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3Very excited for this. https://t.co/EeYBUXhrAb
4My reflections from experiences in 2 high-stress environments (military & ivy league), plus tips. https://t.co/6sQFkdEJMR
5The fact-value gap, as stated by @charlesmurray https://t.co/tLwYgn5we7
6Wow infants expect resources to be divided according to individual's place in a dominance hierarchy (higher = more) https://t.co/UJiQiviZjH
7Children take relationships into account when deciding how to divide resources https://t.co/fnotQYAQq5
8@ScottAdamsSays Your systems approach has helped me in college. Thank you! I talk about your book here https://t.co/6sQFkdEJMR
9Human tendency to detect agency even when none exists may be linked to evolutionary advantage https://t.co/ztRYZYxiAl
10People find it more acceptable to suppress scientific findings if it challenges their politics https://t.co/XOp1wntbqK https://t.co/7RnsY32Ohy
11Does high intelligence translate into a more accurate view of reality? It depends. https://t.co/xuvoBwZIYr
12Thanks. I like that passage. https://t.co/B9W1oEcCP8
13Free will https://t.co/a5d3fowlBz
14@RoamingMil Most effective way to reduce animal suffering is to just stop eating chickens. That's about 80% as ethical as going full vegan. https://t.co/fEhMUZ0dmy
15Very much enjoying The Mind Club by @kurtjgray. Provocative ideas, terrific writing. https://t.co/nPiNhMeaIV
16Curious about AI but don't know much about it? This is by far the best explanation of what you need to know. https://t.co/LivjaTxgCa
17"People tend to lie more to highly competent others." https://t.co/4xePbmuR0G Yes, I lied to you, but you should take it as a compliment https://t.co/nXxFiqxDKp
18Psychopaths are actually a little dumber than average, contra the Hannibal Lecter stereotype: new meta-analysis https://t.co/9TzD82ofEZ
19Accurate. My first two jobs: Dishwasher & grocery clerk. Great line from Curmudgeon's Guide by @charlesmurray https://t.co/cL3LVrUx1e
20"Is truncating the y-axis dishonest? 
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22By @bill_easterly https://t.co/pfMl4IDcwZ"
23People with high political knowledge especially likely to discredit polls that conflict with their beliefs https://t.co/fGWxCZz6vg
24My thoughts on the importance of veterans sharing our stories.Thanks to @thewarhorsenews, @USATODAYcollege & @ahiatt https://t.co/ikl9YuQyZR
25What "multiple, converging lines" of scientific evidence" looks like (Gary Brase replicability session). @PsychoSchmitt & Pilcher #HBES2017 https://t.co/MND1krnLrc
26Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years. https://t.co/8PBP63BvqP
27"""Veterans have stories to tell. We should learn how to tell them.""
28War Horse Writing Fellow Robert Henderson... https://t.co/4xNcfwGtKh"
29What is the purpose of reason? https://t.co/l58tgBmzx6
30"With more rules we have solved most of the problems in the world. That just leaves the weird events..." https://t.co/bW0gMSRcB1
31How to make your tables less terrible - in a gif.  I have no idea who made this (thank you), but it's brilliantly handy. https://t.co/JJ57i7VTCp
32"Pretty much. 
33https://t.co/xXaaueDEvk"
34Three ways that moral grandstanding can damage moral discourse https://t.co/dYVXtJigNy https://t.co/uvLHJhk885
35Looking for a wife in 1865 https://t.co/5YWWag7isA
36Political disagreement exists because of tribal loyalties, not a lack of factual knowledge https://t.co/qzXw0LdT5G
37If you watch a documentary and recount it well at a barbecue I hold you in the same esteem as someone with a PhD.
38"""How Technology Hijacks Your Mind – from a Magician and Google's Design Ethicist""
39https://t.co/4GcGy6nezq"
40People think political opponents are more uncertain about their views, because they must be based on misinformation. https://t.co/E4LsX7alYv https://t.co/kn0FS110j9
417 powerful essays about work and money from 7 soon-to-be college students http://t.co/wQtKWpnpVn http://t.co/cJdQ5w2R9w
42"Cartoon: @sapinker explains how literature changes moral intuitions and thereby changes history for the better:
43https://t.co/P8RDVJtbEY https://t.co/A14oVYOrUN"
44Q. What is correlation between Cognitive Reflection Test scores and ideology? A. Only trivially different from zero. https://t.co/xdfDbybjoS https://t.co/dTmwwfLTym
45Endorsements by celebrities work because our tribal brains misperceive them as local alphas whose tastes are worth learning -- @sentientist
46dude no what the fuck https://t.co/86KkqaF2TU
47History never repeats. Human nature does.
48Aguiar and colleagues find that video games explain a big portion of the decline in working hours for young men https://t.co/u5oh17jq3q https://t.co/nYY2IfGMnF
49The Secret to Applying to College as a Military Veteran https://t.co/wsbwE97Eyy via @PsychToday
50Albert Bandura on how people can be evil, yet still view themselves as good. https://t.co/9QsC5Y7710
51What happens when you give a 2 year old a famous ethics conundrum? ? https://t.co/QIHpxXhGdk
52Great article from @desaimihira. Accurately describes the mindset of my peers in college. https://t.co/hjkg9J3HO2
53Children sensitive to identity versus action (more likely to offer help when they hear "helper" versus "helping") https://t.co/bYOon6oUQU
54Oh dear, even people with neuroscience training believe an awful lot of brain myths https://t.co/5loxN0K7KF https://t.co/VXmIbdKr4M
55Jeez, and I thought I was tough. https://t.co/epDDTsf6sI
56Spent an afternoon with Albert Bandura (most cited living psychologist) talking about moral philosophy, social cognition, & happiness! https://t.co/5yNIrZHQm5
57Maybe the real p-values were the friends we made along the way
58APA member Richard Holton is mentioned in this article on moral psychology in young children. https://t.co/07uKA4U96U
59In political surveys, monetary incentives cause people to choose responses based on facts instead of party loyalty https://t.co/zyHd7h3ct1
60Brainstorming doesn't work. Criticizing ideas works. https://t.co/GahxtCgPZU
61@sapinker @TheOnion My take:If you want to exchange ideas, better to meet in person, groups of 2 or 3. No one to impress, no judges awarding social points.
62#Veterans can now transition from the military to civilian-college life through the @WSP_Vets, via @USVeteransMag https://t.co/3l5K63viHp
63The desire to learn what others think about what is true may sit deeper than the desire to learn what really is true https://t.co/cqcf3q7MKN https://t.co/pBpULGByn8
64In a Milgram experiment where the victim was a robot, all participants meted out the highest electrical punishment. https://t.co/0gsNY91jz5 https://t.co/hmmCWhjOSp
65A pirating service for academic journal articles could bring down the whole establishment https://t.co/FnysNgVbA6
66Which skills make people most employable, & are hardest to automate? Nice analysis by @80000Hours  HT @willmacaskill https://t.co/ZXQCa34KCd https://t.co/1HfKvxwGu2
67Many people, including atheists, intuitively assume that perpetrators of immoral acts are likely atheists. @wgervais https://t.co/H95ssxWdzg https://t.co/oN5sD1KU6E
68Children's understanding of ownership: The first possessor is the "true owner" https://t.co/Cz0N02eMac
69Which direction is the train going? Keep looking. Nice illusion. https://t.co/1EQXOIwKqF
70People are more likely to wash the dishes when they're in a good mood https://t.co/AA9djtpcn7 https://t.co/VU5FMBmFnT
71Acceptance rates for doctoral programs in psychology https://t.co/S4jlN5Jba6
72A Student Veteran’s Guide to College Moral Tribes | Psychology Today https://t.co/iIUYR8QDy5
73Had a great conversation with Albert Bandura! #NewProfilePic https://t.co/1c3JPZCXia
74Babies learn more easily about the features of an object if they first witness it violate their expectations https://t.co/QlCdVX0sqq
75"The relationship between religious belief and moral behavior is, in fact, not well understood." https://t.co/UJiY0HjFQt
76@amyalkon @fsnole1 @toadmeister I really disliked school as a kid, graduated near bottom of HS class. Def did not prepare me for college. Reading on my own did.
77Children's moral reasoning may be more complex then you realize: https://t.co/jBhXAiY4NP @PsychToday #ChildDevelopment #parenting
78@primalpoly Great, beautiful campus.
79@robinhanson Aligns well with self-efficacy theories
80People more willing to give electric shocks to people of higher or lower status than themselves https://t.co/S1xgNGlCSL https://t.co/krmFlPpUb2
81Trauma survivors engage in more pro-social behaviors https://t.co/HaJU7eKhg2 https://t.co/h5l6IjU7JJ
82Voter turnout rates by education https://t.co/Q4yFJt6KsP https://t.co/wdeVL7ygEP
83Intuitions about friendship: "Whoever is not with me is against me" https://t.co/N7Noyzig84 https://t.co/ga5Q08TdRX
84Sometimes success is 3% brains and 97% not getting distracted by the internet.
855 Simple Tips for Applying to Psychology Internships | Psychology Today https://t.co/HnvE8p0uVT
86We think a "group of people" have less mind than "people in a group" https://t.co/RI0nnpME1H
87The age you peak at everything (according to BusinessInsider).  I know some are correct - can't vouch for all https://t.co/6t55VAu7Ep
88If you die while you're fully awake and alert people are more likely to obey the requests of your will https://t.co/A5gqvvy4de https://t.co/PAn6ZS1GOW
89"-Least likely to cite other social sciences: psychology
90-Most likely: PolSci
91-Econ: Low but growing 
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93Angrist et al. https://t.co/5patO8UMM8 https://t.co/52xNsUWAKT"
94My thoughts on the importance of veterans sharing our stories.Thanks to @thewarhorsenews, @USATODAYcollege & @ahiatt https://t.co/ikl9YuQyZR
95I was introduced to Isaiah Berlin's ideas at a seminar 3 years ago. Remains one of my favorite thinkers https://t.co/SG2uRiJSsn https://t.co/YppVoale76
96"Respondents with the most education and the highest scores had the most polarized beliefs." https://t.co/vlxvIykvg5
97Why children sometimes learn more from their peers than adults: They're more vigilant about reasons given by their peers https://t.co/i8KbXSH3tC
98When given a choice of who to sit with, people avoid sitting next to someone with a disability https://t.co/EuhCeQv9a6
99Social influence may have more control over us than we think https://t.co/ljJ9YNqwx7
100Useful tips from faculty at our great institutions https://t.co/zIa8DzvJ6I
101How do young kids think about "right" and "wrong?" One author describes how #morals can be complex. https://t.co/1H3hHrPaJl
102One weird element of free will skeptics: They want to convince ppl of a belief they apparently have no choice about  https://t.co/U1hCSRHZSL
103I talk about moral dyad theory in my latest for @PsychToday https://t.co/oFw2RRM0WN
104Any of the LOTR movies https://t.co/QPzbkCONYe
105"Why we tend to look for someone to blame if we see suffering
106https://t.co/7HdThLc25s"
107Judgments in moral dilemmas are driven by the wish to present oneself favorably to others, i.e., virtue signalling. https://t.co/wdYiVpMwWi https://t.co/qc1aLPok34
108"Why we tend to look for someone to blame if we see suffering
109https://t.co/7HdThLtCX0"
110This is cool (found it here https://t.co/GLXpVbMlil) https://t.co/tlu137tXcP
111"EMINEM: his palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
112WEB MD: cancer"
113@Kilonater3000 Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
114Interesting study: "When teachers received feedback about their similarities with specific students...those students earned higher grades." https://t.co/fVxTjhQ6nz
115Would People Agree About Everything If We Paid Them? | Psychology Today https://t.co/VgcQRt3fVN
116The new coat of arms in the dining hall is cool https://t.co/7z8CheuQdu
117@jordanbpeterson @newcriterion Fascinating paper: Suggests moral considerations are more important than facts on determining what is "true" https://t.co/WtOggpoYr5 https://t.co/q5WNvZq2v5
118I enjoy the pop culture references in textbooks https://t.co/lDp9nDXY6A
119"Assigned reading from 1 class: The Art of War
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121Assigned reading from another class: Moral Tribes
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123Going to be a great semester! https://t.co/Dv1RuTSOwm"
124"There once was a man named Nate, who wanted to do something great
125He told his recruiter, he's good w computers
126Now he checks IDs at the gate https://t.co/y20BbX5VwO"
127Children prefer others to get less than themselves, and will pay a penalty to get more than others https://t.co/30jXI3gQpw
128if ghosts r real why are there no dinosaur ghosts? think about that, but u won't bc i just blew your mind with something called logic, idiot
129Understanding the long term consequences of your actions. https://t.co/Pxk4XjBHxt
130Please no https://t.co/3T2bWOesq4
131The Science Behind Why People Follow the Crowd https://t.co/1DW2NYQwDG by @PsychToday
132I'm amazed it even reached 44%. https://t.co/xSsGjCV4hm
133The 2 hour rule: Set 2 hours aside each week to do nothing. Except think. https://t.co/Qw4WgAeosO
134i just found out that the division symbol (÷) is just a blank fraction with dots replacing the numerator and denominator. oh my god.
135The Science Behind Why People Follow the Crowd | Psychology Today https://t.co/1DW2NYyVf6 – https://t.co/kv65N2dkIT
136Political disagreement exists because of tribal loyalties, not a lack of factual knowledge https://t.co/N1fVzMI4DH?amp=1
137Common behaviors are seen as more moral https://t.co/zf0PU7nRWe It can't be wrong, everyone does it https://t.co/pHAfbE3sFN
138@regimetheory Fair. Can't be any worse than surfing Twitter or other forms of procrastination
139Political disagreement exists because of tribal loyalties, not a lack of factual knowledge https://t.co/qzXw0KWhH6
140@primalpoly @HdxAcademy Reminds me of the Ideological Turing Test from @bryan_caplan https://t.co/gzbc3Ci5W9
141"-People want to punish bad behavior, don't care if it deters more bad
142-But scrutinize good behavior, to see if reward will promote more good https://t.co/LFHvHTSIF2"
143"The top 10 events that shaped each generation
144https://t.co/QvFNEZCtip https://t.co/qRgScWpXOH"
145Kids ability to delay gratification on marshmallow task is increasing. 84% of experts failed to predict. https://t.co/55BbmuXEvN #prereg https://t.co/XKPqqoZWek
146"On average, the public rates college professors 58 on a 0-100 'feeling thermometer' 
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148Among Dems: 71
149Among Reps: 46
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151https://t.co/FXx8KfDPXD https://t.co/8jPtddopPD"
152This may be the last generation that has a powerful tool like the Internet, and the focused attention span to do deep work.
153"We remember the disadvantages we've overcome, but gratitude & compassion stem from recalling advantages we've had.
154https://t.co/KqmrjnSm44"
155Roll over James Joyce. The crowd-sourcers have struck again. WaPo neologism contest. https://t.co/9ARoxluzsF
156@regimetheory My classmates are quite polarized yet they are in the top 1% of advantage
157The Blame Game: We Love to Blame Others, But Why? https://t.co/yDiU9bs7Vv
158Tribalism matters more than principles? https://t.co/n6lF0GZ9AV
159Interestingly, the less trauma a country experiences the higher the #PTSD prevalence. https://t.co/xxQZtGqTj0
160Not everyone in advanced economies is using social media https://t.co/FrLIM7PmpX https://t.co/poMFC5uSug
161If moral outrage is a fire, is the internet like gasoline? New in @NatureHumBehav: Moral Outrage in the Digital Age https://t.co/IRCK9jeHP4
162Monkey see, monkey do. The Science Behind Why People Follow the Crowd https://t.co/sW8VHtnea4 #influence #socialproof https://t.co/4EWbV8K60m
163People would rather annihilate a resource than take the responsibility for its unfair distribution among others. https://t.co/oYiUReJALY https://t.co/2CXVCfmGwk
164Citation: https://t.co/tP4c7tEo37
165My favorite online writing tool https://t.co/tFgLh5NTOA
166"-People want to punish bad behavior, don't care if it deters more bad
167-But scrutinize good behavior, to see if reward will promote more good https://t.co/LFHvHTSIF2"
168Moral outrage in the digital age https://t.co/7cgnkaAoIs https://t.co/C0zJtwvLrq
169lol I found this while distracted on Tumblr when I was meant to be writing https://t.co/hPpU38s15f
170Want to help people succeed as entrepreneurs? Study says teach them psychology, not accounting. https://t.co/5qStiBgDZ1 (via @TheEconomist)
171Would People Agree About Everything If We Paid Them? | Psychology Today https://t.co/smGpvqud85
172@Ben_Tappin @JakobHaentjes thanks! :)
173@LindaSkitka @Ben_Tappin @JakobHaentjes link here: https://t.co/redy1zb6ef
1744/ While the business model for distributing facts and truth dies out, the model for distributing opinions and signaling goods is booming.
175so two of my classmates just asked  our professor if his shirt is missing a 2nd part. https://t.co/38ejxdUANN
176Accusing others of moral wrongdoings makes the accuser appear to have higher ethical standards. https://t.co/rJc1IzD6NV https://t.co/gPIoVQCMDC
177My latest for @PsychToday https://t.co/WGOXIc6l2I
178Should your present self care about your future self? Are they the same people anyway? https://t.co/x2DpN9HLf5 https://t.co/oABtDoA72M
179"Empathy distorts our moral judgments in pretty much the same way that prejudice does." @paulbloomatyale https://t.co/Cx5pCIApTr
180https://t.co/RmsreHex1d
181What ordinary ppl will do to protect their reputation(even go to jail!). cool study from @AndyVonasch & colleagues https://t.co/S76QFNX4K5 https://t.co/DPV3LIp70a
182People around the wold rate moral reputation as more important than any other value except physical security https://t.co/LtkbpCRQBJ
183Great line from Hamilton here in The Federalist Papers https://t.co/banzDt8RpV
184Political disagreement exists because of tribal loyalties, not a lack of factual knowledge https://t.co/qzXw0KWhH6
185People infer the height of others based on their language and accent https://t.co/qAVscrrzS4
186“Make your research about the world, not the literature.” https://t.co/6889fwHesX
187@DJJustJules @peez @paulbloomatyale Would a transporter copy of Gandhi deserve moral praise?
188"Q. How often do we touch our phones?
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190A. 2,617 times a day. https://t.co/ovtXLN1jRY"
191@pkmorgan Interesting analogy!
192The test of learning psychology https://t.co/WgVcrzvNSl
193A loophole to Kant's axe murderer at the door scenario https://t.co/DZM8GkpmdA
194Picked up books including Spent by @primalpoly among others https://t.co/pUIokKZDB3
195"Is Your Self-Esteem Too High to Be Successful? | Psychology Today https://t.co/nkj3QDAEIL
196By @robhendersonEW https://t.co/DBh403VpiD"
197Chimpanzees will punish a perpetrator only when they are personally victimized https://t.co/OpfDvmEoms
198When signs don't quite convey the message they were going for... (HT @RichardWiseman) https://t.co/QvUtRrSmmI
199@angjiang General = average of similar situations. & sure, if person does complete project in 6 mos, she is likely to generalize her particular case
200Great #Nudge Painted 3D effect zebra crossing in Iceland slows traffic #BehavioralEconomics #ChoiceArchitecture https://t.co/Lk0YfiIsZh
201Scientific caution runs against the grain of human nature https://t.co/JNGEXL2Wu3
202@StrongerAtBP Superforecasting by Tetlock, pg 38
203Why more knowledge doesn't always make us more accurate: Our biases distort incoming information https://t.co/Io2Nq6xu51
204Here's why people sometimes enjoy negative emotional experiences—like being scared on #Halloween https://t.co/JyCJdocX4Q
205Here's why people sometimes enjoy negative emotional experiences—like being scared on #Halloween https://t.co/cM2tQyXAk8 #SWEEP
206Active open-mindedness https://t.co/NKRdtxTmFh
207Here's why people sometimes enjoy negative emotional experiences https://t.co/JyCJdocX4Q
208Greater scientific intelligence increases skepticism of climate change among republicans, increases belief of climate change among democrats https://t.co/ICeOda7e7L
209@pkmorgan That's definitely one possibility
2103 yr olds distinguish between moral vs. arbitrary norms. And hold everyone to moral, but not other, norms https://t.co/2Ly8tuZymj
211Making stimuli for my senior project. Science. https://t.co/LIFqPioYa8
212"If what Machiavelli believed is true, this undermines one major assumption of Western thought: namely, there is to be found the final solution of the question of how men should live." Long, and worth it. https://t.co/w9uh7tm4f2
213Daytime injuries heal twice as fast as wounds sustained at night https://t.co/kY3MlyC2Sn https://t.co/uC97hkgzjW
214For #VeteransDay2017 check out the great work @Service2School is doing to get vets into college https://t.co/NtviMqmZLy
215America's elite colleges need more veterans, writes Brennan Shearer, a former Marine https://t.co/BIMUDC5arp https://t.co/dlRfgS1bqG
216I was honored to give these remarks at @Yale for Veterans Day https://t.co/lmlcaWULte
217@GusGiacoman thanks!
218"Yale honored Veterans Day with a ceremony on Friday, with remarks from Rob Henderson '18, an Air Force veteran of 8 years:
219
220""My education at Yale has also given me a unique perspective on my military service.""
221
222https://t.co/dBzm8Xanhg https://t.co/zP4CgGUqPy"
223The Myth of Partisan Selective Exposure: A Portrait of the Online Political News AudienceSocial Media + Society - Jacob L. Nelson, James G. Webster, 2017 https://t.co/rWDeNvJVnz
224https://t.co/lbtGStsiKK
225People are "creeped out" at the idea of receiving organ transplants from people of different categories, fearing they will be contaminated https://t.co/fOd5VHH386 https://t.co/U2j1iSTbeX
226"Your mind stores language not as a list of words, but as a network of categories" https://t.co/wMaeZDdbeh
227@sapinker @BostonGlobe Aligns with the research I reviewed here https://t.co/sEwoSh6UiO
228People love certainty, and will punish you for not showing it (from Superforecasting by @PTetlock) https://t.co/45iJgqnRtG
229Your kids are going to do things they shouldn’t. It helps if you married someone with a sense of humour. https://t.co/VVTstejBJO
230@primalpoly Keys in a jar
231So good https://t.co/6neX2ppZOd
232Our brains prefer stories, not statistics https://t.co/oTChlb7EZm
233From Trolley Problem Memes on facebook https://t.co/YYfIFb5eUS
234Does anyone in visual perception know why you can hear this gif? https://t.co/mcT22Lzfkp
235Created a meme inspired by @PTetlock and John Gaddis (currently taking his class) https://t.co/Jd5pRVtnqN
236@EdLatimore  https://t.co/hoEQcI6Uee
237@primalpoly This piece from @KevinSimler describes this absurd belief idea quite well https://t.co/SNYG6Ry52A
238The Remarkable 'Curvature Blindness' Illusion - Neuroskeptic https://t.co/KDPouUSuOW https://t.co/AEHIdW9j3P
239Why you should stop feeling bad about all those books you buy and don’t read https://t.co/gNFDNL10Ob
240Best thread I've seen on Twitter. Made my morning https://t.co/PpUWJeLsJs
241"When blaming others, we care more about intentions 
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243When punishing others, we care more about outcomes https://t.co/BjCOyYC5u0"
244In some cases, recognizing the humanity in others increases the likelihood of violence against them. Fascinating findings here https://t.co/qmFI42TocC
245Ads tailored to people based on their personality traits. Up to 40% more clicks and 50% more purchases. https://t.co/BMZud1nUsJ https://t.co/NPfXrmrgOq
246Watched this movie on a long flight. Terrific from start to finish, top 3 for this year. https://t.co/bOL7Folpzy
247"But what is the meaning of these idols and eggs-- and why do you hide them?" https://t.co/PonboZZtif
248@PTetlock This was a pleasant surprise https://t.co/tXCZYeWymI
249He’s cracked the code we didn’t even know we had https://t.co/ymL22ZVUkR
250I have been trying to track down a source for this. Cool if true https://t.co/fxBwARPhLr
251This robot can do push-ups. It even 'sweats' to keep the motors of its muscles cool. https://t.co/EWtDZ6y8ye https://t.co/BssDPTUEAE
252@BretWeinstein Isn't this the postmodern idea in a nutshell? Conflicts interpreted through the lens of power struggle rather than search for truth
253https://t.co/vCRLdf9iOm
254Smart people really are more likely to wear glasses. From @StuartJRitchie 's great book on intelligence https://t.co/C5jElPDZiU
255One benefit of being home for the holidays with kids and children's books: finally learning how a car works https://t.co/To21izPbaO
256https://t.co/U3x4x8VnI6
257My son's a little worried that Santa may skip our house because he was sometimes bad this year.  I explained that Santa uses an exponentially weighted moving average to compute your goodness score, so more recent datapoints dominate and he's probably fine.
258And from the @LRB the greatest Christmas joke ever. https://t.co/dwUgPZqg5X
259What I'm reading while I wait for people to wake up for Christmas ? https://t.co/uXaxZ93Peq
260There's one chemical in your brain responsible for wrecking your work life. Here's how to manage it. @jboitnott https://t.co/XsSJEcrVHd
261Everything we eat both causes and prevents cancer https://t.co/fNx1pPUkv2 https://t.co/hJekigARbA
262Accurate https://t.co/t1Nd8ZRs7d
263Intuitions about what "normal" means: A blend of the statistical average and the normative ideal https://t.co/ymfdm1fn2k
264This is a terrific discussion of the psychology of human judgment by Charles Munger https://t.co/BHALXB2jhT
265“All morality must be grounded in a belief that every single human being is created equal, and is equally deserving of dignity and of just and fair treatment." https://t.co/jeuGDufqkO
266Granny's rule. From a speech by Charles Munger https://t.co/KEcUV89KJC
267It is the period between Christmas and New year. No one knows what day it is. Time doesn't really exist. Can we start drinking at 10am? Why not. Existence is a confusion.
268Why Amazon delivers small things in huge boxes occasionally https://t.co/Qhtbnc5g6w
269My latest for Psychology Today! https://t.co/QR5PJBiLjR
270Very cool graph show what people really mean when they use vague terminology describing the probability of an event. Source: https://t.co/BWP69oq7cp https://t.co/cLLc0BgZVO
271New episode now up!  VBW favorite guest @paulbloomatyale joins @peez and @tamler to talk about the ethics of dehumanization. Plus still more on Star Trek transporters.  https://t.co/ynkSJjdlBb
272Charles Munger on why humans love the status quo and avoid change https://t.co/iwxygge0WK
273"The human mind works a lot like the human egg" https://t.co/oJlXxzj77e
274This graph of happiness over age is like an inverse graph of expectations. https://t.co/GZfIE6Qz28
275the behavior you see is usually the result of incentives you don't see https://t.co/TqaUxFaO2h
276One dog says to another, “Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?” “No,” the other replies, “but it makes my mouth water.” More Behavioral Science Jokes: https://t.co/JS1Hll7oGR via @behscientist
277this is too real https://t.co/geic4V1gaJ
278"ME: *realises I've just stepped on an ant* oh no
279
280JOHN WICK: Has anyone seen my pet ant?
281
282ME: OH NO"
283This is when a robot is going to take your job, according to Oxford University https://t.co/5hoseg7jqY https://t.co/Gb60wOhbo1
284My own contribution to Time's cover story on optimism: Why we refuse to see the bright side. https://t.co/q5joz2C7sn
28529-, 39-, and 49-year-olds are more likely to run marathons than 30-, 40-, and 50-year-olds. @DanielPink explores why people do extreme things when the end of a decade is approaching: https://t.co/xGQ9UPwevz https://t.co/AdlEdX9ntP
286@EdLatimore And I know some wrestlers who would take issue with being on that list of things people "play"
287@charlesmurray Paleoconservative: A Republican who adheres to a no-sugar, no-grain diet (happy birthday!)
288Brilliant dolphins. This is like the scene in Jurassic Park when the crew realizes the dinosaurs are way smarter than they thought. https://t.co/AtCIkmlEJO https://t.co/Y1djCWo1c1
289It's so much more important for high-schoolers to learn basic statistics than for them to learn trigonometry -- whoever made that decision 150 years ago should be exhumed and fired
290Brazen daylight robbery caught on camera as a seagull allegedly enters a bakery and steals a bag of chips. https://t.co/MXH5JKtnsm https://t.co/j5Kbxduy5A
291“People who are good at self-control … seem to be structuring their lives in a way to avoid having to make a self-control decision in the first place" https://t.co/9Kn0zpUBLT
292Humans love to mind read https://t.co/dNXMkEXF39
293Hippocampus (left) means "sea horse" because it looks like a sea horse (right) https://t.co/8JMgyEP8z6
294Hungry shoppers buy more stuff in general, including non-food items. https://t.co/kJuIOpKyef https://t.co/m1W4gxgUg9
295'A relationship is the price you pay for the anticipation of it' https://t.co/JqmVdjRONh
296"I'm excited MIT is trying this: A master's in development economics that doesn't require a degree, GRE, or letters of recommendation. Admission's just based on how well you do on 5 online courses. Should make it easier for talented ppl from poor countries.
297https://t.co/eh8PGX21wl"
298"-Children asked to select btwn 2 people to be captain of a ship
299-2 people were actually politicians running for office (unbeknownst to the kids)
300-71% of cases, the children’s choice of who would make the best captain predicted real election results https://t.co/0No1ZlTkjE"
301When we hear someone speak, we infer emotional information from their voice within 0.2 seconds https://t.co/xkxe6QK8Zu
302"Researchers can make predictions about you based on what you do on Facebook" https://t.co/JB0TYNeyAy
303What an inspiring veteran, woman, human being! @JasBoothe1 @mmlafleur @FinalSaluteInc  https://t.co/rVgZBdzDoQ
304@AdamMGrant @shanesnow My grades went up when I realized this. Also this tool has been useful to clarify my writing https://t.co/tFgLh5NTOA
305@davis_hh6 @PsychToday Sure thing!
306@julian_assele thanks!
307@GusGiacoman @PsychToday thanks!
308Fact filled @PsychToday article written by @WSP_Vets alumnus and veteran  @robkhenderson.  Worth the read!  https://t.co/aQzb9Ww8zA https://t.co/84PypVoLpn
309How out of sync with reality are your ideas about the military? https://t.co/zGHGx0kRa8
310How out of sync with reality are your ideas about the military? https://t.co/zGHGx0kRa8
311@robinhanson Great idea. Would also be interesting for Dictator/Ultimatum games (seeing what variables people ask for before giving $).
312@clayroutledge Funny you say that. The class was held in a chapel before moving to a larger room to accommodate all the students.
313@GadSaad Interesting how people think we need a reason to be moral. We don't need a reason to engage in biologically hardwired behavior (love, eating, laughter). But for morality, many want a reason beyond biology. why?
314Nice write-up of recent work by several groups (incl ours) on the genetic and neural bases for homophily in social networks by @shayla__love in @VICE https://t.co/9qlC7u0KxS You and your friends think alike.
315Social rewards (reputation, social status) activate the same part of the brain as winning money https://t.co/Ynt4ezI8Fj https://t.co/AQjasbmMz2
316Terrific piece written by WSP alumnus @robkhenderson, and published by @PsychToday.  Worth the read:  https://t.co/DRLNexuaBt https://t.co/XbCeiW6i3f
317Archaeologists think this spinning disc might be a children’s toy! It’s at least 14,000 years old. When you spin it, the two sides make it look like the deer is running. Delightful! #archaeology https://t.co/Mby4b1lvBc
318"""The mark of a charlatan is to explain simple things in complicated ways, and the mark of a genius is to explain complicated things in simple ways."" -@naval 
319
320Great podcast with @farnamstreet https://t.co/3Puz7baOS0"
321Very honored to join this impressive group as a Gates Cambridge Scholar https://t.co/LJysEtNAnr
322"Fairness informs social decision making in infancy:
323Infants not only hold an expectation that resources should be distributed fairly, they also preferentially interact with those who have previously done so
324https://t.co/vB3Y1eFSX7 https://t.co/gIEnLCE6zI"
325"When people want to believe something they ask, ""Can I believe this?” 
326
327When people don’t want to believe something they ask, “Must I believe this?”
328
329This is one of the most useful ideas I learned from @JonHaidt's The Righteous Mind"
330"Why is Twitter so infuriating?  Yale moral psychology professor @mollycrockett explains the economic incentives and moral psychology behind the social media outrage machine.
331https://t.co/dQpKCmkMFT"
332@EdLatimore Cool video on the prisoner's dilemma (with cash) https://t.co/YelihyFHfQ
333This is how 40,000 starlings get to bed in less than a minute.@RSPBMinsmere https://t.co/8RxfUen5RT
334"Just as a habitual snacker eats without feeling hungry, a habitual online shamer might express outrage without actually feeling outraged." https://t.co/7cgnkaAoIs https://t.co/hhAMjSTSy9
335The probability of 2 different dentists finding the same cavities in the same teeth? Apparently 50% https://t.co/ZIKbKuDjft
336@naval Papers too. Lately been asking people why they think we spend more time on decisions where the difference in reward is low versus high https://t.co/pBxux2pg5b https://t.co/cpycPi9u2f
337@GadSaad @nntaleb Costly signaling, moral outrage, and squid ink
338"-Left: when you just read the Abstract.
339-Right: when you read the whole paper.
340(via Reddit) https://t.co/TjNHo9fBIP"
341"the ranked position of an individual’s income predicts general life satisfaction, whereas absolute income and [comparison to a social reference-group norm] have no effect" https://t.co/iQ9VrihEUe
342@robinhanson status!
343This excerpt in @QuilletteM by @bradcran really made me think. https://t.co/17bAODnDhY https://t.co/a82Jg1foMY
344"A huge congratulations to our four Gates Cambridge scholars: Seth '15, Jane Darby '15, Malina '18, and Robert '18! Read more about them here:
345
346https://t.co/6H42pEFrZ9 https://t.co/0FV7RoNvju"
347Chimpanzees. but not orangutans, became incensed over receiving a reward inferior to that of their partner, thus revealing a sense of fairness. https://t.co/yEe6DVt1wJ https://t.co/TWHsy8TLo3
348What have you learned in the past week that you’ll still care about in 5 years?
349You are not the king of your brain. You are the creepy guy standing next to the king going "a most judicious choice, sire".
350Good looking people quicker to complain about an interview interruption https://t.co/TZL8DFhGzn
351Just bought Elephant in the Brain by @robinhanson and @KevinSimler and already feel my status increasing https://t.co/BFhVEFBRLk
352@DMillardHaskell An abstract principle like free speech is no match for passionate young people seeking social status
353@primalpoly @youngvulgarian A smart friend has told he thinks it is proven that aliens visit Earth. I am starting to buy @clayroutledge claim that for most, in the absence of weird beliefs, other weirdness fills the vacuum.
354@clairlemon A-not-B error in infants https://t.co/gPKjg23LXN
355@EdLatimore Wow this tweet really took me back. Lost $50 on that fight lol
356https://t.co/ESXRRh4hUu
357Around age five, children get the first inkling that it matters what others think about them, starting to care about their reputation. https://t.co/NdrkXEABNH https://t.co/e7exmUurDW
358someone merged google scholar with sci-hub and the result is exactly as delightful as you would hope -- https://t.co/dy5P0XTHUz
359"The Target statisticians had figured out his daughter was pregnant before he did." https://t.co/ZRhKsS1gN2
360@hikikomorphism @ortoiseortoise Yeah I've read stores will intentionally send coupons that are unrelated to the shopper's interest (based on data) to make it seem more random/less creepy
361What is behind the psychology of punishment? https://t.co/tBVO8ItAS0
362@robinhanson Reminds me of this @slatestarcodex excerpt about therapy https://t.co/wQ1ARL0cNC https://t.co/v771vF0ERm
363@primalpoly "Full merit scholarship" + "Judith Rich Harris was wrong"
364"Wow ? 
365
366“Men of status always cheat. The trick is finding one who will be savvy enough to keep it a secret from you. In my experience, a bad man fools you once; a good man fools you for ever.” https://t.co/yNAQxQ5Md6"
367What is behind the psychology of punishment? https://t.co/tBVO8ItAS0
368#Infographic shows at what age people tend to peak at different tasks. I am past my prime for "marathon" and "remembering faces" but am looking forward to my Nobel Prize worthy discovery in a few years. Super interesting data I think. Source: https://t.co/KWUk8V7cNV https://t.co/it72sK095a
369If a passenger on a flight has the flu, their 11 nearest neighbors have an 80-100% chance of being infected https://t.co/enKh4LElHF https://t.co/w3nQWibg0w
370@cfchabris That study is about "Hot Air Hand Dryers" lol
371Why people hate Machiavelli: He revealed the importance of compromise https://t.co/PGjCyDG8Vh
372Thomas Sowell on #SkinInTheGame @nntaleb https://t.co/Hp9RbtfOCF
373People on average feel about 13 years younger than their actual age https://t.co/tn7okaldTY https://t.co/5zx8ObJR10
374"Psychology is a serious discipline https://t.co/1SGVMap1oK
375
376What's the difference between a psychologist and a magician?
377
378A magician pulls rabbits out of hats, whereas a psychologist pulls habits out of rats 
379
380ok back to studying... https://t.co/EjGTlS1kPq"
381"At high altitude, your digestive system shuts down completely. So when you get off the plane, everything restarts and your digestive system has so much more work to do and so it makes you more tired." https://t.co/vwHVfdDIDp
382Woman with congenital insensitivity to pain experienced pain for the 1st time after the death of her brother https://t.co/33OYd686Wl https://t.co/rizvkqWFat
383"Odd that ppl are cynical about some evolved traits but not others.
384
385I've heard cynics say ""you don't really feel love, that's just evolutionary programming""
386
387But never ""you don't really enjoy the taste of strawberries, that's just evolutionary programming"" https://t.co/AWDXYzy89D"
388@JonHaidt Principled free speech is such a counterintuitive idea I'm amazed we ever had it in the first place
389@jordanbpeterson The inimitable Isaiah Berlin on Marxism https://t.co/pQhj8RM9ri
390"Where are the aliens? Maybe too busy playing video games and taking selfies 
391
392Fascinating article by @primalpoly 
393
394https://t.co/yfsbM3vQdx https://t.co/6RVSTTKUAt"
395@primalpoly This paper discusses the idea of "discounted rights" for future, nonexistent people and the question of how to balance them against the rights of current people https://t.co/xEDQC5iUeE
396Trying to maximize your happiness might make you less happy https://t.co/zUMDEVEIFb
397"Shakespeare's Macbeth is a case of the Peter Principle 
398
399""People rise to the level of their incompetence""
400
401Macbeth's ambitions outstripped his abilities, leading to his downfall https://t.co/SXVR0kfvAS"
402@primalpoly My twist on the @primalpoly model of the world: The people who know what's going on don't have the guts to say it.
403@robinhanson Experimental philosophers like Josh Knobe have made the case that the way we construe facts is value-laden in a fundamental sense. https://t.co/gm42czeYgL
404My most popular @PsychToday post by far https://t.co/KRtetQf16s
405@EdLatimore Even babies avoid taking stuff from wrongdoers https://t.co/SYDnihXcwc
406Language arts https://t.co/1xwQoELVss
407"What is language for? 
408
4091. To direct others to a selected sector of reality (Pre-Suasion by @RobertCialdini 
410
4112. To show off to potential allies (from Elephant in the Brain by @robinhanson) https://t.co/pWnTX92iLL"
412@ericchendriks OG= original gangster
413"People think those who have differing political beliefs are less competent even at nonpolitical tasks 
414
415""If you learn your plumber disagrees with you about politics, you’re less likely to trust his plumbing"" as @slatestarcodex put it https://t.co/9fEfSp1gOt https://t.co/eY1ms5sscz"
416Never rely on self-control https://t.co/mFYvZlSZZZ
417"Armed with only 10 “likes,” they could evaluate a person’s traits more accurately than that person’s coworkers. With 70 “likes,” they could do better than a person’s close friends." https://t.co/LfzBJVq23T
418This is the real question that’s been on everybody’s mind. https://t.co/S80ixw2e66
419@GadSaad Would love to hear you and @jordanbpeterson discuss the role of religion in the evolution of morality
420"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" https://t.co/ll2VLaj4Gh https://t.co/jsxSdoGknV
421@EPoe187 I wonder if humans will come to value things made by humans more, though. Music composed by a human, for example
422@EPoe187 Good point. Bands might explicitly advertise their music is "human," in the same way we value "authentic" or "handmade" stuff more today. Human creations may become a boutique luxury good
423@EPoe187 Hopefully we will have some solutions before Atlas and the robot dogs start writing bestsellers...
424Ultracrepidarianism https://t.co/gRSYfa7HBi
425Very grateful to those who have helped me on my unusual journey to @Yale, @Gates_Cambridge and beyond  https://t.co/Y8uRKmmvd7
426@jordanbpeterson @PittsburghPG It appears that dominance hierarchies are actually information hierarchies that reduce violence https://t.co/QdPfzBKkED
427@sapinker For those curious it's Ch. 6 https://t.co/151dS2Nk3X
428Why public speaking is so exhausting https://t.co/tRHb3poQdW
429@BeckyBunzy Thoughtful thread, thanks for writing. Reminded me of this https://t.co/rumfY4p66O
430"""One’s Better Half: Romantic Partners Function as Social Signals""
431
432Men think men with hotter partners have higher status https://t.co/tE48aUamX6
433
434Fascinating work from @EPoe187 @TaniaArline & colleagues https://t.co/OQp89H2PUn"
435@amyalkon The Language Instinct by @sapinker
436@amyalkon @sapinker sure thing!
437Wow this was a real tweet https://t.co/Mz0MNdDaqk
438"Princeton, 1956: 60% of the graduating class served in the military 
439
440Princeton, 2006: 0.8% of the graduating class served https://t.co/1nAyMBPJb7"
441@DegenRolf Compromise does not spark the passionate emotions https://t.co/x9iAx69SEk
442A big thank you to @paulbloomatyale for welcoming me to work in his lab, supervising my bachelor's thesis, and sharing tips for grad school ! https://t.co/9GTckmS1xJ
443@natvelali @paulbloomatyale thanks Natalia!
444"@jayvanbavel I've observed 2 people in a heated political argument. I asked both if anything would change either of their minds. They said no. Stopped arguing for 5 minutes. Then started again. 
445
446I think some believe if they argued just right, they'd change the other's mind."
447Sometimes accuracy in predicting the future is irrelevant https://t.co/Ty40ME9Ebv
448"One thing I have surprised about in college is the lack of risk-taking among bright students
449
450Many (most?) prefer pre-determined paths to money and status, fear commitment 
451
452This piece does a good job describing https://t.co/jfrghfSSya https://t.co/68P902Qr7x"
453@EdLatimore I am happy to say I have no idea what song this is.
454@clairlemon  https://t.co/04MvL8Aj9O
455@primalpoly @KittenHoliday  https://t.co/D4n7eodXrq
456@Yale @neiltyson When I saw the 1st season of Cosmos I never thought I'd see @neiltyson in person. Especially not while both of us were receiving degrees from @Yale
457@razibkhan thanks, Razib
458Something I wrote for @nytopinion, coincidentally well-timed for today, when I graduated college. Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative https://t.co/lLHUmpt2LR
459Thank you, David https://t.co/EwWOv50vVP
460As a foster parent, @yale alum and professor, a liberal, and as someone concerned with equal opportunity and social mobility in our society, this @nytimes oped is worth a read.  https://t.co/gP6lLybQJq
461@AnnaIvey @nytopinion thank you, Anna
462"With one word, it preempts the intellectual high ground without offering anything substantive." https://t.co/g7y51Q7zY4
463My very liberal mother, on the angry commenters: "If you were a liberal these people's blood pressure would just rise over something else." And then she proceeded to buy 4 copies of today's @nytimes https://t.co/ZW8jBDns94 https://t.co/cQ6m8STlXv
464How to design a religion https://t.co/bSIfG1s0zN
465Interesting perspective from @robkhenderson https://t.co/P9Ek0FqEIC
466I believe @tylercowen once wrote that we should *seek out* people who mispronounce words because they likely actively acquired their knowledge through reading rather than passively absorbing it by living among the right class. https://t.co/6ppPghqMrb
467Want to see what your Twitter timeline would've looked like 10 years ago today, if you followed all the same people you do now? https://t.co/41a6iQcYhc
468"A 4-step process 
469
470From the comments section of @slatestarcodex. Cites @robinhanson's work on signaling https://t.co/hABELQg6FL"
471I enjoyed speaking with @LarryOConnor about foster care, college and politics https://t.co/zu5yUBKrQn  @WMALDC
472READ: Incoming Political Studies Fellow @robkhenderson on the importance of family and individual agency. https://t.co/GuPXLr0wkg
473“... if someone had told me I was a victim when I was a kid, I would never have made it to the Air Force, where I served for eight years, or to Yale. I would have given up.” Beautiful essay by new graduate @robkhenderson on transcending one’s painful past. https://t.co/gbuNdsPyzN
474"""Mere contemplation effect""
475
476Even briefly considering something that goes against tribal norms can taint you and get you ostracized https://t.co/iaEymf4jHq"
477"You should never have someone rise in society if he or she is not taking risks for the sake of others, period." - @nntaleb on @cowenconvos with @tylercowen https://t.co/26zgN49Lrq https://t.co/io9yGYeDcj
478"Laplace's Law
479
480To calculate the likelihood of something happening
481
482Take # of times it's happened in the past plus 1. Then divide by the number of opportunities it could've happened plus 2
483
484Your team won 7 of the last 19 games. Odds of winning the next?
485
4868/21=38% https://t.co/ZYl98seKYk"
487@WSP_Vets thank you!
488"The day will come when, by study pursued through several ages, the things now concealed will appear with evidence; and posterity will be astonished that truths so clear had escaped us" https://t.co/hklmIjr2s6
489"This is a worthwhile read!
490
491“It is not really up for debate that the two-parent home is, on average, better for children.”
