they are triggered by images of normal prosociality
January 22, 2026 at 7:29 PM
they are triggered by images of normal prosociality
Dr. Johnson praises Öztürk's dissertation research (which apparently incorporates a treatment of prosociality in social media), her mentorship, and her teaching (she calls the summer course Öztürk teaches annually for high-school students "beloved").
May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Dr. Johnson praises Öztürk's dissertation research (which apparently incorporates a treatment of prosociality in social media), her mentorship, and her teaching (she calls the summer course Öztürk teaches annually for high-school students "beloved").
Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI."
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI."
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
This is an important new meta-study that shows that "ingroup love" does not necessarily link to "outgroup hate".
I have long thought that, at least at the mass level, both "nativism" and "populism" are primarily about the "hate" of the Other and, hence, are more xenophobia and anti-establishment.
I have long thought that, at least at the mass level, both "nativism" and "populism" are primarily about the "hate" of the Other and, hence, are more xenophobia and anti-establishment.
September 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
This is an important new meta-study that shows that "ingroup love" does not necessarily link to "outgroup hate".
I have long thought that, at least at the mass level, both "nativism" and "populism" are primarily about the "hate" of the Other and, hence, are more xenophobia and anti-establishment.
I have long thought that, at least at the mass level, both "nativism" and "populism" are primarily about the "hate" of the Other and, hence, are more xenophobia and anti-establishment.
Does ingroup love lead to outgroup hate?
I often tell people that identifying with ingroups does not always lead to outgroup discrimination. I call this the "Myth of tribalism". A new paper provides strong and robust evidence for a positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality.!
I often tell people that identifying with ingroups does not always lead to outgroup discrimination. I call this the "Myth of tribalism". A new paper provides strong and robust evidence for a positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality.!
September 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Does ingroup love lead to outgroup hate?
I often tell people that identifying with ingroups does not always lead to outgroup discrimination. I call this the "Myth of tribalism". A new paper provides strong and robust evidence for a positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality.!
I often tell people that identifying with ingroups does not always lead to outgroup discrimination. I call this the "Myth of tribalism". A new paper provides strong and robust evidence for a positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality.!
woke 2.0 as a contemporary social conscience inflected by deep reverence for the strong state and accompanying norms of prosociality of the early midcentury has really resonated with me
but also I might just be 46 now
but also I might just be 46 now
March 24, 2026 at 1:07 PM
woke 2.0 as a contemporary social conscience inflected by deep reverence for the strong state and accompanying norms of prosociality of the early midcentury has really resonated with me
but also I might just be 46 now
but also I might just be 46 now
adjust mouse sensitivity: the role of oxytocin in prosociality among mammals
April 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
adjust mouse sensitivity: the role of oxytocin in prosociality among mammals
@michelatincani.bsky.social, Ranjita Rajan and I are very proud and thrilled that our paper “The Persistent Effect of Competition on Prosociality” has been accepted at @jeeanews.bsky.social
👉 First causal evidence that enduring competition persistently reduces prosociality
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
👉 First causal evidence that enduring competition persistently reduces prosociality
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
September 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@michelatincani.bsky.social, Ranjita Rajan and I are very proud and thrilled that our paper “The Persistent Effect of Competition on Prosociality” has been accepted at @jeeanews.bsky.social
👉 First causal evidence that enduring competition persistently reduces prosociality
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
👉 First causal evidence that enduring competition persistently reduces prosociality
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
November 27, 2024 at 5:24 PM
"Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust," a look at the shifting sociocultural thoughts and feelings around the current era of "AI," and, again, what we can try to do about it.
afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422
afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust," a look at the shifting sociocultural thoughts and feelings around the current era of "AI," and, again, what we can try to do about it.
afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422
afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422
Nature Human Behaviour
Prosociality should be a public health priority
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prosociality should be a public health priority
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prosociality should be a public health priority - Nature Human Behaviour
Hopelessness and despair threaten health and longevity. We urgently need strategies to counteract these effects and improve population health. Prosociality contributes to better mental and physical he...
www.nature.com
October 21, 2023 at 8:41 AM
Nature Human Behaviour
Prosociality should be a public health priority
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prosociality should be a public health priority
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"receiving help with child care predicts higher levels of reciprocity towards the helper...help from non-relatives is associated with altruism toward strangers, suggesting a novel channel for the development of impersonal prosociality" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It makes a village: child care and prosociality - Journal of Economic Growth
We examine the relationship between allomaternal care (i.e., care for children by individuals other than the mother) and prosociality (reciprocity and altruism). Motivated by ethnographic evidence of ...
link.springer.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"receiving help with child care predicts higher levels of reciprocity towards the helper...help from non-relatives is associated with altruism toward strangers, suggesting a novel channel for the development of impersonal prosociality" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📣 New registered report in @nathumbehav.nature.com with Ivan Soraperra, @jonathanschulz.bsky.social, and Shaul Shalvi: rdcu.be/eAcMA
With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.
With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.
Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries
Nature Human Behaviour - This Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries found that guilt and information about consequences drive prosocial behaviour. Guilt-prone individuals gave more when...
rdcu.be
August 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📣 New registered report in @nathumbehav.nature.com with Ivan Soraperra, @jonathanschulz.bsky.social, and Shaul Shalvi: rdcu.be/eAcMA
With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.
With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.
This is to answer one question so I couldn't go too deep, but I'm reccing @wolvendamien.bsky.social article: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422 and Justin Brown's siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent...
