exchange between Nicolas Baumard / Jean Baptiste Andre and others in Evolution & Human Behavior on this. They argue that culture can be fully understood as a kind of ecology and should not be considered a distinct evolutionarily process. I’m sympathetic.
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
"...it remains unclear how exactly culture ‘shapes’ cognition. The study outlines four pathways: culture can privilege one cognitive process over another, prune out disfavored processes, produce new processes, or have no effect on cognition." cell.com/trends/cogniti…
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Just published in "Current Anthropology". It reminds my struggle as undergrad, when I reckoned I was not deep enough to understand these stuff. Luckily I changed my mind.
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
Baumard & André answer to the commentaries to "The ecological approach to culture". An important conversation for everybody interested in application of evolutionary theory to culture. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
Excellent point. Habits can be bad but they are not "addiction". And, if instead of pathologising, we think in these terms, we can create better habits for our social media usage. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…
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Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto·
Celebrating the sixth desk rejection for the same manuscript. 💪
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