492
493https://t.co/brgAD41cHG via @nytimes"
494"@AstroKatie @sTeamTraen @DiggingHumanity @neurobollocks Postscript: This article explaining hype in neuroscience is a must-read antidote to the kind of toxic bullshit discussed here. See especially the section “The Brain as Biological Proof” https://t.co/D4asKoMMJh
495/end"
496"I just wanted to clarify" https://t.co/7LGSpmtFKm
497@farnamstreet  https://t.co/L6Rpnq9Z0Q
498"Why make anonymous donations? Buried signals
499
500-People eventually find out. Anonymity adds to perception of the donor's goodness
501
502-Only certain people find out. These are the ppl that matter to the donor
503
504Cool paper @Moshe_Hoffman @chilbe3 @DrMANowak
505
506https://t.co/6uw8oz8uBz https://t.co/rjVPq8yeJo"
507"@razibkhan Weird those type of articles are still being written
508
509Irrationality is rewarded in religion and politics bc it signals intense loyalty
510
511Being reasonable is irrational when coalition building and status signaling"
512@clairlemon The paper @sapinker cites here https://t.co/6fiUm65o4u
513@Moshe_Hoffman @chilbe3 @DrMANowak sure thing, really enjoyed reading it
514Fingerprints are formed by friction from touching the walls of our mother’s womb. Sometimes they are called “chanced impressions.” https://t.co/65LKJrAXsY
515"Committed ideologues won’t move toward the middle 
516
517But flexible voters can move toward extremes
518
519 — @nntaleb https://t.co/T6rrIcWpQo https://t.co/3Cf8u51s39"
520Only 3 percent of foster kids graduate from college.  Very powerful essay here.  https://t.co/6JKIxk5UAp
521https://t.co/hCMvATdeek
522"The post by @robinhanson helped me understand consulting 
523
524""The issue is that high status folks..see that their status will be lowered if they embrace such solutions. But if a prestigious outside consulting firm weighs in, that can turn the status tide."" https://t.co/NkkwGJFRKJ https://t.co/8XwwW2hrLe"
525"In situations of uncertainty, keep it simple
526
527In situations of certainty, keep it complicated https://t.co/d3fBxMMJs6"
528@clairlemon Being anti-Enlightenment is just another way to be edgy for political extremists on the left + right
529"-47% of Americans would want to know if they'll get Alzheimer's
530
531-58% if they're predisposed to get cancer
532
533-27% would want to know when they'll die https://t.co/1FL1puLtmg"
534"Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society." https://t.co/UQ23kn8hIW https://t.co/L1TxIKf41r
535"“Why do students cheer when a teacher cancels class? Because they’ve escaped an hour of drudgery without hurting their GPA.""
536
537Enjoying ""The Case Against Education"" by @bryan_caplan https://t.co/52IAhzYfgr"
538"""The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."" 
539
540-F. Scott Fitzgerald https://t.co/u9OLxu0NJ1"
541From @JDVance1's riveting book Hillbilly Elegy. I share my views on childhood instability here for @nytopinion https://t.co/5kFGgttsU4 https://t.co/6md5s1fq6W
542@jordanbpeterson Enjoyed your book, JP. Contributed to my decision to write this https://t.co/5kFGgttsU4
543@robinhanson Or that those who respond "truthful" are not being truthful.
544@jordanbpeterson Enjoyed your book, JP. Contributed to my decision to write this https://t.co/5kFGgttsU4
545What attributes predict eminence? Obsession https://t.co/2YTtJ9U6M8
546"25% of students rate themselves in the top 1% for ability to get along well with others 
547
54890% of college faculty rate themselves above average 
549
550Spouses collectively say they do more than 100% of the housework https://t.co/n8MBrcvK6h"
551@JonHaidt @jmeacham Reminds me of this passage from Isaiah Berlin https://t.co/SG2uRishAP https://t.co/zOnypy9cQx
552@JonHaidt @jmeacham Reminds me of this passage from Isaiah Berlin https://t.co/SG2uRishAP https://t.co/zOnypy9cQx
553Beekeepers have trained dogs to sniff out diseased larva and save entire hives. https://t.co/I1yY6mGUsK
554"Your good news of the day: in an actual Prisoners' Dilemma situation, most prisoners decided to cooperate. https://t.co/EDKCHmg65v
555
556[Caveat: it was a stylized experiment administered to prisoners; conviction did not hang in the balance.] https://t.co/WtStwf2FjQ"
557"Why we can insult our close friends, but not our casual ones
558
559From ""Elephant in the Brain"" by @robinhanson & @KevinSimler https://t.co/1cPKGCA9OK"
560"This story from @jordanbpeterson mirrors my experiences as I moved thru different social classes 
561
562Sense of humor in military > sense of humor on campus https://t.co/Y8H0X7w978"
563Yale graduate and Air Force veteran: Why being a foster child made me a conservative https://t.co/G9tTCWfiEL
564"""My 1 repeated learning in life: ""There Are No Adults."" Everyone's making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it."" -@naval 
565
566Recently had coffee with an established, respected professor who told me he still experiences imposter syndrome"
567"The average American worker only uses half of their vacation days
568
56915% take no vacation at all https://t.co/wIssjqgNT9"
570"When asking someone to meet, suggest specific times and days
571
572Busy people prefer choice constraints https://t.co/Womgs2e2Wd"
573"""In recent years being busy has become a status symbol.
574
575Psychologists write of treating burned-out clients who can’t shake the notion that the busier you are, the more you are thought of as competent, smart, successful, admired, and even envied.""  https://t.co/frUUgxr22U"
576"Why young people prefer adventure and friends and old people prefer comfort and family 
577
578Different time intervals https://t.co/Kl13tokzxn"
579"Just got my readings for @HertogFDN summer political studies program 
580
581Looking forward to this https://t.co/r6QQU9vPzb"
582"""Whoever is not with me is against me: The costs of neutrality among friends""
583
584People get mad at friends who side with a hostile stranger against them
585
586But they are equally mad at a friend who remains neutral 
587
588Friendship is about alliances
589
590https://t.co/wgpEL9rV4n https://t.co/66cbMnFBxt"
591@clairlemon And when the omelet is nowhere to be found... https://t.co/EaR1IEPpcJ
592"""Not from money does virtue come, but from virtue comes money and all of the other good things for human beings"" 
593
594-Socrates, Plato's Apology https://t.co/uFl0XddLuB"
595"The wealthiest 1% get as many seats at Harvard as the bottom 2/3 of the U.S. population 
596
597The median family income of Harvard students is 3X higher than the U.S. median income https://t.co/EHREBJQUPt"
598"Why should we tolerate free speech?
599
600-Other opinions might be useful
601
602-Prevailing opinion is rarely the whole truth 
603
604-Even if prevailing opinion is true, challengers will strengthen it
605
606-Without challenge, our beliefs become weak and vulnerable https://t.co/IdC8eJFsaP"
607“I wrote a long letter because I didn’t have time to write a short one.” https://t.co/ojvjFfWibK
608"Babies can tell who would win a fight based on the size of the combatants 
609
610https://t.co/LvDig8nW2M https://t.co/OxzzEgxOV1"
611"Children are Aristotle: Kids think effortlessly doing the right thing is more moral than struggling to do the right thing
612
613Adults are Kant: We think struggling with temptation and then doing the right thing is more moral 
614
615https://t.co/ZS5JkgVM22"
616"“The money-making life is characterized by a certain constraint, and it is clear that wealth is not the good being sought, for it is a useful thing and for the sake of something else.”
617
618-Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics https://t.co/cAucr41qQv"
619"-Recruiters choose the taller of 2 applicants for sales jobs 72% of the time
620
621-Men who are 6 ft tall make $160,000 more over a 30 yr career than men who are 5’5” 
622
623-Taller police officers are assaulted less than shorter ones https://t.co/AZmLyqkUvH"
624"Aristotle on happiness
625
626-We don’t work hard in order to relax
627
628-We relax in order to work hard
629
630Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10, Chapter 6 https://t.co/qOyIQrKN4z"
631“Fire burns in Persia as well as in Greece...that fire burns is necessary, but the laws concerning inheritance, theft, sacrifices, etc. are different at different times: these laws are essentially arbitrary, they are conventions.” https://t.co/0pPbVfqBSq
632"“All in all, I am sure if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.” 
633
634This excerpt from Martha Stout’s book really made me think about @paulbloomatyale ‘s case against empathy https://t.co/TACyc2Scnc"
635"My collaborator @vincentharinam and I wrote an essay about tribalism, extremists, and lying for @QuilletteM. 
636
637We cite work from @nntaleb and @JonHaidt @glukianoff 
638
639Many thanks to @clairlemon https://t.co/3Gs154JYes"
640"""modern American political tribalism has been artificially inflated by group-based conformity. That is, the moderate majority’s submission to the demands of dedicated partisans has created a mirage of polarization"" 
641- @vincentharinam @robkhenderson
642https://t.co/iUcW8dkXdz"
643"[P]reference falsification occurs when an individual publicly misrepresents their private views to fit into a social group. It is conformity for the sake of social self-interest." https://t.co/aww9sYXxAH
644"I wonder if this type of thing still happens? 
645
646Machiavelli, Discourses https://t.co/fjevdXBQWw"
647Highly recommended read. https://t.co/xpROvxh75e
648"Conformity to group preferences yields approval, affection, and advancement within the group. Disobedience, however, is reputational forfeiture as we may lose our seat at the vaunted “cool table.” "https://t.co/aww9sZf8sf
649@EveSanchezNash Machiavelli, not a good parenting guide...
650"Machiavelli 
651
652on the dangers of confusing descriptive vs. normative https://t.co/E1g1KxAiAN"
653"Political Moderates Are Lying https://t.co/huE3FtTt8S HT @QuilletteM
654
655""the moderate majority's submission to the demands of dedicated partisans has created a mirage of polarization."" https://t.co/AKVmN8dRyu"
656"I’m enough of a nerd that I got excited when I saw that @pmarca followed me. 
657
658Def will look into these books https://t.co/6pNzIVZkD4"
659@pmarca @pmarca, thanks for sharing.@vincentharinam and I enjoyed collaborating on this essay. We learned a lot.
660@primalpoly @jessesingal It works. I co-wrote an essay for @QuilletteM about how extremists come to dominate https://t.co/3Gs154JYes
661@JobyOtero @vincentharinam Great point. I address some related ideas here https://t.co/mpSvR7V9hq
662@EricRWeinstein @EricRWeinstein, you might be interested in this essay I co-wrote. Addresses concerns about political polarization and extremism https://t.co/3Gs154JYes
663@timurkuran Thanks for sharing, @timurkuran. I enjoyed collaborating on this essay with @vincentharinam. We learned a lot about your amazing work.
664"Fantastic read, no matter what side you’re on. Promise. HT @pmarca
665https://t.co/OLBiVuSCce https://t.co/j4SxHANElJ"
666@nntaleb People are saying if we get people to identify with their groups, it makes it easier to target advertising.
667"Physical pain and social pain (rejection, exclusion) activate similar regions of the brain 
668
669“the mammalian need to recognize social threats appears to have hijacked the physical pain system” https://t.co/VlNLYejX3c"
670Best illusion I've seen, maybe ever.  The blue and black lines are NOT moving.  Insanely good. https://t.co/gHGx5u3vTO
671Children as young as 4 years old disapprove of and punish free riders, even if their own interest is not at stake, hinting at an evolved concern for the common good. https://t.co/JyFGUHm4nt https://t.co/2w25W1AuJF
672"39% of Americans will spend at least a year in the top 5% of the income distribution 
673
67456% will find themselves in the top 10%
675
67673% in the top 20% https://t.co/dYETYWhMPi"
677"When people form impressions of others
678
679They care most about 2 things 
680
681Competence and moral character
682
683And moral character matters more https://t.co/cMWIZYcahd"
684“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and renders their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.” https://t.co/xdRoiUv0yF
685Oxytocin (the so-called “love hormone”) increases hostility toward outgroup members https://t.co/VS1pVl6uzO
686"Political Moderates Are Lying | @vincentharinam @robkhenderson
687https://t.co/aww9sZf8sf"
688@EricRWeinstein Apophasis? https://t.co/SBrseoaorS https://t.co/qRhz4BAns8
689"Great veteran success story here
690
691I recommend @Service2School to all vets interested in education https://t.co/qvnv4wHwsL"
692"“When someone asks us why we help, we often find ourselves saying things that make us sound more selfish than we are.” 
693
694Altruism is just as “natural” as selfishness https://t.co/rvARoR612E"
695"“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.” 
696
697Thucydides, Book I https://t.co/hvr1BKmNC7"
698@ericchendriks hopefully the Soviets aren’t after us anymore ? Meanwhile in the Netherlands... https://t.co/f754C49Kuz
699We often shift our preferences to bend to the whims of the extreme minority. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? https://t.co/QLTJDLpCbI
700"“A recent study found that it takes 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend
701
702an additional 40 hours to become a “real” friend 
703
704and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend.” 
705
706https://t.co/8pkVWSk4RJ"
707What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger: A moderate amount of adversity brings out mental toughness. https://t.co/BTga9aB1RE https://t.co/ft7e2Oiuca
708Michael Scott and Machiavelli #TheOffice https://t.co/jz4MvztY2T
709"I spent the 2nd half of my childhood around ""lower whites""
710
711@reihan's observation that bashing lower whites boosts status + assuages doubts aligns with what I saw in college
712
713But I couldn't partake 
714
715The people they denigrated were kind to me
716
717https://t.co/j0ilFHwtSU"
718@jordanbpeterson Recently completed a great books program with @HertogFDN. Highly recommended https://t.co/UfmRI2pw27
719"Good men govern well, but won’t commit wicked acts to obtain power
720
721Bad men will commit wicked acts to obtain power, but don’t govern well 
722
723Machiavelli’s contradiction https://t.co/kB6QUMLucQ"
724"“Election: while the people are choosing who is to govern them, they forget their desire to not be governed at all
725
726for injuries one chooses for oneself hurt less than those imposed by someone else”
727
728Machiavelli the libertarian https://t.co/c5fiWOIVlt"
729"2 books signed by 2 of my favorite professors at @Yale 
730
731@paulbloomatyale and John Lewis Gaddis 
732
733Grateful to have had such great teachers 
734
735Go get these books ? https://t.co/aVCIRwLhyW"
736"Neural focus groups
737
738Brain activity predicted people’s future behavior better than people’s verbal reports https://t.co/TUol9NV86n"
739@jordanbpeterson @clairlemon Big fan. @vincentharinam and I collaborated on an essay for @QuilletteM here https://t.co/3Gs154JYes
740"@naval Twitter will make you responsible 
741
742because it has @naval"
743“We think people are built to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their own pain. In reality, we are built to overcome our own pleasure and increase our own pain in the service of following society’s norms.” https://t.co/XzXZqWFrBZ
744@paulbloomatyale Social by Matthew Lieberman, pg. 226
745@EdLatimore “If you were to take account of everything you would never do anything.” https://t.co/HYHEIAlw5s
746“When evil is done to you, you see it as a terrible injustice. But when you describe something that you have done to someone else, there are always mitigating circumstances, explanations and justifications. The language is different.” https://t.co/UrXGtrCkYb
747The 10% tipping point: https://t.co/QIqgFnV6vB https://t.co/zpn3cUB7Yg
748"Study on high IQ individuals, 1921-1991
749
750-Highly conscientious men earned $567,000 more over a lifetime
751
752-Extroverted men made $490,100 more
753
754-Agreeable men made $267,000 less 
755
756Interesting piece from @tylercowen 
757
758https://t.co/2u4QbcJGsj"
759@ericchendriks @tylercowen jackpot! $$$. Or rather €€€
760"we devote 40% of our social time (and emotional capital) to an inner core of about five people. And we devote another 20% to the next 10 people who are most important to us. In other words, two-thirds of our social effort is devoted to just 15 people." https://t.co/4TmLOIzFgR
761"How much are our social lives worth for our well-being? ? 
762
763-Seeing a friend regularly=$100,000 
764
765-Being married=$100,000
766
767-Seeing your neighbor regularly=$60,000
768
769-Being in good physical health=$400,000
770
771From “Social” by Matthew Lieberman https://t.co/9dRHkTOUnH"
772"“Cradles of Eminence: A Provocative Study of the Childhoods of Over 400 Famous 20th Century Men and Women.”
773
774""75% grew up in a family burdened by poverty, abuse, illness,or other misfortune. The ‘normal man' is not a likely candidate for the Hall of Fame.” https://t.co/UsvDMl5j9c"
775"Pessimism sounds like someone trying to help you, while optimism is often interpreted as a sales pitch." - @morganhousel https://t.co/AEQYEwP9PQ
776“In more recent history, as a global average, about four or five women reproduced for every one man.” https://t.co/cjOiPdEGK5
777“when people think about money, they’re motivated to work more and socialize less. But when people think about time, they’re motivated to work less and socialize more.” https://t.co/nPyJuB6uac
778@EPoe187 Reminds me of this passage from Roy Baumeister https://t.co/7M2KUC6bY2
779"“The sort of instruction that is most likely to produce violent, oppressive, evil measures consists of harsh but vague rules 
780
781People lived in fear they might say or do the wrong thing and be executed.” https://t.co/9Hej4g5sjR"
782"Cats can also be game theorists.
783
784Problem: coordination game. A resource can only be accessed by one player at any given moment.
785
786Solution (when game lasts long enough): turn-taking strategy.
787
788How it is enforced: emergence of a norm of reciprocal sharing.
789
790https://t.co/wUgMKMiiMb"
791“To criticize the Revolution was to invite suspicion of oneself. Members began to outdo each other in making statements about the need for harsh measures, because only such statements could keep them safe from the potential accusation of lacking the proper attitudes.” https://t.co/cDOdDjzLQh
792“When the facts are at all ambiguous, people favor the version of the facts that best suits their interests.” https://t.co/NUW9AI4qyx
793"Amazing illusion: The orange circle doesn't actually change size.
794
795Optical illusions are fun, but they're also a reminder that we don't directly perceive the world around us. Perceptual experience is a simulation, which doesn't always correspond to the reality it aims to depict. https://t.co/AT4JP4LcbR"
796"""A good library is filled with mostly unread books. That’s the point. My library serves as a visual reminder of what I don’t know."" 
797
798Great post from @farnamstreet https://t.co/k5eMW3NCyb"
799“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued, it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.” https://t.co/TRQbK0lGTF
800I just completed a study on confirmation bias, and the results were exactly what I expected.
801"-People believe displaying luxury brands will make others want to be friends with them
802
803-But people would actually rather be friends with people displaying neutral brands
804
805""The Status Signals Paradox""
806
807  https://t.co/e4zAlDtUjh https://t.co/mcdd42txcG"
808“Often in a German home or café, I would meet with outlandish assertions from seemingly educated persons. It was obvious they were parroting nonsense they heard or read. One was tempted to say as much, but one was met with such incredulity, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty.” https://t.co/2vuuUj2CAL
809@nntaleb Read this and thought of @nntaleb ‘s ire toward intellectuals https://t.co/4XP5xviONK
810"“When the party adopted a new position, individual members scrambled to agree with it and to convince themselves they had believed this all along.” 
811
812“We groped painfully to find traces of former thoughts which would prove we always held the required opinion.” https://t.co/EqJfzPSCby"
813"The Curse of Knowledge
814
815People think everyone has the same knowledge as them https://t.co/XF7zBBwglu"
816“It is an illusion to believe that any solution is beneficial for all people and all times.” https://t.co/5dxDNrtc7b
817"In case you missed it last month:
818
819The majority of Americans see themselves as independents. So why aren't they saying anything?
820
821https://t.co/aww9sYXxAH"
822"Study finds that people infer preferences from forecasts: if a forecaster predicts an outcome, people infer that the forecaster prefers this outcome. This matches previous findings saying that forecasts are in fact often guided by preferences.
823
824https://t.co/KIVMQGVzFg https://t.co/jI2Tz9t2m6"
825"They asked whether a grandmother who wins $500 should give it to her grandson to fix his car or to a charity. Though participants perceived both choices as equally moral, when it came to looking for a friend, they chose those who helped the grandson." https://t.co/AunaMbJxdb
826@EPoe187 @jrwill9 Is this a sly humblebrag that the Warriors called you hot ?
827“There is no contest between politics and morality: there is only politics.” https://t.co/RhuB3kf9g3
828“Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to center my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection.” https://t.co/rvGeKEl85H
829@primalpoly I’ve wondered about this. And wrote about a related suspicion https://t.co/IM6JU18lzr https://t.co/2m6WT0VQRv
830"we humans are walking, talking status meters, constantly judging our worth and social standing by comparing ourselves with others today and with our own prior selves. Absolute standing is not irrelevant" https://t.co/pC2QsOyXRR
831@EdLatimore Do advanced players really try to stay physically fit? https://t.co/FriVcVwyC7
832“when we are left alone, with no demands on attention, the mind begins to follow random patterns, usually stopping to consider something painful. To avoid this condition, ppl are eager to distract attention away from turning inward and dwelling on disturbing personal problems.” https://t.co/MEO1QN6Evd
833Why do we like Walter White when he's so bad? Liking a person influences our opinion of their morality. https://t.co/DH2wScWERi
83451% of people who enroll in college drop out or fail to graduate https://t.co/e4lIs0c4Ho
835"Our hidden motives when we have conversations 
836
8371. Speakers show off their intellect, perception, status and wit
838
8392. Listeners decide if a speaker is worth teaming up with
840
841From Elephant in the Brain by @robinhanson and @KevinSimler https://t.co/Ed1A0Ecl2X"
842@Mangan150 This game is apparently so common it's been documented in psychiatry https://t.co/KbqdUmWacE
843"6 core story narratives
844
8451. Rags to Riches (rise)
846
8472. Riches to Rags (fall)
848
8493. Man in a Hole (fall then rise)
850
8514. Icarus (rise then fall)
852
8535. Cinderella (rise then fall then rise)
854
8556. Oedipus (fall then rise then fall)
856
857https://t.co/vmweIWPhic"
858"How to make a big decision
859
8601. Write down options
861
8622. Underneath them, list core values
863
8643. Weight values between 0-1
865
8664. Grade each option by how it addresses core values, from 1-100
867
8685. Multiply the grades by the weight of the values; add up the numbers https://t.co/9alcFkpKi1"
869Bad Mobs of Good People: The Paradox of Viral Outrage - Neuroskeptic https://t.co/7tDJrkMbE3
870Two paths to the top: Dominance and Prestige https://t.co/V8dMUxSiXP https://t.co/DWagRyOE26
871"-People feel more creative, active, and satisfied during work than during leisure 
872
873-People feel more apathy during leisure than work 
874
875-But people would prefer to work less and have more leisure https://t.co/loHNGAomYd"
876@robinhanson Your point about moral grandstanding to *appear* good reminds me of this from Roy Baumeister https://t.co/C65cLukoLn
877The first rule of Bias Club is: You do not know you are in Bias Club.
878“A person who rarely gets bored, who does not constantly need a favorable external environment to enjoy the moment, has passed the test for having achieved a creative life.” https://t.co/xKj2CNvFn5
879"From the child's point of view, socialization in the early years consists mainly of learning that you're not supposed to behave like your parents." https://t.co/3Yxo4hk0Px
880The Liking Gap: "following interactions, people systematically underestimate how much their conversation partners liked them" https://t.co/OVqWcTVtuu https://t.co/U8Tm2EeNDC
881“But later in life, friendships rarely happen by chance: one must cultivate them as assiduously as one must cultivate a job or a family.” https://t.co/CwxCGiLqty
882"Taking Tylenol reduced the feeling of pain from social exclusion
883
884""Our findings suggest that an over-the-counter painkiller normally used to relieve physical aches and pains can also at least temporarily mitigate social-pain-related distress."" https://t.co/v2PRi56IVT https://t.co/mBSpvKKZqp"
885"Signals and countersignals
886
887""When a close friend forgets his wallet and can’t pay for lunch, you might call him an idiot. This works only when you’re so confident of your friendship that you can (playfully) insult him, without worrying that it will jeopardize your friendship."" https://t.co/urRktmKohy"
888@jordanbpeterson Other versions of “clean your room” https://t.co/2Xi0pOk0oA
889@BlerPodrimaj Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
890@eliyahuswitzer @naval @thogge https://t.co/Sy882XFu5J
891@razibkhan Really makes u think https://t.co/d0XSRUuiGg
892"“It is not possible to predict the future for this child” 
893
894Report from a clinical psychologist from when I was a foster kid https://t.co/Hc5tmD98To"
895“It is true that life has no meaning...But it does not follow that life cannot be given meaning. The first fact does not entail the second any more than the fact that we lack wings prevents us from flying.” https://t.co/c10ywB68Yv
896"1. Avoid smoking/alcohol
897
8982. Education 
899
9003. Happy childhood
901
9024. Relationships 
903
9045. Coping skills
905
9066. Giving back 
907
908“Spend your first few decades building a well-rounded self, then spend the remaining decades sharing what you have gained and learned.” https://t.co/wydlak6DkL"
909“most books are old: this is what makes them valuable. They stand against the conventional wisdom of today because they’re not from today. Even if they reflect the conventions of their own day, they say something different from what you hear all the time.” https://t.co/lfG7Tktxgc
910@EPoe187 @PereGrimmer Mean for Harvard undergrads in this study from 2003 https://t.co/MjzmTnlmFh https://t.co/E6Ai6V9V9e
911Thrilled to share our new paper in @NatureHumBehav, led by my brilliant PhD student @JenSiegel1 w/ @RobbRutledge @chmathys: “Beliefs about bad people are volatile” https://t.co/LwSMWe3HKd & comment by Todorov https://t.co/OL4djhG98r
912@clairlemon From what I understand ppl say punishment is about deterrence when asked but behave as thought it’s about retribution.
913Bottlenose dolphins can identify who (or what) is virtuous. Using methods similar to those for studying infants (i.e., gaze), it seems dolphins know which entities are to be trusted and which to avoid based on their past behavior https://t.co/lK45jpXrfW
914The origins of humor https://t.co/WvsNoZnaBg
915"Hungry people are more forgiving of moral violations
916
917""if you intend to apologize to someone for a wrong you have committed, make sure you do it before breakfast.""
918
919https://t.co/SYF2WtuVT3 https://t.co/k2ic16pl5o"
920"The world’s largest air-conditioner maker says it found lowering room temperature by a few degrees for several minutes beat some other ideas like brighter lights" https://t.co/QzrMrijXK7
921"Almost nothing that happens to us has a significant impact on our happiness beyond about 3 months 
922
923""It appears that typical life events lose their effects on subjective well-being after 3 to 6 months""
924
925https://t.co/gn4Uey45ig https://t.co/yFr79SJbdA"
926One of my favourite graphs (even though it’s kind of sad) https://t.co/xpeabtdnbS https://t.co/IHZIifsowV
927"Low social status is correlated with paranoia 
928
929And so is high social status  
930
931Great talk on paranoia and social cognition by @nicholaraihani https://t.co/6mCsOo3znA"
932“Free will may be an illusion, but it’s a useful one” https://t.co/gZHreGV4aD
933"“Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in the ancient times. The reason is that these things were done by men, who have and have always had the same passions.” 
934
935Machiavelli, Discourses https://t.co/V0Kc40PfPh"
936"Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation." https://t.co/oH44WIVCrQ https://t.co/InUMSvSmTk
937“The unspoken reality, though, is that the vast majority of Americans don’t vote based on particular issues at all...Americans, by and large, decide who to vote for based on the candidates attributes— personality, image, authenticity, vibe.” https://t.co/TO4hrlbPxN
938New "Why We Retweet" scale for Twitter psychology https://t.co/e0okxCbhYj Four factors: Show approval, Argue, Gain Attention and Entertain https://t.co/xk7s0QX0Rl
939"-71% of young Americans would not qualify for the military 
940
941-Enlisted military members come disproportionately from middle/upper middle class families
942
943-98% of enlisted members have at least a high school diploma, compared to 87% of Americans overall https://t.co/b3WtWDMpkV"
944Fantastic paper I've been expecting is finally out in @nature: The Moral Machine Experiment via @EdmondAwad @iyadrahwan @JoHenrich @JFBonnefon et al shows how people around the world might want locally-relevant ethical rules embedded in their machines  https://t.co/OktVoa5OAB 1/
945"in surveys, people said that they wanted an autonomous vehicle to protect pedestrians even if it meant sacrificing its passengers — but also that they wouldn’t buy self-driving vehicles programmed to act this way."https://t.co/4f3MH7fW69
946“To my knowledge, nicotine is the most reliable cognitive enhancer that we currently have, bizarrely,” said Jennifer Rusted, professor of experimental psychology. “The cognitive-enhancing effects of nicotine are more robust than any other agent." https://t.co/DrpBUZk1qK
947"-Make all the mistakes you want, just make sure you'll be around tomorrow
948
949-Skin in the game means owning your risk. If you’re a helicopter repairman, you should be a helicopter rider
950
951-""The best money I’ve ever spent has been spent on books""
952From @nntaleb https://t.co/W0IdBN5GPA"
953@juliagalef Quiet by @susancain made me value extroversion more than I did before
954“When someone is cast as a victimized moral patient, it is difficult to simultaneously see him or her as an agent responsible for moral wrongdoing.” https://t.co/mM3GoMdDK2
955“when push comes to shove— when someone has to be harmed— people harm their heroes.” https://t.co/0ItDalO79D
956@EPoe187 Maybe not excitement, but I became interested (at age 24) after reading this https://t.co/f6xCcFCDHJ https://t.co/hZ5EsaSmgK
957"Our desire to hold identity-consistent beliefs often far outweigh our goals to hold accurate beliefs." from @steverathje2 https://t.co/gYWdfooxwy
958"""Today, polarization among Republicans and Democrats is staggering. Tracking 10 political values since 1994, the Pew Research Center discovered a 36-percentage-point gap...the gap was only 15 points in 1994."" 
959
960Are moderates to blame? 
961(From July, 2018)
962
963https://t.co/aww9sYXxAH"
964"Incompetent advisors = fired for being bad
965
966Hyper-competent advisors = fired for being too good
967
968""History is full examples in which kings dismissed or killed their most prominent advisers when these advisers were too competent and perceived as a threat."" https://t.co/F0ntW7arAe https://t.co/xIskAm6hSM"
969"How the decline of social capital has given rise to political tribalism. A must-read, replete with empirical data from @vincentharinam @robkhenderson
970https://t.co/HovMxklvJv"
971"My collaborator @vincentharinam and I discuss how unique features of modern life have given rise to extremism
972
973We cite work from @LilyMasonPhD @jean_twenge @wkeithcampbell @JonahNRO and others
974
975Thanks to @clairlemon and @QuilletteM 
976
977https://t.co/HXFKeYFnSq"
978"@EdLatimore I suspect voting is perceived as a costly signal of tribal loyalty
979
980If you claim to be in my tribe but don’t do your part to get our tribe more power, you aren’t really in the tribe"
981Important thoughts on ingroups and outgroups by @robkhenderson @CambPsych, especially relevant today. https://t.co/85uNzKxj9K
982"Interesting theory.
983
984I think you're on to something. https://t.co/322zA3w8om"
985Excellent analysis of why political allegiances have become such a critical source of identity and an increasingly common way for people to divide in-groups from out-groups. https://t.co/ahX7RNers1
986"My latest @QuilletteM piece with @robkhenderson on modern political tribalism and the decline of social capital. Just in time for the US midterm elections! 
987
988Special thanks to @clairlemon and the folks at @QuilletteM 
989https://t.co/gCyQKNuQv2"
990"Today with @ABDanielleSmith:
9919:30: @BacchusBarua - Canada's health care
99210am: Ken Kobly, @AlbertaChambers
99310:30: @maryhmoran, @YYCGames2026
99411am: @robkhenderson - modern life & poli strife
99511:30: Philip Cross, @MLInstitute & @sjmuir - LNG & BC
99612pm: Ian Hussey, @ParklandInst"
997"We think ourselves too busy or too important to attend religious services, volunteer, or participate in community organizations. As a result, cross-cutting cleavages have evaporated. Without civic engagement, shared identities & common interests atrophy" https://t.co/FxoTGNrhUu
998"""For the out-group, we generalize, we stereotype, and we denigrate. For our in-group, we pay special attention to each member’s unique attributes, mental states, and contradictions.""
999https://t.co/fo4BFXPNI4"
1000"modern political tribalism appears to be a vehicle for more conventional forms of tribalism" Good analysis in @QuilletteM by @vincentharinam @robkhenderson on what Liberals & Conservatives are really signaling when they declare their political allegiance. https://t.co/2YbjzN4hnG
1001"Apparently it isn’t just taboo to assume that we’ll fail to solve a problem; it can be taboo to merely describe a problem without recommending a solution. To many, neutral analysis seems cold and uncaring, and suspiciously like evil." https://t.co/fAPtzDvOMg from @robinhanson
1002"People punish mostly because they think perpetrators should suffer 
1003
1004Not because they want to deter perpetrators and others from doing bad things in the future (though this is what ppl often say if you ask why they punish) https://t.co/cHFzl7HRcO"
1005Both parties have warped views of the other. Respondents believed 31.7% of Democrats were members of the LGBT community. The actual number: 6.3%. As for Republicans, they believed that 38.2% earned over $250,000 per year. The actual number: 2.2%. https://t.co/FxoTGN9H2W
1006"1.Give yourself permission to quit (""everyone I know is stuck on some book"")
1007
10082. Read more than 1 book at a time (have a book for every mood)
1009
10103. Don't read in sequential order (read the parts that interest you)
1011https://t.co/hBrUGu2YfC @Johnny_Uzan drawing inspiration from @naval"
1012"Abraham Lincoln said, ""Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe"".
1013
1014You have 24 to chop every day. Sleep, excercise, meditation, reading - those are some of your sharpening tools.
1015
1016Do not chop for 18 hours with a blunt axe."
1017"In data from 37,000 college students, narcissistic personality traits rose just as fast as obesity from the 1980’s to the present," writes @robkhenderson & @vincentharinam. https://t.co/FxoTGN9H2W
1018“Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it...declarations of high confidence tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.” https://t.co/TNO6YqplGO
1019@RubinReport @peterboghossian @jordanbpeterson @GadSaad hey Dave you might be interested in this essay I wrote with @vincentharinam. Relates to many of your concerns https://t.co/HXFKeYFnSq
1020Reading books is the real life version of collecting mushrooms in Super Mario
1021"1 Confirmation Bias
1022
10232 Conviction Bias (""they believe it, so it must be true"")
1024
10253 Appearance Bias (""I see ppl for who they are"")
1026
10274 Group Bias (""I think for myself"")
1028
10295 Blame Bias (""it's not my fault"")
1030
10316 Superiority Bias (""I'm more rational than others"") https://t.co/8lJlVf85Et"
1032Spend next summer at Yale doing research on social cognition in dogs & kids with me & @lauriesantos! This is a *funded* internship (NSF REU) supporting undergrads who wouldn't otherwise be able to participate! Apply by Feb 28. Please retweet!  https://t.co/jkimVqvsne
1033“A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments.” https://t.co/OtxlhktPAA
1034"5 beliefs that propel groups to conflict
1035
10361. Belief that their group is superior
10372. Think other groups have committed injustices upon them
10383. View other groups as threatening to harm them
10394. Consider outgroups to be dishonest
10405. Perceive their own group to be powerless/oppressed https://t.co/d72cY2DuFA"
1041@EPoe187 Kahneman has a nuanced take in his book https://t.co/Tr5TKu6qCI
1042@EPoe187 Another thoughtful take from @paulbloomatyale. Some might say the benefit of applying stereotypes about men in general to a particular man outweighs the harm it causes https://t.co/8LgZCFhV1T
1043"It's grad school application season. If you're applying from a lower income country or family, here's an important piece of information that many don't know: 
1044
1045Most US schools will waive the application fees for you if you cannot afford them! Just email the school and ask for it."
1046"I was a bad student in high school. But I just remembered hearing a joke from my history teacher, about lawyers:
1047
1048“If you don’t have the facts on your side, argue the law. If you don’t have the law, argue the facts.” A version of this might sometimes apply to group conflict, too:"
1049"When a group doesn’t have power on its side, it appeals to facts
1050
1051When a group doesn’t have facts on its side, it exerts power"
1052@EdLatimore Perhaps the poor in America are not comparing themselves to the world's middle class, but to those closer to them. I read somewhere that envy can be at least as powerful as poverty in motivating people... https://t.co/QWQ5UkmW75
1053@EdLatimore "Mine's real." lol
1054"Each moral-emotional word added = 20% increase in retweet rate
1055
1056Top 15 most impactful words for retweets:
1057
10581. Attack
10592. Bad
10603. Blame
10614. Care
10625. Destroy
10636. Fight
10647. Hate
10658. Kill
10669. Murder
106710. Peace
106811. Safe
106912. Shame
107013. Terrorism
107114. War
107215. Wrong https://t.co/nW4IQrpPhP"
1073@EricRWeinstein This little essay by @razibkhan has helped me make sense of what's going on. Really interesting https://t.co/cKkL7B1WlU
1074@razibkhan @EricRWeinstein ?
1075"People who feel socially excluded are more likely to:
1076
1077-Buy something to fit into a social group
1078
1079-Eat unappetizing food to make a new friend
1080
1081-Try booger sugar (cocaine) to strengthen current friendships
1082
1083https://t.co/iPn3Vn4Q14 https://t.co/ksNlUKzvIt"
1084Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is one of my most retweeted tweets. This @QuilletteM essay I wrote with @vincentharinam has more https://t.co/HXFKeYFnSq
1085@sentientist @primalpoly @clairlemon Looks like Prof Miller has read this @BuzzFeed essay by @CKlosterman https://t.co/yWSYKuRO9Y
1086This is absolutely amazing: A violin bow creates beautiful geometric images from thin air. https://t.co/U3KRnG8XnQ
1087"Women:
1088-rate muscular men as more desirable
1089-say short-term partners were more muscular
1090-rate muscular men as less committed
1091
1092Muscular men:
1093-report more sexual partners 
1094-report more affairs w partnered women 
1095
1096Interesting study by @haselton & Frederick https://t.co/5gjS2gmjog"
1097@EdLatimore It’s interesting that less religious people appear to be more likely to believe in ghosts. From @clayroutledge https://t.co/j7ikh7gYyE
1098"“If I say on a date that ‘the sugar maples in Harvard Yard were so beautiful,’ I am basically saying ‘my SAT scores were high.’ The information content is the same, but while the former sounds poetic, the latter sounds boorish.” 
1099
1100from Spent by @primalpoly https://t.co/p94OJZg6Fm"
1101"Ask people to give you a ""random"" number between 1 and 10. They tend to answer 7 way more often than ""random"".
1102
1103Another example of how actual randomness can be counter intuitive. https://t.co/Gc9kDZnPjT"
1104“There is no regulatory force on the planet that can control human nature.” https://t.co/a1xvUoqike
1105@EdLatimore @clayroutledge https://t.co/mWQ5EhZFqI
1106"""Well d'uh."" ""You had a do a study to show that?"" ""In other news, the sky is blue."" ""No shit, Sherlock.""
1107
1108Why this is a misguided response to even the most seemingly obvious findings in psychology...
1109
1110Source: https://t.co/RVAxX4W0ls https://t.co/xXdLqgIyoj"
1111@DegenRolf “our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth” https://t.co/ftXhqaJB3V
1112@jeffweiner Skin in the Game by @nntaleb or Elephant in the Brain by @KevinSimler & @robinhanson
1113@HDow @DegenRolf How the Mind Works by @sapinker
1114@primalpoly @annaeverette16 Reminds me of Pinker's quote about human nature: "But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.”
1115“no society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal” https://t.co/Uh4GNCrLO1
1116@kristofboghe it's called Virtuous Violence, and yes recommended!
1117@JSterling8 @Truthcoin How the Mind Works
1118@EdLatimore When people learned taking offense was a reliable path to gaining social status
1119@Upteamizer Antifragile
1120@luke_smith23 Antifragile
1121@EdLatimore Rationality is an instrument to achieve our goals, not an endpoint in itself https://t.co/pwBPjZGsXT
1122@IanAdAstra Comfort with contradictions
1123@ericchendriks I'll meet you in Denmark
1124@robinhanson And strange that college grads (6%) and people with postgrad degrees (9%) have more favorable views of neo-Nazis than those without college degrees (5%) https://t.co/dMzqfCwHbE
1125"Ironically, people believe that they are less prone to the better-than-average effect than the average person." https://t.co/h69HnJXyNN
1126@sentientist So smart men and women are more similar to one another than dumb men and women. Which is why smart people are less likely to believe in gender differences. Really interesting idea
1127From the archives: "Most moderates conform to group preferences that have been established by committed ideologues," writes Gates Cambridge scholar, @robkhenderson. https://t.co/aww9sYXxAH
1128@QuilletteM Glad to see people still resonate with this essay. I enjoyed writing it with @vincentharinam
1129One purpose of violence is to regulate social relationships. The more important a relationship, the more likely violence will be used. People aren’t as likely to be violent in unimportant relationships /1 https://t.co/VNc3Y8IRYP
1130Violence is a signal of commitment. If people are willing to commit violence to regulate a relationship (which is risky to them and others) it shows how important the relationship is /2 https://t.co/hMlIDGTn5W
1131If people have more choices for relationships, they’re less likely to commit to any of them. They’re concerned that if they commit, they’ll miss out on better choices. Too many options makes people less to commit firmly to any of them. See: regret aversion, choice paralysis /3
1132This passage suggests when people have many options, they’re more likely to abandon relationships in search of new ones. But when options are constrained, they’re more likely to use violence to make the relationship work /4 https://t.co/ljsbW8M2fb
1133So violence is one type of commitment signal. And more choices correlates with less commitment. Seems to imply less commitment means less violence /5
1134Overall, it suggests we can’t have strong commitment without a greater risk of violence. Or maybe: We can’t reduce violence without weakening commitment /6
1135"More choices→ lower likelihood of commitment
1136Less commitment→ lower likelihood violence
1137
1138Fewer choices→ higher likelihood of commitment
1139Higher commitment→ higher likelihood of violence /7
1140
1141Passages are from ""Virtuous Violence"" by Fiske and Rai"
1142“introverts and extroverts do not naturally understand each other. To the extrovert, the introvert has no fun, is stubborn, even antisocial. To the introvert, the extrovert is shallow, flighty, and overly concerned with what people think.” https://t.co/XTVfUxkfsq
1143@jordanbpeterson Family is just a social construct. Employment is real
1144Honored to be listed on @PsychToday’s essential reads list with @SteveStuWill and @thesleepdoctor https://t.co/1Whak0HceB https://t.co/YmS911nO6i
1145"Teachers! Parents!
1146
1147It is legal and perfectly welcome to email scientists asking for a PDF of their paper.
1148
1149Until all papers are free, please RT to make this more widely known. And fyi, scientists don't get the $$ from sales of papers so all it costs us is 1 minute of time! https://t.co/UJkasG33Od"
1150"Attractive man walking a dog ?: 28% of women gave him their phone number 
1151
1152Same man, no dog: 9% of women gave their number https://t.co/tloY8Kxedu"
1153If we all felt love and had morals, no one would ever be violent or commit murder, right? According to new research, the opposite may be true. https://t.co/1pOpeRTsfZ
1154@primalpoly You don't know shit. Pay attention to old people who say young people are great, old people are bad. They are abdicating responsibility to the younger generation. Watch them closely.
1155@clairlemon People see any entity with agency as having moral responsibility. Seems that people want to hold @QuilletteM responsible for being bad or w/e, so they impute agency to it. https://t.co/8iZ8rfzedm
1156This tweet got more attention that I expected. For ppl interested in learning about mating psychology, I recommend following/reading @primalpoly, @NicoleBarbaro, @ProfDavidBuss, @sentientist
1157@RMohorovich I research moral psychology
1158@nickshanks @DaveLeeBBC In psych studies, "confederate" means "actor"
1159"@EdLatimore I've seen this argument somewhere wrt the rise of cheap abundant food. Ppl became more different, not more alike with more food available
1160
1161One group gorge themselves, contributing to rise of health/obesity problems. The other carefully monitor what they eat for health/appearance"
1162Cool to see this account reach 1,000 followers. To cap off the year, here's a thread of my most popular tweets
1163https://t.co/AZh5HizHfh
1164https://t.co/D6oD6kjtKC
1165https://t.co/HmaE2jB02k
1166https://t.co/GZxgDLpnRs
1167https://t.co/9DFTvJf6Vy
1168https://t.co/MmwggTu7w9
1169https://t.co/dsbK48TOJw
1170https://t.co/GC70ankolt
1171https://t.co/3KQ8pytEUH
1172https://t.co/RpjoxtpwqZ
1173https://t.co/cOPwxeJXHY
1174https://t.co/3xwRNBTL7e
1175https://t.co/UMO1Y8uefh
1176https://t.co/DmYYuzndpa
1177https://t.co/3o9hXvrKH7
1178https://t.co/dJZqAuQCvp
1179https://t.co/0pPbVfqBSq
1180https://t.co/1nAyMBPJb7
1181https://t.co/CtjIYw3TZQ
1182https://t.co/nPcmn9DIAo
1183https://t.co/nE1LGEXUmu
1184Recalling unethical behavior leads people to think of themselves as less human—which may have a dangerous, accumulative effect https://t.co/tf6TK2bczF
1185@5deMaya Haha I did not expect so many ppl to like this
1186"one study compared how well students learned about a scientific subject from a 22-minute podcast versus a printed article. Although students spent equivalent time with each format, on a quiz two days later the readers scored 81% and the listeners 59%." https://t.co/JGcgbk28lx
1187@JonHaidt @TriviusC Great essay. I wrote something along the same lines here https://t.co/fq4PC7LiGR https://t.co/unUAvlI3n0
1188Breast cancer is only 10% heritable (average guess is 53%) https://t.co/oTSDBu0JHH
1189@farnamstreet Most violence is morally motivated
1190@LifeMathMoney What is something you've changed your mind about?