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
March 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
This is to answer one question so I couldn't go too deep, but I'm reccing @wolvendamien.bsky.social article: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422 and Justin Brown's siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent...
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨
@aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested.
Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps...
#PsychSciSky #metascience
@aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested.
Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps...
#PsychSciSky #metascience
September 29, 2026 at 12:03 PM
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨
@aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested.
Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps...
#PsychSciSky #metascience
@aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested.
Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps...
#PsychSciSky #metascience
In happy news, our paper, "Thinking about God increases intergroup prosociality even when conflict is salient", is now out in GPIR! Particularly excited that this paper includes two amazing Fijian collaborators who played integral roles in leading fieldwork! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
In happy news, our paper, "Thinking about God increases intergroup prosociality even when conflict is salient", is now out in GPIR! Particularly excited that this paper includes two amazing Fijian collaborators who played integral roles in leading fieldwork! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
now i am thinking abt how to measure the prosociality of a place and actually the seats were fine to sit on most of the time thank u pitch black portapotty toilet seat for protecting my pants
August 25, 2026 at 2:54 AM
now i am thinking abt how to measure the prosociality of a place and actually the seats were fine to sit on most of the time thank u pitch black portapotty toilet seat for protecting my pants
Prosociality should be a public health priority: “Hopelessness and despair threaten health and longevity. We urgently need strategies to counteract these effects and improve population health. Prosociality contributes to better mental and physical health” t.co/FwLI5O6UJ2
Prosociality should be a public health priority - Nature Human Behaviour
Hopelessness and despair threaten health and longevity. We urgently need strategies to counteract these effects and improve population health. Prosociality contributes to better mental and physical he...
t.co
October 21, 2023 at 10:43 AM
Prosociality should be a public health priority: “Hopelessness and despair threaten health and longevity. We urgently need strategies to counteract these effects and improve population health. Prosociality contributes to better mental and physical health” t.co/FwLI5O6UJ2
Very happy to be giving a talk at my favorite colloquium series! Tune in if you're interested in prosociality, willful ignorance, or cross-cultural research.
This weeks's Cooperation Colloquium:
Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social
Guilt drives prosocial behavior across countries
Date: May 23
Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9 am ET (NYC)
Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social
Guilt drives prosocial behavior across countries
Date: May 23
Time: 15:00 UTC+2 (Vienna) / 9 am ET (NYC)
Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
May 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Very happy to be giving a talk at my favorite colloquium series! Tune in if you're interested in prosociality, willful ignorance, or cross-cultural research.
There's a thing where racists appropriate existing alt subcultures & ruin it for everyone (i.e. skinheads)
What if we flip it, start using evopsych to explain "its ok to kill landlords bc they're innately antisocial & prosociality is a biological imperative of humans, so really: are they human??"
What if we flip it, start using evopsych to explain "its ok to kill landlords bc they're innately antisocial & prosociality is a biological imperative of humans, so really: are they human??"
July 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
There's a thing where racists appropriate existing alt subcultures & ruin it for everyone (i.e. skinheads)
What if we flip it, start using evopsych to explain "its ok to kill landlords bc they're innately antisocial & prosociality is a biological imperative of humans, so really: are they human??"
What if we flip it, start using evopsych to explain "its ok to kill landlords bc they're innately antisocial & prosociality is a biological imperative of humans, so really: are they human??"
Understanding post disaster prosociality: Comparing post earthquake cooperation and fairness in two Italian regions
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Understanding post disaster prosociality: Comparing post earthquake cooperation and fairness in two Italian regions
Natural disasters put an enormous strain on communities' ability to cooperate. Community resilience, which heavily depends on individuals’ prosocial a…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Understanding post disaster prosociality: Comparing post earthquake cooperation and fairness in two Italian regions
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mice instinctively display rescue-like behaviors toward anesthetized peers, offering powerful evidence that prosociality may be hardwired in mammals
Distinct oxytocin signaling pathways synergistically mediate rescue-like behavior in mice 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Distinct oxytocin signaling pathways synergistically mediate rescue-like behavior in mice 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Mice instinctively display rescue-like behaviors toward anesthetized peers, offering powerful evidence that prosociality may be hardwired in mammals
Distinct oxytocin signaling pathways synergistically mediate rescue-like behavior in mice 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Distinct oxytocin signaling pathways synergistically mediate rescue-like behavior in mice 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Congrats to my student Matthew Coates for defending his dissertation! He used network models to study dissent in science and prosociality. More here! matthewncoates.github.io
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July 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Congrats to my student Matthew Coates for defending his dissertation! He used network models to study dissent in science and prosociality. More here! matthewncoates.github.io
See you all in Utrecht in a month! I will present findings that show how norms shape prosociality across cultures. #cultureconference #prosociality
‼️ We are only one month away from the Culture Conference 2025 🗓️‼️
Still doubting if you want to join?
Hopefully the program will now convince you to attend this exciting interdisciplinary conference 🙌
Thanks to everybody for submitting your work and presenting 👏
See you in Utrecht, NL 🥳
Still doubting if you want to join?
Hopefully the program will now convince you to attend this exciting interdisciplinary conference 🙌
Thanks to everybody for submitting your work and presenting 👏
See you in Utrecht, NL 🥳
January 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
See you all in Utrecht in a month! I will present findings that show how norms shape prosociality across cultures. #cultureconference #prosociality