1191@robinhanson Sounds incredible. Please do this.
1192"Abnormal is normal
1193
1194“What we call disorders are merely the extremes of the same genes that work throughout the normal distribution.” https://t.co/bJuN6LY4eO"
1195@EdLatimore Rejection activates the same brain regions as physical pain https://t.co/jmTy8WEU9M https://t.co/cJqihwadFo
1196@luke_smith23 Blueprint by Robert Plomin
1197My holiday stack. Books from @MicheleJGelfand @JesseBering @DrBrianKeating @BillvonHippel @barabasi @MndsMkSocieties @AnnieDuke and more https://t.co/AD0Z0PJboW
1198“Us-versus-them thinking comes remarkably easy to us...the psychology may in fact predate our species.” https://t.co/Bm51pSS0LO
1199As societies become more meritocratic, genes become more responsible for differences in socioeconomic status https://t.co/l5Eq9mRQVa
1200@primalpoly Reminds me of this excerpt from Isaiah Berlin https://t.co/1t8Ri8o6oi
1201“To be forced out of a group on the grasslands was a death sentence. For this reason, our ancestors rapidly evolved a strong emotional reaction to the threat of being ostracized.” https://t.co/6mn873Cxvr
1202Chimps spend 8 hours a day just chewing food https://t.co/gukJGLBzE8
1203@ericchendriks Very prolific, Eric :) I've written around 40 in the last 3 years. 40 in English, 0 in Dutch, 0 in German...
1204A brilliant ⁦@QuilletteM⁩ essay. ‘Social capital has been undermined by narcissism, tech & the illusion of time scarcity. The consequent decline of a civic society that binds people together has unleashed primitive tribalism based on in & out groups’ https://t.co/fIKCXuF9PZ
1205This is what playgrounds should be like, for antifragile kids! https://t.co/aP3sAuRWE0
1206@Moshe_Hoffman Scienceblind by @andrewshtulman
1207@ericchendriks I do not, but discovered my blog was cited in a book called The Behavioral Investor by @danielcrosby https://t.co/LaX0wEb52s
1208@nntaleb One interesting analogy I read is from football. If you want to be a great linebacker a bunch of traits are very important, but you have to weigh at least 300 lbs to begin with. This doesn’t mean the best linebackers are the heaviest, just that some heft is required.
1209"The shift from foraging to farming gave rise to inequality 
1210
1211Which led to changes in human psychology https://t.co/rMN9T1NHc7"
1212@justinspratt The Social Leap by William von Hippel. It’s quite good
1213@peters0613 @NicoleBarbaro The Social Leap by @BillvonHippel
1214@nntaleb I’m curious your thoughts on a thought experiment I’ve read: Knowing nothing else about your child, would you rather your child had an IQ of 90 or 130, or would it not matter for you ?
1215“People are more inclined to say that a behavior was performed intentionally when they regard that behavior as morally wrong.” https://t.co/LRKwojAcTY
1216@jordanbpeterson Ppl saying this IQ debate is the greatest crossover event since Infinity War
1217@naval Between this and the current fascinating IQ debate. Twitter brings so many gifts this holiday season.
1218"According to René Girard, people direct aggression to a scapegoat
1219
1220Then experience extreme guilt
1221
1222To rectify, they raise the victim to Godhood status
1223
1224“The peoples of the world do not invent their gods. They deify their victims.” https://t.co/yWfzhdc40N"
1225Anyone who has ever been ostracized in the workplace will identify with this excerpt. https://t.co/Eshl5MArMj
1226@jordanbpeterson Peterson’s Quora response on IQ is interesting https://t.co/uelaOfekX8 https://t.co/WQpoN8FBo8
1227If we all felt love and had morals, no one would ever be violent or commit murder, right? According to new research, the opposite may be true. https://t.co/1pOpeRTsfZ
1228@nntaleb Do you disagree with @jordanbpeterson ’s claim here? https://t.co/uelaOfekX8 https://t.co/DtUtUrhGK5
1229Amazing that natural selection can engineer such intricately patterned instincts, and amazing that it can squeeze so much behavioural complexity into such a tiny brain. https://t.co/uGXg1arAgk
1230"strange as it sounds, in the deepest part of our psyche, we all want to be judged." https://t.co/0CUr63FFAx
1231"“Good conversation is made up of questions; if you haven’t asked one within two minutes of speaking, stop yourself and get a grip.” 
1232
1233From @LizStokoe’s wonderful new book https://t.co/eCXI5lLzOB"
1234"The lack of novelty and variety in hunter-gatherer diets may be part of the reason they do not overeat and become obese. Studies show that the greater the variety of food choices in front of us, the longer it takes to feel full." https://t.co/z89Xf0IXek
1235"Some of the books I read in 2018:
1236
12371. Blueprint by @RobertPlomin
12382. Virtuous Violence by Fiske and @tage_rai
12393. Words that Work by @FrankLuntz
12404. Thinking Statistically by @UriBram
12415. 12 Rules for Life by @jordanbpeterson
12426. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi"
1243"7. Educated by @tarawestover
12448. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
12459. Symposium by Plato
124610. Julius Caesar and Coriolanus (Shakespeare)
124712. Discourses and The Prince (Machiavelli)
124813. Hillbilly Elegy By @JDVance1
124914. Skin in the Game By @nntaleb
125015. Decision Points by G.W. Bush"
1251"16. Conspiracy by @RyanHoliday
125217. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
125318. The Psychopath Test by @jon_ronson
125419. Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
125520. Social by @social_brains
125621. The Elephant in the Brain by @KevinSimler & @robinhanson"
1257@razibkhan Had no idea John Von Neumann was so smooth https://t.co/K1hC9KRqUd
1258“The sad truth is that our friends are not bad photographers; we’re just not as good looking as we think we are. And that’s why you don’t like candid pictures of yourself: because they capture what you actually look like, not what you think you look like.” https://t.co/h5CZeD4brW
1259"Violence is mostly morally driven. People are violent because of their morality, not in spite of it." https://t.co/WgVo883ePa
1260"Self-control did not evolve to delay gratification for a better tomorrow 
1261
1262It evolved to make our social lives easier https://t.co/Tfqjz7WDoc"
1263@DegenRolf This was a cool study. I wrote about it here https://t.co/42XKdqUNPy
1264"Many claim our social intelligence is an offshoot of our IQ
1265
1266But in fact, our IQ might just be a byproduct of our social intelligence https://t.co/iVW27lzJYT"
1267"""Moderates are more likely to move toward the extremes than partisans are to move toward the middle. Given their flexibility, moderates tend to  adopt the preferences of the intransigent minority.""
1268
1269https://t.co/LrdsXTzrA9"
1270@luke_smith23 The Social Leap
1271@AntoineDennison The Social Leap by William von Hippel
1272@clairlemon @primalpoly Also Trump and, dare I say (given recent twitter interactions), NN Taleb seem to have both influence and immunity
1273"Some of my favorite follows of 2018. #FF2018 
1274
1275@jayvanbavel
1276@BrendanNyhan
1277@robkhenderson
1278@simoneschnall
1279@Sander_vdLinden 
1280@GeorgeLakoff
1281@AliaCrum 
1282@GhostfaceWiller  
1283@zakijam
1284@leorhackel 
1285@GordPennycook 
1286@DG_Rand
1287 @paulbloomatyale
1288@profcikara"
1289Overconfidence and self-deception help you achieve social goals you couldn’t get if you were honest about who you really are https://t.co/jyc6cvDl1y
1290Hello, I'm a professor in a movie, I only reach the main point of my lecture right as class is ending. Then I yell at students about the reading / homework as they leave.
1291Are you an undergraduate planning to go to graduate school in experimental psychology or cognitive science? Consider a summer internship at the Yale Mind & Development Lab! https://t.co/lTbaeuTyeT
1292The need to share our emotional experience is the root of our tendency to exaggerate https://t.co/2hbtjvyaCb
1293@amyalkon The Social Leap by William von Hippel. Highly recommended
1294@amyalkon I’ve not, but it looks fascinating! Possible to get a review copy?
1295@amyalkon Sure, I’ll send via email
1296People who meet their partners online are more satisfied than those who meet in-person https://t.co/PAtCu4s3sA
1297People have traveled the globe relatively easily since the steamship. Yet no one thought to put wheels on a suitcase until 1987. https://t.co/y2Ts84g9ld
1298@roshbeth @tedfrank The Social Leap by William von Hippel
1299"Put away your phone!
1300
1301The mere presence of your smartphone reduces working memory capacity and fluid intelligence.
1302
1303#attention #addiction.
1304 
1305https://t.co/33V9thh6Q1 https://t.co/eJtos4FHF4"
1306"Smart people don’t like talking about IQ for the same reason rich people don’t like talking about money 
1307
1308And they downplay the advantages for the same reason 
1309
1310Excerpts from @sapinker and @primalpoly https://t.co/qwftc6Pcsz"
1311@EPoe187 @sapinker @primalpoly It undermines some, but supports others (e.g. income redistribution). I've just noticed that in private or around insiders, the smart/rich will talk about IQ/money. But around outsiders or in public it is downplayed or considered social faux pas to bring up.
1312@janinedanica Of course! Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1313@QuilletteM @clairlemon Every time I look on twitter I see your work @ericchendriks
1314"Compared to the average worker, CEO pay jumped from 20:1 in the 1960s to 100:1 in the 1990s. 
1315
1316Then companies began clearly reporting CEO salary. Goal was to shame CEOs into lower pay.
1317
1318It backfired. Knowledge of peer salaries led CEOs to compete harder. Pay rose even more. https://t.co/9iIQpxbOU2"
1319@amyalkon The Social Leap (von Hippel)
1320"Being A Foster Child Made Him A Conservative, @robkhenderson says (in a May NYT piece on the notion (unfashionable in some circles) that ""the two-parent home is, on average, better for children."" https://t.co/qUhATQ0vhK
1321And my take on what parents owe kids -- in the screenshot. https://t.co/UGkacdhEq5"
1322In politics, both sides think the other is biased - and both sides are right https://t.co/uQBikGqNMq https://t.co/dkBrgGUL52
1323@clairlemon Only to a point apparently... https://t.co/N7moesEQdg
1324"in hunter-gatherer societies, a man who threatens others by having too violent a temper is treated in a consistent way. If the bully can’t be contained by the cajoling effects of ridicule or ostracism, the other men make a plan and execute him." https://t.co/PfKh1sShnJ
1325@ericchendriks Go back to reading Allan Bloom old man
1326“loneliness in late adulthood is deadlier than smoking. Indeed, once you’re over 65, you’re better off smoking, drinking, and overeating with your friends than you are sitting at home alone.” https://t.co/yzazS1b2IB
1327@ESYudkowsky Good rule of thumb for morality: use instinct with friends and family, and careful reflection for strangers https://t.co/0u8eD0hxsS https://t.co/KuseQ6DcpD
1328"Even if all of us obey 100% the current social norms, the past can be data-mined to find something incriminating you wrote years ago. We've created incentives for the outrage machine to reach into the past.
1329
1330And be weaponized against you today.  /1"
1331"Which means that even if all of us obey 100% the current social norms, the norms will change. 
1332
1333An acceptable opinion you hold today can be wielded against you tomorrow. /2"
1334"Not just opinions. Jokes, too. 
1335
1336You can make a joke today that is praised by all the right people. 
1337
1338And in five years it will be used as evidence of your wickedness. Seems like a healthy dynamic we've set up. /3"
1339"Cumulative culture gives us knowledge and tools far beyond our individual (cognitive) powers
1340
1341https://t.co/1766gJ9vpW"
1342Individuals who take the moral high ground have a lower sense of humor and are considered more humorless and less likable by others. https://t.co/ecrIBWT3mW https://t.co/bCfqkDk0ic
1343“risk taking and other foolish things men do are not ‘pathologies’...rather they are evolved strategies that made perfect sense for our ancestors and probably continue to make reproductive sense today.” https://t.co/GCGerFB6OV
1344@EPoe187 Good point. An adaptive trait crosses into pathology when it’s harmful. But that doesn’t necessarily make the trait itself pathological.
1345@EPoe187 Maybe: An adaptive trait that is morally disagreeable. But we all have a tendency to conflate adaptive with moral (naturalistic fallacy). Which might be why it's so challenging to define...
1346@Locus_of_Ctrl The Social Leap by William von Hippel @BillvonHippel
1347This is both super true...and the problem with outrage culture. https://t.co/t9jPg8dAeL
1348Moral psych people: My lab is looking to host a visiting senior-ish grad student for 2 months this summer to kickstart new projects. Stipend is 6k. Technical skills are a plus. Happy to collab with advisors too. Send 1pg statement and CV to kyrakaps@gmail. Email me w questions.
1349"Parents have asked how I got into Yale and Cambridge. They want the secret sauce for their own kids.
1350
1351What worked for me (paraphrasing Bruce Lee, take what works for you and discard the rest):
1352
1353-spend your childhood years living in 7 different foster homes /1"
1354"-don’t pay attention in elementary school
1355-make friends with kids who teach you how to steal purses
1356-vandalize buildings when you’re 9
1357-set a house on fire when you’re 10 (an accident, sort of)
1358-try smoking Marlboro reds when you’re 11 /2"
1359"-learn the choking game from your friend’s older sister when you’re 12 
1360-learn to convert apple cores and Rockstar cans into weed pipes when you’re 14
1361-be actively irresponsible at every turn
1362-sleep your way through classes /3"
1363"-quietly read entire textbooks but don’t tell anyone
1364-do none of the homework 
1365-put more effort into calculating how to get a C- rather than just doing the assignments
1366-copy answers from girls who are nice to you /4"
1367"-hide your report card from your parents (get to the mailbox before them) 
1368-move out when you’re 16, get job as dishwasher
1369-hang out with 30 year old coworkers, ask them to buy you and your friends beer
1370-graduate high school with a 2.2 GPA /5"
1371"-join the military
1372-be amazed at the trust instilled in you at such a young age
1373-slowly realize that actions have consequences, both negative & positive /6"
1374"-read tons of books
1375-take smart risks instead of dumb ones
1376-ask for help
1377-listen to people who know more than you /7"
1378"More here: https://t.co/IM6JU18lzr 
1379
1380Here (2nd essay down): https://t.co/RN2PhZnage 
1381
1382And here: https://t.co/lmlcaWULte"
1383"Seeing Theory: awesome site to help visualize concepts like chance, expectation, and variance. Allows you to simulate coin flips, drawing cards, etc. to see how many trials it takes before observed outcomes converge on e.g. true probabilities
1384 
1385LOVE THIS! https://t.co/SAUb2khJGd"
1386"Alcohol
1387Drugs 
1388Junk food
1389TV
1390
1391Phenotypic indulgences. 
1392
1393New tricks that hijack our brain’s old reward system. Fooling us into thinking we’re enhancing fitness while actually reducing it. 
1394
1395Book: The Social Leap https://t.co/wqQYYARl65"
1396@nntaleb Reminds me of this red hair example https://t.co/2sLqBNseH6
1397@smith_valence @Berk43359694 @IanCharboneau I think one of NNT’s main points is that IQ tests are useful to filter the left side of the distribution. But they’re not useful for the right side. Could be wrong though
1398"Poker vs. chess 
1399
1400“life is more like poker. You could make the smartest decision and still have it blow up in your face. You could run a red light and get through the intersection safely— or follow all the traffic rules and end up in an accident.” 
1401
1402Thinking in Bets by @AnnieDuke https://t.co/hY7FPxsAgg"
1403This is such an astounding, delightful, and thought provoking connection between artistic hobbies and scientific productivity / 1 https://t.co/yU9Hvcm6Up
1404Did you know the human body is full of evolutionary leftovers that no longer serve a purpose? These are called vestigial structures and they’re fascinating. (1/8)
1405@coolstuffcheap Classic task from psychology https://t.co/SjgTMx9Zok https://t.co/7D0bvSVKe7
1406@julian_assele Worked for us
1407@ScottAdamsSays Echoes Scott’s 2 movies on 1 screen idea https://t.co/gno2gWnglI
1408"Body disfigurement
1409Food taboos
1410Synchronized movement
1411Shared terror
1412
1413“a rule of thumb in anthropology: whenever a society (including ours) has a cultural practice that seems bizarre, it’s members may be manipulating their intuitive biology to enhance feelings of communality.” https://t.co/vUqsU7wza4"
1414"The origin of fairness. 
1415Children prefer that no one gets any stickers, rather than getting less stickers than the other children, even at the age of 3.
1416https://t.co/fi27pTwx66 https://t.co/YQOYOU2Vdz"
1417Marxist utopia and the free-rider problem https://t.co/4ka4YYHJkA
1418"Last-place aversion
1419
1420“They found that the greatest resistance to raising the minimum wage was among people making slightly more than that.” https://t.co/CVNEeuabOv"
1421@EPoe187 https://t.co/fdEkv0Qxza
1422"Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at."- True Detective
1423@TaniaArline lol no man of any age is as desirable as a young woman
1424"“We find that both men and women pursued partners who are on average 25% more desirable than themselves”  
1425
1426Perhaps due to evolved self-deception and overconfidence. Most people think they’re slightly more attractive than they really are.
1427
1428https://t.co/UZ34wAu822 https://t.co/G5QGhaV2Ky"
1429@ScottAdamsSays If incumbents and taller candidates have the advantage, then is the media intentionally setting their designated candidates up to fail?
1430@ScottAdamsSays Not enough data to know if that’s true for presidential elections
1431@GadSaad Still remember when I first heard Gad talk about it on @joerogan. Had to look it up for myself https://t.co/HIHD0QblpK
1432“Cooperation evolves, not because it’s ‘nice’ but because it confers a survival advantage...we today are moral beings only because our morally minded ancestors outcompeted their less morally minded neighbors.” https://t.co/OJeIXOdloM
1433"""A costly behavior cannot evolve just because it happens to feel good. Feeling good must have evolved to motivate the behavior, which must have some hidden benefit.""
1434
1435-The Mating Mind by @primalpoly https://t.co/E8jsXVWoQS"
1436"“nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything. So, since the desire is greater than the acquisition, the result is discontent with what one possesses and a lack of satisfaction with it.”
1437
1438-Machiavelli, Discourses https://t.co/4eHZU51mqW"
1439Large-scale, pre-registered study finds evidence that both sides of the political divide are equally gullible to fake news if it supports their views - and to deploy the battle cry to delegitimize the arguments of the other side. https://t.co/x08e8ZR91i https://t.co/n4bqK9yBIR
1440"@robinhanson I think this would depend on age and whether one has a family. 
1441
1442Young + no family, then move. Older with children, maybe stay."
1443"The paradox of morality:
1444
1445-Those who are sincerely want to do the right thing may lie to cover their moral lapses (thus, less moral)
1446
1447-Those who care less about appearing moral may be more honest about their moral failings (thus, more moral) 
1448
1449https://t.co/E2FEWiA5yf https://t.co/oIxfb2Pubo"
1450Wow -- so honored that Ellemers et al. (2019) identified paper with @JonHaidt on disgust and moral judgment (Schnall, Haidt, Clore & Jordan, 2008) as ‘seminal paper.’ Especially pleased given recent replication by @ProfJessTracy @ConorSteckler & @g_heltzel https://t.co/u9OuTVimHO
1451"To make accurate predictions:
1452
1453Unpack the question into components
1454
1455Distinguish knowns & unknowns
1456
1457Leave no assumptions unscrutinized 
1458
1459Adopt the outside view, then the inside view
1460
1461Explore similarities + differences between your view & others, then synthesize 
1462
1463Be probabilistic https://t.co/nl5cBnNyVy"
1464New paper out on the psychology of intellectual humility! Conducted with the support of @CambPsych and @Gates_Cambridge https://t.co/Dr6Nf95vQm
1465@EdLatimore In nerdspeak: “high perceptual fluency increases the experience of positive affect.” https://t.co/ythwNJk6ym
1466@robinhanson Maybe people like hot people too much to form coalitions against them
1467@ScottAdamsSays For most people, finding reasons to denigrate ideological foes feels better than being intellectually consistent
1468"IQ is positively correlated with # of reasons ppl find to support their own side in an argument
1469
1470But uncorrelated with # of reasons to support opposing views
1471
1472From @PsychRabble @JonHaidt @PTetlock 
1473https://t.co/gBFPDz55Mz https://t.co/ZPfrmnTaNb"
1474@LifeMathMoney @jposhaughnessy You're buying a piece of the artist's soul/spirit that went into the artwork-- which is why forgeries are worth less
1475@clairlemon @primalpoly @ChrisRyan77 @DrZhana @joerogan @RubinReport @CHSommers @JustinLehmiller @drdrew @DrDavidLey I’d also be concerned about the Cinderella Effect https://t.co/FQkfu0qzND
1476"if one biological parent is removed from the household, the risk of unintentional fatal injury is only slightly increased. Add a nonbiological parent and, despite the extra resources, the risk of unintentional injury increases dramatically." https://t.co/qD56RMVWSV https://t.co/46SbKZy0oz
1477@razibkhan @clairlemon @EricRWeinstein “This identification of IQ with attractive human qualities in general is unfortunate and wrong.” https://t.co/0Tc6dmEYov
1478@clairlemon @razibkhan @EricRWeinstein Odd that conflating IQ with qualities we like seems to come naturally to people
1479@razibkhan @clairlemon @EricRWeinstein you’re awesome bro
1480@EricRWeinstein Taking reasonable positions isn’t costly enough to clearly signal group affiliation
1481"-Victims of moral wrongdoing have a long time span (“Never forget”)
1482
1483-Perpetrators have a short time span (“let bygones be bygones”) 
1484
1485“For perpetrators, it soon becomes ancient history, whereas the victims may see it as crucial for understanding the present.” https://t.co/cq9sBZ5jdE"
1486The experience of war seems to induce an enduring increase in ritual attendance and the importance of religion in people's lives. Evidence from 3 post-conflict societies. @BGPurzycki @Peter_Turchin @NatureHumBehav https://t.co/BOZnv2Oqks
1487@naval I wonder if this means Twitter will eventually start to resemble LinkedIn (I hope not)...
1488"Men with high qualifications but unsuccessful careers are 6 times more likely to abuse their wives
1489
1490Men with low qualifications but successful careers are 6 times less likely to abuse their wives https://t.co/Eidk9DEASD"
1491@clairlemon Nothing in the original study about alcohol or substance use, but that would make sense
1492@RichieHardcore Evil by Roy Baumeister
1493@dbethea Evil by Roy Baumeister
1494Three Gates Cambridge Scholars will talk about their unique personal experiences - from a year spent at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, cowboying and life in foster care - at an event on Wednesday - https://t.co/QmyhK2Di95 @stellarhistory @robkhenderson https://t.co/IpkPMHqjLY
1495“our cognitive machinery evolved to be only partially constrained by objective reality, as the social consequences of our beliefs are often just as important as objective consequences.” https://t.co/mWjEpTy8tu
1496This video (reduced to a 17 second gif) created by British psychological professor Richard Wiseman demonstrates the power of perspective in creating illusions. It’s titled, “Assumptions” https://t.co/NzDWEktlkh https://t.co/jEcsidX8kX
1497"Machiavelli's cardinal achievement is his recognition that ends equally ultimate, equally sacred, may contradict each other, that entire systems of value may come into collision without possibility of rational arbitration" https://t.co/nP6L3qpF3H https://t.co/woe7zrIUSC
1498"“And if you’re inviting somebody out to lunch, or scheduling a meeting, offering one or two concrete proposals that they can accept or decline is a good starting point.” 
1499
1500Book: Algorithms to Live By https://t.co/OH0YmUuWYl"
1501"People estimate the average person of the opposite sex has 42% chance of cheating on their partner
1502
1503But estimate only an 8% chance their own partner would cheat on them
1504
1505As it turns out, 9% admitted to cheating 
1506
1507https://t.co/rhVQNpEQr9 https://t.co/OY79QrFfy5"
1508"“Modern life is so mediated by electronic images that we cannot help responding to others as if their actions- and our own- were being recorded and simultaneously transmitted to an unseen audience or stored for close scrutiny at some later time.” 
1509
1510Christopher Lasch, 1979 https://t.co/KRmWoi5VNj"
1511"“When one is surrounded by people who all believe the same thing, any contrary belief gradually seems less and less plausible.”
1512
1513Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/l05DcYX3MP"
1514"“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."" 
1515
1516Bertrand Russell https://t.co/RU3t4NH29V"
1517Studying history helps you predict the future by teaching you which things are old enough to be permanent.
1518"""...the benefits of expressing political ideology are usually not political at all, but social and sexual.""
1519
1520This fascinating paper from @primalpoly fits w what I've observed on campuses. Preoccupation w social and career prospects- proxies for mate value? https://t.co/8CPT4OswhZ https://t.co/Dvq0jeuaF2"
1521"“children show prestige bias; they are more likely to copy a model that adults regard as being higher social status- for example, their head-teacher rather than an equally familiar person of the same age and gender.”
1522
1523Book: Cognitive Gadgets by @CeliaHeyes https://t.co/Fs2qTUDo9w"
1524"“Despite the popular wisdom that we achieve success through positive visualization, it turns out that incorporating negative visualization makes us more likely to achieve our goals...people who imagine obstacles are more likely to achieve success” 
1525
1526Thinking in Bets by @AnnieDuke https://t.co/ZQl5baamMh"
1527If we reintroduced wigs for aristocrats, would other forms of status signaling wither away?
1528"During the past 25 years, a billion people escaped from extreme poverty." @sapinker in @Quillette https://t.co/HVmROoQ5Ci
1529"""When a group's fundamental tenets are at stake, those who chant the loudest or clench their eyes the tightest in the face of conflicting evidence earn the most trust from their fellow group members.""
1530
1531Elephant in the Brain by @KevinSimler & @robinhanson https://t.co/8ZXCXeKSjI"
1532Check out the coverage of our work with @JonHaidt on disgust and morality (a complex topic) @supercurious @TheAtlantic, plus the brilliant @peez and @yorl https://t.co/o4EvWPBw3h
1533@clairlemon I use the hemingway editor to simplify essays when writing for general audience. Very useful https://t.co/RhZKWhcxlR
1534@ProfByron @ConceptualJames @KevinSimler @robinhanson "Studies suggest that costly and seemingly arbitrary ritual commitment to apparently absurd beliefs deepens trust, galvanizing group solidarity for common defense and blinding members to exit strategies" https://t.co/sDsmaPNCEv
1535A taste for fat may have fueled human evolution — long before we hunted for meat, says study by @yale_anthro https://t.co/dpAWlk5qBn
1536@MBlauerstein @KevinSimler @robinhanson This tweet is being shared with apparent approval from ppl on the left and the right. So answer seems to be...yes
1537"“My dear, the real truth always sounds improbable, do you know that? To make the truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it. Men have always done so.” 
1538
1539Dostoevsky https://t.co/lRMpCpG2e1"
1540"Do people believe free will can exist within a deterministic universe?
1541
1542Most people say yes, because they want to uphold the notion of moral responsibility
1543
1544Cool paper from @ImHardcory, @EPoe187, Roy Baumeister 
1545
1546https://t.co/Fjhcb0cIWg https://t.co/UVCxmZa39M"
1547Wonderful (paid!) undergrad summer research opportunity! Fantastic group to work with https://t.co/Fhrpns9aVc
1548@EdLatimore I think it was Larry Summers who suggested a heuristic when forecasting project length: move up one unit of time and multiply by 2. A 1 hr project will really take 2 days. A 2 week project really takes 4 months.
1549@primalpoly I did when I saw this version of the problem... estimated around 8-9% https://t.co/VgKXA0hDyq
1550"- Some people become more likely to lie when they see a group member lying  
1551- The effect is huge: having only one dishonest group member makes the vast majority of these conditional liars switch from being honest to being dishonest
1552
1553https://t.co/PQR0XpDdkN https://t.co/KYbxItiEZK"
1554"“Had the Pleistocene savanna contained trees bearing birth-control pills, we might have evolved to find them as terrifying as a venomous spider.”
1555
1556Book: The Ape that Understood the Universe by ⁦@SteveStuWill⁩, citing ⁦@sapinker⁩ https://t.co/lBvZOmYQ2Z"
1557@NicoleBarbaro Reminds me of this from @sapinker "They are increasingly forced to acknowledge that God plays dice with our traits." https://t.co/6jSDwDDKDp
1558"Why some kinds of reasoning are easier than others...
1559
1560My latest for @PsychToday https://t.co/Gf7nArXC1P"
1561citing work from @robinhanson @KevinSimler @hugoreasoning @dansperber @RobertCialdini @BillvonHippel @ESYudkowsky @ToobyCosmides
1562"In their stunning book, Elephant in the Brain, … Simler & … Hanson argue that the purpose of language is to show how cool we are to potential allies & romantic partners. … “the facts themselves can be secondary.” https://t.co/My8dwnIGQv
1563The evolutionary purpose of human intelligence may not be to seek the truth or solve problems, but to socialize and persuade others https://t.co/DWN1sU8Xbe
1564"For moral judgments, upper-class Americans have more in common with upper-class Brazilians than with lower-class Americans
1565
1566Book: The Righteous Mind by @JonHaidt https://t.co/wCUpVeXuTY"
1567"""men are not brighter than women; they are just more desperate to show off in colossally narcissistic ways that might attract sexual interest.""
1568
1569The Role of Creativity and Humor in Human Mate Selection
1570
1571From @sbkaufman Melanie L. Bromley @primalpoly 
1572
1573https://t.co/5ihE1PrbBG https://t.co/Bd7XKYpNXD"
1574@sbkaufman @primalpoly Somehow entered a rabbithole on humor research and found it. Really interesting!
1575A developmental study on the hilarious and highly replicable (in my experience) Bias Blindspot Effect: Children also deny being biased despite evidence that they are, but not until older age do they believe that they are the ONLY unbiased person: https://t.co/aOaqEObsl7 https://t.co/Nd5u4eIB54
1576"Single people paired with an opposite-sex partner work out harder than when alone or paired with a same-sex partner
1577
1578""Going the distance, going for speed: Honest signaling and the benefits of exercising with an opposite-sex partner"" 
1579
1580https://t.co/jbnD5KWdNv
1581@PsychologyBaker https://t.co/mTYeq87Lc4"
1582@Sander_vdLinden @mjbsp I was torn between Moral Dyad Theory and MFT. Then read this from @tage_rai and Alan Fisk and no longer know what to think... https://t.co/QsNchQvnMw
1583@Chrismartin76 @steverathje2 https://t.co/Z1HVvIhlTu
1584Being a good writer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet
1585Do you personally know someone who was shot or shot themselves?  RT for YES, ❤️ for NO.
1586I shook @PeteHegseth’s hand after he interviewed me on @foxandfriends last year. No symptoms ? https://t.co/lqr6jmzDWE https://t.co/h8gPC2ecMk
1587@Bezlo @SardonicProf @Chrismartin76 @steverathje2 Quote is from @helytimes How I Became a Famous Novelist
1588“An analysis of 500 attorneys found that the harder an attorney’s name was to pronounce, the lower he or she stayed in the firm’s hierarchy. This effect held independent of the foreignness of the names.” https://t.co/sIttrucPkk
1589"“I think protesting is almost a status symbol for elites. That’s why they always post pictures on Facebook, so all their friends know they’re protesting.”
1590
1591Political Tribes by @amychua https://t.co/Ek2kkkgb6f"
1592“Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products- contributing to economic growth twice over.” https://t.co/uiXe0EkfLH
1593@EPoe187 Hm tough. Vox sometimes has good pieces like this with @StuartJRitchie https://t.co/PVn4UBonD1. Plus doing keto so...
1594Here is a short summary of some recent research conducted by my collaborators (@ValerioCapraro @DG_Rand) and I on the motivations that cause people to behave pro-socially toward anonymous strangers https://t.co/Y24HUJsgm1 + nod to cool follow-up work with @Jill_Jord
1595“The rated strength of a male body accounts for 70% of the variance in attractiveness. None of the women produced a preference for weaker men...in both samples, the strongest men were the most attractive, the weakest men were the least attractive.” https://t.co/3bHn4HehOT https://t.co/HoHVwZKRY7
1596My essay listed as one of @PsychToday's top posts of the week https://t.co/Gf7nArXC1P
1597being able to do at least 10 push-ups better predictor of heart health than treadmill test (10-year study of male firefighters in USA); being able to do 40+ push-ups = 97% reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease over next 10 years https://t.co/yLgSX1CO06 https://t.co/uz9GyXpxsN
1598@Neuro_Skeptic Reminds me of the presidential forgetting curve https://t.co/nMfkok96hZ
1599"The people who are most likely to change our minds are the ones we agree with on 98% of topics. If someone you know, like, and trust believes a radical idea, you are more likely to give it merit, weight, or consideration." @JamesClear https://t.co/Xn6ZMWI4HN
1600@EPoe187 @AndyVonasch @TaniaArline For sure. Still seems to fit with other findings that people will incur physical harm to display moral virtue
1601“self-deceived individuals are happier...Lack of self-deception is, in fact, a sign of depression. Individuals who feel good about themselves, whether or not the facts merit this feeling, tend to achieve more.” @tylercowen  https://t.co/QfVDmEPFiH https://t.co/0XkHXqfSkS
1602"65% of conversations consist of gossiping about others 
1603
1604""In reality, the cognitive demands of gossip are the very reason why such large brains evolved in the human lineage."" https://t.co/Pku7eNC9hu https://t.co/TKHHY3rzev"
1605"cognitive decline may be a consequence of the amount of information we have to navigate getting bigger and bigger...older brains manage a greater store of memories with every passing day. The effort of retrieval is a testament to how much you know." https://t.co/6bqQIzBRth
1606When research results violate the narrative, people tend to turn into "intuitive theologians", bending over backwards to protect sacred truths. https://t.co/g7C0MaVr3H https://t.co/ZyIrthiLdr
1607"“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” 
1608
1609Thinking, Fast and Slow https://t.co/OBJgRogF3c"
1610The evolutionary purpose of human intelligence may not be to seek the truth or solve problems, but to socialize and persuade others https://t.co/DWN1sTRlME
1611"“To escape responsibility for violence we imagine it is enough to pledge never to be the first to do violence. But no one ever sees himself as casting the first stone. Even the most violent persons believe they are reacting to a violence committed by someone else.”
1612
1613René Girard https://t.co/YG8tTs2ngU"
1614@farnamstreet Reminds me of this tweet from @EdLatimore https://t.co/3VNeIyULbD
1615"""hard work and discipline can lead someone to achieve a comfortable life with a very high probability. Beyond that, it is all randomness: either by taking enormous (and unconscious) risks, or by being extraordinarily lucky."" 
1616
1617Fooled by Randomness by @nntaleb https://t.co/jVZcKYurdy"
1618Chinese CRISPR babies had their brains altered in ways that could enhance memory, cognition. https://t.co/8wOZdFLCpA
1619"“Money can buy you happiness, it seems, but it helps if you spend it on other people.” 
1620
1621The Ape That Understood The Universe by ⁦@SteveStuWill⁩, citing research from ⁦@DunnHappyLab⁩ https://t.co/7AaJw4wdg1"
1622@robinhanson Wonder if people would want to know the specifics if given the chance
1623@SLealWilhelm it is
1624"“It is one of the ironies of modern intellectual life that many scholars insist that rationality is impotent...and to make this point these scholars  write books...with carefully reasoned argument.” 
1625
1626Against Empathy by ⁦@paulbloomatyale⁩ https://t.co/AOfgBZS3rJ"
1627“According to the anthropologist Kristen Hawkes...Big-game hunting is not primarily about calories; it’s about showing off. Vanquishing animals that could easily trample you underfoot and kill you is a pretty convincing display of skill, strength, and bravery.” https://t.co/sjmprIli0r
1628"evidence suggests people attend to the subtlest indicators of status...vice presidents in one company all started with identical offices that included a one-pen desk set. One vice president moved to a 2-pen set, and within 4 days all worked their way up to 3-pen sets."??? https://t.co/VIonnVDdtD
1629@EPoe187 Reminds me of the tragic and utopian visions outlined by Sowell/Pinker
1630@ImHardcory https://t.co/7Af6q60Kx0
1631"""In a survey of 1,500 office workers, 7 out of 10 said they would forego a raise for a higher status job title. Why was the title preferred over money? The majority believed that other people judged them based on their job title."" 
1632
1633https://t.co/hlZM2cBukT https://t.co/VpZFiaMnkK"
1634"political beliefs are costless...odds are near zero that one vote will change an election's result. Voters can cheaply indulge their beliefs at the ballot box. The theory of rational irrationality thus predicts an unusually high level of irrationality in politics." @bryan_caplan https://t.co/jnrRtFw2T7
1635"70% of foster kids report a desire to go to college
1636
16373% of foster kids actually graduate from college 
1638
1639https://t.co/Nd15XV50J6 https://t.co/QiimdjfrBG"
1640@Be_seixas01 Yep, so well-written
1641Now that the hardcover window has passed, and since people don't read, here's a Tweetstorm summary of Status as a Service, which I'll abbreviate as StaaS (h/t @naval) to disambiguate from SaaS. https://t.co/EuQvFMRolg
1642"“It’s often a good idea to adopt the practices and beliefs of people around you. For one thing, the people around you aren’t dead. If you do what they do, you might continue not being dead as well.” 
1643
1644The Ape That Understood The Universe by @SteveStuWill https://t.co/4Qz860DZfb"
1645People used to signal status with luxury goods. Today they do it with luxury beliefs /1
1646In the past, only high status people could afford luxury goods. But today goods are more affordable. Plus, it's not so trendy to signal status with material purchases /2
1647This is a problem for high status people who want control /3
1648"Decoupling status from material goods redirected it to beliefs, opinions. 
1649
1650An opinion about a social issue is the new powdered wig /4"
1651"People are sheep. They want to imitate high status people.
1652
1653But when lots of people adopt an opinion, the opinion no longer high status /5"
1654High status people then adopt a new belief to distinguish themselves. The cycle repeats /6
1655Signaling status with luxury beliefs reduces guilt, too. Not everyone can purchase a luxury good. But anyone can adopt a belief. See how inclusive I am /7
1656It’s easier than ever to imitate a high status belief. Could be another reason why social trends have changed so rapidly as of late /8
1657"People can only stretch the facts to a limited degree. Groups, however, have advantages in this regard, because they can support each other's beliefs. When one is surrounded by people who all believe the same thing, any contrary belief gradually seems less and less plausible." https://t.co/rXBcDvwj7j
1658"Twitter, please help me figure out people’s moral priorities (RTs appreciated!). 
1659
1660Which situation would you prefer?
1661
1662Option A: Everybody thinks you killed a person, but you did not.
1663 
1664Option B: You did kill a person, but nobody knows about it."
1665"if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause...then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle out of a certain boredom : for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle." @FukuyamaFrancis https://t.co/6IUhWrQZsv
1666@eric_d_moyer Evil by Roy Baumeister
1667"Attending Harvard or Stuyvesant isn't important for career or academic success...what's important is the ability to get in
1668
1669Book: Everybody Lies by @SethS_D 
1670
1671https://t.co/GgaVNUEVtq
1672https://t.co/keMeMd7caF https://t.co/L56WXSlmih"
1673"The scientists found that a woman signals her interest by varying her pitch, speaking more softly, and taking shorter turns talking. A woman is unlikely to be interested when she uses hedge words and phrases such as 'probably' or 'I guess.'" https://t.co/8Hrugoh7qy
1674@MBlauerstein @SethS_D these studies didn't seem to find any
1675@AlphaCLTrader Everybody Lies by @SethS_D
1676"Graduating from an elite college: 84% earnings boost 
1677
1678Somewhat selective college: 52% earnings boost
1679
1680Nonselective college: 0% 
1681
1682https://t.co/B44zW8BaEh https://t.co/RWeisPiaSx"
1683@GarettJones He may have been onto something... https://t.co/2xcUwelDkf
1684"""The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.""
1685
1686Joseph A. Schumpeter https://t.co/uK03EDKSEC"
1687@MarkVirag @vcondrone @GarettJones Sure, it all depends https://t.co/YKfqAQz1SP
1688@christopherburd @MarkVirag @vcondrone @GarettJones Maybe. But doesn’t seem to have an effect on earnings
1689@ericchendriks @SethS_D doing my best to provide tasty pellets! https://t.co/v2xi0d7uwj
1690@RealYeyoZa https://t.co/HXFKeYFnSq https://t.co/QBhmXqoLgj
1691"“Political opinions function as badges of tribal membership.” 
1692
1693Book: The Righteous Mind by @JonHaidt https://t.co/qUPTEhnTKX"
1694"“The average IQ score difference between siblings is 13 points, not that far off the average difference of 17 points for pairs of individuals selected at random from the population.” 
1695
1696Blueprint by Robert Plomin https://t.co/5VfXDLq4N9"
1697@luke_smith23 that happens, plenty of other great books to read
1698@OmarBessa Thanks, sounds like a good list
1699@MrsWilliams___ thank you Vanessa. Very kind of you
1700@Neuro_Skeptic @tedcruz maybe Freud was right...
1701@luke_smith23 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
1702"Our latest paper examines how #socialidentity shapes implicit evaluation (via @y_jenny_xiao)
1703
1704The work shows how quickly our automatic preferences align with our identities: simply framing two groups as cooperative reduces bias, as does switching teams.
1705
1706https://t.co/2BSIskP4kS https://t.co/kxEMNV3Mf1"
1707"One-on-one, chimpanzees may be better than us. But pit 1,000 Sapiens against 1,000 chimps, Sapiens win easily. Put 100,000 chimps in Wall Street or Yankee Stadium, and you’ll get chaos. Put 100,000 humans, and you get trade networks and sports contests." https://t.co/JuyrauWivI
1708“The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm.” https://t.co/6rc7lpQKHI
1709“In an experiment designed to be similar to the situation faced by early humans, individuals actually competed with one another to be more helpful and generous so that an observer would see them as better cooperators and choose them as partners for a mutualistic collaboration.” https://t.co/25IDpHWjJr
1710@DegenRolf Reminds me of this paper “Sexual selection for moral virtues” by @primalpoly https://t.co/lfRPuT4aeg https://t.co/JhcinmGaMY
1711Men were more likely to give panhandlers money or other items when in the presence of a woman, signalling generosity and kindness. https://t.co/91hdy3dVJi https://t.co/zP0SeWn8t5
1712"“During the third trimester, when the fetus can hear, its mother’s voice has a different effect than the voice of another woman. Hearing the mother’s voice has a calming effect, causing a deceleration in heart rate.” 
1713
1714Book: Moral Minds by Marc Hauser https://t.co/9pvOfSW4GS"
1715@jayvanbavel @clayroutledge This excerpt about Stuyvesant from @SethS_D’s book is similar https://t.co/jQ7VU4IHaL
1716"Differences between human groups are sometimes actively implemented to reinforce loyalty. Group members do not select the best solution but copy their social group. Some authors have proposed that conforming to social norms can override biological costs for detrimental traits" https://t.co/ca3TL1ixmZ
1717"“In a study of 1,500 pairs of adult twins, concordance for divorce was much greater for identical than for fraternal twins (55 percent versus 16 percent)” 
1718
1719Book: Blueprint by Robert Plomin https://t.co/7M7YdSd2rw"
1720“60 percent of American men and 53 percent of American women admitted to having attempted to lure someone else’s mate into a committed relationship. Although half of these attempts failed, half succeeded.” https://t.co/7RAw6W7NwD
1721"“One monkey stopped responding for 5 days and another one for 12 days after witnessing a companion being shocked each time they pulled a handle to get food for themselves. They were literally starving themselves to avoid inflicting pain on others.”
1722
1723Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal https://t.co/C9Ut3Er3KN"
1724"“Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace.""
1725
1726The Rational Optimist by @mattwridley https://t.co/UHhc2QdaaD"
1727“What feeds guilt and shame is a deep desire to belong, a survival issue for any social animal. The greatest underlying worry is rejection by the group...Concern about upsetting others and losing their love and respect is ultimately what drives human shame and guilt.” https://t.co/BJnUiV4ZpS
1728@KenSchreiner https://t.co/2CvKIIH8QZ
1729@clairlemon this essay from @razibkhan spells it out well https://t.co/TdfUB60seT https://t.co/lJB3KNQb7i
1730@robinhanson https://t.co/HXFKeYFnSq https://t.co/jRkIZuEjhR
1731"Just over 42% of the people in each party view the opposition as 'downright evil.' … nearly 1/5 Republicans & Democrats agree with the statement that their political adversaries 'lack the traits to be considered fully human — they behave like animals'” https://t.co/92fSh2yLZz
1732@robinhanson Maybe @FukuyamaFrancis was right... https://t.co/6poWI6Go0m
1733@steverathje2 I don’t question the correlations. Just questioning the claim that the SAT is nothing more than a wealth test
1734"Indeed, people often support moral projects not because they hold any intrinsic attraction but because of their downstream effects on rivals - for example, reducing the their status or weakening their social power." https://t.co/W9JAbDyobn https://t.co/0pXOlbqs4m
1735@razibkhan @PsychologyBaker I'm reminded of this tweet from @SteveStuWill ... https://t.co/1q8YeUmz5D
1736“While amphetamine increased dominant behavior in male rhesus monkeys high in the social order, it increased submissive behavior in low-ranking males. Social context determined the outcome of something otherwise thought to be a “purely” physiological reaction.” https://t.co/Tk5aqiY8sc
1737@FHL1688 https://t.co/2CvKIIH8QZ
1738"How much does SAT coaching actually help
1739
1740This study says coaching gives a 10 pt boost, which is one-tenth of a standard deviation
1741
1742""too small to be practically important"" https://t.co/2Uz75UE45o"
1743"This study had kids study anywhere from 5-45 hours on special SAT prep
1744
1745It gave them an 8 pt boost on the SAT Verbal
1746
1747“corresponding to one additional correct item” https://t.co/MABH3T7z3A"
1748"Affluent students and Asian students receive the most benefits from SAT coaching
1749
1750But coaching effect is still very small, 5-15 pt boost 
1751
1752Roughly 1-2 additional answers correct 
1753
1754https://t.co/WsrNuztsT9 https://t.co/N4Z8LKPnp2"
1755"It breaks my heart to see families who can't afford it spending money they desperately need on test prep when no evidence would indicate that this is money well-spent" https://t.co/9ilvVv7kyr
1756@primalpoly @jordanbpeterson Which might be the reason we don’t use it...it would be too accurate. People wouldn’t like that
1757"@ReformedTrader It's from here: https://t.co/YzvdCHS834
1758
1759And sure shoot me a DM"
1760"Graduated HS with a 2.2 GPA 
1761
1762Joined the military, got an A.S. from the Community College of the Air Force
1763
1764Went to Yale on the GI Bill
1765
1766Now a Gates Cambridge scholar doing a PhD in psychology
1767
1768Weird life https://t.co/o4mo2Ezhlk"
1769@nntaleb @EricRWeinstein This tweet should be printed and plastered in many work spaces... https://t.co/Zl6ZLjHrK9
1770"When millionaires & celebrities attack the [tests], they pretend to do so on behalf of the disadvantaged, but they really want to destroy the SAT because it is the only mechanism by which your kid can get into an elite college ahead of their kid" https://t.co/YWMML24sUu
1771@finnscave @primalpoly Haven't seen any studies showing substantial gains from coaching. At most 20 pts (one-fifth of a standard deviation). But open to learning more. https://t.co/yflmSd3vDF
1772@finnscave @primalpoly @ArborBridge Interesting. Research suggests ACT coaching produces gains of less than 1 point. https://t.co/BIJUt1gqQi
1773@finnscave @primalpoly @ArborBridge Unclear https://t.co/HhLssGHWqX
1774“out of more than 5,000 participants, 91% of men and 84% of women said that they had experienced at least one vivid homicidal fantasy. And sexual competition in its many forms was the main reason both sexes had fantasized about murder.” https://t.co/gi7aA3kj9F
1775@AIundari @primalpoly https://t.co/nfC3ifi4XW
1776@finnscave @primalpoly @ArborBridge 2015 https://t.co/Fp0Cn3aGZM
1777@ReformedTrader @finnscave @primalpoly @ArborBridge Not disputing that prep can work well for some people. Just sharing data suggesting on average it doesn't help much.
1778"Here's a nice (and humble) example of psychologists discovering that their lack of religious diversity in the lab (all secular) led to an error in scale construction... for open minded thinking (Stanovich & Toplak): 
1779https://t.co/GanmPF1pep"
1780@JonHaidt This part is quite interesting https://t.co/A1PcDk2DNe
1781@mjaeckel h/t @GadSaad https://t.co/2sZAVJhPgm
1782@Strafio @JonHaidt Seems that religious people are less willing to update their beliefs about religious matters. Secular people are less willing to update their beliefs about secular matters. Both are closed minded, just about different topics.
1783@mjaeckel @GadSaad I was so surprised when I first heard @GadSaad on @joerogan explain that it was an actual term that I searched it. So funny.
1784“most perpetrators of violence are neither pathological nor self-interested but are convinced that what they are doing is in the service of a higher moral good.” https://t.co/lXOHn4cqxh
1785@ericchendriks @sapinker big fan
1786"1. 42% of students fail to complete degree
17872. Graduating from an elite college doesn't increase $ 
17883. Graduating from a ""nonselective"" college doesn't increase $
17894. Most average students drop out
17905. SAT coaching doesn't help much
1791
1792My latest for @PsychToday https://t.co/bXpm1PnAqx"
1793@AlanaBache @PsychToday @NickWolfinger Research suggests people who get into elite schools but go elsewhere make as much as people who graduate from elite schools. https://t.co/QPml4HiicR https://t.co/1EZF02CiiD
1794@roderickgraham @PsychToday I had the same thought about social networks. A somewhat similar study about elite high schools in NYC: https://t.co/Wcw6E8mkkd
1795“children living with one genetic parent and one stepparent are roughly 40 times more likely to be abused than children living with both genetic parents. This greater rate occurs even when poverty and socioeconomic status are controlled.” https://t.co/tmCgJGwZXs
1796@unruly_tabouli The Moral Punishment Instinct by Jan-Willem Van Prooijen
1797"“Test preparation courses, notwithstanding their hard-sell ads, increase scores by a trifling seventh of a standard deviation”
1798
1799@sapinker in @newrepublic https://t.co/sljRE1zWgx"
1800@clairlemon One of the best things I’ve written has been for @Quillette. Collaboration with @vincentharinam https://t.co/3Gs154JYes
1801Nice succinct blog post about college and testing. I worked part time for a test prep company in graduate school. After a few months on the job, I learned that our services had little effect on test scores. https://t.co/o4Cezzegh3
1802@larastwitta @PsychToday it is, the original sources are linked in the post
1803"5 stunning facts about higher education. People are spending a lot of $$$ to game the system, but it doesn’t have much impact on financial outcomes.
1804
1805What are they paying for? My guess is that many people are willing to pay a premium to purchase a high status social identity. https://t.co/saoFB9GzDy"
1806"“In terms of the American Dream, can people who are born into poverty “catch up” to their peers born into affluence through their personality traits or intelligence?” 
1807
1808Personality: no
1809Intelligence: yes ??
1810
1811https://t.co/umbIDT0XRT
1812
1813from @RodicaDamian @rongsuatwork @BrentWRoberts https://t.co/PDYdEZUpOQ"
1814@RodicaDamian @clairlemon @rongsuatwork @BrentWRoberts Thanks for illuminating the point about education- the findings on income were certainly more encouraging https://t.co/NNdDZjRmrE
1815@RodicaDamian @clairlemon @rongsuatwork @BrentWRoberts Thanks, I understand they were interactive effects. Still found the resource substitution effect encouraging
1816One of my favorite writers, @FrankBruni, on one of my favorite thinkers, @NAChristakis, about one of my favorite ideas: That we're engineered for cooperation and decency, rather than cruelty and strife. https://t.co/1lzEyjgQ0q
1817“human infants’ helping is intrinsically motivated. Infants spontaneously help others just as readily when they are alone with the helpee as when the mother is watching...infants will help someone who does not even know he is being helped (and no one else is watching).” ? https://t.co/15eX3qCqUi
1818"""Dogs are taken to the vet twice as often than cats (even though there is no medical justification for this difference). People were willing to spend twice as much on medical care for their dog than their cat (avg. $10,689 for dogs vs. $5,174 for cats).""
1819
1820https://t.co/LYK444qHbY"
1821Study: Liberals and conservatives are about equally likely to reject scientific claims that clash with their political preferences https://t.co/Kl8rQVSP6Q By @anwashburn and @LindaSkitka https://t.co/vio0OgrQEB
1822The rich and famous may have bribed their kids’ way into college, but there are many other jarring aspects of college in America https://t.co/GGuNNiqhkq
1823“even if researchers could conduct two perfect replication studies of some genuine effect, each with 80% power (chance) of achieving P < 0.05, it would not be very surprising for one to obtain P < 0.01 and the other P > 0.30.” https://t.co/Dc5TzMgm9h
1824"When everyone is morally offended, a clear signal of commitment is to be more outraged than most. When there is uncertainty about people’s commitment to a cause, it becomes necessary for members of the coalition to demonstrate their resolution by adopting more extreme positions" https://t.co/WfuzJBgQdm
1825@cmac_vc Minds Make Societies by @MndsMkSocieties
1826@jayvanbavel The Blank Slate by @sapinker https://t.co/uy1xzI8KGH
18275 Seriously Stunning Facts About Higher Education in America  https://t.co/IRfFJjRUwG
1828Wanna take some new psychological tests that will reveal the best in you? https://t.co/10qtTR3PNI self-actualization, light triad, awe, and the healthiest big five personality traits
1829@sgeorge954 I'm a fan of @sapinker @mattwridley @slsatel @paulbloomatyale @kurtjgray
1830“Most women who have affairs are deeply unhappy with their marriages. Although this may seem obvious, it is not true of men. Men who have affairs do not differ from men who remain faithful in terms of their level of marital happiness!” https://t.co/SNOZJIYlJa
1831@EPoe187 Discourses on Livy https://t.co/jES2tk2Mi9
1832@AidanWenzel https://t.co/VNh9WOnTKx
1833"The suicide of Princeton economist Alan Krueger last weekend is a reminder that self-harm remains an American health crisis...Between 1999 and 2017, U.S. suicide rates increased by 45% for men ages 45 to 64 and by 62% for women in that age group." https://t.co/xxq7wjD86o
1834"""Happiness was linked to being a taker rather than a giver, whereas meaningfulness went with being a giver rather than a taker. Higher levels of worry, stress and anxiety were linked to higher meaningfulness but lower happiness."" 
1835
1836https://t.co/wUKBgHBvjG https://t.co/Ad764KFtlX"
1837@DoctorBugs I'm a big fan of his work.
1838@robinhanson The fact-value gap. Reminds me of this passage from @charlesmurray https://t.co/40Yg8OP6Me
1839"“cooperation within groups can dissolve in the absence of an external threat. The toxic political climate in the United States can be explained in many ways, but from an evolutionary perspective, part of the underlying cause is the demise of the Soviet Union.” 
1840
1841The Social Leap https://t.co/xtO9AokxK5"
1842The rich and famous may have bribed their kids’ way into college, but there are many other jarring aspects of college in America https://t.co/GGuNNiqhkq
1843"Americans age 18-34 without a steady romantic partner
1844
18452004: 33%
18462018: 51%
1847
1848https://t.co/YxZs2F5Taq"
1849"Person 1: *Describes psychology finding*
1850
1851Person 2: ""I could've told you that. Why do we need a study for what we already know?""
1852
1853Person 1: ""That's called hindsight bias. When we learn something new, we think we could have predicted it.""
1854
1855Person 2: ""I could've told you that."""
1856"“In one experiment, subjects undergoing a fake interview had to cool their heels when the interviewer left the room for a staged interruption. Plain-looking subjects waited 9 minutes before complaining; attractive ones waited 3 minutes and 21 seconds.” 
1857
1858Book: The Blank Slate https://t.co/m53rZvHPHG"
1859"A meta-analysis from researchers at Harvard found that, on average, SAT coaching produces a 10-point gain. They conclude that this gain is “too small to be practically important.” https://t.co/Fvv1vnBnAC
1860"Just arrived today: Blueprint by @NAChristakis 
1861
1862Looking forward to digging in and sharing what I learn https://t.co/bcQNAhSPkU"
1863@RealYeyoZa https://t.co/3Gs154JYes https://t.co/QOpKTcAymP
1864@IanAdAstra I think so...but for most of us it is uncomfortable to think about
1865@ghalib Sure thing
1866“the ideal utilitarian punishment system is one in which punishments are convincingly faked rather than actually delivered. In an ideal utilitarian world, convicts would be sent to a happy place where they can’t bother anyone, while the rest of us believe they’re suffering” https://t.co/1H63fsX8TW
1867@arronooo Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
1868“We are social animals by nature. The feeling of isolation, of difference from the group, is terrifying. We experience tremendous relieve when we find others who think the same way we do. In fact, we are motivated to take up ideas and opinions because they bring us this relief.” https://t.co/WTNm6ocQiG
1869@fellatiohrnblwr https://t.co/AheobvlPdC
1870@fellatiohrnblwr In that case you might want to unfollow me now ...
1871@KI0916 The Laws of Human Nature by @RobertGreene
1872@Noahpinion There's been some research on this, showing how moderates have to align themselves with radical tribal opinions to avoid being ostracized. See this excellent piece on it: https://t.co/zDH85Dztp6
1873“Generally, the better educated are more prone to irrational political opinions and political hysteria than the worse educated” https://t.co/FLByH6yg0c
1874"-Children looked at photos of 2 people 
1875
1876-Then chose who they preferred to be captain of a ship
1877
1878-The 2 people were politicians running for office (unbeknownst to the kids)
1879
1880-Children’s favored captain won their political contest in 71% of the time
1881
1882https://t.co/0No1ZlTkjE https://t.co/TBwgZzb3uq"
1883A study of 417 professors published last week in Philosophical Psychology found that, though the 151 ethics professors expressed stricter #moral views, they were no better at behaving ethically—including calling their own mother. https://t.co/gipvenP2d4
1884"“In the history of the world, increased recognition of differences between groups has led more often to conflict and violence than to peaceful cooperation and sharing. America is now making a dangerous gamble on the opposite result.” 
1885
1886Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/BaIkdTJ1R7"
1887@EPoe187 Exaggeration also helps with recruiting supporters https://t.co/GD5MBrhQz7
18885/ Every time you see a tweet that is thoughtless, unnecessarily polarising or aggressive, petty or dumb, just unfollow that person. It's amazing how quickly your timeline starts to fill with better content. Your whole Twitter experience completely changes
1889"“almost every innovation in child welfare in the United States, including orphanages and subsidized child care, has been driven primarily by adult concerns. Of secondary importance were convictions about what was best for children.” 
1890
1891Blueprint by @NAChristakis https://t.co/bZXUSCcuYC"
1892“attractive defendants were twice as likely to avoid jail as unattractive ones. In another study, a defendant who was better-looking than his victim had to pay an average of $5,623; but when the victim was more attractive, the average compensation was $10,051.” https://t.co/3CozFZ42nN
1893@NAChristakis It's very good. Also enjoyed your recent appearance on @joerogan. h/t @jakefischerCA
1894@djsantero Influence by @RobertCialdini
1895@ericchendriks enjoy your looks privilege
1896@ericchendriks one solution is to make everyone ugly
1897@ImHardcory @psyphilopod @EPoe187 Just learned about this podcast— looking forward to listening
1898@btcbabey The Laws of Human Nature by @RobertGreene
1899More evidence that we tend to overestimate the power of media: Movie smoking has little if any effect on teen smoking. https://t.co/H1VYsX3Amo https://t.co/WZB4kU1A37
1900“If you think that you are doing something that is strongly on the side of good, then whoever opposes you must be evil. To perceive them as any less than that is to diminish one’s own claim to be good...to sustain one’s goodness, it is essential to see the enemy as evil.” https://t.co/3gdbpFr0ny
1901@djsantero Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/SmKoQ6LuPO
1902“The fact is that roughly a third of all married women in Western cultures will have an affair at some point during the course of their marriage.” https://t.co/zZmeOidwgo
1903@Geniuskojo https://t.co/3uLNEmgpv4
1904@kipnesia @TellYourSonThis One interesting method I've read about involves asking people about their friends. E.g. "Of your five closest friends, how many of them have cheated?" Some claim these yield more accurate responses
1905@JoacoMachado @clairlemon You'd hate my bookshelf... https://t.co/0PrRrHxCOS
1906@JoacoMachado @clairlemon Thanks Joaco
1907@luke_smith23 Influence by @RobertCialdini
1908@GarettJones That was a big surprise for me when I wrote this https://t.co/bXpm1PnAqx
1909"“people who leave the group represent an even greater threat than its enemies. Keeping the group together is in many cases a more fundamental and urgent goal than accomplishing its stated purposes or defeating its actual external enemies.”
1910
1911Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/VQfnE0iIuv"
1912"Four traits that both left-wing and right-wing political extremists have in common, and which differentiate them from political moderates:
1913
19141. Psychological distress
19152. Cognitive simplicity
19163. Overconfidence
19174. Intolerance
1918
1919https://t.co/GEQX0qGFbg https://t.co/kRXISWsVUy"
1920"“the most extreme cruelty makes use of empathy. To be thoroughly cruel, it is necessary to know what the victim is feeling, in order to maximize the suffering....Empathy can be a dangerous tool in the hands of someone who wants to hurt.” 
1921
1922Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/6u6bST03Bo"
1923@EPoe187 Learning that traits like empathy and reason are morally neutral (can be used for evil ends) was a disturbing realization for me in undergrad
1924Science is the only reliable method for systematically understanding the universe. Properly understood, we should try to use it more, not less often. https://t.co/qCKLPe9sbt
1925"""Outrage culture is simply the calamitization of the mundane. It is a process by which group solidarity can be lazily achieved by combatting non-existent crises."" 
1926
1927My latest for @Quillette with @vincentharinam https://t.co/0ARuY9H8aK"
1928@EdLatimore Damn these lifehack pills are bitter
1929The arousal effects of putting a cell phone to your head for 30 minutes "are equivalent to about half a cup of coffee" https://t.co/9JWCnTjdjb
1930"In the absence of legitimate calamities, we create artificial ones... Outrage culture is simply the calamitization of the mundane. It is a process by which group solidarity can be lazily achieved by combatting non-existent crises." https://t.co/F5c2vWN1FO via @Quillette
1931“We view a behavior as more correct to the degree we see others performing it. Whether the question is what to do with an empty popcorn box in a movie theater or how to eat the chicken at a dinner party, the actions of those around us will be important in defining the answer.” https://t.co/bUpeIHsLNv
1932"""We evolved to experience hardships together. The prehistoric stressors that united early humans no longer exist [so] now we create artificial ones.""
1933https://t.co/F4l0nWVyrE"
1934"What Doesn’t Kill Us Brings Us Together | @vincentharinam @robkhenderson
1935https://t.co/5SheKzQbmB"
1936@kraigeous Influence by @RobertCialdini
1937Outrage Culture As A Bonding Tool: "Contrived crises produce counterfeit solidarity. By manufacturing artificial crises, we forge a temporary sense of unity with our ingroup members." https://t.co/7kD2z6We3v @robkhenderson @vincentharinam via @Quillette
1938“Just after placing a bet, people at the racetrack are much more confident of their horse’s chances of winning than they are immediately before laying down that bet. Once we have taken a stand, we will encounter pressures to  behave consistently with that commitment.” https://t.co/uSPHvpSie2
1939"“Detailed ethnographic studies highlight the stresses and fears present in polygynous families, including, for example, wives’ concern that other wives might try to poison their children so that their own children might inherit land or other property.” 
1940
1941https://t.co/kfnBHh5S1f https://t.co/Cj2jaumfZS"
1942"""An examination of ethnographic data from sixty-nine nonsororal polygynous cultures fails to turn up a single society where co-wife relations could be described as harmonious""
1943https://t.co/aBvd9wiN2W"
1944@jayvanbavel People’s beliefs about Twitter can seem like an example of Kahneman’s WYSIATI (what you see is all there is) https://t.co/N0sdgjS1hE
1945@clairlemon @Quillette The Elementary Particles is absolutely devastating to read. His best imo
1946“satisfaction in arranged marriages is not lower, and is sometimes even higher, than it is in love matches. One study of couples married for 10 years found no statistical difference in passionate love between couples in arranged marriages compared to Western-style love matches.” https://t.co/A6d23ib965
1947@EPoe187 From "Two Concepts of Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin https://t.co/aZJSQiY743
1948@luke_smith23 https://t.co/yjruWro1k6
1949"“if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle...for they cannot imagine living in world without struggle.”
1950
1951My latest for @Quillette on outrage culture https://t.co/0ARuY9H8aK"
1952@Evolving_Moloch Very interesting
1953"""Outrage culture is simply the calamitization of the mundane. It is a process by which group solidarity can be lazily achieved by combatting non-existent crises.""
1954-@vincentharinam & @robkhenderson
1955
1956https://t.co/nwlJjsz1Bp"
1957@djsantero @SamWhiteTky I don't disagree.
1958"“when alpha males of some species are preoccupied with fighting, weaker bystander males can take advantage of the commotion to mate with otherwise inaccessible females. This is known among zoologists as the ‘sneaky-fucker’ strategy.” 
1959
1960https://t.co/kfnBHh5S1f
1961
1962@GadSaad https://t.co/tLn53V362I"
1963“Research has found that most men find most women at least somewhat sexually attractive, whereas most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all.” https://t.co/1ANnqZKoKK
1964"My favourite quote ever:
1965
1966""You are always one decision away from a totally different life."""
1967@Intlreading https://t.co/0oZnVL9rxJ
1968@Scrase https://t.co/0oZnVL9rxJ
1969“Guilt seems to originate in two basic emotional patterns. The first is empathy...The other is fear of losing a relationship. Guilt makes people treat their relationship partners better. Guilt is fundamentally prosocial: It helps to strengthen the bonds between people.” https://t.co/zSSsWWarGS
1970@MBlauerstein @clairlemon thanks! More on the way
1971@amyalkon Evil by Roy Baumeister
1972@valanchee https://t.co/HrkqVfCjsx
1973@IanAdAstra Haha well it’s not my quote. It does seem the educated classes have been as enamored with Darwin as Newton
1974@EvanWard97 Big fan of their work
1975@EdLatimore @AnnieDuke Great book https://t.co/uZ2WQSSDBP
1976“using data from 1,683 unrelated pairs...people preferred partners who were genetically equivalent to fourth cousins. A different study found that the greatest number of offspring was seen in couples related at the third- to fourth-cousin level.” https://t.co/0B7senViQF
1977@robinhanson https://t.co/3Gs154JYes https://t.co/lMauOCvFo0
1978"a kid from the bottom 20% of parental income with scores in the top third has a 24% chance of earning an income in the top fifth..Meanwhile a kid with the same scores with parents in the top 20% has a 45% chance of ending up at the top fifth"@RAVerBruggen https://t.co/rP1o5M9tVq
1979"""If guilt was uncertain, people were less inclined to punish the in-group than the out-group suspect. But when guilt was certain, the effect reversed, & took the form of a black sheep effect: people punished the in-group suspect more severely.”
1980
1981Book:The Moral Punishment Instinct https://t.co/bhYohlFRHC"
1982@luke_smith23 Library ?
1983@sbkaufman I’ve read that morality + competence accounts for something like 80% of the variance for ppl’s character evaluation of others. Seems being judged on either of those attributes feels threatening...
1984"“I just drove the train, I didn’t kill anybody.” 
1985
19864 ways groups reduce guilt for evil acts
1987
19881. Diffusion of responsibility 
19892. Deindividuation
19903. Division of labor
19914. Separation of decision-makers from executioners 
1992
1993Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/RyovuNMVW4"
1994"“People can only stretch the facts to a limited degree. Groups have advantages, because they can support each other’s beliefs. When one is surrounded by people who all believe the same thing, any contrary belief gradually seems less and less plausible.”
1995
1996https://t.co/SmKoQ6LuPO https://t.co/TuVb7cibAt"
1997“Overall, 81 percent of online daters engaged in some form of deception...Men exaggerated their true height by half an inch. Women underestimated their weight by 8.5 pounds.” https://t.co/n1lzjbqXwz
1998@charlesmurray Reminds me of this study https://t.co/EyOwHCsRWx
1999"""Pairs of friends are, on average, as genetically similar to one another as fourth cousins""
2000
2001https://t.co/Mdi4guxr6h https://t.co/hPeJc0rt0u"
2002@razibkhan @bdomenech @FDRLST look forward to reading
2003@clairlemon Emojis, tertiary qualifications, and dumb tweets might all serve as coalitional signals of group affiliation. Perhaps not a coincidence they appear together so frequently...
2004“Maybe kindness and hatred are related. Mathematical analyses of models of human evolution suggest that...neither altruism nor ethnocentrism evolved on its own, but they could arise together. In order to be kind to others, it seems, we must make distinctions between us and them.” https://t.co/aLBaV4Tm6e
2005"""We found that the more friends a person had, the more enemy he or she was likely to have, with each 10 extra friends being associated with one extra enemy.""
2006
2007More friends = more enemies
2008
2009https://t.co/kfnBHh5S1f https://t.co/TCNYHGUseG"
2010"Research suggests:
2011
2012The friend of your friend is your friend. 
2013
2014The enemy of your friend is your enemy. 
2015
2016The friend of your enemy is your enemy. 
2017
2018But the enemy of your enemy is not your friend. “In fact, that person is more likely to be an enemy.” 
2019
2020Blueprint by @NAChristakis https://t.co/chwjIRlqlG"
2021@cryptopwincess not as much as you might think. I often post excerpts from books I read yrs ago
2022"""Doctors were asked to imagine using a test to screen for cancer. They were asked: 'what is the probability that someone who tests positive actually has cancer?' The correct answer is 5%. However, about half of doctors estimated the probability as 50%""
2023
2024https://t.co/XmLymz1cUx https://t.co/flkboyAjxH"
2025"In the neurosciences, power appears to be exceptionally low...Among animal studies, the average power was 20-30%. This suggests animals’ lives are sacrificed in poorly designed experiments that have low chances of finding an effect. Flipping a coin would be a better strategy" https://t.co/329MuOJorO
2026"“The third root of evil is idealism. When people firmly believe they are on the side of good, they often feel justified in using strong measures against the forces that oppose them. Noble ends are seen as justifying violent means.”
2027
2028Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/L78pRrk8Xg"
2029"Research suggests:
2030
2031If you consider someone to be your friend, there is a 34 percent chance they consider you to be their friend 
2032
2033If you consider someone to be your enemy, there is a 5 percent chance they consider you to be their enemy
2034
2035https://t.co/kfnBHh5S1f https://t.co/wwIuI6S3im"
2036@joeljmiller Interesting!
2037@restrictedquant https://t.co/YcVoBgSpzu
2038@restrictedquant sure thing
2039I just wish the enemies weren't so much noisier. https://t.co/uayivr0DQW
2040"@primalpoly At age 18: pleased
2041
2042Years later (after reading Burke): annoyed https://t.co/G4DrJQv2Yk"
2043@JamesClear Many problems come from the clash between the desire for status and the desire for truth
2044@charlesmurray Found it https://t.co/uGBDynqHw8
2045"“In fact, findings from cross-cultural studies suggest that in-group bias is higher in collectivist societies (including communist societies) than it is in individualist societies which stress autonomy.” 
2046
2047Book: Blueprint by @NAChristakis https://t.co/RYgP8XQKpF"
2048@BraveNewtWorld @SteveStuWill @NAChristakis The book is terrific. Highly recommended
2049"Shocking study: 59% of Americans eat chocolate bunnies starting with the ears first 
2050
2051""Traumatic amputations of confectionary rabbit ears appear to be seasonal in nature and associated with the Easter holiday.""
2052
2053#HappyEaster #EasterSunday
2054
2055https://t.co/I2vi0reMP0 https://t.co/H37xNlmXlf"
2056"“A little excess fear is exactly what evolutionary principles would predict...’the cost of getting killed even once is higher than the cost of responding to a hundred false alarms.’” 
2057
2058Book: The Ape that Understood The Universe by @SteveStuWill https://t.co/6jfYFE7Bvl"
2059"One of the most important concepts for understanding social behavior is preference falsification -- when an individual publicly misrepresents their private views to fit into a social group. It is conformity for the sake of social self-interest." https://t.co/kUfggEVJpd
2060"“Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be...the optimistic bias may be the most significant cognitive bias.”
2061
2062Thinking, Fast and Slow https://t.co/3II5LDZh4u"
20635 Things an Alien Scientist Would Find Weird About Humans: Very nice review of my book The Ape That Understood The Universe, by @robkhenderson https://t.co/xE6KdoHLPm via @PsychToday https://t.co/tiolhtblyQ
2064"I tried to avoid writing this. 
2065
2066Someone even talked me out of it. But I couldn't avoid it. 
2067
2068My op ed about @jordanbpeterson and his rescindment from @Cambridge_Uni https://t.co/FoF6fMQrjV"
2069@MukulChak @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni thanks, Muskul!
2070In which a man mistakes himself for the entire Cambridge student body. "The... students’ union says Dr. Peterson’s views are not representative of the student body. Yet the very reason I am a part of the student body is because of Dr. Peterson." https://t.co/3mKudYSQho
2071@esdrascantu @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni thanks Esdras
2072"@jonathanstea @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Thank you, Jonathan.
2073
2074I experienced a hate storm last year for this one: https://t.co/IM6JU18lzr Perhaps this one won't be quite as turbulent"
2075@AlexIniguezArt @charleendadams @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni thanks Alex, very kind of you to say
2076"I feel deeply ashamed that someone from my university, and scholarship cohort, spreads incorrect information regarding the university's decision to rescind Peterson's offer to the Divinity School. They revoked his offer after finding out about the...
2077https://t.co/8MZ5XtJ5Me"
2078"People who are told an object is “very hot” rate the experience of touching it as more painful than those told the (same temperature) object is “very cold”
2079
2080The “nocebo effect”: Expectations influence our perception of pain
2081
2082Book: The Mind Club https://t.co/te8eCdILLS"
2083“Punishment is motivated by emotion more strongly than it is motivated by reason...In instances where reason contributes to punishment decisions, it usually leads to a decrease in punishment. Whilst emotions fuel a desire to punish, deliberation tends to mitigate this desire.” https://t.co/9oj6geDqAu
2084@lisa_roatch @jordanbpeterson Thank you Lisa, very kind of you. Best of luck to your sons!
2085@Jeremiahdalesio @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Thanks Jeremiah
2086"Today with @ABDanielleSmith:
20879:30: @AuspiceTim - Iran oil sanctions
208810am: Wesley Wark, @uottawagspia 
208910:30: @drtimball
209011am: @vincentharinam & @robkhenderson
209111:30: Dr. Alexandra Lysova, @sfucriminology; Michael Healey; @JustinTrottier, @menandfamilies"
2092I enjoyed writing this piece. Glad @nytopinion welcomed my essay, though I am not surprised you are surprised. https://t.co/gJyDDkAgM8
2093@jonathanstea @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Terrific research-based article. Thanks for sharing.
2094"@jonathanstea @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Thank you, Jonathan.
2095
2096I experienced a hate storm last year for this one: https://t.co/IM6JU18lzr Perhaps this one won't be quite as turbulent"
2097.@robkhenderson on how advice from @jordanbpeterson helped him get into @Cambridge_Uni. I’m thrilled to be the beneficiary, by having Rob do his PhD in my lab @CambPsych. I support an open exchange of ideas, even (or especially) if you disagree. https://t.co/rVm0CY1EJP
2098@SimoneSchnall @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni @CambPsych thank you Simone, your support has really meant a lot
2099@YehudaKrohn @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Thank you, Yehuda
2100@cryptopwincess @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni That's so great to hear! Thank you for sharing
2101This is fascinating work. Even when the investigators take great care to make it clear to children that they are being divided into groups in a totally random way, still, children give more resources to members of their own group. https://t.co/uwv5R4thR9
2102@LifeTherapyZita @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Thank you, Zita
2103@robkhenderson @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Beautifully written. As a woman I find @jordanbpeterson views to be empowering one of the few men who invite women to step out of blame & victimhood. I can also appreciate that for many his words are frightening they that invite us to think for ourselves...
2104"“the second best predictor of the feelings of a day is whether a person had contact with friends or relatives...It is only a slight exaggeration to say happiness is the experience of spending time with people who you love and who love you.” 
2105
2106Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow ? https://t.co/vB54wiFFyb"
2107While I think this piece is overall goofy and that Peterson is not my cup of anything, revoking that invite is indeed a dopey move by Cambridge: https://t.co/LR1w0LX1ta via @NYTOpinion
2108@BodyForWife @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Thanks for sharing, James
2109@BodyForWife @jordanbpeterson @Cambridge_Uni Thanks for linking my essay
2110My heart dropped when I learned that Jordan Peterson’s offer from the Divinity School had been revoked. Doing so sends the message that there’s something wrong with people who value his message — that there’s something wrong with me, writes @robkhenderson. https://t.co/BgU1xCWypq
2111@razibkhan when I first joined Twitter back in the day it stunned me to see 40+ yr olds join in vicious pile ons
2112@BodyForWife ? I’m not white James
2113"@EPoe187 I wonder how people would respond if it was them getting punched. 
2114
2115""Is it less immoral for you to get punched in the face if you forget about it in 20s than it is for you to get punched and not forget?"""
2116@EPoe187 My intuition is they'd say it is equally immoral
2117"""44% of college graduates ages 22 to 27 work in jobs that do not require a college degree.""
2118
2119https://t.co/1xkHxJAMVL https://t.co/KjZ2dBMjdZ"
2120"Belief in hell predicted lower crime rates; belief in heaven predicted higher crime rates...beliefs in punishing supernatural agents spread across historical societies because of their ability to foster cooperation and suppress anti-social behavior" https://t.co/RoZezWa6vL https://t.co/YEkwm10ARa
2121A positive piece on my influence from a Cambridge student in The New York Times https://t.co/yjKLtzsanX I'm truly surprised.
2122"Interesting to read presumptions about my background 
2123
2124Everyone is welcome to learn about where I came from here (2nd essay down): https://t.co/RN2PhZEL7M https://t.co/aOWS1fWEIl"
2125Wow, the NYTs deigned to publish a reasonable opinion piece on @jordanbpeterson ! #shocking https://t.co/9HcEtIOyCI
2126@wesyang Might explain this https://t.co/bXpm1PnAqx https://t.co/52iOFIYzaX
2127@itisacostume @wesyang Related https://t.co/yuT60HtJMV
2128"How to design a successful religion:
2129
21301. Encourage members to have lots of kids
2131
21322. Urge followers to spread your message
2133
21343. Have distinct/unusual views to stand out from other ideologies
2135
21364. Discourage dissent or free thinking 
2137
2138Book ?: https://t.co/oGU5UuTlDs https://t.co/RlFEGl1yM0"
2139@robinhanson One possible reason, from your book... https://t.co/1FvPfuoCMZ
2140@amyalkon I agree! Learned to do this kind of reading from a @WSP_Vets course. And reading this great old essay "How to Mark a Book" https://t.co/0PrRrHxCOS
2141@WallStPlayboys The "Mellow Heuristic" from @bryan_caplan https://t.co/FZVdhPM0sX https://t.co/O4U2vV9EEo
2142@ericchendriks @jdceulaer @demorgen Looking sharp, Eric ?
2143"The False Consensus Effect: 
2144
2145""In almost everything we overestimate the percentage of others who share our beliefs...If a participant supported the legalization of marijuana, they overestimated the percentage of the public that supported legalization."" https://t.co/RMpcaWX6sl"
2146"Religiosity of American College Professors
2147
2148Least religious (""I don't believe in God""):
2149Psychology: 50%
2150Mech Engineering: 44%
2151Biology: 28%
2152Poli Sci: 23%
2153Econ: 23%
2154
2155Most religious (""I know God exists""):
2156Accounting: 63%
2157Elementary education: 57%
2158Finance: 49%
2159Marketing: 47%
2160Art: 45% https://t.co/l96Ys4iliL"
2161@JeffreyASachs https://t.co/HqW2rxhlnl
2162@NAChristakis @paulbloomatyale @McCormickProf ?Study idea... The pariah-iosity of the American twitter professoriate: Which disciplines have highest % of pariah profs
2163"I’ve received so many touching messages from readers of my @nytopinion op-ed about @jordanbpeterson: https://t.co/FoF6fMQrjV
2164
2165Here is one from a female journalist (shared with permission) https://t.co/HcnofWcrrp"
2166@NAChristakis @paulbloomatyale @McCormickProf @RosalindPicard No apology necessary— I enjoyed reading the responses
2167I'm fascinated (& shocked) by the practice of demanding that people publicly apologize for what they say or write. Sure, a heart-felt apology means a lot. But being made to publicly recant one's honest beliefs is degrading, and to demand this is an act of dominance & cruelty.
2168@YzarWehbe fascinating, thanks for sharing!
2169"“Those who read arguments against free will were more likely to cheat on a test and to claim more money than they deserved. Free will may be an illusion, but it’s a useful one.” 
2170
2171Book ?: https://t.co/oGU5UuBKLU https://t.co/Dh3mnN8m78"
2172@restrictedquant Damn. thanks for sharing
2173"@robinhanson I admire that you treat people on Twitter like adults
2174
2175High entertainment value"
2176"even nonreligious people tend to trust religious people more, whether the person is Christian or Muslim. Similarly, most people—even atheists—tend to view atheists as untrustworthy." https://t.co/j32Kh1bjlO https://t.co/t7g6onUM5f
2177"What is ""the most important thing to know about a person""?
2178
217965% of people say moral character
218019% say interpersonal warmth
21819% say willingness to get along with others
21826% say competence/effectiveness
2183
2184https://t.co/W36gWnUoKF https://t.co/SzQIXcZU8J"
2185"22% of American adults use Twitter
2186
2187Average Twitter user posts twice/month, has 25 followers, follows 89 accounts
2188
2189Average user in the top 10% posts 138 tweets per month, has 387 followers, follows 456 accounts
2190
2191Top 10% of users create 80% of all tweets https://t.co/jBmBgLX3eu"
2192@robinhanson Maybe time to re-visit this old post of yours https://t.co/fICysti25u
2193"71% of young Americans are ineligible to join the military
2194
2195Reasons:
2196
2197-Too dumb
2198-Too fat
2199-Lack HS diploma
2200-Drug abuse
2201-Criminal conviction
2202
2203https://t.co/PaHOstqX0K https://t.co/CwNzzTSg0f"
2204@finnscave Thanks. i was dismayed to read this too https://t.co/26PudmYIkb
2205"“Americans spend 9.5% of their income on food, down from 16% in 1962 and far down from 42% in 1900.” 
2206
2207Blueprint by @NAChristakis https://t.co/rqgX8knYej"
2208@Cat9bx0219 @Themosthuman https://t.co/XHSoVhSX0L
2209"“the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average returns selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own.” 
2210
2211Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow ? https://t.co/H9dtVh33Tt"
2212"Researchers asked 194 people whether a reasonable person would unlock their phone and give it to an experimenter to search thru. Most said no.
2213
2214Then they asked 103 other ppl to unlock their phone and give it to them
2215
2216100 of them complied 
2217
2218https://t.co/FCUcKAh1Yw https://t.co/9DrVT40ByC"
2219@robinhanson Elephant in the Brain is terrific. Thanks for writing it.
2220@clayroutledge Which discipline(s) should be the most liberal/progressive, in your opinion?
2221“In every culture in every region of the world, a substantially larger percentage of men than women desire more than one sex partner over the next month...Over the next 30 years, Norwegian women desire 5 sex partners; men desire 25.” https://t.co/v7tc5SyVL3
2222@jordanbpeterson At least there’s this: “Men with more sex partners experienced a sharp decline in how sexually attractive they found their partner immediately following intercourse, whereas neither men with less sexual experience nor women showed this decline.” https://t.co/rpdoWkGgcU
2223@FarMcKon https://t.co/lsAO8xsAyB
2224"Men and women in a bar were asked at 9pm, 10:30pm and midnight to rate attractiveness of people of opposite sex in the bar using a 10-point scale
2225
2226Average rating women gave men at 
22279pm: less than 5
2228Midnight: 5.5
2229
2230Average rating men gave women at 
22319pm: 5.5
2232Midnight: 6.5 https://t.co/InPwdECxi4"
2233@DylanPGriswold https://t.co/lsAO8xsAyB
2234"-The average age of a successful startup founder Is 45 yrs old
2235
2236-A 60-year-old founder is 3 times as likely to found a successful startup as a 30-yr-old founder
2237
2238-A 50-year-old entrepreneur is twice as likely to start a successful company as a 30-yr-old
2239
2240https://t.co/qZwX2DDumK https://t.co/uOmHnao0WT"
2241@EPoe187 Great thread. Conclusion reminds me of this excerpt from Isaiah Berlin https://t.co/JMB93h3NDk
2242@EPoe187 Link here https://t.co/S9c2t6V0eB
2243“When we see something that attracts us, our pupils dilate...when women viewed babies, their pupils dilated 17%; men showed no dilation. When shown a mother holding a baby, women’s pupils dilated 24%; men 5%(may be due to men’s attraction to the mother rather than the infant).” https://t.co/zBmgGIh26s
2244@EPoe187 sure thing ?
2245@Sevens_2 @hbdchick https://t.co/lsAO8xsAyB
2246People behave more trusting towards others than their given level of cynicism would dictate, because they feel they owe others the respect of giving them the benefit of the doubt. https://t.co/rBy211NpfY https://t.co/9qxup582s8
2247@Sevens_2 @hbdchick I am, thanks
2248@Mangan150 Reminds me of this from @robinhanson. I think from here https://t.co/kMTLn2wMYp https://t.co/5AJfl1HPYQ
2249“In an analysis of wills, a majority of men tended to leave their entire estates to their wives, often with expressed confidence that the wife would pass along the resources to their children. In sharp contrast, women who were married when they died did not express such trust.” https://t.co/RjFzGsiBg5
2250"""Falsehood reached far more people than the truth. Whereas the truth rarely reached more than 1000 people, false news routinely spread to between 1000 and 100,000 people...many more people retweeted falsehood than they did the truth."" 
2251
2252https://t.co/0LLSXcE4vN https://t.co/hB4k9YdvBV"
2253An ironic example: the quote “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes,” attributed to Mark Twain, is not actually from Twain. https://t.co/sqNYASCQHY https://t.co/fmzGqK1CW1
2254"Just remembered this. In 9th grade I spilled red gatorade on my desk
2255
2256I used my biology homework to mop it up
2257
2258Then gently placed the sheet, dripping in red gatorade, in the teacher's submission pile to be graded
2259
2260The next day the paper had dried into a pinkish color. Got a C-."
2261"“when a person insists on immediately repaying us for a favor we have performed, we interpret this as a sign of a lack of friendship...Furthermore, in a marriage, an immediate reciprocal exchange orientation is linked with marital dissatisfaction” 
2262
2263Book: https://t.co/Glg8OEBEqK https://t.co/wdKbmhRrbo"
2264"Blueprint ? by @NAChristakis is terrific
2265
2266Finished reading it today
2267
2268Highly recommended
2269
2270https://t.co/kfnBHh5S1f https://t.co/9sLk8OJ0kM"
2271"What I’m up to when not working and reading ? 
2272
2273Many thanks to @EdLatimore, @Mangan150 and others for great fitness tips https://t.co/mss5t4bupq"
2274@Mangan150 @EdLatimore Thanks! Rowing ? and eating well
2275@ericchendriks @clairlemon thanks Eric ?
2276"Thanks Claire! 
2277
2278Other informative and interesting twitter feeds:
2279
2280@EPoe187 
2281@ImHardcory 
2282@jayvanbavel 
2283@SimoneSchnall 
2284@steverathje2 
2285@NicoleBarbaro 
2286@EdLatimore 
2287@clayroutledge 
2288@DegenRolf 
2289@robinhanson 
2290@SteveStuWill https://t.co/9FjlYHgq1n"
2291@EPoe187 @ImHardcory @jayvanbavel @SimoneSchnall @steverathje2 @NicoleBarbaro @EdLatimore @clayroutledge @DegenRolf @robinhanson @SteveStuWill Sure thing ?
2292Models which can be “tuned” in many different ways give researchers scope to perceive a pattern where none exists. According to some estimates, 75% of published scientific papers in the field of machine learning are bunk because of this “overfitting” https://t.co/6IT9qpRAoy https://t.co/rAoWKNl821
2293"The scientific method paradox:
2294
2295Every new method looks brilliant and incisive until you use it enough to learn all the underlying assumptions, at which point you trust it less than the old methods you were originally using. https://t.co/8NubWnK3dT"
2296@SteveStuWill The patient has a blue hand...what is the Freudian significance
2297@AnthonyMBarra thanks Anthony, likewise
2298"“We are so hypersensitive to signs of agency that we see intention where all that really exists is artifice or accident...the clothes have no emperor.” 
2299
2300Book: https://t.co/dmK1yaurNx https://t.co/kiEnMegdLT"
2301@primalpoly “Auditory cheesecake” https://t.co/SErkA9CHyp
2302@EPoe187 Cool idea. Advertising seems to suggest people think if one thing they like is associated with another thing, those things must be related. The positivity rubs off. E.g. George Clooney sipping a Nespresso
2303@EPoe187 But if we see a guy sipping a Nespresso in his SUV, does that make us think Clooney is toxic. How powerful is this effect... ?
2304“when times are good, fair-weather friends and true friends act alike. Modern living creates a paradox. We live in an environment safer than that inhabited by our ancestors. We suffer from a relative scarcity of events that allow us to distinguish true from fair-weather friends.” https://t.co/JqyxQsPOow
2305@robinhanson Is main purpose to help lower ability students or impair higher ability students  ?
2306"""In their same-sex friends, men and women prioritized personality and social intelligence. In their opposite-sex friends, however, men placed greater value on attractiveness, whereas women placed greater value on economic resources and physical prowess"" 
2307
2308https://t.co/3239M6p0km https://t.co/VSUHbfR3QP"
2309@rollin____ https://t.co/eaeP0QWE0Q
2310"Hot off the press! Check out our new (open-access) paper on the relationship between cognitive rigidity and support for outgroup violence & self-sacrifice:
2311
2312“Cognitive Inflexibility Predicts Extremist Attitudes”
2313https://t.co/3Cln0gGWZ5"
2314“Physically formidable men and physically attractive women are more prone to anger, have greater success in resolving social conflicts in their favor, and experience a greater sense of entitlement.” https://t.co/6OtaNF3856
2315@post_liberal https://t.co/eaeP0QWE0Q
2316Such a great talk delivered by @robkhenderson today at the @CambPsych Social Psychology Seminar Series about ostracism and moral judgments! @MlsaBsl @Cambridge_Uni https://t.co/TN2iHsgHaZ
2317@AllegroRubato https://t.co/6YllyPtYK7
2318In my experience, discussing religious beliefs on campus is verboten. Who knew that ~1/3 of sociology & psychology professors believe in god? Overall, there is fascinating & substantial variation by discipline in atheism and agnosticism. via @robkhenderson NB @McCormickProf https://t.co/DRxdKKCjAE
2319"“People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.” 
2320
2321Book: The Righteous Mind by @JonHaidt https://t.co/4dqb9o10IE"
2322@wesyang Related https://t.co/p9LUN7kSP1
2323“a study followed Americans from 1975-1991 and found that 95% of those initially in the bottom 20% were no longer there at the end of that period. 29% of those in the bottom quintile rose to the top quintile. Only 1% of the sample remained poor throughout the years studied.” https://t.co/yQ2UhJAaEH
2324Book ?: https://t.co/o51Tw2k4Av
2325"At some point between the ages of 25 and 60:
2326
232773% of Americans will find themselves in the top 20 percent of the income distribution
2328
232956% will enter the top 10%
2330
233139% will enter top 5% 
2332
233312% of will enter in the top 1%
2334
2335https://t.co/QJk0n9gzTy https://t.co/mFehVxDbSs"
2336@ESYudkowsky Article doesn't seem to distinguish between different kinds of income. But based on these numbers the answer is likely yes
2337@ESYudkowsky Again, article doesn't specify. Happy to learn more if anyone has access to the original study
2338@LucioMM1 @ESYudkowsky Great! thanks for sharing. Found this definition https://t.co/34K0450xqt
2339Many argue that people use Twitter to demonstrate their moral goodness to others. Is it effective? On average, do tweets lead you to view the tweeter as morally better, equal, or worse (than you would have assumed they were otherwise)?
2340"When a provocatively dressed woman left the room, women assigned to this condition laughed at her and ridiculed her appearance. When the same woman was dressed conservatively, women assigned to this condition greeted her in a friendly manner, none discussed her when she left" https://t.co/dPpML2azj1
2341@_FormFunction_ Article here https://t.co/6ql11xhson
2342@NicoleBarbaro Interesting. I read this suggesting the role of social media might be overblown but others say it’s important for elections. Looking forward to learning more... https://t.co/rIcM3Ee2n6 https://t.co/y7NB4L45xi
2343If all factual questions were resolved, no moral questions would remain:
2344"""Across four studies, being more attractive physically predicted greater likelihood of relationship dissolution, briefer relationships, and decreased engagement in relationship-maintenance processes""
2345
2346https://t.co/682bxfOBvG https://t.co/ctXexTfEib"
2347"“Modern life is so thoroughly mediated by electronic images that we cannot help responding to others as if their actions—and our own— were being recorded and transmitted to an unseen audience or stored for scrutiny at some later time.” 
2348
2349Book: The Culture of Narcissism (1979) https://t.co/OCDaz8Yqdh"
2350@EdLatimore Related https://t.co/nBEimlA7Tv
2351@razibkhan @insight_podcast Interesting...I am no GoT fan
2352@aaronsibarium I read it some time ago. Going through it again I like it even more than before.
2353@EPoe187 @PamelaParesky The authors of the paper suggest that is the case https://t.co/3agOm306Zx
2354"scientists posting selfies to Instagram from the lab/field were perceived as significantly warmer and more trustworthy, and no less competent, than scientists posting photos of only their work...Participants who viewed selfies also perceived less symbolic threat from scientists" https://t.co/ZIf2IVHtAb
2355@wkeithcampbell @EPoe187 @PamelaParesky Interesting, any studies or researchers I can look up to learn more?
2356“Status and dominance hierarchies form quickly. In one study of 59 three-person groups of individuals who had previously not known each other, a clear hierarchy emerged within 1 minute in 50% of the groups and within 5 minutes for the other 50%.” https://t.co/cUqH5VMStN
2357@wkeithcampbell @EPoe187 @PamelaParesky Great, thanks!
2358@PamelaParesky @nikitakarachoi @NAChristakis I've read his book, it's very good! Will write a review at some point https://t.co/VBVMKoREMv
2359“Modern men who have high incomes and are high in status tend to have more frequent sex and a larger number of children. A study revealed that even within universities, male academics in high-status positions had more children than other employees.” https://t.co/NT7KQEPMjT
2360Book: https://t.co/eaeP0QWE0Q
2361"“primates lower on the hierarchy have a fitness incentive to adopt political philosophies that seek to right power imbalances...those same primates also have an incentive to revert to a hierarchical order once they assume power”
2362
2363Book: https://t.co/siJ1gjs3D3 https://t.co/rKJoRRFAy1"
2364"@EPoe187 Sometimes there is even a benefit to being wrong-- partisan cheerleading feels good/enhances status
2365
2366https://t.co/KRsZGAdiej https://t.co/XqOzq04VJQ"
2367@EPoe187 Sure thing!
2368@EPoe187 Yeah it's hard to understand this. @bryan_caplan has argued that partisan disagreement is sincere and people are too lazy to be coherent in their views https://t.co/JXCMJjMy3H https://t.co/61tnOwgqye
2369"""We find that CEOs with deeper voices make more money. A 1% decrease in voice pitch is associated with a $30 million increase in the size of the firm managed, and in turn, $19 thousand more in annual compensation.""
2370
2371https://t.co/rdE30fgGgR https://t.co/qfCWkI6itd"
2372@_LukasFreund_ Looks like they controlled for education, age, other factors. Link: https://t.co/i9lIiJ6Lms
2373@_LukasFreund_ Definitely. I'm not supporting any causal claim here, just thought the association was interesting.
2374@chr_mich @_LukasFreund_ Definitely not.
2375@zhangschmidt @stevemagness Related https://t.co/mY1XGwUMkS https://t.co/EYtH5VW9jA
2376“In presidential elections in the 20th century, the taller of the two candidates won 83 percent of the time.” https://t.co/uMRgdachiU
2377"Scientists who say vaccines should be required for all children: 86%
2378General public: 68%
2379
2380Scientists who say climate change is occurring due to human activity: 87%
2381General public: 50%
2382
2383https://t.co/T0POOHRAiR https://t.co/vxDXVRMQaL"
2384"Interesting observation, perhaps a twist on the old quote
2385
2386""Sell to the classes, eat with the masses. Sell to the masses, eat with the classes."" https://t.co/nPYTTIZYCp"
2387"""If you volunteer at least once a week, the increase to your happiness is like moving from a yearly income of $20,000 to $75,000.""
2388
2389https://t.co/j7YuMzxXta https://t.co/tQKwR4vZfK"
2390@razibkhan @NRO Congrats brah, great to see this published
2391“When we want to believe something, we ask ourselves ‘Can I believe it?’ Then we search for supporting evidence. When we don’t want to believe something, we ask ourselves ‘Must I believe it?’ Then if we find a single reason to doubt the claim, we can dismiss it.” https://t.co/PN07vx8FCj
2392“research on public policy has led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of political preferences...citizens seem to be asking themselves not ‘What’s in it for me?’ but ‘What’s in it for my group?’ Political opinions function as badges of social membership.” https://t.co/PfdPmOojDA
2393@phl43 @CartaphilusMFR @bdcwilliamson @Emmyjewel @SteveStuWill @EPoe187 @G_S_Bhogal @briandavidearp @DegenRolf @DrDavidLey @clayroutledge @Evolving_Moloch @JustinLehmiller @jmrphy @LTF_01 @NicoleBarbaro @primalpoly @PsychoSchmitt @sentientist @PsychRabble @Jon_StewartMill @ImHardcory @MerlinPsychSage thanks for the shout out Ben ?
2394"“From tattoos and face piercings to male circumcision, human beings take extraordinary, costly, and sometimes painful steps to make sure their bodies advertise their group memberships.”
2395
2396?The Righteous Mind by @JonHaidt https://t.co/YEVKptUJIW"
2397"Great turnout at today's #socialpsychology seminar, where Dr Eric Vanman shared some intriguing research on why we cry. 
2398@socialneuro @CambPsych @elisa_militaru https://t.co/uDxkqlUnwG"
2399“a study of American prison inmates found that 43% were raised by a single parent and 14% were raised by neither parent...Similarly, a study in Britain found that 27% of prisoners had been placed in protective child custody at some point while growing up.” https://t.co/M9aBf9APoW
2400@post_liberal https://t.co/o51Tw2k4Av
2401"“If we could put oxytocin (‘the love drug’) into the world’s drinking water, might there be an end to war and cruelty? Unfortunately, no...Oxytocin simply makes people love their in-group more.”
2402
2403Book: https://t.co/0OpCTOvPXO https://t.co/SQCmfaLedP"
2404"“You know costly signaling is going on when teenagers spend yrs learning a dead language so they’ll score better on an IQ test that pretends it’s not an IQ test, so they can spend 4 yrs & $100K to get a college degree that pretends it’s not an IQ guarantee.”
2405
2406Spent by @primalpoly https://t.co/VeqYnz8NM1"
2407@EdLatimore Social pain and physical pain activate the same regions of the brain https://t.co/ONCahiSiYc https://t.co/xNLIPVOOsa
2408@Sevens_2 As a former student of the author i am admittedly biased. Thanks for the recommendation
2409"“the more fervently we believe something, the easier it is to convince others it’s true. The politician who’s confident she’ll win no matter what will have an easier time rallying supporters than one who projects a more honest assessment of her chances.” 
2410
2411?Elephant in the Brain https://t.co/qaN96Xscl4"
2412"“the most extreme cruelty makes use of empathy. To be thoroughly cruel, it is necessary to know what the victim is feeling, in order to maximize the suffering....Empathy can be a dangerous tool in the hands of someone who wants to hurt.” 
2413
2414Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/6u6bST03Bo"
2415“children living with one genetic parent and one stepparent are roughly 40 times more likely to be abused than children living with both genetic parents. This greater rate occurs even when poverty and socioeconomic status are controlled.” https://t.co/tmCgJGwZXs
2416"“people who leave the group represent an even greater threat than its enemies. Keeping the group together is in many cases a more fundamental and urgent goal than accomplishing its stated purposes or defeating its actual external enemies.”
2417
2418Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/VQfnE0iIuv"
2419“attractive defendants were twice as likely to avoid jail as unattractive ones. In another study, a defendant who was better-looking than his victim had to pay an average of $5,623; but when the victim was more attractive, the average compensation was $10,051.” https://t.co/3CozFZ42nN
2420"“College women indicate that their minimal acceptable percentile for a husband on earning capacity is the 70th percentile, or above 70 percent of all other men, whereas men’s minimum acceptable percentile for a wife’s earning capacity is 40th.”
2421
2422?: https://t.co/Glg8OEBEqK https://t.co/LojsDtlSid"
2423"""physical dominance rated by men (""How likely is it that this man would win a physical fight with another man?""), but not female-judged sexual attractiveness (“How sexually attractive is this man?”), predicts men's quantitative mating success.""
2424
2425https://t.co/G9ShhxXiip https://t.co/j8Sp5GcRda"
2426“80 percent of people chose to award a scholarship to a member of their favored political party, even when another applicant had better grades.” https://t.co/IGRQFOhS1T
2427@PTetlock Hedgehogs move books ? ?
2428@RealYeyoZa @Francis_P_T @Emmyjewel @antihero_kate I know quite a few young guys who have experienced transformations in the weight room. They’ve been awed at how others respond to them as a result
2429"""people with high math skills were unable to reason when the answer collided with their political beliefs...people who score high on science literacy and cognitive reflection are the most likely to express beliefs congruent with those of their party.""
2430
2431https://t.co/RqJMKfPvXf https://t.co/ojrRhjB0JP"
2432A huge problem and an open secret: "Many More Students, Especially the Affluent, Get Extra Time to Take the SAT" https://t.co/FEunawTldp
2433"“A little excess fear is exactly what evolutionary principles would predict...’the cost of getting killed even once is higher than the cost of responding to a hundred false alarms.’” 
2434
2435Book: The Ape that Understood The Universe by @SteveStuWill https://t.co/6jfYFE7Bvl"
2436"“The third root of evil is idealism. When people firmly believe they are on the side of good, they often feel justified in using strong measures against the forces that oppose them. Noble ends are seen as justifying violent means.”
2437
2438Book: Evil by Roy Baumeister https://t.co/L78pRrk8Xg"
2439"""education and science literacy are associated with greater political polarization...educated people are more likely to know when political communities have chosen sides on an issue, and hence what to think (or say) in keeping with their identity."" 
2440
2441https://t.co/BC6UcsnhJC https://t.co/DetrLp5l9u"
2442"A 90 second IQ test, based on correct pronunciation of 50 words
2443
2444https://t.co/U88MM6K781 https://t.co/E7w2sx7IsO"
2445A very insightful talk by @Gary_Lewis1 from @RoyalHolloway on the role of childhood intelligence on political attitudes at the Social Psych Seminar @CambPsych. Higher intelligence predicts suport for economic conservatism. Is it self-interest? @MlsaBsl https://t.co/CzYgfGuwPF
2446"""Using data on males aged 18–59, current measures of muscularity are significantly positively associated with the number of total sexual partners and partners in the past year""
2447
2448https://t.co/i39pK2hhBm https://t.co/ySQfc8ygoC"
2449"""Taller men report greater satisfaction with their romantic relationship and report less jealousy than shorter men. These results indicate that male height influences not just a man’s ability to acquire a mate, but his behavior whilst in the relationship""
2450
2451https://t.co/OSVlXXCntM https://t.co/17aOxmmA8d"
2452@ericchendriks says the dreamiest guy on twitter dot com https://t.co/J5mHl5oFMS
245310 Most Fantastic TED Talks on Psychology https://t.co/B2On8XCZFP - including our very own @simoneschnall and @sbaroncohen
2454@ImHardcory Also interesting that female serial killers are higher social class and more educated than males
2455"MASSIVE sex differences in serial killers.
2456
2457Women kill acquaintances, relatives, partners, children, males and females, locally, by poisoning, for money.
2458
2459Men stalk and kill strangers, women, widely, by choking, for sex.
2460
2461https://t.co/Ac54rT5xtL https://t.co/dyy1ANj28g"
2462@clairlemon @ZaidJilani Some have said that bashing lower whites is the entire point of the white privilege idea. This piece from @reihan comes to mind... https://t.co/pexNxcYJnZ https://t.co/LrinpKWB6U
2463"Just arrived: Conformity by @CassSunstein 
2464
2465Look forward to reviewing for @Quillette with @vincentharinam. Thanks to @clairlemon https://t.co/ELlxcD3467"
2466@naval Perhaps lower whites are the last socially acceptable group for upper whites to target? https://t.co/mQN0sldWfJ
2467If a group conforms over time, shouldn’t their views converge on the original group mean? The answer is no because someone with extreme views is usually more outspoken and that looks like confidence. And we conform to the views of those who seem confident. https://t.co/koGAxQqZk2
2468"40% of women want men to accept their offer to help pay for dates
2469
247039% of women do not want men to accept their offer to help pay for dates
2471
247276% of men feel guilty if they don't pay the bill on dates
2473
247444% of men would stop dating a woman who never pays
2475
2476https://t.co/LT13WtLNuq https://t.co/gMfQX5Btdi"
2477"""The shortest man a woman would date is 68.9"" (5'9) and the tallest is 75.3"" (6'3). The shortest woman a man would date is 60.6"" (5'1) and the tallest is 69.8"" (5'10). 23% of men and 4% of women would accept a relationship where the woman was taller.""
2478
2479https://t.co/dIkUEDYyqh https://t.co/08KcwosLOZ"
2480"""there is a 'cost' to thinking rationally...people will accept this cost only if they receive benefits. Since individuals receive almost none of the benefit from being rational about political issues, we can predict people will be irrational about them""
2481
2482https://t.co/6lrR6xGo1P https://t.co/uf0o62Ad00"
2483We know psychic powers don't exist; because, if they were possible at all, the sexual selection in favor of silently, telepathically reading your partner's mind would have been enormous. https://t.co/LY06yWI5i2
2484"high intelligence may worsen prospects for obtaining a true belief...a biased person uses intelligence and education as tools for rationalizing beliefs. Highly educated people have larger stores of information from which to selectively search to support a desired belief." https://t.co/SX9skdBEtY
2485@haristweet https://t.co/6lrR6xGo1P
2486"individuals derive psychological rewards from holding certain political beliefs, and since individuals suffer almost none of the harm caused by false political beliefs, it often makes sense to adopt those beliefs regardless of whether they are true or well supported." https://t.co/DBbyMby5K6
2487@_anurajrp https://t.co/6lrR6xGo1P
2488@Samuel__Bell @_anurajrp much appreciated, Samuel!
2489"""Really happy people are rarely high achievers because they simply don’t need to be. As the media mogul Ted Turner put it, 'You’ll hardly ever find a super-achiever anywhere who isn’t motivated at least partially by a sense of insecurity.'"" 
2490-@BillvonHippel https://t.co/MD09w0OCXx"
2491@BarendJR I think "rational" here is used to refer to beliefs that are consistent with facts. The author here makes a distinction https://t.co/VCmZMu0ykU
2492@BarendJR An interesting related thread from @GordPennycook https://t.co/e2MrA7G13Y
2493"Today we remember those who lost their lives in service to our country.
2494
2495? President John F. Kennedy places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at @ArlingtonNatl Cemetery, Memorial Day 1963. https://t.co/lsY26aDDGT"
2496It's time for some game theory https://t.co/utqAEGOGQd
2497@NicoleBarbaro Conformity by @CassSunstein, The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham, and The Social Leap by @BillvonHippel
2498What are the best new psychology, evolution, biology, genetics, etc (general good non-fiction) books coming out? (If you follow my #NowReading hashtag you can see what I generally read). My reading pile and Amazon cart are very low.
2499"""Sociometric status (respect and admiration from peers) mattered more for subjective well-being than socioeconomic status, and held up after controlling for gender, ethnicity, and extraversion.""
2500
2501https://t.co/FskzJIs5Nl https://t.co/twNAewopuV"
2502"In a variation, Milgram added 2 confederates (actors) to his experiment
2503
2504They were instructed to refuse to administer shocks beyond a certain point
2505
250692.5% of participants joined in their dissent (conformed), defying the experimenter’s requests to continue the shocks https://t.co/IS8RM6zWfU"
2507Wonder how many of those who did not administer shocks in the original design would have done so if they were with 2 confederates instructed to shock no matter what
2508@robinhanson https://t.co/6XL5NAO2CA
2509@tomdrabowicz Conformity by Cass Sunstein
2510"""Men judged women shown with other men as being less desirable than the same women depicted alone or with other women. Conversely, women judged men shown with other women as being more desirable than the same man depicted alone or with other men.""
2511
2512https://t.co/Ejf5d5YnED https://t.co/yWegsRvzzq"
2513I’ll have what she’s having ? https://t.co/0JVvkZd6BM
2514New pre-print w/ @zachshorne: People believe that fundamental moral propositions (e.g., "killing for fun is morally wrong") are less mutable than logical propositions (e.g., "2 + 2 = 4") and physical propositions (e.g., "fire requires oxygen to burn"). https://t.co/Dom3IirKsT
2515@primalpoly Curious why the USA fertility rate was higher during the Great Depression and the Great Recession (2008-09) than it is now
2516"“Men with more sex partners experienced a sharp decline in how sexually attractive they found their partner immediately following intercourse, whereas neither men with less sexual experience nor women showed this decline.”
2517
2518Book ?: https://t.co/Glg8OEBEqK https://t.co/EQxY0PNauy"
2519@Richard_Vixen highly
2520Yup. https://t.co/Wz21M6G8MG https://t.co/2JMOyTGq79
2521"""empathy is always on the side of the censor. It is easy to feel the pain of the person who is upset by speech, and particularly easy if the person is part of your community...The case for free speech, in contrast, is pretty unempathic.""
2522
2523?: Against Empathy by @paulbloomatyale https://t.co/ICdfo4Eizw"
2524"“Take a ton of pictures, text your friends stupid things, check in with old friends as often as possible, express admiration to co-workers, and every day, tell as many people as you can that you love them”
2525
2526https://t.co/0oXL4e0ROl"
2527"“it is always the lower status person who does the adjusting...In all 8 U.S. presidential elections between 1960-2000, the majority of people voted for the candidate who held his own timbre (nonverbal vocal pattern) rather than the one who adjusted.”
2528
2529?: https://t.co/ZPILTnSZnN https://t.co/t63U0TRNZs"
2530@robinhanson I wonder if moral typecasting/moral dyad theory is relevant (ppl think moral agents don't experience pain/harm and thus don't elicit concern) https://t.co/T2tNE4xy6E
2531@ericchendriks haha ? good pic!
2532“We think people are built to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their own pain. In reality, we are built to overcome our own pleasure and increase our own pain in the service of following society’s norms.” https://t.co/XzXZqWFrBZ
2533@LucioMM1 Harvey Mansfield. and yeah, curious to see your translation
2534@LucioMM1 Hm interesting
2535@LucioMM1 thanks for clarifying. I took it to mean that mistaking normative political models and descriptive political models will lead to one's ruin
2536"the mainstays of scapegoating– the innocence of the victim and a violent release of tensions– are strikingly similar among humans and other animals...it is one of the most basic reflexes of the human species, one shared with so many other animals it may well be hardwired." https://t.co/3lLAI0aWRF
2537@Jon_StewartMill @SteveStuWill Our Inner Ape by de Waal (I also highly recommend @SteveStuWill ‘s book)
2538"Voters took whichever position was ascribed to their party." https://t.co/moYoNmVUiS https://t.co/bb2g59FYYS
2539"The case against being convinced by good arguments. 
2540https://t.co/HUcvifjgil"
2541"""being attractive reduces the probability of receiving the Nobel Prize...average-looking scientist having the best odds of being awarded the Nobel. Attractive persons are more successful in research, except at the very top of the distribution of talent.""
2542
2543https://t.co/djvxaVXgOd https://t.co/EhdDUKvrT9"
2544"Women rate men to be most attractive who have BMI 23.79 (equivalent to 166 lbs for a man who is 5 ft 10 in.)
2545
2546Men rate women to be most attractive who have BMI 19.11 (equivalent to 112 lbs for a woman who is 5 ft. 4 in.)
2547
2548https://t.co/vMQ0xrJRiU https://t.co/cmzCG4DIl9"
2549@ImHardcory how much weight l have to lose depends on how tall l am (men lie about that)
2550@DegenRolf Maybe Larry David was on to something... https://t.co/Xw5GsaXz5i
2551@ImHardcory @ZachG932 @CarlWRitter This essay from @slatestarcodex made me a bit more skeptical that white liberals view other whites as in-group members https://t.co/Izo80r2fTZ https://t.co/Q5qOKAs28x
2552@diskandartweet ?
2553"“My dear, the real truth always sounds improbable, do you know that? To make the truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it. Men have always done so.” 
2554
2555Dostoevsky https://t.co/lRMpCpG2e1"
2556"""When a group's fundamental tenets are at stake, those who chant the loudest or clench their eyes the tightest in the face of conflicting evidence earn the most trust from their fellow group members.""
2557
2558Elephant in the Brain by @KevinSimler & @robinhanson https://t.co/8ZXCXeKSjI"
2559"""people enforce unpopular norms to show that they have complied out of genuine conviction and not because of social pressure...some groups may be more prone to unpopular norms because of individuals’ anxiety about being regarded as insufficiently sincere""
2560
2561https://t.co/NSOEtxba70 https://t.co/GWH35jo8Ea"
2562Still receiving these heartwarming messages about my @nytopinion piece about @jordanbpeterson https://t.co/FoF6fMQrjV https://t.co/PCwMX9Kmam
2563"“Despite the popular wisdom that we achieve success through positive visualization, it turns out that incorporating negative visualization makes us more likely to achieve our goals...people who imagine obstacles are more likely to achieve success” 
2564
2565Thinking in Bets by @AnnieDuke https://t.co/ZQl5baamMh"
2566"Participants estimated how often they enacted various behaviors. 1.5 months later, they received the same estimates but told they were provided by their average peer. Participants rated themselves more favorably on all traits. They claimed that they were superior to themselves." https://t.co/6FNvOgKbGj
2567"5 beliefs that propel groups to conflict
2568
25691. Belief that their group is superior
25702. Think other groups have committed injustices upon them
25713. View other groups as threatening to harm them
25724. Consider outgroups to be dishonest
25735. Perceive their own group to be powerless/oppressed https://t.co/d72cY2DuFA"
2574“The test of a good system is whether you trust it enough to let your enemies run it for the next decade. For example, if you want censorship on Twitter or Facebook, establish that system and then hand it to your enemies to run.” -@naval  https://t.co/WP3qqdcy7W
2575"Eating 3 energy-rich meals with no physical exertion is unusual when viewed in the light of evolution...Throughout human evolution, critical thinking and decision-making occurred as individuals navigated through a heterogenous environment hunting and foraging in a fasted state." https://t.co/96AiSgO0xp
2576@joeljmiller Interesting. Seems likely that culture influences how we perceive bitterness in e.g. beer
2577"""Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.""
2578
2579George Orwell https://t.co/fsUGISh13W"
2580"""Across 85 countries, national IQ was significantly positively related to national male and female suicide rate...high intelligence may not equal optimal adaptation.""
2581
2582https://t.co/XhrXr5f4v3 https://t.co/G91IjWIsKU"
2583"""laypeople view social scientific inquiry as a guided pursuit of evidence in favor of scientists’ personal ideology..Participants reported that scientists reached their desired conclusions and not just that they disinterestedly pursued the truth""
2584
2585https://t.co/joqheoGZi9 https://t.co/59l48PPUZH"
2586"When women compliment women:
2587
258861% of compliments are about appearance
258920% of compliments are about ability/performance
259012% possessions
25914% personality/friendship
2592
2593When men compliment men:
2594
259535% appearance
259632% ability/performance
259725% possessions
25985% personality/friendship https://t.co/C4E5YtNABK"
2599“To be forced out of a group on the grasslands was a death sentence. For this reason, our ancestors rapidly evolved a strong emotional reaction to the threat of being ostracized.” https://t.co/6mn873Cxvr
2600"-Women receive 74% of all compliments; men receive 26% of them
2601
2602-Women give 68% of all compliments; men give 32% of them
2603
2604-Both men and women give 3X more compliments to women than men https://t.co/37mangYIK2"
2605No claim to causality, but this did weirdly remind me that men are 3X more likely to commit suicide than women https://t.co/wUWDUDncph https://t.co/2KBaphcFy2
2606"Women and men approached by ""moderately attractive"" opposite-sex strangers and asked to go to bed with them
2607
2608Single men: 59% consented
2609Single women: 0%
2610
2611Men in relationships: 18% consented
2612Women in relationships: 4% https://t.co/Yk93vpTW9x"
2613"""The female rate of facial aging is higher than the male rate. Before age 50, female faces age—on average—about twice as fast as male faces; between 50 and 60 years, this sex difference in aging rate is even more pronounced (up to three times faster).""
2614
2615https://t.co/DXV1cNTiFU https://t.co/RHoJI9bDyk"
2616"Some claim they donate when offered public recognition to motivate others to give too, rather than for increased social standing...We find that patterns of giving are more consistent with a desire to improve social image than altruistic desire to motivate others’ contributions." https://t.co/UYpLH4vADC
2617"the majority of women find the majority of men unattractive...basing marriage on mutual attraction leads so many—both men and women—to be unsatisfied with the outcome, since most women find most men unattractive." via @Quillette https://t.co/94iH6tSrSQ https://t.co/6t9Nwxu7s3
2618@ZachG932 @RAVerBruggen I suspect many people use 50% as a mental anchor, leading to inflated estimates
2619“To criticize the Revolution was to invite suspicion of oneself. Members began to outdo each other in making statements about the need for harsh measures, because only such statements could keep them safe from the potential accusation of lacking the proper attitudes.” https://t.co/cDOdDjzLQh
2620@Moshe_Hoffman French Revolution, book is Evil by Roy Baumeister
2621Always bringing you the good news https://t.co/ouEEnZM1fY
2622@jonkay And hope not all your fellow dudes follow your advice. If all lift and dress well, all remain in the same position https://t.co/aYV9Pkz5l9
2623"""To launch a taboo, a group has to be poised halfway between weakness and power...That's where you'll find a group powerful enough to enforce taboos, but weak enough to need them."" https://t.co/So3HUN7fmn
2624
2625Classic essay from @paulg https://t.co/9AzyIxe21O"
2626"Research suggests:
2627
2628The friend of your friend is your friend. 
2629
2630The enemy of your friend is your enemy. 
2631
2632The friend of your enemy is your enemy. 
2633
2634But the enemy of your enemy is not your friend. “In fact, that person is more likely to be an enemy.” 
2635
2636Blueprint by @NAChristakis https://t.co/chwjIRlqlG"
2637"Wealthy consumers low in need for status want to associate with their own kind and pay a premium for quiet goods only they can recognize. Wealthy consumers high in need for status use loud luxury goods to signal to the less affluent that they are not one of them." https://t.co/ThMmRjNwoW
2638@ScottAdamsSays Reminds me of this essay on taboos. How strong is the flag if burning it is taboo... https://t.co/nsZzOdPYw0
2639"""If guilt was uncertain, people were less inclined to punish the in-group than the out-group suspect. But when guilt was certain, the effect reversed, & took the form of a black sheep effect: people punished the in-group suspect more severely.”
2640
2641Book:The Moral Punishment Instinct https://t.co/bhYohlFRHC"
2642“If you think that you are doing something that is strongly on the side of good, then whoever opposes you must be evil. To perceive them as any less than that is to diminish one’s own claim to be good...to sustain one’s goodness, it is essential to see the enemy as evil.” https://t.co/3gdbpFr0ny
2643“The rated strength of a male body accounts for 70% of the variance in attractiveness. None of the women produced a preference for weaker men...in both samples, the strongest men were the most attractive, the weakest men were the least attractive.” https://t.co/3bHn4HehOT https://t.co/HoHVwZKRY7
2644"The vast majority of victims of aggression in urban public spaces received help from at least one bystander, throwing over decades of psychological research testifying to bystander apathy. 
2645https://t.co/Qjjc5xlDJf https://t.co/0V8Qkl7wtw"
2646Prisoners evaluate themselves as kinder and more moral than non-prisoners (though, similarly law abiding): https://t.co/7r6Warrl72 https://t.co/iVC9Sv9N8V
2647@nntaleb Classic nntaleb (I read @nntaleb and @NewYorker ) https://t.co/rKlxmCPaO5
2648"""vegetarians and pescatarians reported consuming meat occasionally or even regularly...Our study demonstrates that there can be large discrepancies between consumers’ self-perception and their actual meat consumption""
2649
2650https://t.co/kK8jJ2lRY7 https://t.co/MOliPXOURP"
2651"individuals who are hostile online are equally likely to be hostile offline...they are motivated by status and seek to challenge existing political hierarchies. They invest in online (vs. offline) political discussions as these discussions offer greater benefits at lower costs" https://t.co/6xddcvpFBe
2652"The hostility of online political discussions reflects a strategic investment in online discussions by aggressive-prone individuals" https://t.co/HTIAl4pkL5
2653@BrendanNyhan Yeah, from here https://t.co/FdSkTppgum
2654Not what the survey says. It says "dad bods" are now considered more attractive *than they were a few years ago*. There's no comparison to "rock hard abs." https://t.co/tQyVBgHCPj
2655"""Who was a class clown when they were growing up?"" 
2656
2657(Unsurprisingly) among 80~ grad students, I was the only one to raise my hand
2658
2659This study resonates ? 
2660
2661https://t.co/8uuBhTlzQQ https://t.co/F2ABfioVp6"
2662@paulg True...though the events of those first 6 tweets helped me to understand this
2663"""People work towards promoting their desired reputations. When they succeed, they enjoy positive feelings, and report feeling authentic. When they fail, they dismiss their actions as not reflecting their true self, as inauthentic. 'That’s not me.'""
2664
2665https://t.co/kRPpWMj2xS https://t.co/MxOv2BZxYM"
2666@FarMcKon https://t.co/MeRedJc84w
2667This list of advice probably also works if you skip the first 6 tweetsworth of it and just do this. https://t.co/NvhpdgLMPA
2668"""Moral grandstanding is the use of public moral discourse for self-promotion and status attainment...Across studies, moral grandstanding was associated with status-seeking personality traits, as well as greater political and moral conflict in daily life.""
2669
2670https://t.co/cFB330FkfC https://t.co/gxb6VWvctP"
2671"“This is the conformity paradox. The more you care about the people in your group, the stronger the social incentive to be dishonest with them.”
2672
2673My review of @CassSunstein’s new book for @Quillette with @vincentharinam https://t.co/tzYvJu1Kqs https://t.co/Lttu0E0B5k"
2674"""fans of the rival teams valued outgroup losses more than ingroup gains...under the right circumstances, our experience of hostility towards outgroups can actually exceed the warmth we experience for our own group""
2675
2676https://t.co/wjtrZu4KvJ https://t.co/N1BCssOnd5"
2677"Generous and sharp review of my new book, Conformity, in @Quillette @clairlemon 
2678https://t.co/EMIIeMUHOM"
2679"Psychology traits predict purchases:
2680
2681Openness is related to spending money on flights, extraversion to dining, agreeableness to donations, conscientiousness to savings, high self-control to fewer bank charges, & materialism to fewer donations. 
2682
2683https://t.co/hm6sPGGPOZ"
2684The fact that ⁦@CassSunstein⁩ has empty bookshelf space in his office goes against everything I know about my friend! https://t.co/YD3S5c2pIV
2685"""59 percent of all links shared on social networks aren’t actually clicked on at all, implying the majority of article shares aren’t based on actual reading. People are sharing articles without ever getting past the headlines.""
2686
2687https://t.co/i3RtqLBfm7 https://t.co/kHmY9tGbta"
2688"Conformity: The Power of Social Influences—A Review by @VincentHarinam and @RobKHenderson https://t.co/LnukqPbpNr via @Quillette
2689
2690Very cool to see a quote from my book kicking off this excellent piece! https://t.co/pfI5WKyaK0"
2691@SteveStuWill @vincentharinam @Quillette Great quote from your book! https://t.co/RNhAxsJq0g
2692"@naval ""The more you care about the people in your group, the stronger the social incentive to be dishonest with them.""
2693
2694https://t.co/tzYvJu1Kqs https://t.co/eozR5Ilyaa"
2695A great study of impersonal honesty using the lost wallet paradigm in 355 cities spanning 40 countries (17,000 lost wallets). Big variation across cities, but  (almost) everywhere people were MORE likely to return the wallet when it had MORE money in it. @MichelAMarechal https://t.co/I4RyyAp2Sg
2696"At graduation dinner with my family last year, phone rings
2697
2698""Hey Rob, it's the NYT. We're running your op ed today""
2699""Great, can't wait to see the comments section""
2700
2701https://t.co/IM6JU18lzr"
2702"The problem with conformity is that it deprives a society of the information it desperately needs...the dissenter challenges the status quo, introducing new ideas that may aid his group by improving an ailing system." https://t.co/VBbBdJ2m5M
2703"Compared to people with a terminal illness or were on death row, people asked to imagine they had a terminal illness or were on death row experienced more negative emotion
2704
2705""In every comparison, dying was either more positive or less negative than people imagined it to be"" https://t.co/NZfuY8Hrg5"
2706@Evansrahal @arthurbrooks https://t.co/6YllyPtYK7
2707"“women rarely marry less educated men, so differential college graduation rates may cause problems for the foreseeable future. Because unmarried men are bad for society, this sex difference in education may lead to individual and societal disruptions.”
2708
2709?:https://t.co/3ZKPGNdz14 https://t.co/SOUzEplukb"
2710Curious as to why many people seem to be drifting further towards political extremes? The new book by @CassSunstein explains why extremism is often the natural result of group deliberation https://t.co/UIr6jls9Si
2711@nntaleb Also spotted: Blueprint by @NAChristakis (great book!)
2712A baby will stare longer at a gravity-defying object than an object sitting on a table. Babies have an intuitive understanding of how the world works. They stare longer at a mismatch between expectation and reality /1 https://t.co/YdWcjh6Rik
2713Sometimes I think it can partially explains why media, politics, twitter, have gotten crazier. Things that align with our expectations do not capture our interest. They’re boring. /2
2714Media has financial incentive to show us the outrageous and the bizarre. Social media users users have social incentive to share strange content. Content that violates our expectations is more likely to go viral. /3 https://t.co/t1Io0PgdbE
2715Media shows us strange content specifically because they are not typical. We are more likely to click and share the strangest things we see /4
2716Maybe we become numb to the weirdness. Then media has to ramp up the bizarre content. Or maybe bizarre will be the new normal. Then stuff that used to be viewed as typical will be what captures our attention /5
2717"-Children looked at photos of 2 people 
2718
2719-Then chose who they preferred to be captain of a ship
2720
2721-The 2 people were politicians running for office (unbeknownst to the kids)
2722
2723-Children’s favored captain won their political contest in 71% of the time
2724
2725https://t.co/0No1ZlTkjE https://t.co/TBwgZzb3uq"
2726"“We find that both men and women pursued partners who are on average 25% more desirable than themselves”  
2727
2728Perhaps due to evolved self-deception and overconfidence. Most people think they’re slightly more attractive than they really are.
2729
2730https://t.co/UZ34wAu822 https://t.co/G5QGhaV2Ky"
2731@AdolfoKetchum https://t.co/ZYPN0BEyam
2732@nntaleb Seems like indirect (homophilia/love for family) xenophobia is linked to the more unpleasant kind of xenophobia though... https://t.co/SSAwPKOn5x
2733Still my favorite argument for the importance of evolutionary psychology. Written by @sapinker, Foreword to the 2nd edition of "The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology" edited by @ProfDavidBuss. https://t.co/kwFkKxwg5n
2734@LucioMM1 It seems they include all causes of death. Why do you ask?
2735"individuals derive psychological rewards from holding certain political beliefs, and since individuals suffer almost none of the harm caused by false political beliefs, it often makes sense to adopt those beliefs regardless of whether they are true or well supported." https://t.co/DBbyMby5K6
2736"“Good conversation is made up of questions; if you haven’t asked one within two minutes of speaking, stop yourself and get a grip.” 
2737
2738From @LizStokoe’s wonderful new book https://t.co/eCXI5lLzOB"
2739"-People who read news have more distorted view of political opponents
2740
2741-Politically Disengaged 3X more accurate in guessing how political opponents think compared w/extremists
2742
2743-For Democrats, more education associated w/worse understanding of Republicans
2744
2745https://t.co/OmXCziTvCz https://t.co/9awWufHELg"
2746"""An expansion in the number of elite aspirants means that increasingly large numbers of them are frustrated, and some turn into counter-elites...masses of frustrated elite aspirants become breeding grounds for radical groups and revolutionary movements.""
2747
2748https://t.co/hSd7YS8UBs https://t.co/aNzwIi4Uet"
2749Harvard Gazette is asking faculty "What is one thing wrong with the world that you would change?" Here's my answer. Harvard Professor Steven Pinker says the truth lies in the data https://t.co/oAwB0H4Oay via @Harvard
2750"""Overall, the evidence suggests that when a prominent figure apologizes for a controversial statement, the public is either unaffected or becomes more likely to desire that the individual be punished.""
2751
2752https://t.co/w0mvDSztOM https://t.co/KEfUuRcugR"
2753Chad Studies https://t.co/E256L9bDNO
2754"""Why do some people feel uneasy when praised? Positive evaluation may prompt higher-ranking group members to challenge this new “rising star.” Fear of upward movement could be protection from this threat by avoiding making “too good” of an impression""
2755
2756https://t.co/x9EwS1qCDO https://t.co/65tmmqvjgx"
2757"In a quest to impress peers, moral grandstanders may trump up moral charges, or engage in moral one-upmanship, making increasingly strong claims to “outdo” other discussants as they try to show that they are more morally sensitive, or care more about justice." https://t.co/6fFeFqUGy4
2758"@wesyang “when a new sect emerges, its first concern is to extinguish the old to give itself reputation...with how much obstinacy they persecuted all the ancient memories...spoiling every other thing that might convey some sign of antiquity.”
2759
2760Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy https://t.co/BSzjbpukjU"
2761"""there is a 'cost' to thinking rationally...people will accept this cost only if they receive benefits. Since individuals receive almost none of the benefit from being rational about political issues, we can predict people will be irrational about them""
2762
2763https://t.co/6lrR6xGo1P https://t.co/uf0o62Ad00"
2764"For related ideas, check out my latest for @Quillette: https://t.co/tzYvJu1Kqs
2765
2766“This is the conformity paradox. The more you care about the people in your group, the stronger the social incentive to be dishonest with them.” https://t.co/OdRkL4jcre"
2767@amyalkon From this paper: https://t.co/cFB330FkfC
2768@amyalkon Sure thing
2769On Facebook "men were more likely to accentuate access to resources, social status, as displayed by photos in foreign countries..Female users more often accentuated youthful features, appearance...including close-up of faces, sometimes digitally manipulated to enhance appearance" https://t.co/rSNMOQiSjj
2770@HarlieZola https://t.co/QFIJ41rKyA
2771"“When experts talk to experts, they always err on the side of under-explaining: to overexplain is a serious insult—“Do I have to spell it out for you?”—But this has an unfortunate byproduct: experts often talk past each other.” 
2772
2773?Intuition Pumps by @danieldennett https://t.co/4JIbbkW0p1"
2774"""people w/ higher levels of education require better circumstances to reach a given level of subjective wellbeing compared to those w/ less education...the association between education & life satisfaction is neither positive nor negative: it is neutral.""
2775
2776https://t.co/dTCfFYCS14 https://t.co/u6rfOWBlxM"
2777"""Ability to read emotions from faces peaks between the ages of 15 and 30, with poorer performance by younger adults and declining performance after the age of 30. Females at all ages were consistently better than males at reading emotional faces""
2778
2779https://t.co/vVKke9xXW1 https://t.co/vuJowxqCx0"
2780@ericchendriks even worse!
2781@babarganesh Well... results from the study suggest I would not say so for myself but maybe for others
2782"high intelligence may worsen prospects for obtaining a true belief...a biased person uses intelligence and education as tools for rationalizing beliefs. Highly educated people have larger stores of information from which to selectively search to support a desired belief." https://t.co/SX9skdBEtY
2783There would be an easy way for debate moderators to enforce time limits and prevent bickering: keep all mics off except for the person who's speaking; when time is up, turn it back off. They don't do this because they know we want it to be a dominance competition. @robinhanson
2784Show me which books you read, and I tell you, who you are. https://t.co/jh8UDIKDZm https://t.co/vq6mDUWQny
2785"""Females were 1000 times more sensitive than males to economic status cues when rating opposite sex attractiveness, indicating that higher economic status can offset lower physical attractiveness in men much more easily than in women""
2786
2787https://t.co/6b4s5lDkeM https://t.co/nk6IGNAxsn"
2788"-People high in openness to experience have fewer children
2789
2790-People who are cognitively rigid and conventional have more children
2791
2792-High emotionality correlates with more children
2793
2794-Agreeableness correlates with more children, but only for men
2795
2796https://t.co/uat51nJpG2 https://t.co/X9IqzMus2L"
2797Interesting anecdote about twitter outrage involving a case study of a controversial medical journal article. Twitter analysis reveals 30,000 tweets expressing outrage about the article. Journal website analysis reveals only 300 people even viewed it.
2798"""316 autobiographies were scanned...higher use of words indicating social roles (e.g., father, sister, neighbor) was associated with an increased lifespan. Those who mentioned social roles most lived >6 years longer than those who mentioned them least.""
2799
2800https://t.co/SvRESJbb73 https://t.co/byGi26O2s4"
2801"""Prison inmates compared their pro-social characteristics– such as kindness, morality, law abidingness – with non-prisoners. Prisoners evaluated themselves more favorably on every trait except law abidingness, for which they viewed themselves as average.""
2802
2803https://t.co/yARbbFD9xy https://t.co/dhAHxNZ2kY"
2804"“primates lower on the hierarchy have a fitness incentive to adopt political philosophies that seek to right power imbalances...those same primates also have an incentive to revert to a hierarchical order once they assume power”
2805
2806Book: https://t.co/siJ1gjs3D3 https://t.co/rKJoRRFAy1"
2807A majority of individuals are fooled into expressing opinions on subjects that are completely fictitious - particularly men and the better educated. https://t.co/7ftRNe4CEC https://t.co/DMLRUeocZJ
2808"""In 145 male university students, handgrip strength correlated with self-perceived happiness (r=.43), health (r=.44), social confidence (r=.47), overall physical attractiveness (r=.42), and overall number of sexual partners (r=.22).""
2809
2810https://t.co/J3J6WssNOv https://t.co/mhlJBxn19O"
2811@EPoe187 Customers who tweeted about handgrip strength also bought: https://t.co/rLVBaDK2r8
2812@primalpoly @FrenettMarco This study on women’s perception of male body attractiveness is also suggestive https://t.co/v3COtTB8ZQ
2813"the mainstays of scapegoating– the innocence of the victim and a violent release of tensions– are strikingly similar among humans and other animals...it is one of the most basic reflexes of the human species, one shared with so many other animals it may well be hardwired." https://t.co/3lLAI0aWRF
2814@EdLatimore Similar advice from @adamcarolla: If it doesn’t make you happy or make you money, then don’t get involved
2815@ericchendriks @metsmavs910 @NewDay @MrAndyNgo That’s alotta fancy words for just saying media want their audience to think @MrAndyNgo is a liar
2816"Ages at First, Best, and Last Work by Scientific Discipline:
2817
2818https://t.co/ePYrEMQLIJ https://t.co/OL9WIikYhv"
2819@balitaly https://t.co/xTXXugBkGt
2820"""Economic threat led low mate-value men to be more prosocial, cooperative, and favor more redistributionist policies...but economic threat led high mate-value men to be more individualistic, less prosocial, and less favorable toward redistribution""
2821
2822https://t.co/sRwCXklAlU https://t.co/MmxkRDpTVw"
2823"""being attractive reduces the probability of receiving the Nobel Prize...average-looking scientist having the best odds of being awarded the Nobel. Attractive persons are more successful in research, except at the very top of the distribution of talent.""
2824
2825https://t.co/djvxaVXgOd https://t.co/EhdDUKvrT9"
2826"""education and science literacy are associated with greater political polarization...educated people are more likely to know when political communities have chosen sides on an issue, and hence what to think (or say) in keeping with their identity."" 
2827
2828https://t.co/BC6UcsnhJC https://t.co/DetrLp5l9u"
2829@selahiddin https://t.co/OVKl1NGy2O
2830"High social status correlates with fewer I-words (I, me, my) in email messages 
2831
2832Could this explain the clipped way people communicate in professional correspondence? 
2833
2834“Will be available after the meeting.”
2835
2836“Not able to make it. Enjoy.”
2837
2838“Still haven’t received an update.” https://t.co/b1wqa6eVMg"
2839@ericchendriks You mean *Dr. Eric C. Hendriks heard.*
2840Happy #IndependenceDay to our American cousins! We may have burnt the White House down (Sorry) and you may not like our tea (Unforgivable), but blood is thicker than water - we are unbreakable ?‍♂️ @USArmy @USArmyEurope @BritishArmyUSA #SpecialRelationship #GlobalBritain https://t.co/PQSNCFrcqY
2841"""On average, women overestimated their attractiveness (mean self rating: 4.16 out of 7, mean other rating: 3.11), suggesting that artificially positive appraisals are advantageous...male & female observers showed a consensus when rating their photographs""
2842
2843https://t.co/kX5qImxuXC https://t.co/eDA7jgiqqO"
2844@Scientific_Bird Roughly a standard deviation difference. And check out the 1st sentence of the excerpt
2845"In prisoner's dilemma games, ""Men who saw themselves as attractive cooperated more (43%) than men who saw themselves as unattractive (26%); women who saw themselves as attractive cooperated less (36%) than women who saw themselves as unattractive (51%)""
2846
2847https://t.co/AbZBrSeahN https://t.co/mpu0QYUMiI"
2848@ESYudkowsky Fair points. Info about sample size: https://t.co/Ald0mxdw1x
2849"“One of the most important concepts for understanding social behavior is preference falsification: when an individual publicly misrepresents their private views to fit into a social group. It is conformity for the sake of social self-interest.”
2850
2851https://t.co/3Gs154JYes https://t.co/CY1MZQuboa"
2852"People perceive military veterans as agentic (ability to think and reason) but unfeeling (lack of emotion)
2853
2854Research also suggests people perceive Asians the same way...
2855
2856As a member of both groups, people perceive me as extra emotionless?? 
2857
2858https://t.co/apKEhgJGRu https://t.co/Wmuk6tD0Cd"
2859“research on public policy has led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of political preferences...citizens seem to be asking themselves not ‘What’s in it for me?’ but ‘What’s in it for my group?’ Political opinions function as badges of social membership.” https://t.co/PfdPmOojDA
2860"""a tendency to favor organic foods can be viewed as a costly signaling trait, leading to flaunting about one's prosocial tendencies...happiness is experienced when one has the opportunity to attain status and to climb up in the peer group hierarchy""
2861
2862https://t.co/3BCWP8Z1wU https://t.co/l1TAYGrRfa"
2863"""People who professed to have superior beliefs were most likely to inaccurately overestimate their perceived knowledge relative to their actual knowledge on a number of political topics.""
2864
2865https://t.co/dJ680e9yfk https://t.co/3P3HNFahEy"
2866"Correlations between spouses
2867
2868Extraversion: r= .005
2869Neuroticism: .082
2870Height: .227
2871Weight: .154
2872Education: .5
2873Political party: .6
2874
2875""Mates tend to be positively but weakly concordant on personality and physical traits, but concordance of political attitudes is extremely high"" https://t.co/Ed7gVukumO"
2876@JOKERACN7 https://t.co/TT1FZl5nkg
2877"""As Americans have become more mobile in the past half century, people are increasingly able to self-select into like-thinking areas. For example, those choosing to remain in rural areas are likely to be different from those eager to move to cities""
2878
2879https://t.co/7cbgs63Qzg https://t.co/YDiML7vIIr"
2880"""among men, 13.5% want to only date women shorter than them...among women, 48.9%  wanted to only date men taller than them""
2881
2882https://t.co/3GusgXhz0M https://t.co/TYrYdfn8yW"
2883@Oliver_S_Curry I voted no, but sometimes wonder if people are unhappy with the depth of their social relationships https://t.co/yleZTQBTUy
2884"“From age 13 to 20, our self-esteem drops to some of the lowest levels in our lives. Thereafter, to age 70, self-esteem gradually increases. In fact, by age 65, many of us feel as good as when we were 9 years old, which is as good as it ever gets.”
2885
2886?: https://t.co/OVKl1NGy2O https://t.co/Ss18LQ0hL8"
2887"""79% of women who have affairs report falling in love with their affair partner, in contrast to one-third of men who have affairs""
2888
2889https://t.co/NkPJByOt6K https://t.co/VPkuToJwI9"
2890"""One sample of 1,000 newlywed couples found that ring price was strongly negatively correlated with the age of the future bride; men purchased more expensive engagement rings for younger fiancées than for older fiancées."" 
2891
2892https://t.co/qmIr8Z5fEL https://t.co/1HkpHCJzaY"
2893Your phone is the adult marshmallow test you fail 250 times a day.
2894@robinhanson More people commit romantic fraud than business fraud... Perhaps they don’t want to implicate themselves
2895"""living together before marriage raised the net odds of marital infidelity by 39%, even controlling for sexual values and frequency of attendance at religious services""
2896
2897https://t.co/6TwmLv5kde https://t.co/B4c2m4Ui0e"
2898"""Each additional sex partner between age 18 and the first marital union increased the net odds of infidelity by 1%""
2899
2900https://t.co/6TwmLv5kde https://t.co/FLS8GJpYqR"
2901"""Sex differences in muscularity translate into the average man being stronger than 99.9% of women...The sex difference in upper-body muscle mass in humans is similar to the sex difference in lean body mass in gorillas, the most sexually dimorphic primate""
2902
2903https://t.co/i39pK2hhBm https://t.co/PdonLbFqPx"
2904@Sue_Nador Thanks Sue-- just sharing what I learn!
2905"What predicts *child mortality*? New @UNC study finds kids more likely to die in homes w/:
2906
2907- Less income
2908- Less education
2909- Absent mother
2910- Absent father
2911
2912No mom ⬆️ children's risk of death by 48%
2913
2914No dad   ⬆️ children's risk of death by 40%
2915 
2916https://t.co/17SJo34yb6 https://t.co/NqstOvEwJR"
2917"""60 females rated 15 male faces. Full beards were considered the most masculine, aggressive, socially mature, and older. Light beards were rated most dominant. Light stubble was most attractive, and preferred for both short & long-term relationships.""
2918
2919https://t.co/JFDXB9jUfI https://t.co/1Uav4NoSFI"
2920"""Energy intake increased by 385 calories per day following partial sleep deprivation compared with the control condition...equivalent to the calories of about four and a half slices of bread""
2921
2922https://t.co/jJjZdadLla https://t.co/CMlqqhub4W"
2923@Scientific_Bird A similar result https://t.co/w5cQBhCfDb https://t.co/Ibw5aMCo0x
2924@EPoe187 Yeah not great considering how many people are sleep deprived
2925@greatgarett @Scientific_Bird Seems unlikely staying awake for an additional 80 minutes burns 500+ calories. I just ran 4 miles, only burned 600 calories
2926@greatgarett @Scientific_Bird online calculator says a sedentary average American man (5’10”, 195 lbs) has a basal metabolic rate of 1,856 calories/day. https://t.co/4moSqE2lSC https://t.co/0PKz4IpkGk
2927"For most modern hunter-gatherer societies, more than 70% of their calories come from meat
2928
2929https://t.co/08KDICRHKN https://t.co/wLsjuYkgKX"
2930"""60% of men and 40% of women say they have tried to poach (pursue) someone else’s partner for a short-term sexual relationship or a new long-term relationship. Half who have been tempted by a would-be mate poacher have succumbed to that attempt.""
2931
2932https://t.co/bf0lZD1Noq https://t.co/TJVZiz5AAj"
2933"""laypeople view social scientific inquiry as a guided pursuit of evidence in favor of scientists’ personal ideology..Participants reported that scientists reached their desired conclusions and not just that they disinterestedly pursued the truth""
2934
2935https://t.co/joqheoGZi9 https://t.co/59l48PPUZH"
2936"""Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.""
2937
2938George Orwell https://t.co/fsUGISh13W"
2939"Self-attractiveness ratings of German, Italian, and American college students. From 0 (very unattractive) to 100 (very attractive):
2940
2941German women: 56
2942Men: 61
2943
2944Italian women: 49
2945Men: 62
2946
2947American women: 71
2948Men: 72
2949
2950https://t.co/sHgb65cqm9 https://t.co/9GHjZZKNqx"
2951"When men were exposed to the same female 6 times, we saw no change in ejaculate parameters...However, when males were exposed to a novel female, sperm count significantly increased... results suggest men ejaculate more quickly and invest more in ejaculates with novel females" https://t.co/sdLmxhSQTM
2952Spider thinks it's signaling to another spider. For less cognitively complex animals, mirrors must be one of our most confusing inventions. https://t.co/rrM9ds7tiK
2953"@IamLungile_ Not quite. This excerpt from @SteveStuWill suggests women and men are monogamous, polygynous, and promiscuous. And chronically conflicted. 
2954
2955Book: The Ape That Understood The Universe https://t.co/ALWQCURYkj"
2956@JacobGnther1 @robinhanson That’s the method that worked for me. This was also interesting to learn about: https://t.co/pCEs4v1cWf
2957@FallDrift new/different
2958Fascinating re how heterosexual couples meet: 1) dramatic rise of online; 2) decline of workplace; 3) dramatic drop in meeting via friends, historically most common & best way (see @connected_book) “Disintermediating your friends" via @Professor_MJR et al https://t.co/gD9962IHRJ https://t.co/sj9VD6xphp
2959"@IamLungile_ Not quite. This excerpt from @SteveStuWill suggests women and men are monogamous, polygynous, and promiscuous. And chronically conflicted. 
2960
2961Book: The Ape That Understood The Universe https://t.co/ALWQCURYkj"
2962"""Numerous guidelines say we can prevent heart attacks by avoiding saturated fat, mainly found in red meat and dairy products. Not one single randomised trial has shown that doing this saves lives""
2963
2964https://t.co/9D8z88esxx https://t.co/cQ9UELWMpE"
2965"""A slice of wholemeal bread raises blood sugar the same amount as three teaspoons of pure sugar...A jacket (baked) potato is akin eating 9 teaspoons of sugar""
2966
2967https://t.co/PMJOtQt32K https://t.co/dWMQuJxPEW"
2968@julmele Red Robin
2969"Eating 3 energy-rich meals with no physical exertion is unusual when viewed in the light of evolution...Throughout human evolution, critical thinking and decision-making occurred as individuals navigated through a heterogenous environment hunting and foraging in a fasted state." https://t.co/96AiSgO0xp
2970"""people enforce unpopular norms to show that they have complied out of genuine conviction and not because of social pressure...some groups may be more prone to unpopular norms because of individuals’ anxiety about being regarded as insufficiently sincere""
2971
2972https://t.co/NSOEtxba70 https://t.co/GWH35jo8Ea"
2973"What women say is important for their own self-perceived mate value, in order of importance:
2974
29751. Appearance
29762. Passion
29773. Dominance
2978
2979What predicts men's satisfaction w/ their partner, in order of importance:
2980
29811. Passion
29822. Warmth
29833. Appearance
29844. Stability
29855. Intellect https://t.co/EaMd8N2WdG"
2986@CuiProdest_ To clarify: The most important thing women believe is important for their own mate value is their own appearance.
2987"the upper middle class avoids excessive displays of strength. For many upper-middle-class men, bodybuilder-type bodies appear too vulgar, represent an overemphasis on the body (vanity and wasting time), and suggest overcompensation for a wounded manhood" https://t.co/5WwMyXlxS2
2988"""The so-called dominant classes, especially those richer in fancy degrees than in actual dollars—tend to express dominance through strenuous aerobic sports that display moral character, self-control, and self-development, rather than physical dominance.""
2989
2990https://t.co/oAtfqOc4Rt https://t.co/eJfL8ejUAa"
2991@clayroutledge Same. Though haven’t done martial arts in a few years. This guy has an interesting idea https://t.co/oKhmNKN9x8
2992@MethodologistID https://t.co/IOFgJWizUI
2993@abdos_pro https://t.co/IOFgJWizUI
2994@BenWinegard Rear Window
2995"""participants enjoyed their workouts significantly more than they had forecasted...people frequently make incorrect predictions about what will make them happy. Biased affective forecasts may be an impediment to engaging in exercise.""
2996
2997https://t.co/1JsB8SlI0j https://t.co/nhrRTpTgPl"
2998"""several studies on Tinder indicate that between 18 and 25% of participants reported being in a committed relationship while using Tinder""
2999
3000https://t.co/f2XqTvnkEk https://t.co/eIa7LkQwRN"
3001"I didn't grow up with Asian people. My foster siblings were black & Hispanic. I went to a working-class white high school. Then military.
3002
3003So when I first arrived at college, it was bizarre when Asian students would tell me I'm white. Interesting findings https://t.co/bfgcygmttO https://t.co/BnckSONoRi"
3004"Women's size preferences for muscles on a man's body:
3005
30061. Obliques
30072. Glutes
30083. Abs
30094. Biceps
30105. Shoulders
30116. Triceps
30127.  Calves
30138. Delts
30149. Quads
301510. Pecs
3016
3017""women prefer muscles that are hard to build to be larger than muscles that are easy to build.""
3018
3019https://t.co/ryvIWNPGMg https://t.co/5nXlawdaR5"
3020"""The relationship between sex and happiness appears to be both absolute and relative...respondents who are having more sex than their reference group are happier and those having less sex than their reference group are less happy""
3021
3022https://t.co/6H0JIYvPjg https://t.co/mq2GV0xOxO"
3023"We expected that men’s preferences for muscle development would tend to mirror women’s preferences, but we found that [men's] ratings of size preferences were always higher than women’s ratings across all muscles." ? https://t.co/jEaZGBcKCq
3024@FinchesofDarwin I wonder if this is in part because dominance (as perceived by other men) is a stronger predictor than attractiveness (as rated by women) for male sexual success https://t.co/1ndOwiHRgG
3025@DrCarpenters Sure thing. thanks for sharing your interesting research findings!
3026"Just realized I passed 5,000 followers. This time last summer had around 600.
3027
3028Great to see others interested in the same ideas as me ?? https://t.co/e5kCEIPqDq"
3029"People accurately assess the formidability of others after only 33ms (strength; ability to impose physical costs)
3030
3031""findings imply that formidability may begin to influence the course of social interactions almost as soon as they have begun""
3032
3033https://t.co/vk9qXv7TIi https://t.co/R2unpijfLz"
3034@jayvanbavel The moral-emotional words worked for this tweet... https://t.co/aB7JyONMeF
3035"Why does moral language go viral? Our new paper in #JEPG uses a combination of controlled lab experiments & nearly 50,000 tweets.
3036
3037We found that moral & emotional words are prioritized in visual attention and this predicts increased retweets during political conversations online. https://t.co/l8CfgOCzAa"
3038@jayvanbavel Fascinating research!
3039"""neuroscientists make more at technology companies like Apple or Facebook, where I think they quite literally are making money addicting our children to devices, than neuroscientists trying to cure Alzheimer’s.""
3040
3041Thoughtful speech from @JDVance1  https://t.co/Sb68eBXi4x"
3042"What's the strongest community correlate of upward mobility for poor kids in America? 
3043
3044""the strongest correlation is the number of intact families"" in a community.
3045
3046Fascinating @TheAtlantic on Harvard economist Raj Chetty's important work: https://t.co/NmpUaappZX"
3047"Why do old people keep getting scammed by phone calls?" wonders a generation that just sent a headshot and access to the data stored on their iPhones to a company they've never heard of before
3048"Women’s Sexual Desirability Ratings of Men (scale 1 to 9):
3049
3050Built: 7
3051Toned: 6.9
3052Brawny: 6.37
3053Slender: 5.42
3054Typical: 4.28
3055Chubby: 2.95
3056
3057""women find muscular men desirable and their short-term sex partners were more muscular than their other sex partners""
3058
3059https://t.co/XXTdVVcual https://t.co/n7HJiYAzmk"
3060"Predictors of inegalitarian attitudes (less likely to believe social status and other resources should be distributed equally in social groups):
3061
3062Muscularity (in men)
3063Self-perceived attractiveness (in women and men)
3064
3065https://t.co/sQw8zazUot https://t.co/dyFsU1nmKX"
3066"""Men judged women shown with other men as being less desirable than the same women depicted alone or with other women. Conversely, women judged men shown with other women as being more desirable than the same man depicted alone or with other men.""
3067
3068https://t.co/Ejf5d5YnED https://t.co/yWegsRvzzq"
3069"Researchers asked 194 people whether a reasonable person would unlock their phone and give it to an experimenter to search thru. Most said no.
3070
3071Then they asked 103 other ppl to unlock their phone and give it to them
3072
3073100 of them complied 
3074
3075https://t.co/FCUcKAh1Yw https://t.co/9DrVT40ByC"
3076@glukianoff I wonder if this is because, though things are getting better on an absolute scale, people believe on a relative scale they are losing out to perceived adversaries.
3077"""Fox News Effect"" shifted between 0.4%-0.7% of votes to conservative candidates
3078
3079Biased search engine results shifted voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more 
3080
3081Search engine bias can be masked so people show no awareness of the manipulation
3082
3083https://t.co/a7GrkqMdDt https://t.co/RrJ7aXBO4w"
3084"“Ethics is concerned with explaining not what a man must do in order to be happy, but what he must do to be worthy of happiness”
3085
3086Isaiah Berlin, on Kant’s moral philosophy https://t.co/NcydHhqYv9"
3087"""how tough a guy looked (to men) predicted his mating success better than how attractive he looked (to women). Researchers concluded, 'Men with higher physical dominance, but not sexual attractiveness, reported higher quantitative mating success.'""
3088
3089https://t.co/s2eahEimp1 https://t.co/woTxYolvrn"
3090@RealYeyoZa The idea that women cleverly outsource the cognitive burden of mate choice onto male intrasexual contests is fascinating
3091@RealYeyoZa Reminds me of this excellent op ed from @clayroutledge https://t.co/j7ikh7gYyE https://t.co/DlmG37wyjb
30923/ Individuals in the lowest decile of education polygenic score attain significantly more education if they are adopted. This could be an environmental effect of educationally supportive adoptive parents. https://t.co/H4HdHvXwxE
3093"""59 percent of all links shared on social networks aren’t actually clicked on at all, implying the majority of article shares aren’t based on actual reading. People are sharing articles without ever getting past the headlines.""
3094
3095https://t.co/i3RtqLBfm7 https://t.co/kHmY9tGbta"
3096"""fans of the rival teams valued outgroup losses more than ingroup gains...under the right circumstances, our experience of hostility towards outgroups can actually exceed the warmth we experience for our own group""
3097
3098https://t.co/wjtrZu4KvJ https://t.co/N1BCssOnd5"
3099"If I only do what makes sense, what use am I? The desire to exercise your autonomy might motivate you to turn against the expected, the reasonable, and the moral—to show yourself, and perhaps others, that you are free." Great essay from @paulbloomatyale  https://t.co/zdp4u9LApY
3100@frackingzionist Yeah, though this was also suggestive. Especially the self-esteem measure https://t.co/9hPFXzAtvk
3101@frackingzionist Also suggestive https://t.co/2kt7xnRvLJ
3102@frackingzionist I agree. Which is why can be important to see if other findings point in the same direction
3103@robinhanson Maybe the women that person knows already receive a lot of compliments https://t.co/amVuOPlRzd
3104“To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth that we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it.”
3105"The typical college male can do 24 push-ups
3106
3107Minimum basic fitness standards for 
3108
3109Army: 35 push-ups
3110Air Force: 44
3111
3112https://t.co/LhvaD7MXi9 https://t.co/YePmpLrxxt"
3113@BettsPbetts @EPoe187 https://t.co/aJw3AWokBn
3114@AaronMcEvers Link? I got 35 from https://t.co/jbaik21A9S
3115@AaronMcEvers Based on this, it looks like 35 is the minimum for BCT, and 42 for APFT https://t.co/QuBN7q64LZ
3116@AaronMcEvers Interesting. The Air Force also relaxed their fitness standards for basic training recently. Perhaps related to this https://t.co/7rZCf4ESbp
3117@AaronMcEvers I saw several guys get recycled in basic and tech school for fitness-related injuries
3118"“However attached one might be to the idea of equality as a moral commitment, as a description of how human beings actually relate to one another it does a dismal job...people distribute status (admiration, esteem) unevenly among individuals.” 
3119
3120?: https://t.co/9h5gT6C11a https://t.co/ask5CSkH3A"
3121@Denis_Tatone I'm about halfway through. Absolutely fascinating so far
3122"When women compliment women:
3123
312461% of compliments are about appearance
312520% of compliments are about ability/performance
312612% possessions
31274% personality/friendship
3128
3129When men compliment men:
3130
313135% appearance
313232% ability/performance
313325% possessions
31345% personality/friendship https://t.co/C4E5YtNABK"
3135"""Falsehood reached far more people than the truth. Whereas the truth rarely reached more than 1000 people, false news routinely spread to between 1000 and 100,000 people...many more people retweeted falsehood than they did the truth."" 
3136
3137https://t.co/0LLSXcE4vN https://t.co/hB4k9YdvBV"
3138@hbdchick @Scientific_Bird @karlbykarlsmith Richard Wrangham makes a distinction btwn reactive (impulsive, uncontrolled) and proactive (deliberate, calculated) aggression. Extremely low levels of anxiety might be associated with proactive aggression, while high levels associated with reactive.
3139@hbdchick @Scientific_Bird @karlbykarlsmith Wrangham's The Goodness Paradox delves deep into the proactive/reactive aggression question. recommended!
3140"In the absence of legitimate calamities, we create artificial ones...We evolved to experience hardships together. The prehistoric stressors that united early humans no longer exist. Now we create artificial ones." https://t.co/0ARuY9H8aK https://t.co/p3GLzxVmwS
3141@NicoleBarbaro @RealYeyoZa Thanks for sharing this, what’s the source?
3142@NicoleBarbaro @RealYeyoZa thanks! I got the kindle edition months ago, still need to finish
3143"""Higher resting heart rate (RHR) was associated with mortality (all causes). Compared to RHR of less than 50 beats per minute, RHR of 51–80 bpm was associated with a 40–50% increased risk of death. Risk of death increased 16% per 10 beats per minute.""
3144
3145https://t.co/8e45itAYJN https://t.co/S4pwDDjw3H"
3146"""male competition has had a stronger effect than female selection on male physical traits. Men evolved strong muscles, deep voices, and facial hair not so much because women find them sexy, but more because other men find them intimidating.""
3147
3148https://t.co/YJOO0WlK6g https://t.co/727S0oFpMJ"
3149@Moshe_Hoffman was surprised to learn Evangelicals view Jews more positively than any other group (except other Evangelicals) while Jews have a less favorable view of Evangelicals than any other religious group https://t.co/48JRkPjYxT
3150"""People will want to associate with power for both strategic reasons and for access to resources...people will successfully rationalize their decision to get close to power by seeing the powerful more favorably and as being more likeable and pleasant""
3151
3152https://t.co/eTzo1FgvAy https://t.co/ri0ePrlxdv"
3153@FriedrichHayek @JonHaidt The entire paper draws from evolutionary psychology. I’ve read Haidt. https://t.co/AKO0cloeXi
3154@BenWinegard Status games
3155@EPoe187 People who engage in name calling and silencing likely care more than average about social status. People who pursue PhDs likely care more than average about social status. Solution: make PhDs a low status marker and it will attract fewer name callers :P
3156@EPoe187 haha deal?
3157@0x404_tobi Currently reading Conflict of Wills by Roger Gould. Other books I've read https://t.co/RRgow66KPW
3158@clairlemon I know more than one person from undergrad who claimed to be “dyslexic” to successfully skip compulsory language course requirements.
3159"""communication evolves into signals that are exaggerated, repetitive, and costly...the aim is to manipulate a receiver who has learned to resist being manipulated. This type of ‘arms race’ evolves systematically into exaggeration of signals.""
3160
3161?: https://t.co/mtyKO5YeeV https://t.co/TGwVHfzWkX"
3162@djsantero @jordanbpeterson Wow that's great!
3163"Religiosity of American College Professors
3164
3165Least religious (""I don't believe in God""):
3166Psychology: 50%
3167Mech Engineering: 44%
3168Biology: 28%
3169Poli Sci: 23%
3170Econ: 23%
3171
3172Most religious (""I know God exists""):
3173Accounting: 63%
3174Elementary education: 57%
3175Finance: 49%
3176Marketing: 47%
3177Art: 45% https://t.co/l96Ys4iliL"
3178"“One monkey stopped responding for 5 days and another one for 12 days after witnessing a companion being shocked each time they pulled a handle to get food for themselves. They were literally starving themselves to avoid inflicting pain on others.”
3179
3180Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal https://t.co/C9Ut3Er3KN"
3181? https://t.co/S82Spv4tlk
3182"When we spend our time exchanging information, it is not for the intrinsic value of the information...The aim of the game is to discover whom to choose as allies and to determine who will influence collective decisions." https://t.co/v4X26iH79h
3183@matrat10000 @paarler Some might argue that the passage describes what most of us do unconsciously, while a sociopath does it consciously https://t.co/0OVE2gF5tO
3184"That baboon does not love magic. He’s flat out threatening to beat you senseless
3185Signed,
3186An actual primatologist https://t.co/YgHExBZIoG"
3187@RealYeyoZa @clairlemon https://t.co/8xgHRqGoth
3188"“Humans are tribal creatures. They were not designed to reason dispassionately about the world; rather, they were designed to reason in ways that promote the interests of their coalition."" 
3189
3190Great new paper from @ImHardcory, @EPoe187 
3191
3192https://t.co/CSSagis0Jv https://t.co/UHjyiw60Oc"
3193@SundPamela @EPoe187 @ImHardcory Not yet, but it’s on my list ?
3194"""We found that text messages that ended with a period were rated as less sincere than text messages that did not end with a period. This pattern, however, was not found for handwritten notes.""
3195
3196https://t.co/tmlO2VAadx https://t.co/lOTyeYnPkt"
3197Consistent with a growing body of data, contemporary humans report that women are just generally better than men (i.e., more caring, more competent, more intelligent). (Agency is hard to interpret because it includes items such as arrogant and aggressive). https://t.co/4y8ueW7WMe https://t.co/WQGuvlzvDz
3198On Tinder, "men are driven to be less selective in the hope of attaining a match, whilst women are increasingly driven to be more selective, safe in the knowledge that any profiles they like will probably result in a match" https://t.co/Co0TNSeYTp
3199"Kisses of Death in the Graduate School Application Process (for psychology)
3200
32011. Damaging Personal Statements 
32022. Harmful letters of recommendation 
32033. Lack of knowledge about graduate program 
32044. Poorly written application 
32055. Misfired attempts to impress
3206
3207https://t.co/FMpxpRp8gn https://t.co/Qi4QTfoS86"
3208"“In fact, findings from cross-cultural studies suggest that in-group bias is higher in collectivist societies (including communist societies) than it is in individualist societies which stress autonomy.” 
3209
3210Book: Blueprint by @NAChristakis https://t.co/RYgP8XQKpF"
3211"if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause...then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle out of a certain boredom : for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle." @FukuyamaFrancis https://t.co/6IUhWrQZsv
3212"""If the conditions were right, would you consider having sexual intercourse with someone you viewed as desirable if you had known that person for 1 minute?""
3213
3214Women: 5%
3215Men: 35%
3216
3217From @PsychoSchmitt 
3218
3219https://t.co/vQ8W9LbYfa https://t.co/TNSPgpMGWJ"
3220For the past year, I've been reporting the most complicated, brutal story of my 25-plus-yr career. It's out now. Please read. https://t.co/dwo2aQQOvg via @thecut
3221"Just arrived: The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation
3222
3223Looking forward to digging into this and sharing what I learn ? 
3224
3225https://t.co/NJczev6ebL https://t.co/x3Q2lg4zgX"
3226"""when women thought a man was single, 59% found him attractive, but when they thought he was in a committed relationship, 90% found him attractive...single women were more interested in poaching an attached man rather than pursuing a single man.""
3227
3228https://t.co/Ed4RG7zslV https://t.co/L6m1TLPgxE"
3229"""Across 85 countries, national IQ was significantly positively related to national male and female suicide rate...high intelligence may not equal optimal adaptation.""
3230
3231https://t.co/XhrXr5f4v3 https://t.co/G91IjWIsKU"
3232"""If you volunteer at least once a week, the increase to your happiness is like moving from a yearly income of $20,000 to $75,000.""
3233
3234https://t.co/j7YuMzxXta https://t.co/tQKwR4vZfK"
3235“Roughly 30 percent of men on the Tinder app, which is widely regarded as a short-term mating app, are married.” https://t.co/o2My0F2iTT
3236“Men sometimes use this sneak strategy...one of the most frequently used tactics is pretending to be friends with the couple and then switching into mating mode when the opportunity arises. “I don’t think your partner appreciates you”; “You are too good for him” https://t.co/MOHYeO1c6F
3237"@RealYeyoZa That question asks ""If the conditions were right."" 
3238
3239The in-field studies might not involve ""right conditions""...apparently men are more likely to go to bed with a stranger if the conditions are wrong and women are more likely if the conditions are right  
3240https://t.co/UU2Mobl6QX"
3241"38% of women and 60% of men say they have attempted to lure another person's partner into a casual sexual encounter
3242
324387% of men and 94% of women say that someone else attempted to entice them out of an existing relationship for a brief sexual encounter
3244
3245https://t.co/IIpboKfoAD https://t.co/vrFbCX8zyD"
3246"82% of victims of lethal intimate partner violence are women
3247
3248Predictors of male killing female: Male unemployed, female left male, presence of offspring unrelated to male, female has higher mate value, female infidelity
3249
3250Predictors of female killing male: Male is abusive https://t.co/XW6zPeErwR"
3251"""Women initiated breakups more often than men. Women reported initiating the breakup 39% of the time versus men at 37%. Men reported initiating the breakup 28% of time versus women at 47%...women initiated divorce in 70% of cases” 
3252
3253https://t.co/c74DX1IEud https://t.co/hMFNsIfQzG"
3254@wesyang https://t.co/ni7BZpbqmn
3255"How much does it cost to produce a psychology article, based on work hours spent?  
3256
3257Psych Bulletin: $131,613
3258
3259Psych Review: $60,572
3260
3261JPSP: $46,490
3262
3263https://t.co/7m6NsQLd7p H/T @robkhenderson"
3264@clairlemon Reminds me of this old passage in Paul Fussell’s book on social class: “In 1940, about 13 percent of college-age people went to college; by 1970 it was about 43 percent. But no. It was still 13 percent, the other 30 percent attending things merely being denominated colleges.” https://t.co/NlPSnl50i0
3265@clairlemon Research suggests even if you arrive at the same moral conclusion, questioning is still taboo. @paulbloomatyale (Descartes' Baby) citing @PTetlock's work on taboo thoughts https://t.co/UJL1ms2AYm
3266"""The average college graduate now has considerably lower verbal ability than the average college graduate 40 years ago. For employers, this means that a college degree does not have the same meaning as it once did for verbal ability""
3267
3268https://t.co/IQMXORZduX https://t.co/Nc2t0g91Ru"
3269@LibertyBlitz You asked why it was so complicated. I suggested a potential explanation.
3270"New study on political hostility in philosophy: 
3271
3272Philosophers openly say they are willing to discriminate against those with opposing political views
3273
3274(i.e. philosophers on the left openly willing to discriminate against the right, and vice versa)
3275
3276https://t.co/blLLlXO7qI https://t.co/Uy2cy9MsLo"
3277"And what makes people feel best about themselves? Roy Baumeister suggests that people feel most authentic when their actions promote the reputation they wish to cultivate
3278
3279https://t.co/kRPpWMj2xS https://t.co/OZAsbUGsZo https://t.co/71s7KPviZ9"
3280"@clairlemon @nature This was interesting
3281
3282Average IQ differences
3283
3284Identical twins raised together: 2 pts
3285Identical twins raised apart: 4 pts
3286Siblings/fraternal twins: 12 pts
3287Unrelated children raised together from birth: 16 pts
32882 randomly chosen people: 17 pts
3289
3290https://t.co/tti3GOzFiq"
3291@EPoe187 I still like this take from Kahneman. But now suspect that for many people objections to applying base rates is more about coalitionary power than fairness  https://t.co/UGcj8BCmue
3292@joeljmiller Yeah. Those aspects we downplay are likely those that would damage the impression we wish to make on others
3293@EPoe187 @clairlemon Odd that Taleb hasn't blocked Claire. Some people are saying if she were a man Taleb would have blocked her long ago ?
3294@EdLatimore https://t.co/YRq0OCtaOw
3295"""When you grow up poor, the future isn't real.""
3296
3297Realest sentence I've read on twitter dot com 
3298
3299https://t.co/4z9w9LpHKQ"
3300"“only 22 percent of U.S. adults are on Twitter, and 80 percent of the tweets come from 10 percent of users. If you rely on Twitter for political information, you are being informed by pundits (and bots) residing within 2.2 percent of the population”
3301
3302https://t.co/jWijrTklTf https://t.co/uS8xM5V5GN"
3303"[at the police station]
3304
3305""what is this man charged with""
3306
3307""bayesianism""
3308
3309""does he have any priors"""
3310"“In a study of 1,500 pairs of adult twins, concordance for divorce was much greater for identical than for fraternal twins (55 percent versus 16 percent)” 
3311
3312Book: Blueprint by Robert Plomin https://t.co/7M7YdSd2rw"
3313"“It’s often a good idea to adopt the practices and beliefs of people around you. For one thing, the people around you aren’t dead. If you do what they do, you might continue not being dead as well.” 
3314
3315The Ape That Understood The Universe by @SteveStuWill https://t.co/4Qz860DZfb"
3316@PaulSkallas https://t.co/QZs2B6NAZ5
3317@PaulSkallas Don’t disagree. marking oneself for coalitionary reasons is Lindy
3318@ReformedTrader @daniel_egan @Scientific_Bird @ImHardcory Thanks for the shoutout, Darren ?
3319"among the ancestor's of today's human population, women outnumbered men by about two to one...humanity's ancestors were about 67% female and 33% male" https://t.co/joR4pvgksB
3320@MBlauerstein @PaulSkallas https://t.co/OwnVatxICD
3321"""In 12 measured cultures, women and men spent an average of 5% of their time chewing (less than 1 hour)...if we lived on the same kind of raw food that great apes do, it would be 42% of the day, or just over 5 hours chewing""
3322
3323?: https://t.co/ylMDCP67Ah https://t.co/yRl7yHJQnf"
3324"“The rated strength of a male body accounts for 70% of the variance in attractiveness. None of the women produced a preference for weaker men...in both samples, the strongest men were the most attractive, the weakest men were the least attractive.”
3325
3326https://t.co/3bHn4HehOT https://t.co/FF0hZLco54 https://t.co/2CgebXggMl"
3327"""Females were 1000 times more sensitive than males to economic status cues when rating opposite sex attractiveness, indicating that higher economic status can offset lower physical attractiveness in men much more easily than in women""
3328
3329https://t.co/6b4s5lDkeM https://t.co/nk6IGNAxsn"
3330"""Happiness was linked to being a taker rather than a giver, whereas meaningfulness went with being a giver rather than a taker. Higher levels of worry, stress and anxiety were linked to higher meaningfulness but lower happiness."" 
3331
3332https://t.co/wUKBgHBvjG https://t.co/Ad764KFtlX"
3333One reason that cooking was such an important milestone in human evolution: By cutting down on chewing time, it meant that we could get enough energy from our food to power great big watermelon brains without having to spend huge chunks of our days just eating. https://t.co/KDWifgvvkH
3334"""altruism predicted number of sexual partners among men, even when controlling for narcissism, Big Five personality traits, and socially desirable responding""
3335
3336Low altruism males: 4 lifetime sex partners
3337High altruism males: 12 
3338
3339https://t.co/vRmZoxdl7J https://t.co/5U4F5Pvk5m"
3340Somewhat related: Males who view themselves as attractive cooperate more in prisoner's dilemma games than males who view themselves as unattractive https://t.co/EP5nXAs8k1
3341"""men make more charitable donations— around four times larger— to attractive women than to less-attractive women (or men) and will compete with other men over donations to women...overt generosity can be a competitive rather than a cooperative act.""
3342
3343https://t.co/XpTqv0usgT https://t.co/HPQVQjLgo6"
3344"1. 42% of students fail to complete degree
33452. Graduating from an elite college doesn't increase $ 
33463. Graduating from a ""nonselective"" college doesn't increase $
33474. Most average students drop out
33485. SAT coaching doesn't help much
3349
3350My latest for @PsychToday https://t.co/bXpm1PnAqx"
3351Worth rebroadcasting just because the opposed message gets broadcast so much (billed as a hidden and unspeakable truth). https://t.co/zxI0NCVoGr
3352"What do you see? 
3353
3354This is actually a black and white photo, but an artist has drawn color lines through it. Your brain is filling in the rest of the colors even though they aren't there. 
3355
3356Look closer....
3357
3358Work by artist Øyvind Kolås modifying a photo by ""Chuwa (Francis). https://t.co/4jhlT4QriW"
3359"""following interactions, people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company...Conversation appears to be a domain in which people display uncharacteristic pessimism about their performance.""
3360
3361https://t.co/ppzQRWLII7 https://t.co/u0PVTyFe14"
3362@cmartinjr Maybe. But ppl also predict that a conversation with a stranger will be worse than it actually turns out to be (they enjoy the conversation more than they expected). A liar might predict a conversation will go well and then just say it went well. https://t.co/jD2DDto0Mz
3363"On average, your friends have more friends than you, your Twitter followers have more followers than you, your sex partners have had more sex partners than you, and your friends are richer than you
3364
3365“The Friendship Paradox”
3366
3367https://t.co/CFgekSa28F https://t.co/H6JgyS5kXn"
3368@wkeithcampbell Fascinating, any papers you recommend reading?
3369"""people have a surprisingly grim outlook on their social lives...they believe that others attend more parties, dine out more, have more friends, spend more time with family, occupy wider social networks, and possess larger social circles than themselves""
3370
3371https://t.co/jSaDF7sQ1Z https://t.co/sPKjPk4u6l"
3372@pnin1957 Interesting, I read about the friendship paradox earlier https://t.co/iaUKDY3su9
3373@nntaleb @primalpoly @StuartJRitchie What does it mean if one’s fitness metrics (run time, weight lifting) do not correlate at .99....
3374@nntaleb @primalpoly @StuartJRitchie In the military, our fitness test consisted of pushups, situps, 1.5mi run. Together, results were a composite "fitness score." Wondering if this test was senseless for dynamic military environments (no one needs to run 1.5mi or 60 pushups in a combat zone)...
3375"“Hunters would secure more calories if they targeted smaller prey...Big game hunting is not about calories, it’s primarily about showing off. Vanquishing animals that could trample you underfoot is a convincing display of strength, skill, & bravery.” 
3376
3377?: https://t.co/RNhAxsJq0g https://t.co/olud7iaymr"
3378"""In 145 male university students, handgrip strength correlated with self-perceived happiness (r=.43), health (r=.44), social confidence (r=.47), overall physical attractiveness (r=.42), and overall number of sexual partners (r=.22).""
3379
3380https://t.co/J3J6WssNOv https://t.co/mhlJBxn19O"
3381"-People high in openness to experience have fewer children
3382
3383-People who are cognitively rigid and conventional have more children
3384
3385-High emotionality correlates with more children
3386
3387-Agreeableness correlates with more children, but only for men
3388
3389https://t.co/uat51nJpG2 https://t.co/X9IqzMus2L"
3390@EPoe187 Reading the stats on different home environments for children (along with my own experiences in foster care) led me to the same position https://t.co/TP0To2PH0g
3391@blue_labour2 @EPoe187 pg 154 https://t.co/HxUuRodOkO
3392@DavidJa16716222 @EPoe187 pg 154 https://t.co/HxUuRodOkO
3393@Crey1959 @EPoe187 Yeah. This figure is also stunning https://t.co/Zd3oBQgsoC
3394@C_Hawisher @Crey1959 @EPoe187 Could be related to the Cinderella effect https://t.co/917NKWwSkv
3395@ImHardcory @EPoe187 I don't disagree. But for those with personalities prone to divorce, strong social norms are even more important. Relaxed environment enables personality differences to magnify
3396@EPoe187 @ImHardcory https://t.co/CbDZfvqsVX https://t.co/S1M7sh8XI9
3397"@ImHardcory @EPoe187 From Daly & Wilson: ""excess risk from stepmothers (relative to genetic mothers) is roughly on the same order as excess risk from stepfathers (relative to genetic fathers)."" Suggests stepfathers are more dangerous overall, which is not surprising 
3398
3399https://t.co/sNTt7vtLeo https://t.co/UEikT6a6ft"
3400"People read an article describing a difference that favored either men or women (drawing ability, who lies more)
3401
3402Women and men reacted more positively to results favoring women
3403
3404Women & men judged male-favoring results as more offensive, less important 
3405
3406https://t.co/s8NzUwUcG9 https://t.co/jLAg9sOtYY"
3407@robinhanson @ScottAdamsSays has said he does not listen to music for this very reason. "Music is designed to manipulate your body chemistry and your mind."  https://t.co/pfniIddNUV https://t.co/PuXF0XQm2e
3408"""Compared to children living with married biological parents, those whose single parent had a live-in partner had over 10 times the rate of abuse""
3409
3410https://t.co/HxUuRodOkO https://t.co/8JPHErvO8A"
3411"Ages at First, Best, and Last Work by Scientific Discipline:
3412
3413https://t.co/ePYrEMQLIJ https://t.co/OL9WIikYhv"
3414"Research suggests:
3415
3416If you consider someone to be your friend, there is a 34 percent chance they consider you to be their friend 
3417
3418If you consider someone to be your enemy, there is a 5 percent chance they consider you to be their enemy
3419
3420https://t.co/kfnBHh5S1f https://t.co/wwIuI6S3im"
3421"""63% say they have a duty to vote, only 39% say they have a duty to be informed.... people believe that they have a moral obligation to vote yet feel that this does not entail the duty to keep informed in order to cast a “correct” vote""
3422
3423https://t.co/0VkPWvTbvE https://t.co/aGHCEIMDx9"
3424@razibkhan Labels are language games for coalition-building... both sides at odds trying to use a label for their benefit
3425"""people had more regrets about not being the person they could have been (unfulfilled dreams, unmet goals) than not being the person they should have been (unfulfilled duties, unmet obligations)""
3426
3427https://t.co/LrcFJWUuyo https://t.co/fZMgq1H3zE"
3428"@RealYeyoZa ""individuals in a favored group near the group’s boundary emphasize their presence on the favored side of that boundary. Individuals generally prefer to be in higher-status groups, to enhance self-esteem and project a more impressive self to others""
3429
3430https://t.co/q8X6Fs75PQ https://t.co/Ju8NRWrmZd"
3431One of my favourite graphs (even though it's kind of sad) https://t.co/xpeabtdnbS https://t.co/V0Fepsge86
3432@SteveStuWill Sad, at least self-esteem grows in old age https://t.co/f0utfbfVna
3433"""The desire to have a thin partner appears so strong, in fact, that an obese partner is considered less desirable than a partner reporting a history of a curable sexually transmitted disease, suffering from mental illness, or missing a limb""
3434
3435https://t.co/W3h0h58YZr https://t.co/NgAzsWoqIn"
3436@MairGr well... https://t.co/6YllyPtYK7
3437"When deciding between 2 candidates for a desirable job (interesting, popular), 57% of people selected the more attractive candidate
3438
3439When deciding between 2 candidates for an undesirable job (boring, unpopular), 65% chose the less attractive candidate
3440
3441https://t.co/SfDPKosiIo https://t.co/3VZQ1Nb6H0"
3442@ImHardcory @Scientific_Bird @Aella_Girl Hadn’t really understood this until an ex said walking with me was more “peaceful” and I asked her to explain what that meant
3443Favourite accounts so far: @jordanbpeterson (no shocker here), @clayroutledge, @DrDebraSoh  (who I've been following on IG for quite some time), @ImHardcory, @robkhenderson, and @MsMelChen (whose posts I've missed dearly since signing off FB).
3444@suskchen @jordanbpeterson @clayroutledge @DrDebraSoh @ImHardcory @MsMelChen thanks! And agree, all those accounts are great ?
3445"“men who spend rather than save, and especially those who spend more money than they make, have significantly more sex partners than those who are more frugal”
3446
3447https://t.co/IwSmMOyTUF https://t.co/jMNUsd5pLr"
3448"""People who professed to have superior beliefs were most likely to inaccurately overestimate their perceived knowledge relative to their actual knowledge on a number of political topics.""
3449
3450https://t.co/dJ680e9yfk https://t.co/3P3HNFahEy"
3451"22% of American adults use Twitter
3452
3453Average Twitter user posts twice/month, has 25 followers, follows 89 accounts
3454
3455Average user in the top 10% posts 138 tweets per month, has 387 followers, follows 456 accounts
3456
3457Top 10% of users create 80% of all tweets https://t.co/jBmBgLX3eu"
3458"“whereas the public prefers human workers to be replaced by other human workers (vs. robots), the workers whose jobs are actually threatened prefer to be replaced by robots (vs. humans)” 
3459
3460When a human takes your job, someone has gained status at your expense. But a robot... https://t.co/qD07oB5Uik"
3461@disitinerant For many people, relative social standing is more important than absolute increase in living standards
3462"Army Veteran Richard Martinez III has gone from Army barracks to Hurlbut Hall! As one of our partner schools, Harvard understands the value and diversity military brings to their campus.. #admissionsaccomplished #servicetoschool @Harvard University 
3463
3464https://t.co/Q9TdcpOHHO"
3465"""Poor people pretend to be rich to look cool. Rich people pretend to be poor to fit in...The students mocked him—not for being poor, but for being too rich...I had no idea that these kids were even richer than the boy they were mocking."" @nataliadashan
3466
3467https://t.co/p4dNUGotsj https://t.co/yRamqrHMsw"
3468“Of all human emotions, none is trickier or more elusive than envy...as soon as we feel the initial pangs of envy, we disguise it to ourselves— it is not envy we feel but unfairness of the distribution of goods or attention, resentment at this unfairness, even anger.” https://t.co/2CNXhJdSpx
3469"""the low benevolent sexism male was perceived to be as abusive as the high hostile sexism male...men who reject chivalry and other forms of benevolent sexism face reputational risks and may be misperceived as misogynists rather than gender egalitarians""
3470
3471https://t.co/hmnMJCTUob https://t.co/RlrVme01XJ"
3472"When everyone is morally offended, a clear signal of commitment is to be more outraged than most. When there is uncertainty about people’s commitment to a cause, it becomes necessary for members of the coalition to demonstrate their resolution by adopting more extreme positions" https://t.co/WfuzJBgQdm
3473"""Convicted criminal offenders had more children than individuals never convicted of a criminal offense...Importantly, the reproductive success of criminals was explained by a fertility increase from having children with several different partners.""
3474
3475https://t.co/yecuccigu2 https://t.co/ngeMSM5iTx"
3476@JosCarlosMorai1 https://t.co/UQRmuhFscp
3477"-Criminal offenders have more sex partners than non-criminals
3478
3479-Criminal offenders have sex at an earlier age
3480
3481-Gang members have more sex partners than non-gang members within the same community https://t.co/NUy3BhRZvz"
3482"Attractive man carrying a guitar case?: 31% of women gave him their phone number 
3483
3484Same man, no guitar: 14% of women gave their number
3485
3486Same man, carrying a sports bag: 9%
3487
3488https://t.co/XIxZEye1hc https://t.co/Dmi0j64mqQ"
3489@RealYeyoZa Interesting, though increased fertility seems to make sense alongside this finding that criminal offenders have more partners https://t.co/hCiMrh96Zk
3490"""Men were much more attracted to their female friends than vice versa, and more likely to think their female friends were attracted to them...women were generally not attracted to their male friends and assumed this lack of attraction was mutual"" 
3491
3492https://t.co/HqkJDQID2o https://t.co/I7Ge93W07r"
3493"""people with high math skills were unable to reason when the answer collided with their political beliefs...people who score high on science literacy and cognitive reflection are the most likely to express beliefs congruent with those of their party.""
3494
3495https://t.co/RqJMKfPvXf https://t.co/ojrRhjB0JP"
3496@Jay_Baldwin https://t.co/rJnVG81ZEf
3497@EPoe187 It does seem like a way to signal status by downplaying it. Cunning https://t.co/fSkMRnMhoY
3498"""for the most part, people who commit violence view themselves as victims and their targets as moral wrongdoers...No one is the bad guy in their own movie.""
3499
3500https://t.co/kY6jkvXrhB https://t.co/mFGFwAnWdp"
3501@eugen_dimant https://t.co/PxZn54EPLM
3502Related: https://t.co/PxZn54EPLM
3503Help high quality journalism survive: Consider supporting Claire Lehmann's Quillette:  https://t.co/s7Vas2I7ZT
3504"“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered”
3505
3506Stephen King, On Writing https://t.co/xunF22GVnO"
3507@BenWinegard You're not alone... https://t.co/it4u2cJRSJ
3508Rigidity-of-the-extreme: Partisan extremity (on both the left and the right) is associated with lower cognitive flexibility. Also, Independents are higher in cognitive flexibility than Democrats and Republicans. New work by @LeorZmigrod: https://t.co/unzxtkuy6c https://t.co/n9MPXVuJa0
3509"If people are ultimately selfish, why do they lose sleep over the idea that people are ultimately selfish? 
3510
3511@SteveStuWill on the selfish gene theory
3512
3513?: https://t.co/RNhAxsrOBG https://t.co/t5eppPol8Q"
3514"American government regulations allow food labels to understate calories by up to 20% (to ensure consumers are not short-changed in terms of how much nutrition they receive). The information on some processed frozen foods misstates their calorific content by as much as 70%." https://t.co/ZAxPHDlz9f
3515"""If there is such a thing as a universal criterion for “the good life,” then it must be the sense of social proximity...of being acknowledged and recognized, of being included and intimate with others, no matter what. It is being safe, the ultimate prize""
3516
3517https://t.co/krFqKrS5d9 https://t.co/VRWkz0AeX5"
3518"""A social person will display fear when asked to jump from heights, disgust when eating a worm, shame when violating a social norm in public, guilt when causing harm...Dares, in other words, are a psychopath test.""
3519
3520https://t.co/A3LtIj5lWQ https://t.co/xYfYYWtpI3"
3521"“From age 13 to 20, our self-esteem drops to some of the lowest levels in our lives. Thereafter, to age 70, self-esteem gradually increases. In fact, by age 65, many of us feel as good as when we were 9 years old, which is as good as it ever gets.”
3522
3523?: https://t.co/OVKl1NGy2O https://t.co/Ss18LQ0hL8"
3524"“Rather than altering your bedtime for several days leading up to your trip, or carefully managing your exposure to natural light, a 16-hour fast is enough to make the entire transition at once...time its conclusion with breakfast at your destination”
3525
3526https://t.co/Hd8ZOHBKtq"
3527"""female fruit flies rejected a male they observed being rejected by a female and female sailfin mollies (fish) reject males that were observed with a female attempting to escape from them; a similar phenomenon of rejection has been observed in humans""
3528
3529https://t.co/vIa5MRts5o https://t.co/pxcXbD5b73"
3530"""in 2017, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy pointed to research showing that 'loneliness and weak social connections are associated with a reduction in lifespan similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day'""
3531
3532https://t.co/nexwGUFV4I https://t.co/0dPMsvoT9C"
3533@wesyang Last yr I asked Jeb Bush who would win a fist fight between Biden and Trump. Bush’s response: “Trump bc he’s morbidly obese. Weight advantage.”
3534@wesyang Poor Jeb miscalculated again...
3535"“men who were able to do 40 push-ups or more had a 96 percent reduced risk of heart disease compared with men who could do less than 10 push-ups...the average male in college is capable of between 18 to 26 push-ups”
3536
3537https://t.co/QEH3GZ39AZ https://t.co/KWLlBfyzke"
3538"To predict a child's height:
3539
3540Take the mother's height
3541
3542Take the father's height
3543
3544Average the two heights together
3545
3546Add 2.75 in. (7cm) to predict a boy, subtract 2.75 in (7cm) to predict a girl
3547
3548https://t.co/6YzxayOut3"
3549"""We found no support for benefits of self-insight...findings suggest that giving employees and students feedback about their cognitive and emotional abilities in organizations and in schools may not enhance their adjustment.""
3550
3551https://t.co/CQ2lG4sEz6 https://t.co/UVWuEfHfyf"
3552@GarettJones @normonics @nntaleb Doesn’t seem like one can get better at the standardized test game... https://t.co/Plo5yL4FiN
3553"How much does SAT coaching actually help
3554
3555This study says coaching gives a 10 pt boost, which is one-tenth of a standard deviation
3556
3557""too small to be practically important"" https://t.co/2Uz75UE45o"
3558"Just realized the song ""Let Her Go"" by Passenger is about loss aversion (pain we feel from loss is twice as strong as the pleasure we feel from gain) 
3559
3560https://t.co/pn0e9lCQ6v https://t.co/tGAZxh6txe"
3561"individuals who are hostile online are equally likely to be hostile offline...they are motivated by status and seek to challenge existing political hierarchies. They invest in online (vs. offline) political discussions as these discussions offer greater benefits at lower costs" https://t.co/6xddcvpFBe
3562@Moshe_Hoffman This was interesting https://t.co/1FZF7vo6Bx
3563"""in general, university education increased negative attitudes about children and decreased positive attitudes, while religiosity increased positive attitudes about children and decreased negative ones”
3564
3565https://t.co/uqlLzHJfKZ https://t.co/nxXaRET9zh"
3566"Adults under 30 vs. over 65 who believe:
3567
3568-People just look out for themselves most of the time: 73% (under 30) vs. 48% (over 65)
3569
3570-Most people would try to take advantage of you if they got a chance: 71% vs. 39%
3571
3572-Most ppl can’t be trusted: 60%  vs. 29%
3573
3574https://t.co/smSaADJ6xm https://t.co/zPwmuvCaDS"
3575"Men rated as less attractive earned 9% less in hourly earnings than those with average looks; those who were rated as handsome earned 5% more than those considered to be average. For women, the penalty for being unattractive was 5%, and the advantage of being attractive was 4%." https://t.co/ZsIZG6shAj
3576Cooperation is old, self-interest is young https://t.co/UTp2KCJCAZ
3577@CryptoTDO War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
3578"""It appears there are at least 3 reasons why we express certain opinions:
3579
35801. We think they are true
3581
35822. They maintain or enhance social standing in our tribes
3583
35843. It is financially wise to do so""
3585
3586https://t.co/UyTl9YAezq https://t.co/4e1lSZXtvY"
3587This is bad. Young people in the US live in a zero sum world (whether imagined or real) https://t.co/IAxkN3JEWH
3588A rare case in which higher religiosity, higher political conservatism, and higher *education* all predict stronger agreement with a science-relevant statement: Scientists will never be able to predict human behavior precisely. n > 14,000; 5-point scale. https://t.co/6jGj73zfaN
3589@EdLatimore Interesting that it’s not fashionable to talk about the role of hard work. The new luxury belief is to attribute outcomes to factors beyond our control (e.g. luck)
3590"Endorsement of redistribution is predicted by compassion, envy, and the expectation of personal gain. By contrast, a taste for fairness fails to predict attitudes about redistribution...Endorsement of fairness failed to predict support for redistribution in all 3 studies" https://t.co/3GraCh0VP4
3591"""A slice of wholemeal bread raises blood sugar the same amount as three teaspoons of pure sugar...A jacket (baked) potato is akin eating 9 teaspoons of sugar""
3592
3593https://t.co/PMJOtQt32K https://t.co/dWMQuJxPEW"
3594Love this new study: using footage from over 200 CCTV videos cross-nationally, researchers found that people will help 9 out of 10 times in public conflicts, challenging the by-stander effect with real-world data. https://t.co/iOuoF19dex
3595"""Why do people feel shame when others falsely accuse them of doing something wrong? Potential or actual social devaluation by others is sufficient to elicit shame, even when there is no wrongdoing""
3596
3597https://t.co/OyUm3jSD8I https://t.co/onGoHj7DEG"
3598@EPoe187 Reminds me of this old story about a Chinese official calling a deer a horse https://t.co/gPKP1bsUS1 https://t.co/b6T7V4Oecy
3599"the upper middle class avoids excessive displays of strength. For many upper-middle-class men, bodybuilder-type bodies appear too vulgar, represent an overemphasis on the body (vanity and wasting time), and suggest overcompensation for a wounded manhood" https://t.co/5WwMyXlxS2
3600"""The so-called dominant classes, especially those richer in fancy degrees than in actual dollars—tend to express dominance through strenuous aerobic sports that display moral character, self-control, and self-development, rather than physical dominance.""
3601
3602https://t.co/oAtfqOc4Rt https://t.co/eJfL8ejUAa"
3603"""Evolution ruthlessly selects against truth strategies and for payoff strategies. An organism that sees objective reality is less fit than an organism that sees fitness payoffs. Seeing objective reality will make you extinct.""
3604
3605https://t.co/CZlYDq1CSe https://t.co/qKbxfGAiTz"
3606@clairlemon Intelligence is also rarely taught in undergrad psych courses. Had to learn about it on my own. Intelligence research seems to make people uncomfortable and emotional in a way that other topics don't.
3607"“Every person with a career you’d kill for has had countless disappointments. In fact, the more successful they are, the more rejections they’ve had.”
3608
3609This column is one of the best takes on rejection that I’ve read! https://t.co/8fSVbaCIca"
3610"Among adolescents, the prevalence of alcohol use and sexual behavior has been steadily declining...what would have been considered an average degree of risk behavior in 1999 (50th percentile) would have been considered well above average (75th percentile) in 2017" https://t.co/lK5L6DxN3U
3611@razibkhan What’s the 1st law ?
3612"More frequent emoji use w/recent date was associated with greater likelihood of a second date?, kissing?, having had sex?, having entered into a relationship???, and having current contact??. New work by @angesselman?‍?: 
3613https://t.co/Yv7uLnni65 https://t.co/uWkXvUX6QV"
3614'Luxury beliefs' are the latest status symbol for rich Americans https://t.co/gIiDj7bs4p https://t.co/hPtmt1t2Kc
3615"""In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs."" My essay in tomorrow's @nypost. Many thanks to @margiconklin 
3616
3617https://t.co/pWqr4n99eS https://t.co/gqg2jK7xqj"
3618@ImHardcory @nypost @margiconklin thanks Cory! Looking forward to reading your work, as always
3619"“Luxury beliefs” 
3620
3621Nice one. 
3622
3623https://t.co/wIVYjPz0Um"
3624I feel like “luxury beliefs” is one of those terms that may catch on and become a thing. https://t.co/0KLPtyOMty
3625"Women are more willing to let a man pay on a date if he is attractive
3626
3627Men are more willing to pay on a date if the woman is attractive
3628
3629Attractive men and women are less willing to pay for dates
3630
3631https://t.co/ZBgZdDRZd3 https://t.co/YGCGqquAgZ"
3632@nypost @margiconklin Some people who influenced my thoughts on luxury beliefs, all in different ways: @robinhanson, @vgr, @nntaleb, @EPoe187, @KevinSimler, @ThomasSowell, @charlesmurray, @jordanbpeterson, @slatestarcodex, @ProfDavidBuss, @BillvonHippel, @CassSunstein
3633"Aristotle on happiness
3634
3635-We don’t work hard in order to relax
3636
3637-We relax in order to work hard
3638
3639Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10, Chapter 6 https://t.co/qOyIQrKN4z"
3640@CaitlinPacific Thanks Caitlin! I’ve shared more here https://t.co/IM6JU0QKaR
3641@bethanyshondark @nypost @margiconklin thanks Bethany!
3642@CaitlinPacific Thank you! I just dm’d you ?
3643"""women were more attracted to men when there was a 50% chance that the men liked them than when there was a 100% chance...Uncertainty increased their attraction toward the men"" 
3644
3645https://t.co/SpP5xJlxqB https://t.co/puEOKttM6z"
3646@nprscottsimon @chicspace @nytopinion That's basically right. Married families are good for kids, too.
3647The fact that this will shake up many people, left and right, is what makes this piece worth reading. And the author has earned, through his experience, the standing for his opinions.  https://t.co/xBiFKr0Rej via @NYTOpinion
3648"Wealthy consumers low in need for status want to associate with their own kind and pay a premium for quiet goods only they can recognize. Wealthy consumers high in need for status use loud luxury goods to signal to the less affluent that they are not one of them." https://t.co/ThMmRjNwoW
3649"""Moral grandstanding is the use of public moral discourse for self-promotion and status attainment...Across studies, moral grandstanding was associated with status-seeking personality traits, as well as greater political and moral conflict in daily life.""
3650
3651https://t.co/cFB330FkfC https://t.co/gxb6VWvctP"
3652@robinhanson @nypost @margiconklin @vgr @nntaleb @EPoe187 @KevinSimler @ThomasSowell @charlesmurray @jordanbpeterson @slatestarcodex @ProfDavidBuss @BillvonHippel @CassSunstein My claim is ppl express support for belief X while engaging in behavior Y; or engage in/promote behavior X, which is less costly for oneself & more costly for others. I agree it can be a signal of hypocrisy, but don't think it's fully calculated/conscious. maybe an ? in brain
3653@robinhanson @nypost @margiconklin @vgr @nntaleb @EPoe187 @KevinSimler @ThomasSowell @charlesmurray @jordanbpeterson @slatestarcodex @ProfDavidBuss @BillvonHippel @CassSunstein I disagree they're as expensive for the rich to do or say. Having children out of wedlock, acting as if choices don't matter, or being an anti-vaxxer (another luxury belief imo) don't harm a rich person as much as a poor person
3654@robinhanson @nypost @margiconklin @vgr @nntaleb @EPoe187 @KevinSimler @ThomasSowell @charlesmurray @jordanbpeterson @slatestarcodex @ProfDavidBuss @BillvonHippel @CassSunstein The beliefs spread and are adopted by people more likely to enact the beliefs, but less able to afford them. Then the rich update their beliefs again to distinguish themselves
3655@NickWolfinger @WilcoxNMP @DouthatNYT To be clear, my claims are about affluent people's luxury beliefs, not their actual behavior
3656@robinhanson @nypost @margiconklin @vgr @nntaleb @EPoe187 @KevinSimler @ThomasSowell @charlesmurray @jordanbpeterson @slatestarcodex @ProfDavidBuss @BillvonHippel @CassSunstein Still disagree that they would suffer just as much. I think the signal is as much about demonstrating coalitional loyalty as ability to incur costs. The beliefs can be good signals within the group
3657@robinhanson @nypost @margiconklin @vgr @nntaleb @EPoe187 @KevinSimler @ThomasSowell @charlesmurray @jordanbpeterson @slatestarcodex @ProfDavidBuss @BillvonHippel @CassSunstein The belief signals seem to work well enough for the affluent to identify peers. Lack of skin in the game (h/t @nntaleb) for beliefs seems typical yet they still seem to work
3658@robinhanson @nypost @margiconklin @vgr @nntaleb @EPoe187 @KevinSimler @ThomasSowell @charlesmurray @jordanbpeterson @slatestarcodex @ProfDavidBuss @BillvonHippel @CassSunstein That's part of why I think affluent people update the signals when they no longer work as a flag (too many others have adopted the belief)
3659"Correlations between spouses
3660
3661Extraversion: r= .005
3662Neuroticism: .082
3663Height: .227
3664Weight: .154
3665Education: .5
3666Political party: .6
3667
3668""Mates tend to be positively but weakly concordant on personality and physical traits, but concordance of political attitudes is extremely high"" https://t.co/Ed7gVukumO"
3669One might say that the elites don’t preach what they practice.  https://t.co/QbziKKD4fy
3670@charlesmurray @RobHarbin8 I did link your piece from the @WSJ. But for some reason they removed all the hyperlinks later https://t.co/CxrdR0e2IR
3671"1. I graduated HS with a 2.2 GPA (class rank: 211 out of 324)
3672
36732. I taught myself how to juggle when I was 12
3674
36753. I have been bungee jumping and skydiving (bungee jumping is scarier)
3676
3677#3facts5scientists 
3678
3679@steverathje2 @EPoe187 @ZachG932 @SpeciesTypical @nachristakis https://t.co/6XVFI9trQp"
3680@EPoe187 Terrific thread. I was preparing to write something along these lines (proximate/ultimate distinction for status striving, vocabulary as a coalitionary cue, etc) but this is so much better
3681"1/ Thread: The elites, bizarre beliefs (""luxury beliefs""), and signaling. 
3682
3683I want to build from @robkhenderson's excellent article at the @nypost in this thread, providing a strong intellectual framework and relating to other luxury beliefs. https://t.co/RPmwgKrs83"
3684@BridgetPhetasy @clayroutledge @primalpoly thanks Bridget!
3685"meat contributed, on average, 60% of the calories in 10 human foraging societies, whereas 5 chimpanzee communities obtained 2% of energy from hunted foods...Collected resources (fruits, leaves, flowers, plant parts) formed the bulk of their diet: 95% vs. 8% of the forager diet" https://t.co/gBvkC9DxwJ
3686"""communication evolves into signals that are exaggerated, repetitive, and costly...the aim is to manipulate a receiver who has learned to resist being manipulated. This type of ‘arms race’ evolves systematically into exaggeration of signals.""
3687
3688?: https://t.co/mtyKO5YeeV https://t.co/TGwVHfzWkX"
3689Odd to me that this is surprising. Most kids where I grew up did not go to college. Actually more of my friends went to jail than went to college. https://t.co/Q575vl22O8
3690@Mira404 Sure, just dm'd you
3691@health_giant https://t.co/4uFHPZ0C9F
3692A recent meta-analysis of political bias research (51 studies, n>18,000) by my colleagues and I found that liberals and conservatives were both politically biased, and to very similar degrees (liberal r=.24, conservative r=.26) 4/8: https://t.co/iykgFRBvfF https://t.co/xdDsgxgo3V
3693@OMGchronicles @RichardvReeves @nypost @margiconklin Unmarried cohabiting parents still have higher rates of child maltreatment https://t.co/HxUuRnWcWe https://t.co/Qneau0BmPo
3694@LenMandy @OMGchronicles @RichardvReeves @nypost @margiconklin Still curious why marriage rates were higher during the Great Depression and the Great Recession (2008-09) than now if those are the relevant variables
3695"People on a public bus had a more positive experience when they talked to a stranger than when they sat in isolation and yet predicted precisely the opposite...ppl may choose to sit in isolation because they mistakenly think it will be more pleasant than talking to a stranger" https://t.co/LMZxEsRcqy
3696"Some were skeptical that I graduated high school with a 2.2 GPA. I usually managed to check the mailbox first to hide my bad report cards
3697
3698Got a C+ in psychology. Sign of a future PhD... https://t.co/rF01VIWTOB"
3699Friend with a similar background as me saw this thread and sent me this meme https://t.co/JzazArqQNh
3700“Physically formidable men and physically attractive women are more prone to anger, have greater success in resolving social conflicts in their favor, and experience a greater sense of entitlement.” https://t.co/6OtaNF3856
3701"""44% of college graduates ages 22 to 27 work in jobs that do not require a college degree.""
3702
3703https://t.co/1xkHxJAMVL https://t.co/KjZ2dBMjdZ"
3704"""48% of men and 45% of women indicated status/reputation concerns as the reason for their last act of direct aggression...status-related competition appeared to be an important motive for aggression”
3705
3706https://t.co/HsIi1qx7AC https://t.co/TbOnGv8Aeb"
3707@imwren @EPoe187 And speaking with strangers is more pleasant than most people think https://t.co/p3qp43R9eV
3708"extraverts believed they would have a more pleasant experience interacting with another person in an extraverted fashion than introverts...In fact, both introverts and extraverts reported a more positive experience acting extraverted than acting introverted" https://t.co/RIr1rzGuiO
3709"""Multiple studies show that men who are romantically involved (i.e., are paired) have lower testosterone than single men...Men in relationships but who nonetheless are interested in new sexual encounters maintain high testosterone despite being paired""
3710
3711https://t.co/NXpuqaalK3 https://t.co/Y8wNe2Aq6u"
3712"In the absence of legitimate calamities, we create artificial ones...We evolved to experience hardships together. The prehistoric stressors that united early humans no longer exist. Now we create artificial ones." https://t.co/0ARuY9H8aK https://t.co/p3GLzxVmwS
3713"""How many friends do you have?""
3714
3715Baby boomers: 9% say zero 
3716
3717Millenials: 22%
3718
3719""Millennials are more likely than older generations to report that they have no acquaintances (25%), no close friends (27%), and no best friends (30%)"" 
3720
3721https://t.co/a52lhTu9GR https://t.co/fov3GjrTrj"
3722@jordanbpeterson Streisand effect https://t.co/RqS0KFItS1
3723This is what developmental psychologists call overimitation ? https://t.co/t9AO4gppmr
3724@EPoe187 Put in 10,001 hours and you'll be ahead. Until everyone else also puts in an extra hour...Keep running just to stay in the same place ☹️
3725"""Bouchard’s team overfed each person by 1,000 calories per day above his caloric needs, for 100 days...If overeating affects everyone the same, then they should all have gained the same amount of weight. Yet weight gain ranged from 9 to 29 pounds!"" 
3726
3727https://t.co/8YvM0KUgHn https://t.co/KHG9eQYQbb"
3728"""people report high authenticity when they do what is socially valued, rather than being true to what one is actually like inside...the guiding “true self” is not what one’s inner traits embrace but what the external world values""
3729
3730https://t.co/kRPpWMj2xS https://t.co/CAg5U5urSa"
3731"“Asians have had a higher median household income than whites since the mid-1980s. Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that white men earned 80 percent of what Asian men earned in 2017”
3732
3733My latest with @vincentharinam in @Quillette 
3734
3735https://t.co/LKuOCF9h9E https://t.co/Xc5bH2bCiM"
3736"""vegetarians and pescatarians reported consuming meat occasionally or even regularly...Our study demonstrates that there can be large discrepancies between consumers’ self-perception and their actual meat consumption""
3737
3738https://t.co/kK8jJ2lRY7 https://t.co/MOliPXOURP"
3739Daring piece. @robkhenderson and Harinam doubt the empirical reality of “white privilege” in the context of present-day America, citing education/income/crime stats. "White privilege" fails to capture the socio-ethnic complexity of the contemporary U.S. https://t.co/eEW4tECKnO
3740'Luxury beliefs' are the latest status symbol for rich Americans https://t.co/W5BKSR6rEe via @nypost
3741Military service, a divided country, and folk psychology—we chat with @robkhenderson  https://t.co/WDbTh0X79i
3742"""when women thought a man was single, 59% found him attractive, but when they thought he was in a committed relationship, 90% found him attractive...single women were more interested in poaching an attached man rather than pursuing a single man.""
3743
3744https://t.co/Ed4RG7zslV https://t.co/L6m1TLPgxE"
3745“when times are good, fair-weather friends and true friends act alike. Modern living creates a paradox. We live in an environment safer than that inhabited by our ancestors. We suffer from a relative scarcity of events that allow us to distinguish true from fair-weather friends.” https://t.co/JqyxQsPOow
3746@hyr00 https://t.co/vulFCSie7Y
3747“Roughly 30 percent of men on the Tinder app, which is widely regarded as a short-term mating app, are married.” https://t.co/o2My0F2iTT
3748"“the second best predictor of the feelings of a day is whether a person had contact with friends or relatives...It is only a slight exaggeration to say happiness is the experience of spending time with people who you love and who love you.” 
3749
3750Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow ? https://t.co/vB54wiFFyb"
3751"Asian Americans are 40% more likely to hold an undergraduate degree, nearly twice as likely to hold a master’s degree, and more than twice as likely to have a doctorate, compared to whites." https://t.co/JrWg91cZpb
3752"“Society consists of several types of people”
3753
375425% are self-interested free riders (“knaves”)
3755
375625% are unconditional cooperators (“saints”) 
3757
375850% conditional cooperators; prefer to cooperate but will punish free riders and withdraw cooperation if taken advantage of (“moralists”) https://t.co/dieuOxESpC"
3759@KevinMWestbrook https://t.co/JPP5VAuGQv
3760@JoHenrich Interesting, please share them!
3761"""women are more likely to invest time and effort into posting sexy selfies online in places where economic inequality is rising...Rightly or wrongly, in today’s environment, looking sexy can generate large returns, economically, socially, and personally""
3762
3763https://t.co/SXptwRaJNt https://t.co/ygoC8X6r8u"
3764The propensity to be repulsed by individuals and groups with opposing worldviews is equally prevalent on both sides of the political spectrum. https://t.co/FvQ1H9qnZy https://t.co/Kb0tdoJ1rs
3765@nntaleb Just experienced this. 6 hour flight: 2 meals, ice cream, snacks offered. Also seems to exacerbate jet lag https://t.co/Z6lPvBTf4C
3766"This article is 100% accurate. Who knew the most insightful social analysis article of 2019 would appear in the NYPost?
3767
3768What a great concept: luxury beliefs. https://t.co/VUwrlBDs4k"
3769“people will use gossip to rat out selfish, exploitative individuals in experimental game situations even when they have to spend money to do so. In other words, prosocial gossip is so rewarding that people will even incur a cost for the opportunity to engage in it.” https://t.co/vac3ObZVt0
3770"""Every year, more women than men become college-educated...most women are unwilling to settle for a man less educated than they are...when there are not enough men, women intensify sexual competition. The rise of hookup culture & Tinder is no coincidence""
3771
3772https://t.co/w8zftBpJdM https://t.co/9IXNo6ixLT"
3773@wstorr The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation https://t.co/NJczev6ebL
3774@wstorr Haha? some academic press books are extortionate. I'll DM you
3775"there are 5.5 million college-educated women between the ages of 22 and 29, versus only 4.1 million college-educated men in the same age bracket. In other words, the dating pool for college graduates has 33% more women than men—or 4 women for every 3 men." https://t.co/QOs1iUiYQv
3776@blue_labour2 https://t.co/YsLGMnA5P4
3777@MairGr That aspect is also interesting https://t.co/3ueXwksq2E
3778"Why make anonymous donations? Buried signals
3779
3780-People eventually find out. Anonymity adds to perception of the donor's goodness
3781
3782-Only certain people find out. These are the ppl that matter to the donor
3783
3784Cool paper @Moshe_Hoffman @chilbe3 @DrMANowak
3785
3786https://t.co/6uw8oz8uBz https://t.co/rjVPq8yeJo"
3787"Analysis of 1700 instagram (female) selfies:
3788
3789More exaggerated female gender displays (e.g., vulnerable postures, body displays, and especially, self-touch and caressing objects [called feminine touch]) = More likes and more followers: 
3790
3791https://t.co/aBP2yqZd3e https://t.co/xHxuMg5Q2I"
3792"among the ancestor's of today's human population, women outnumbered men by about two to one...humanity's ancestors were about 67% female and 33% male" https://t.co/joR4pvgksB
3793"""About 57% of college graduates are women. This means that 25% of female college graduates will not be able to marry a man who is also a college graduate, at least one who has not previously been divorced.""
3794
3795https://t.co/KEiX7glp4c https://t.co/u7I7BrA76Y"
3796@clayroutledge https://t.co/V5VJo8jpVD
3797"""no society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some will inherit wealth they did not earn.""
3798
3799?:https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7 https://t.co/3Yu5ewDAnh"
3800"When males are widely available, females are more likely to seek out the largest, strongest potential mates...On the other hand, when males are the scarcer sex, females not only become less choosy about males but are also forced to compete with each other for access to them." https://t.co/sV8GYFn6Tk
3801@wesyang Perhaps suggestive https://t.co/AyEx1tqOQW
3802@jonbirger1 Sure. Fascinating book
3803@ericchendriks Haha what did l just read... this seems imprecise (as an American I have no knowledge of the metric system) https://t.co/41ffTrepv9
3804Hugely important for marriage trends ?? https://t.co/d4AgZUYFye
3805"“The rated strength of a male body accounts for 70% of the variance in attractiveness. None of the women produced a preference for weaker men...in both samples, the strongest men were the most attractive, the weakest men were the least attractive.”
3806
3807https://t.co/3bHn4HehOT https://t.co/FF0hZLco54 https://t.co/2CgebXggMl"
3808"""Netflix now routinely ends shows after their 2nd season, even when they’re still popular. Netflix learned that the first 2 seasons of a show are key to bringing in subscribers—but the 3rd and later seasons don’t do much to retain or win new subscribers.""
3809
3810https://t.co/hJcTkzY4ST https://t.co/g4Why3RrJW"
3811"Today with @ABDanielleSmith:
38129:30: @MaximeBernier - anti-immigration billboards
381310am: @soupcoff - suing big pharma over opioids
381410:30: @JohnCrosser - finlit for youth
381511am: @JackieForrest - delaying Enbridge's mainline
381611:30: @robkhenderson - 'luxury beliefs'"
3817This is a complex and very real problem. https://t.co/kfwVP7H54o
3818"@EPoe187 @NathanHarden @CHSommers Anecdotally guys I know in college, and recent grads in major cities where women outnumber men, do not seem so happy. Maybe choice overload
3819
3820https://t.co/edTJ1e60zD https://t.co/hEKlOcwQGn"
3821"""every political & religious movement has sought to undermine the family. Not only is the family a rival coalition competing for a person's loyalty, but it is a rival with an unfair advantage: relatives innately care for one another more than comrades do”
3822
3823https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7 https://t.co/k4f7brD49H"
3824What happened to @NoahCarl90 demonstrates the power & weight of disinformation wielded by supposed truth-seekers in journalism & academe. They successfully mounted campaign to get this scholar fired from St Edmund’s College. Now he’s crowdfunding to sue: https://t.co/61CO5kWQSU
3825"""following interactions, people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company...Conversation appears to be a domain in which people display uncharacteristic pessimism about their performance.""
3826
3827https://t.co/ppzQRWLII7 https://t.co/u0PVTyFe14"
3828"“Women with large salaries, postgrad degrees, prestigious professions, and high self-esteem place greater value on wealth and status in a husband than other women do...Poor men place no higher value on wealth or earning power in a wife than other men do”
3829
3830https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7 https://t.co/anQuw43QFk"
3831"“compared to the general public, cognitively sophisticated (well-educated) voters are much more likely to form their positions on issues based on partisan cues of what they are ""supposed”to think in virtue of their identity as Democrats, Republicans, etc”
3832
3833https://t.co/peZGKGb6xG https://t.co/PwpqeIWgNV"
3834@shredidiah Thanks Jedidiah ?
3835Terrific book, one of my favorites of the year. My review: https://t.co/dKimjk20hi https://t.co/zTSq9OW0xU
3836"Fascinating research explains why we find online discussions far more hostile than in-person discussions.
3837
3838The issue is the public nature of online discussions, where strangers pile on.
3839
3840Online hostility is not an 'accident' but a deliberate strategy pursued by hostile people. https://t.co/GGww5ocqH1"
3841important and underappreciated finding https://t.co/WKHNvL5Jty
3842@Scientific_Bird References lead here https://t.co/dlz9bJKxZd
3843"""Looking at 126,000 tweets of news stories over the previous 11 years, fake news stories were 70% more likely to be retweeted than true stories.""
3844
3845https://t.co/pOZnU33hV8 via ⁦@WSJ⁩ https://t.co/14YMuWtBnn"
3846@ImHardcory Seeing the Clooney-Nespresso ads I actually had the opposite response: Clooney paired with Nespresso made me think less of Clooney
3847"Sex ratios
3848
3849When women outnumber men: more political rights and greater economic parity, more sex outside of marriage, more out-of-wedlock births, less commitment, more divorce 
3850
3851When men outnumber women: more romance, courtship, commitment, marriage
3852
3853?: https://t.co/1Xf25bo7Ud https://t.co/Il5kHduwr4"
3854@MikeBilow And the culture of the military as well. Lots of variables at play. Just thinking gender ratio could be one of them
3855Of course.  Fake news can be optimized for being retweeted.  And if this study turns out to be poorly done, I'm retweeting it anyways, because this is a special case where retweeting a poorly done study would present valid evidence favoring its conclusion. https://t.co/vOtqQQelSG
3856"""In China, with 122 men for every 100 women, women have more economic bargaining power when it comes to marriage...""I would rather cry in a BMW than smile on the back of my boyfriend's bicycle"", the story quoted one Chinese bachelorette.""
3857
3858?https://t.co/26AAlJlrjR https://t.co/nV8UscLvST"
3859@ImHardcory Whether ppl use "partner" or "bf/gf" seems like a fairly reliable political indicator...similar to whether they say "Eye-rack" (con) or "Ee-Rock" (lib)
3860@ImHardcory Interesting, maybe "partner" is more commonly used in universities ?
3861"What women say is important for their own self-perceived mate value, in order of importance:
3862
38631. Appearance
38642. Passion
38653. Dominance
3866
3867What predicts men's satisfaction w/ their partner, in order of importance:
3868
38691. Passion
38702. Warmth
38713. Appearance
38724. Stability
38735. Intellect https://t.co/EaMd8N2WdG"
3874"“according to numerous measures, those with tattoos, especially visible ones, are more short-sighted and impulsive than the non-tattooed...Even the expressed intention to get a(nother) tattoo predicts increased short-sightedness”
3875
3876https://t.co/BEBw37JwAE https://t.co/ko3T6kua2A"
3877"@RealYeyoZa ""Moderates are more likely to move toward the extremes than partisans are to move toward the middle. Given their flexibility, moderates tend to adopt the preferences of the intransigent minority.""
3878
3879https://t.co/3Gs154JYes https://t.co/mYMVihLBxM"
3880@StefanFSchubert @clairlemon @RealYeyoZa Depends on partisans' commitment and willingness to proselytize. Also what is considered moderate or partisan changes as more moderates adopt the preferences of the partisans
3881@StefanFSchubert @clairlemon @RealYeyoZa That's true. Partisans need certain number of committed individuals unwilling to yield (study cited there says 10% minimum; others suggest 25%). Idea of a broadly tolerant democracy also started as an extreme idea held by only a few...
3882@StefanFSchubert @clairlemon @RealYeyoZa Even in a tolerant democracy a group of committed ideologues can change attitudes, which is our concern in the essay. We open with Margaret Mead's quote that a small group can change the world, which we claim is true regardless of time and place
3883"On such hot-button issues as abortion, affirmative action and immigration, most Americans are ready to accept a compromise. But few say so, for fear of reactions from activists. That's the root cause of American polarization, not Congress. Recommended:  
3884https://t.co/syBy21Oevx"
3885@wesyang Both can be true
3886Severe depression, suicidal thoughts, self-harm in college students more than doubles in less than a decade https://t.co/6H2sk9tAww https://t.co/CuMN6IxR4X
3887Contrary to previous thoughts, autistic individuals are as prone to social desirability and self-enhancement as other people, indicating that they care about their reputation like everybody else. https://t.co/0GCvfe03Xz https://t.co/BWWi0Rxp6e
3888"When I wrote my college admissions essay back in 2015, I was unaware that these services even existed. Feels like a lifetime ago 
3889
3890(you can read it here, 2nd essay down: https://t.co/8pkdcBL3h1) https://t.co/R5d1i3I6X9"
3891"@RealYeyoZa ""Moderates are more likely to move toward the extremes than partisans are to move toward the middle. Given their flexibility, moderates tend to adopt the preferences of the intransigent minority.""
3892
3893https://t.co/3Gs154JYes https://t.co/mYMVihLBxM"
3894"% who say it is “inappropriate” to do the following activities alone with a person of opposite sex who is not your spouse
3895
3896Have drinks 
3897Women: 60%
3898Men: 48%
3899
3900Have dinner 
3901W: 53%
3902M: 45%
3903
3904Have lunch
3905W: 44%
3906M: 36%
3907
3908Drive in a car
3909W: 38%
3910M: 29%
3911
3912Have a work meeting
3913W: 25%
3914M: 22% https://t.co/prkrPlirna"
3915Source https://t.co/KSa0nSS6L3 https://t.co/Zfcaj4ptsa
3916"'In prison, guys have nothing to do other than be hypercompetitive about building the biggest muscles. In tech, with no women around, guys get hypercompetitive about building the biggest bank accounts'...there are 91,000 millionaires in San Jose, 10% of the city's population" https://t.co/1SaGHGuzO8
3917?https://t.co/7eoX7teMIl
3918"""people have a surprisingly grim outlook on their social lives...they believe that others attend more parties, dine out more, have more friends, spend more time with family, occupy wider social networks, and possess larger social circles than themselves""
3919
3920https://t.co/jSaDF7sQ1Z https://t.co/sPKjPk4u6l"
3921"""Compared to children living with married biological parents, those whose single parent had a live-in partner had over 10 times the rate of abuse""
3922
3923https://t.co/HxUuRodOkO https://t.co/8JPHErvO8A"
3924"Are you or do you know a veteran interested in pursuing higher education? Our application for 2020 warrior-scholars is open now! https://t.co/fJuLEuYbwn 
3925#WSPImpact #veterans #veteran #veteransupport  #veteraneducation #usveterans #highereducation #STEM #business #womeninSTEM"
3926"In earlier times, food, water, warmth were matters of uncertainty. Satisfying these needs provided a pulse of dopamine. Since brain-centered regulation depends on dopamine pulses, we feel uncomfortable without them and seek new sources" (sweeter/greasier food, drugs, alcohol) https://t.co/4WsXcj6gc8
3927source https://t.co/7kU1OYZlvg
3928@t1g3rb100d Tony the elder https://t.co/RJd9rlExpc
3929Great piece by @robkhenderson. I think Tom Wolfe first explored these ideas in Radical Chic. In the 1970's Wolfe predicted much of the world we live in today. https://t.co/pAke2OMtKx
3930"""women who attend college on campuses where women are more numerous tend to view men as less interested in commitment and less trustworthy. They are less likely to expect much from men""
3931
3932https://t.co/e5yp25bQJh https://t.co/qdIgbW8FDe"
3933"""humans love to show off our moral virtues, religious convictions, political attitudes & lifestyle choices to others...Our descendants will continue to virtue signal in Mars colonies & spaceships heading for other star systems""
3934
3935@primalpoly in @Quillette 
3936
3937https://t.co/YT64WzCLih https://t.co/wABaeleljP"
3938"""63% say they have a duty to vote, only 39% say they have a duty to be informed.... people believe that they have a moral obligation to vote yet feel that this does not entail the duty to keep informed in order to cast a “correct” vote""
3939
3940https://t.co/0VkPWvTbvE https://t.co/aGHCEIMDx9"
3941It seems worth trying to change this norm. Instead of a norm of "good people vote, even if they don't know much", it should be "good people get informed and vote, or 2nd best they abstain; bad people vote when uninformed". https://t.co/TYjufjK9Vn
3942"People feel a moral obligation to vote, but not to stay informed.
3943
3944This sounds like a typical meeting. https://t.co/gSQXeEKf3K"
3945"Belief in free will seems to be associated with retributive attitudes and credulity. However, the evidence also suggests it is positively correlated with subjective well-being, tangible success in life, along with pro-social and compassionate behaviour" https://t.co/nrRLymVuI7
3946"Debunking “myths about the mind” including: 
3947
3948- birth order effects on personality
3949- multiple intelligences
3950- learning styles
3951- long-term (strong) stability of attachment styles
3952- “genes for” depression
3953- and, yes, sex-differences are real
3954
3955Great to see it https://t.co/sGXVDCGLNK"
3956"""Young (college-educated) millennials are in a dating pool with 134 women for every 100 men. By the time two-thirds of the men are married, the dating pool for the remaining singles will become 67 women for every 33 men—or two women for every one man.""
3957
3958?https://t.co/fh3nY5pl7X https://t.co/5lChRXT3Fw"
3959"""I left an environment of crude humor and brutal honesty and entered one of political correctness and nuanced semantics. I am no longer surrounded by my brothers, men who would undoubtedly die for me, and I for them""
3960
3961Great piece by my friend Andrew Nguyen https://t.co/IjIa4jsQR5"
3962"Luxury beliefs" is a great term for the ideas of the sexual revolution peddled by elites that are devastating to the middle- and working classes. https://t.co/c0JiVRb8t4
3963"Privileged elites decry social infrastructure that helps everybody else be happy and prosper. 
3964
3965In the spirit of “open-mindedness” they keep everybody down! 
3966
3967New word to explain this phenomenon! #luxurybeliefs 
3968
3969By veteran @robkhenderson https://t.co/QIhEv5Dg7n"
3970"“only 22 percent of U.S. adults are on Twitter, and 80 percent of the tweets come from 10 percent of users. If you rely on Twitter for political information, you are being informed by pundits (and bots) residing within 2.2 percent of the population”
3971
3972https://t.co/jWijrTklTf https://t.co/uS8xM5V5GN"
3973"“When experts talk to experts, they always err on the side of under-explaining: to overexplain is a serious insult—“Do I have to spell it out for you?”—But this has an unfortunate byproduct: experts often talk past each other.” 
3974
3975?Intuition Pumps by @danieldennett https://t.co/4JIbbkW0p1"
3976"""Convicted criminal offenders had more children than individuals never convicted of a criminal offense...Importantly, the reproductive success of criminals was explained by a fertility increase from having children with several different partners.""
3977
3978https://t.co/yecuccigu2 https://t.co/ngeMSM5iTx"
3979"evidence suggests people attend to the subtlest indicators of status...vice presidents in one company all started with identical offices that included a one-pen desk set. One vice president moved to a 2-pen set, and within 4 days all worked their way up to 3-pen sets."??? https://t.co/VIonnVDdtD
3980Source ? https://t.co/JTuVUjkYpG
3981"Women's size preferences for muscles on a man's body:
3982
39831. Obliques
39842. Glutes
39853. Abs
39864. Biceps
39875. Shoulders
39886. Triceps
39897.  Calves
39908. Delts
39919. Quads
399210. Pecs
3993
3994""women prefer muscles that are hard to build to be larger than muscles that are easy to build.""
3995
3996https://t.co/ryvIWNPGMg https://t.co/5nXlawdaR5"
3997“We have found no evidence to contradict the principle that men will do whatever is required to obtain sex, and perhaps not a great deal more. If men must become pillars of the community, or lie, or amass riches, or be romantic or funny, then many men will do precisely that.” https://t.co/lEqvR6FwYW
3998Source https://t.co/Sp1tw2WZS6
3999"In a quest to impress peers, moral grandstanders may trump up moral charges, or engage in moral one-upmanship, making increasingly strong claims to “outdo” other discussants as they try to show that they are more morally sensitive, or care more about justice." https://t.co/6fFeFqUGy4
4000"Lately, I've been revisiting ""Why Evolution Is True"" by Jerry Coyne. This book is an underrated gem.
4001
4002The most memorable part was this explanation of adaptation being constrained by evolutionary history; a good reminder that ""adaptive"" doesn't necessarily mean ""ideal."" https://t.co/rMTwJ4RBA7"
4003I expanded this into a brief essay on luxury beliefs for the @nypost sunday edition here: https://t.co/pWqr4mRynk https://t.co/qmZuGXW6tp
4004@reiver All foster kids
4005@Ibisdelux @SteveStuWill Highly recommend
4006"""Men were much more attracted to their female friends than vice versa, and more likely to think their female friends were attracted to them...women were generally not attracted to their male friends and assumed this lack of attraction was mutual"" 
4007
4008https://t.co/HqkJDQID2o https://t.co/I7Ge93W07r"
4009"Smart people don’t like talking about IQ for the same reason rich people don’t like talking about money 
4010
4011And they downplay the advantages for the same reason 
4012
4013Excerpts from @sapinker and @primalpoly https://t.co/qwftc6Pcsz"
4014Guys. https://t.co/lOKtMHZfcL
4015"""Economic threat led low mate-value men to be more prosocial, cooperative, and favor more redistributionist policies...but economic threat led high mate-value men to be more individualistic, less prosocial, and less favorable toward redistribution""
4016
4017https://t.co/sRwCXklAlU https://t.co/MmxkRDpTVw"
4018"“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered”
4019
4020Stephen King, On Writing https://t.co/xunF22GVnO"
4021"“When people hurt or kill someone, they usually do so because they feel that it is morally right or even obligatory to be violent...Most violence is motivated by moral emotions.”
4022
4023https://t.co/ceSUbz85qC https://t.co/ftjTkRL6QS"
4024source ? https://t.co/ceSUbz85qC
4025"Based on @EPoe187 ‘s wonderful thread this morning, I want to share some thoughts on “Luxury Beliefs.”
4026
4027Having been raised by status-obsessed parents, I feel like elite status in America is expressed in 2 ways:
4028
40291. Perfect self-control.
40302. Effortlessness.
4031
4032https://t.co/N5hWqmlD5Y"
4033@JenandZen Great thread. Upper class anxieties about food and fitness are fascinating to observe
4034"When kids first begin school, oldest kids are 20% older than the youngest 
4035
4036""the youngest students score substantially lower than the oldest students...the youngest members of each cohort are even less likely to attend university”
4037
4038https://t.co/g0UFdTRTDS https://t.co/L2hEEZnSd2"
4039“Despite being bombarded with demands...parents never hear a 6-year-old say “Can I bum a smoke, mom?” or “Will you make me an espresso?” Children’s preferences steer them toward carbs, salts, and lipids (fats) but away from pathogens and plant toxins (nicotine and caffeine)” https://t.co/E3AyPPGupv
4040source ? https://t.co/ELHVgNDhek
4041@neuroticwife @DrGaborMate I started young as well. Still, this book suggests young children are more wary of toxic substances than older children. None of my foster sibs were smoking at age 6. https://t.co/ucxDhKstd5
4042"If people are ultimately selfish, why do they lose sleep over the idea that people are ultimately selfish? 
4043
4044@SteveStuWill on the selfish gene theory
4045
4046?: https://t.co/RNhAxsrOBG https://t.co/t5eppPol8Q"
4047The rise in depression also continued for young adults (ages 18 to 25), from 8.3% in 2011 to 13.8% in 2018. Thus, 66% more young adults in 2018 (vs. 2011) had clinical-level depression. But little change for those 26+. Per NS-DUH: https://t.co/CWRz6InGZd
4048"Google searches that positively covary with US state-level IQ:
4049
4050""cooking corn on the cob""
4051""going off the pill""
4052""calories in pumpkin""
4053""owning a dog""
4054""free snacks""
4055
4056Searches that negatively covary:
4057
4058""real fight""
4059""heal a broken heart""
4060""how to file a claim""
4061""join the air force"" https://t.co/oFoMgT4kPv"
4062Source https://t.co/Yr3EHu2nHK
4063'Luxury beliefs' have become the latest status symbol for rich Americans https://t.co/G4aTtYlsPA https://t.co/LnLiqX9n7Q
4064"From the archives: ""Political Moderates Are Lying"" by Vincent Harinam & Rob Henderson.
4065
4066https://t.co/aww9sYXxAH"
4067Interesting that religiously unaffiliated people who believe in “nothing in particular” are the most likely group to hold “new age” beliefs — believing in things like like astrology, reincarnation, or psychics. https://t.co/hpXFUnHy4E
4068@neuroticwife @DrGaborMate will do ? And thanks
4069@ImHardcory Reminds me of this passage from @WiringTheBrain’s book Innate https://t.co/hR3OHfnbXw
4070"“Maleness is by far the biggest risk factor for violence...men kill men massively more often than women kill women— on average, 26 times more often.” 
4071
4072https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7 https://t.co/sFY7Qz0tMy"
4073"""It turns out that 20 percent of men account for about 70 percent of all self-reported sexual partnerships with women in the United States (20 percent of men report 70 percent of the female partners).""
4074
4075https://t.co/lBK5PIilef https://t.co/mEoROMpa0B"
4076"Can't wait, this will be such a great session! I'll be presenting work with @robkhenderson on social threat and moral judgment. 
4077
4078@SPSPnews @Gates_Cambridge @CambPsych #SPSP2020 https://t.co/2aHo4Jrkjj"
4079@AmaliaHalikias It is a mindblowing finding that few seem interested in
4080"""If there is such a thing as a universal criterion for “the good life,” then it must be the sense of social proximity...of being acknowledged and recognized, of being included and intimate with others, no matter what. It is being safe, the ultimate prize""
4081
4082https://t.co/krFqKrS5d9 https://t.co/VRWkz0AeX5"
4083"American government regulations allow food labels to understate calories by up to 20% (to ensure consumers are not short-changed in terms of how much nutrition they receive). The information on some processed frozen foods misstates their calorific content by as much as 70%." https://t.co/ZAxPHDlz9f
4084"East, West, Man, or Woman, kindness and attractiveness are mate essentials. Women also want a mate w/good financial prospects. Westerners also want a sense of humor. Other mate traits are luxuries. New work by @SteveStuWill and friends:
4085
4086https://t.co/BeWME7uc6w https://t.co/dPbM5RBh9C"
4087"“Field studies indicate that harmless gossiping with one’s colleagues builds friendship, group cohesiveness, and morale, and all of this leads to greater job satisfaction...gossip between 2 individuals increases the bonds of friendship between them”
4088
4089?:https://t.co/NJczev6ebL https://t.co/jIXqoBbiER"
4090I discussed luxury beliefs with @glennbeck (starts around 27:30) https://t.co/2tLSzXWrdq @theblaze
4091"“Modern people have trouble believing that preliterate tribes go to war over women...Across the world, the best-fed foraging people’s are the most warlike...‘Even though we like meat, we like women a whole lot more.‘“
4092
4093https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7 https://t.co/kY0JfQFsjc"
4094"“Hard times show you who your real friends are...ironically, the comfortable environment that makes us physically more secure may make us emotionally less secure, because it minimizes the crises that tell us who our real friends are.”
4095
4096https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7 https://t.co/QNPlAoDo70"
4097"“men who were able to do 40 push-ups or more had a 96 percent reduced risk of heart disease compared with men who could do less than 10 push-ups...the average male in college is capable of between 18 to 26 push-ups”
4098
4099https://t.co/QEH3GZ39AZ https://t.co/KWLlBfyzke"
4100@Scientific_Bird @RealYeyoZa https://t.co/V69Hw1ZCCU
4101"England during WWI:
4102
4103“people did not like to see lads of army age walking about in civilian clothing. Women would come up to you and give you a white feather, or stick it in the lapel of your coat. A white feather is a sign of cowardice...It got so bad it wasn’t safe to go out” https://t.co/GbbisExVnG"
4104source ? https://t.co/JPP5VAuGQv
4105@NormanSiebrasse Interesting. I'll have to check that out
4106"“We are inclined to label callously planned violence such as the Holocaust as “inhuman.” But...it is not inhuman at all. It is deeply human. No other mammal has such a deliberate approach to mass killing of its own species.” 
4107
4108https://t.co/ceSUbz85qC https://t.co/WJW76nLOWZ"
4109"The Young Male Syndrome
4110
4111""Homicide is overwhelmingly a male affair...Victim and offender populations are almost identical, with unemployed, unmarried, young men greatly overrepresented...many, perhaps most, homicides concern status competition""
4112
4113https://t.co/jWdn2NLDdA https://t.co/9IGTMGCQ6L"
4114@traceyfutures https://t.co/sPMRM61zcx
4115"Average American man today: 195.5 lbs (88.7kg)
4116
4117Men in 1960: 166 lbs (75.4kg)
4118
4119Average American woman today: 166 lbs (75.4kg)
4120
4121Women in 1960: 140 lbs (64kg)
4122
4123https://t.co/7yNe6M0WNV"
4124"On average, vegetarians and pescatarians reported consuming meat occasionally or even regularly...there can be large discrepancies between self-perception and actual meat consumption...the meat consumption of vegetarian males was considerably higher than that of females" https://t.co/sKZzrnIXQt
4125Source https://t.co/kK8jJ2lRY7
4126Male vegetarians report eating slightly more than 3 servings of meat per week https://t.co/gMbFYUtqHw
4127"""female fruit flies rejected a male they observed being rejected by a female and female sailfin mollies (fish) reject males that were observed with a female attempting to escape from them; a similar phenomenon of rejection has been observed in humans""
4128
4129https://t.co/vIa5MRts5o https://t.co/pxcXbD5b73"
4130"""a tendency to favor organic foods can be viewed as a costly signaling trait, leading to flaunting about one's prosocial tendencies...happiness is experienced when one has the opportunity to attain status and to climb up in the peer group hierarchy""
4131
4132https://t.co/3BCWP8Z1wU https://t.co/l1TAYGrRfa"
4133“early Roman aristocracy was more likely to be killed in wars than the average citizen...wealthy classes were the first to volunteer extra taxes when needed...officers and centurions (but not common soldiers!) served without pay...the greatest burden was placed on the wealthy” https://t.co/go1DtI7l0P
4134https://t.co/JPP5VAuGQv
4135"“the study of happiness often sounds like a sermon for traditional values. The numbers show it is not the rich, privileged, robust, or good-looking who are happy; it is those who have spouses, friends, religion, and challenging, meaningful work”
4136
4137https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7 https://t.co/SPG6mg7HyI"
4138Grad school application season is upon us and I’m getting lots of inquiries. The process in the UK differs a bit from the US and other countries, so the same questions keep coming up. Here are some answers to 10 FAQs about applying to @CambPsych for graduate study. [Thread]
4139"""In most extant human societies, successful men routinely convert high status and power into monopolization of multiple women. It follows that males at the other end of the scale are likelier than females to suffer complete reproductive failure""
4140
4141https://t.co/PSFzzdil5y https://t.co/dB9SqqT5f7"
4142"“Despite never owning a toothbrush or floss, hunter-gatherers rarely got cavities or gum disease. In contrast, the teeth of early farmers were typically half-rotten, and by medieval times they were utterly foul”
4143
4144https://t.co/qkRjNLYpH2 https://t.co/mdbZdCeRad"
4145"""in general, university education increased negative attitudes about children and decreased positive attitudes, while religiosity increased positive attitudes about children and decreased negative ones”
4146
4147https://t.co/uqlLzHJfKZ https://t.co/nxXaRET9zh"
4148"Men rated as less attractive earned 9% less in hourly earnings than those with average looks; those who were rated as handsome earned 5% more than those considered to be average. For women, the penalty for being unattractive was 5%, and the advantage of being attractive was 4%." https://t.co/ZsIZG6shAj
4149"@davidzweig Interesting. The reference in the book: 
4150
4151https://t.co/sMkg4GC1ec https://t.co/7cHn41Ggfi"
4152Lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents showed no differences in dividing child rearing tasks, and their children were equally well adjusted. https://t.co/T37PtCQo5I https://t.co/s5pwuR4RWt
4153"But what is class now? It’s not land, or heredity, or even wealth per se (as our president shows and knows.) Above all, class is fashion- fashion in consumption, fashion in display, fashion in belief. It is self as visible embodiment of Right Knowing.
4154
4155https://t.co/s7txMTryT0"
4156"@bryan_caplan ""only three or four in every hundred PhD students in the United Kingdom will land a permanent staff position at a university. It’s only a little better in the United States""
4157
4158https://t.co/9dtoUDTnky https://t.co/qHghz6je4Q"
4159"""people report high authenticity when they do what is socially valued, rather than being true to what one is actually like inside...the guiding “true self” is not what one’s inner traits embrace but what the external world values""
4160
4161https://t.co/kRPpWMj2xS https://t.co/CAg5U5urSa"
4162"""The average college graduate now has considerably lower verbal ability than the average college graduate 40 years ago. For employers, this means that a college degree does not have the same meaning as it once did for verbal ability""
4163
4164https://t.co/IQMXORZduX https://t.co/Nc2t0g91Ru"
4165"Do men or women make better leaders?
4166
4167Most people say they are equal.
4168
4169But white liberal men are more likely to say women, and white conservative men are more likely to say men.
4170
4171White conservative women are pretty balanced, and white liberal women drastically favor women. https://t.co/qKZqZZdv3i"
4172"More gender equal countries: Larger differences between men and women; fewer women in STEM
4173
4174Less gender equal: Smaller differences; more women in STEM
4175
4176""Treating men and women the same makes them different, and treating them differently makes them the same"" -@SteveStuWill https://t.co/LccQBzoU0y"
4177@SteveStuWill https://t.co/muVu9nUdMW
4178Male vegetarians report eating slightly more than 3 servings of meat per week https://t.co/gMbFYUtqHw
4179"""Of the several hundred students tested, almost none demonstrated a semblance of acceptable methodological reasoning about everyday-life events...college students are bad at reasoning about everyday events despite years of coursework in science and math"" 
4180
4181https://t.co/VJBHUltqeQ https://t.co/aM5f5rhIjR"
4182"""Women are more likely to finish whatever education they start. Their overall high school graduation rate is 8% higher than men’s. Their 4-year BA graduation rate is 33% higher than men's. Women out-finish men even when their prior academic records match""
4183
4184https://t.co/VJBHUltqeQ https://t.co/twe6WKjo0n"
4185@ImHardcory Seems to align with the findings that men are perceived as lower in ability but higher in agency   https://t.co/gdYXKiF3t4
4186"people believe men are not interested in HEED (Healthcare, Early Education, and Domestic) occupations because women are in the majority, rather than because they assume these careers pay less...people assume that men will be less interested in any career that is majority female" https://t.co/XiYVzG8gAV
4187@ImHardcory Interesting, look forward to learning more ?
4188"Untrue in my case— women outnumber men 3 to 1 in psychology— and I love psychology ?
4189
4190https://t.co/AgbrdayLjE
4191
4192https://t.co/DzweeqIhJo https://t.co/32QLEiUTaG"
4193@ajmackiel Women mostly dominate, though not as high as 3 to 1 in some research fields https://t.co/IZRjWwZgX8 https://t.co/uEG9aPGOsr
4194"In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs." https://t.co/z6nZode2Zd
4195"""the marriage market is probably the strongest reason to pay for expensive private schools. Going to Harvard may not get you a better job but almost certainly puts you in an exclusive dating pool for life""
4196
4197https://t.co/VJBHUltqeQ https://t.co/nIt7r0uw7b"
4198@ankurrsharma @wesyang I’ve heard that elites are simultaneously arrogant and anxious. The anxiety didn’t make much sense to me until learning about the idea of elite overproduction https://t.co/pyyyzmWf3y
4199@ShroomXXI Paul Fussell claimed brand name universities function as the American version of formal titles (e.g. duke, baron). At least in the minds of their alumni
4200"Endorsement of redistribution is predicted by compassion, envy, and the expectation of personal gain. By contrast, a taste for fairness fails to predict attitudes about redistribution...Endorsement of fairness failed to predict support for redistribution in all 3 studies" https://t.co/3GraCh0VP4
4201"Adults under 30 vs. over 65 who believe:
4202
4203-People just look out for themselves most of the time: 73% (under 30) vs. 48% (over 65)
4204
4205-Most people would try to take advantage of you if they got a chance: 71% vs. 39%
4206
4207-Most ppl can’t be trusted: 60%  vs. 29%
4208
4209https://t.co/smSaADJ6xm https://t.co/zPwmuvCaDS"
4210"Tragic vs. Utopian view of human nature
4211
4212Tragic
4213-humans are inherently limited and selfish; social arrangements must acknowledge those limits
4214
4215Utopian
4216-human shortcomings are the result of social arrangements; humans are perfectible
4217
4218 book by @sapinker, idea is from @ThomasSowell https://t.co/7Ln9Aob2fC"
4219@sapinker @ThomasSowell ?https://t.co/TxNFrxlSoh https://t.co/JaQYr0Nfof
4220"""the majority of women are only willing to communicate romantically with a small minority of men while most men are willing to communicate romantically with most women...the majority of women find the majority of men unattractive""
4221
4222https://t.co/94iH6tSrSQ https://t.co/f1IA5HBImv"
4223Of Note: 'Luxury beliefs' are the latest status symbol for rich Americans https://t.co/5Z16ce2qlR
4224"“Much of what is today called “social criticism” consists of members of the upper class denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians”
4225
4226https://t.co/TxNFrxlSoh https://t.co/YvAIBCb0cN"
4227"""in many societies, any girl who grows up automatically becomes a woman...Meanwhile, a boy does not automatically become a man, and instead is often required to prove himself, usually by passing stringent tests or producing more than he consumes""
4228
4229https://t.co/kRPpWMj2xS https://t.co/wPJh4HJH4P"
4230"I was 27 when I wrote the rough draft of this. I was afraid to let people read it 
4231
4232https://t.co/j9gw9qNuAX
4233
4234https://t.co/D5Uhx2ymZt"
4235"""Evolution ruthlessly selects against truth strategies and for payoff strategies. An organism that sees objective reality is less fit than an organism that sees fitness payoffs. Seeing objective reality will make you extinct.""
4236
4237https://t.co/CZlYDq1CSe https://t.co/qKbxfGAiTz"
4238"""Why do people feel shame when others falsely accuse them of doing something wrong? Potential or actual social devaluation by others is sufficient to elicit shame, even when there is no wrongdoing""
4239
4240https://t.co/OyUm3jSD8I https://t.co/onGoHj7DEG"
4241"I share the author's irritation at those who use isolated success stories to claim that hard work is all that is required to ""beat the odds""
4242
4243For every foster kid like me who graduated from college, 20 go to jail (among boys)
4244
4245https://t.co/SeE0yEn8ig https://t.co/PEg4RcnOKb"
4246"I disagree with the author about other aspects. Responsible adults are more important to kids than ""the system."" 
4247
4248Sometimes ""the system"" is a convenient scapegoat for adults to neglect responsibilities"
4249I wrote more here https://t.co/IM6JU18lzr https://t.co/jPPsN92JkA
4250@timminglab Can’t recall where, but read that if one wants to work in academia, the supervisor is more important. And if one wants to work in industry, the institution is more important
4251"The bird version of stolen valor (when veterans call out imposters who wear unearned military decorations)
4252
4253Or... even birds cry fowl when they see stolen valor ?
4254
4255https://t.co/qkRjNLYpH2 https://t.co/fmU6Kzjm8X"
4256@wesyang I once read something like: If the system you are fighting is afraid of you, it will quietly make you a member of it
4257@akintundeahmad No.
4258"Traits that aid survival but turn off the opposite sex tend to disappear from a population 
4259
4260Traits that diminish odds of survival but attract the opposite sex can spread in a population 
4261
4262https://t.co/qkRjNLYpH2 https://t.co/PnI9txvsWV"
4263"@akintundeahmad That comment was about my own case. Responsible parents increase odds of success. Irresponsible parents reduce odds of success. That’s why I shared the finding that 60% of former foster youth go to jail and less than 3% graduate from college
4264
4265Other relevant findings:"
4266"@akintundeahmad Children raised by single parents are 10X more likely to be abused and 8X more likely to be neglected
4267
4268https://t.co/3FiezatT2k"
4269@akintundeahmad Children raised by stepparents 40X more likely to be physically abused (even controlling for poverty and SES) https://t.co/lJNLU2MdSU
4270@akintundeahmad Risk of death from any kind of injury is 2 to 15 times higher for children in stepfamilies https://t.co/f038I5TJAC
4271@akintundeahmad Foster kids are about 4X more likely to commit suicide https://t.co/ZQMAztFDWW
4272@akintundeahmad Number of kids entering foster care due to parental drug use has more than doubled since 2000 https://t.co/wD4GhTkqAm
4273@akintundeahmad Children’s risk of being killed by a stepparent is 600 times greater than being killed by a birth parent https://t.co/N2ZsHzMIec https://t.co/PwbCVxVcLG
4274“parents were more motivated to pass wealth to sons than daughters because the reproductive benefits that accrue to wealthy sons are greater than the benefits that accrue to wealthy daughters. Partially because of these sex differences, gender inequality spread across the globe” https://t.co/Op2YO5X0DF
4275Source https://t.co/qkRjNLYpH2
4276@clairlemon Reinforcing narratives. Reminds me of this piece from @razibkhan https://t.co/cKkL7B1WlU https://t.co/91lX3KwVYu
4277@holzbach @akintundeahmad Adoptive parents go through a rigorous screening process to adopt
4278“stepparenthood is the strongest risk factor for child abuse ever identified...a stepparent is 40 to 100 times more likely to kill a young child, even when confounding factors— poverty, mother’s age, the traits of people who tend to remarry, are taken into account.” https://t.co/E3VHd9epyk
4279Source https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7
4280@paulg https://t.co/8JPXRZa4xA
4281"A line from my luxury beliefs essay that was cut from the final version:
4282
4283""Just as today’s fashionable clothing will soon be out-of-date, so will today’s fashionable opinions. Is it time to update your wardrobe?""
4284
4285https://t.co/pWqr4mRynk https://t.co/H35nFKEHvl"
4286@paulg One of my favorite essays. I re-read it every so often https://t.co/uBmSQvL6Hj
4287"Cancel culture and social status
4288
4289If there is an activity that reliably results in people gaining status for themselves or their group, then people will do it. If it helps strengthen social bonds between the group, even better"
4290"One way to raise the status of yourself and your group is to do something good
4291
4292But that involves hard work. And it’s hard to unite your group around something that requires effort and potential failure"
4293"There is an easier way to gain status and strengthen social bonds within a group.
4294
4295Broadcast the bad behavior of others. People are more likely to join in this activity"
4296"It is more fun for group members.
4297
4298Canceling people offers status, social solidarity, and fun distraction at little cost"
4299"Attempting to move up and failing can be hard to accept. But trying to bring others down and failing is not as unpleasant.
4300
4301It provides opportunities to identify other adversaries. What or who is preventing you from bringing your target down? People can unite around that question"
4302"If you’re a 6 on the social ladder, working up to a 7 is hard. 
4303
4304But scheming to bring a 7 down to a 5 is easier. And more thrilling.
4305
4306It is much easier to unite people to bring a 7 down to a 5 than to lift themselves up from a 6 to a 7"
4307Uniting to bring someone down has another benefit: a filter mechanism to identify committed group members
4308"Broadcasting bad behavior of others forces people to respond. 
4309
4310Those who agree the person should be canceled can be counted on. They're loyal"
4311"But those who ask for evidence, or debate the behavior, or question the propriety of cancel culture
4312
4313They have revealed themselves to be uncommitted"
4314@NormanSiebrasse Yeah, excellent book
4315"@oliverburkeman @amyalkon ""You'll be next"" doesn’t really compute to most people. It’s just a set of words. 
4316
4317The only real consequence people register is social disapproval. As painful as it gets for affluent tweeters in 2019"
4318"@oliverburkeman @amyalkon There are few of those cases. Most people don't imagine it happening to them 
4319
4320The immediate incentive to be a good group member (increase in social approval, feeling of camaraderie among peers) is stronger than the abstract possibility of being the next target"
4321"Cancel culture is not going away
4322
4323The social rewards for taking someone down are too immediate and gratifying"
4324"The potential dangers too distant and abstract. 
4325
4326""You'll be next"" doesn't really register for most people. It's just a set of words. 
4327
4328The immediate benefit of social status and in-group camaraderie registers loudly and clearly"
4329"It is likely those involved in cancel culture overlap with those who observe this supposed nearsightedness about climate change (immediate reward/distant penalty)
4330
4331But everyone favors immediate social rewards over avoiding the remote possibility of future suffering"
4332@wesyang Reinforcing narratives from the cultural elite... @razibkhan https://t.co/cKkL7B1WlU https://t.co/wOlyjDdhnM
4333@CodyBrown Interesting. Silence is sometimes equated with support for the wrongdoer--people feel compelled to voice solidarity, lest they be viewed as supporters of the alleged transgression
4334Thread. https://t.co/Wzgjmpx7lf
4335"@CodyBrown I don't see cancel culture disappearing, unfortunately. 
4336
4337Unless a different and equally pleasurable/immediate incentive emerges that outweighs the joy people get from partaking"
4338"@paulg There are ways ?I hope to share some results soon
4339
4340Fascinating essay, and the reasons are alike. I was quite different from what you describe (I was smart, but preferred to be cool). Allure of popularity even captures the smart kids sometimes..."
4341@AzorInfo @cdrsalamander Anti vaccination is championed by affluent people. If anti-vaccination belief spreads, they will be the least harmed
4342@AzorInfo @cdrsalamander @G_S_Bhogal Material comfort can preclude the deep social bonds that only exist in times of strife. So we create the strife to experience the bonds... @vincentharinam and I have written about it here https://t.co/0ARuY9H8aK
4343"""Overall, the evidence suggests that when a prominent figure apologizes for a controversial statement, the public is either unaffected or becomes more likely to desire that the individual be punished.""
4344
4345https://t.co/w0mvDSztOM https://t.co/KEfUuRcugR"
4346@AzorInfo @cdrsalamander @G_S_Bhogal Material comfort can preclude the deep social bonds that only exist in times of strife. So we create the strife to experience the bonds... @vincentharinam and I have written about it here https://t.co/0ARuY9H8aK
4347"Check out our paper, led by @gabi_pavarini @OxPsychiatry, on the effect of oxytocin on mimicry of affiliative emotions, now out in ‘Psychoneuroendocrinology’ @CambPsych @JesusCollegeCam 
4348
4349https://t.co/eKE5uzJ41a [open access] https://t.co/z3R1WCOifu"
4350"If something costs an arm and a leg, that means it costs $323,099
4351
4352Value of body parts, according to insurance companies:
4353
4354Arm: $169,878
4355Leg: $153,221
4356Hand: $144,930
4357Foot: $91,779
4358Thumb: $42,432
4359Pinky: $11,343
4360Eye: $96,700
4361Ear: $38,050
4362Testicle: $27,678
4363
4364https://t.co/clPJ4Q0RHG"
4365“wealth has only a trivial effect on happiness unless we have more than those around us, suggesting it is status and not money that we are really after...if all of society rises in wealth at the same time, increases in wealth beyond poverty provide no increase in happiness” https://t.co/hq7y1tyDnX
4366? https://t.co/qkRjNLYpH2
4367@schwinn3 There are many, many more passages I find fascinating but don't share. Don't let these tweets deter you from reading ?
4368"“Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in the ancient times. The reason is that these things were done by men, who have and have always had the same passions.” 
4369
4370Machiavelli, Discourses https://t.co/V0Kc40PfPh"
4371"“Just because evolution relies on reproduction doesn’t mean that humans evolved a desire to have children...Rather, evolution gave us a strong desire to have sex, and then tossed in a tendency to feel fond of any children we produced” 
4372
4373https://t.co/qkRjNLYpH2 https://t.co/eOZLxo0jUN"
4374"""women were more attracted to men when there was a 50% chance that the men liked them than when there was a 100% chance...Uncertainty increased their attraction toward the men"" 
4375
4376https://t.co/SpP5xJlxqB https://t.co/puEOKttM6z"
4377"“Humans are tribal creatures. They were not designed to reason dispassionately about the world; rather, they were designed to reason in ways that promote the interests of their coalition."" 
4378
4379Great new paper from @ImHardcory, @EPoe187 
4380
4381https://t.co/CSSagis0Jv https://t.co/UHjyiw60Oc"
4382"“male stupidity is actually an adaptation to female choosiness, as male risk taking and conflict are products of sexual selection...risk taking is an honest signal of how robust & skilled a person is...women can use male risk taking as a sign of quality”
4383
4384https://t.co/qkRjNLYpH2 https://t.co/hTVds5flsX"
4385"@wesyang Many instances of Russell conjugations today...
4386
4387https://t.co/CZOHOmhgmU @EricRWeinstein https://t.co/sDUTH6QVPp"
4388"“22% of men aged 21-30 with less than a bachelor's degree reported not working at all in the previous year—up from 9.5% in 2000...In 2000, 35% of lower-skilled young men lived with family. Now, more than 50% live with parents"" 
4389
4390https://t.co/L4l5EPWhrL @AndrewYang in @Quillette https://t.co/KUlNHqwg88"
4391@georg_renner Danke ?
4392“You must beware of such people...they are often among the most adept players at power...These types often display their weakness and lack of power as a kind of moral virtue...Making a show of weakness is actually an effective strategy, subtle and deceptive, in the game of power” https://t.co/RblCqrN5Qq
4393?https://t.co/OXGVlO9Ace
4394@zoebchance It really is. I've been meaning to look into @RyanHoliday's work as well. Is there a particular book you recommend to start?
4395"""In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.""
4396
4397What a great concept
4398
4399https://t.co/q23fIqYFp0"
4400“those who make a show of innocence are the least innocent of all...you can recognize them by the way they flaunt their moral qualities, their exquisite sense of justice... throwing dust in our eyes, distracting us from their power plays with their air of moral superiority” https://t.co/lr2xl28qP1
4401Source https://t.co/OXGVlO9Ace
4402@zoebchance @RyanHoliday I actually read Conspiracy last year. Couldn’t put it down
4403"“a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, 3 times what an average person consumes in a day...grandmasters’ stress responses to chess are similar to what elite athletes experience” 
4404
4405https://t.co/szzJhICqSY https://t.co/owkBTjH9G8"
4406"""Of all the factors most predictive of economic mobility in America, one factor clearly stands out in their study: family structure...kids are more likely to climb the income ladder when they are raised by two, married parents""
4407
4408https://t.co/YmCxCSr3W4 ⁦@WilcoxNMP⁩ https://t.co/AjRKqVDReQ"
4409"""When people learn that I study psychology, they often ask, 'What do you think of Jordan Peterson?'""
4410
4411An essay I wrote about @jordanbpeterson 
4412
4413https://t.co/FoF6fMQrjV"
4414@april_harding @jordanbpeterson Thanks April ?
4415@jonathanstea @jordanbpeterson Great piece?
4416"""Rising education automatically sparks credential inflation; as credentials proliferate, you must study harder and longer to convince employers to hire you. In an everyone-has-a-B.A. dystopia, an aspiring janitor might need a master’s to land a job""
4417
4418https://t.co/VJBHUltqeQ https://t.co/q2zDUHyCTS"
4419Useful concept https://t.co/4I01kPVbaD
4420@0x404_tobi @georg_renner Nur ein bisschen. Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof
4421"meat contributed, on average, 60% of the calories in 10 human foraging societies, whereas 5 chimpanzee communities obtained 2% of energy from hunted foods...Collected resources (fruits, leaves, flowers, plant parts) formed the bulk of their diet: 95% vs. 8% of the forager diet" https://t.co/gBvkC9DxwJ
4422"""an increase of $4200 in a husband's earnings is associated with being married to a woman who weighs 1.2 pounds less...if we compare a husband earning $40,000 with a husband earning $80,000, the latter will be matched to a wife who weighs 12 pounds less""
4423
4424https://t.co/ervH6Mim4J https://t.co/XBFGkIDQ6t"
4425"""Additionally, the heavier a wife is, the shorter her husband tends to be; 10 pounds more on her part is correlated with 0.14 inches less height on his.""
4426
4427https://t.co/ervH6Mim4J https://t.co/7qM6k5UbZ6"
4428"tall men were perceived as more socially attractive, better adjusted, more masculine, and as having greater professional status when compared with short men but not with men of average height...findings suggest shortness is more of a liability than tallness is an asset" https://t.co/DPzQJZ3pJj
4429source https://t.co/ds7qO8ttkH
4430@seni4africa @jordanbpeterson Wishing him and his family all the best.
4431"Luxury Beliefs:" that's good.  'Luxury beliefs' are the latest status symbol for rich Americans https://t.co/sSbUKw7jrl via @nypost
4432"Flirting seems not to be a direct expression of one’s mating interest. Rather, flirting can be conceptualized as a strategic behaviour that includes deception and ambiguous actions in the service of detecting others’ intentions while veiling one’s own mating interest" https://t.co/5LfVN9tz0u
4433https://t.co/0SUSsr8Ila
4434"""Women prefer, on average, a larger height difference between themselves and their partner than men do...women are most satisfied when their partner was 21cm (8in) taller, whereas men are most satisfied when they were 8cm (3in) taller than their partner""
4435
4436https://t.co/5g0bM7K9L2 https://t.co/Glir9xIMWV"
4437@Scientific_Bird Interesting. I'll have to look more into his work at some point
4438@RealYeyoZa In my working class hometown and in the military, race was not treated as a big deal. Wasn’t until I got to undergrad that I met people who espoused the importance of race. Not eager to see what happens when this habit trickles to the non-affluent
4439@steverathje2 @DegenRolf Very interesting !
4440"""A group of likeminded individuals can reinforce one another’s tentative viewpoints through repeated interactions...When we see our uncertain opinions echoed back to us, our beliefs strengthen.""
4441
4442https://t.co/3Gs154JYes via @Quillette https://t.co/XD3AdU3sdv"
4443"“our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not. Conflicts of interest are inherent to the human condition, and we are apt to want our version of the truth, rather than the truth itself, to prevail”
4444
4445https://t.co/FgFpTVxsp7 https://t.co/honUvtDgWr"
4446"""People assessed as more physically attractive at age 15 had higher socioeconomic positions at 36, even after adjusting for parental socioeconomic background, their own intelligence, health, self esteem, education and other adult socioeconomic outcomes""
4447
4448https://t.co/xCoYMwP9KN https://t.co/f0tHM15YyZ"
4449@FedorShabashev https://t.co/LKUK9zTY6I
4450"Political psyc researchers - I'm looking for papers investigating observation/reputation-based expression of political views. Have any suggestions? Particularly interested for how they are expressed in the presence of in-group members. 
4451
4452Thanks! Please rt!"
4453"In 6 studies across samples & cultures (n = 1600), Szu-chi Huang and @aaker found that viewing a goal as a journey (not as a destination) led to greater engagement with the goal. 
4454
4455Great example of how metaphors shape thinking and behavior @GeorgeLakoff 
4456
4457https://t.co/BvRfAeKN4l"
4458"“Indeed, the single biggest predictor of extramarital sex is premarital sexual permissiveness—people who have many sex partners before marriage tend to be more unfaithful than those who have few sexual partners before marriage”
4459
4460https://t.co/S82Spv4tlk https://t.co/hWigN0Kpft"
4461@Scientific_Bird Citation led here https://t.co/tQcAWdySD3
4462@BobStein_FT Haven’t looked at the original study. Would be surprised if attractive people with few pre-marital partners are as unfaithful as attractive people with many pre-marital partners
4463@jmcquivey @WilcoxNMP Definitely interested
4464“we have modeled the increase of US adult obesity as a legacy of increased consumption of sugars among children of the 1970s and 1980s...the current obesity rate will be the rate in the previous year plus a simple function of the mean excess sugar consumed in the current year” https://t.co/jHdV38mT8k
4465Source https://t.co/OtfrIZuQ7m
4466"having a partner with good financial prospects was a necessity for women, and was a luxury for men. Physical attractiveness was a necessity for both sexes. Western participants of both sexes prioritized humor in a partner...humor was a luxury for Eastern participants" https://t.co/moGcGOLjnt
4467https://t.co/uru6v5IUz7
4468@NicoleBarbaro Other findings suggest men low in benevolent sexism may also be viewed as hostile toward women https://t.co/wuzShbb9a9
4469"""From 2007 to 2016, total hours per day spent sitting increased among younger adults from 5.5 hours per day to 6.5 hrs per day, among older adults from 5.3 hours per day to 6.1 hrs per day, and among adolescents from 7 hours per day to 8.2 hours per day""
4470
4471https://t.co/W88vkaMo8j https://t.co/OpfsoObHLs"
4472@ESYudkowsky That was new information for me https://t.co/llvOzuTDpr
4473"""people strategically employ negative emotions, such as anger in response to injustice, to buttress their self-views as moral paragons...Participants who experienced righteous anger rated themselves more positively on moral traits""
4474
4475https://t.co/ELiPqyCvDK https://t.co/5Pmsv8BwIB"
4476“Another luxury belief is that religion is irrational or harmful. Members of the upper class are most likely to be atheists or non-religious. But they have the resources and access to thrive without the unifying social edifice of religion.” (1) https://t.co/36l2YPsshf
4477"Likelihood of giving way on busy shopping street to person going in opposite direction
4478
44796 ft woman(183cm); 6'7"" man(200cm): about 80%
4480
44815'2""woman(160cm); 5'7"" man(170cm): about 55%
4482
4483""pedestrians more likely to yield to taller individuals, this was equally true for men and women"" https://t.co/OT3MX9dDgC"
4484https://t.co/yshux6Wln8
4485"""The better informed people are, and the better educated, the more polarized they tend to be on politically controversial factual issues, and the more stubbornly they manipulate new facts to support their tribe’s worldview.""
4486
4487?Political Tribes by @amychua https://t.co/AMS0xBiRZJ"
4488"""Despite a doubling of the world population, the raw number of people living in absolute poverty has fallen since the 1950s...The United Nations estimates that poverty was reduced more in the last fifty years than in the previous 500""
4489
4490?The Rational Optimist by @mattwridley https://t.co/HKuhUBQkRj"
4491"""Physical aggression and hurting another provoked more anger when they came from a male, whereas dishonesty from a female evoked more anger. Females felt that insensitive and condescending behaviors were worse when they came from a male""
4492
4493https://t.co/iB4wKuHQn3 https://t.co/BJ9bzHM3y9"
4494"48% of women are highly angered by condescending male
4495
449641% of women highly angered by condescending female
4497
449818% of men are highly angered by condescending male
4499
450021% of men highly angered by condescending female https://t.co/XDUZ3Esh8N"
4501@BaminiJ @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/qS5sp2nxKi
4502"Men’s conversations with other men tend to focus on on depersonalized topics...However, when they are with women, men make emotional disclosures more often and report that relationships with women are more meaningful, intimate, satisfying & pleasant than male–male relationships" https://t.co/hIBANoNzy8
4503source https://t.co/glkBJkDW4y
4504@luke_smith23 @amychua @BobbyDuffyKings Thanks Ill check it out
4505"The costs of child abuse “exceeded those of cancer or heart disease...eradicating child abuse would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two-thirds, and suicide and IV drug use, and domestic violence by three-quarters”
4506
4507https://t.co/bGV8q0I6hL https://t.co/KfFdI757wt"
4508"""beliefs reflect loyalty and solidarity to one’s coalition...one function of the mind may be to hold beliefs that bring the belief-holder the greatest number of allies, protectors, or disciples, rather than beliefs that are most likely to be true""
4509
4510https://t.co/9y10ogtd29 https://t.co/llcdhEIizW"
4511"70% of the presidents, vice presidents and cabinet officers of the U.S. and more than 50% of senators and House members have been lawyers...the electoral process selects people who are professionally trained to plead cases persuasively and sincerely regardless of their merits" https://t.co/kku75bBjs9
4512Source https://t.co/rLVBrlWMJA by @bryan_caplan
4513"during pregnancy, the average energetic demands of fetal boys appear to be greater than they are for fetal girls...the caloric intake of women carrying male fetuses tends to be almost 10 percent greater than it is for women carrying female fetuses" https://t.co/jJoNIbq4ds
4514Source https://t.co/NlMMwd63bH
4515In a meta-analysis, adolescent girls were more prosocial than boys when help was requested, when help was needed, when the situation was emotional, and when there was no expectation of self-reward; boys were more prosocial than girls when the behavior was enacted publicly. https://t.co/N03SozO4ly
4516Unethical behavior: It's not spread evenly across the population. Cool studying showing those who are unethical in one domain (relationships) are often unethical in other domains as well (business). https://t.co/fnH8GZlWSH
4517@RealYeyoZa Headline reminds me of this finding that 1 in 4 female college graduates will be unable to marry a man who is a college graduate  https://t.co/ca5gSBjjIB
4518@RealYeyoZa I recall a study showing that among couples in which women are more educated, men still tend to have higher earnings
4519"""analyses provide clear evidence of an excess supply of men with low income and education and shortages of economically attractive men for women to marry...Previous studies suggest most unmarried women choose to remain single rather than 'marry down'""
4520
4521https://t.co/PCbtNn5aBT https://t.co/cbeRPsxLG4"
4522"Children living with both biological parents
4523
4524Affluent families in 1960: 95%
4525Working class families in 1960: 95%
4526
4527Affluent families in 2005: 85%
4528Working class families in 2005: 30%
4529
4530https://t.co/BtNAmq5op2 https://t.co/CN3BVv5oar"
4531"Belmont is shorthand for college-educated, white collar 
4532
4533Fishtown is shorthand for non-college-educated, blue collar  
4534
4535More here https://t.co/IhuOzkFLJn https://t.co/BOWZsAjCeZ"
4536"""spread information by disguising it as a secret...tell someone a secret and qualify it by insisting that it is a secret, begging your listener 'not to tell anyone'; the more you insist that it remain a secret, the more it will spread""
4537
4538https://t.co/YgNYyC5RT9 https://t.co/GPdOj8UTyB"
4539“Taking into account various factors, such as numbers of men on each side, the armaments, positions, tactical surprise, the analysis shows shows that Napoleon as commander acted as a multiplier. The presence of Napoleon was equivalent to the French having an extra 30% of troops” https://t.co/EPB5AQXVma
4540https://t.co/JPP5VAuGQv
4541@Blahbliptyblah The poverty rate is lower today than in 1960 https://t.co/MY3OMGkCd3
4542@Blahbliptyblah If you can locate the data, I'd be interested in what they show
4543@Blahbliptyblah It is interesting that out-of-wedlock birthrates are higher in countries with generous state benefits (Denmark, Sweden, Norway) https://t.co/Yvvrt0QI2s https://t.co/nNVQTb7ARk
4544"“Society consists of several types of people”
4545
454625% are self-interested free riders (“knaves”)
4547
454825% are unconditional cooperators (“saints”) 
4549
455050% conditional cooperators; prefer to cooperate but will punish free riders and withdraw cooperation if taken advantage of (“moralists”) https://t.co/dieuOxESpC"
4551"These and other findings, along with my own observations, inspired me to write about what I refer to as #luxurybeliefs
4552
4553""In the past, upper-class Americans displayed their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.""
4554
4555https://t.co/pWqr4mRynk"
4556"@RealYeyoZa I can imagine many people confuse or conflate out-of-wedlock with single parenthood. Still, cohabiting parents are less stable than married parents:
4557
4558https://t.co/ht7ND9X9gN https://t.co/E15Cr3fFBI"
4559@RealYeyoZa I'd be curious if couples who marry after the birth of the child are more or less likely to separate compared with parents who were married when the child was born
4560"The latest by @JonHaidt and friends: Conservatism associated with greater moral concern for close others (family, community, country); Liberalism associated with greater moral concern for broader categories (all humanity, all living things):
4561
4562https://t.co/XYyLmB8vnt https://t.co/4WsUnLHRQf"
4563I wish we were more worried about THIS https://t.co/nA1JiPZ1yd
4564"Obesity rate, U.S. women
4565
4566Black: 54.8%
4567White: 38%
4568Hispanic: 50.6%
4569Asian: 14.8%
4570
4571Obesity rate, U.S. men
4572
4573Black: 36.9%
4574White: 37.9%
4575Hispanic: 43.1%
4576Asian: 10.1%
4577
4578https://t.co/vBKnx5mCeS https://t.co/MXBieh5amJ"
4579"Out-of-wedlock births
4580
45811964
4582
4583USA: 8%
4584UK: 8%
4585Sweden: 12%
4586Denmark: 9%
4587Norway: 4%
4588France: 5%
4589Greece: 1%
4590South Korea: 1%
4591
45922014
4593
4594USA: 40% 
4595UK: 49%
4596Sweden: 55%
4597Denmark: 52% 
4598Norway: 55% 
4599France: 58%
4600Greece: 8% 
4601South Korea: 2%
4602
4603https://t.co/Yvvrt0QI2s https://t.co/yGBefqFPSn"
4604"""it is not acceptable in the new upper class to use derogatory labels for anyone, with three exceptions: people with differing political views, fundamentalist Christians, and rural working-class whites""
4605
4606This was useful advice for me when transitioning from military to college https://t.co/WaM9mlVaWE"
4607https://t.co/BtNAmq5op2
4608"@ImHardcory @JonHaidt I’m curious whether both groups demonstrate, in behavior, equal moral action for their preferred moral beneficiaries
4609
4610Whether both commit equally costly acts to assist those they profess to care for"
4611"Perhaps a reading list for others who want to prepare before entering this strange new world 
4612
4613I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
4614
4615Great book on college life. Supposedly satire. But real college actually seemed like a satire of the book. https://t.co/U08qmjr9ju"
4616@ericchendriks Interesting. Are those partnership contracts different from cohabiting families? https://t.co/ht7ND9X9gN
4617"""Cancel culture allows people to identify who is loyal to their movement...Rallying around a morally ambiguous transgression and seeing how people react permits recruitment of assenters and targeting of dissenters""
4618
4619An essay I wrote for 
4620@CityJournal 
4621
4622https://t.co/npIN5wURio https://t.co/l3HOyFObwU"
4623This is really a good thing when you realize that poor children now have the liberty to be raised in broken homes. https://t.co/xzL0jvKUAF
4624@clairlemon Everyone I know who has switched to some version of low carb/keto has had amazing results...including me https://t.co/vo5IECjNqo
4625"People perceive military veterans as agentic (ability to think and reason) but unfeeling (lack of emotion)
4626
4627Research also suggests people perceive Asians the same way...
4628
4629As a member of both groups, people perceive me as extra emotionless?? 
4630
4631https://t.co/apKEhgJGRu https://t.co/Wmuk6tD0Cd"
4632"""People enjoy coming together against a perpetrator...people search for the misdeeds of others because it offers social status and group cohesion at little cost""
4633
4634My essay in @CityJournal on #CancelCulture
4635
4636https://t.co/npIN5wURio https://t.co/ALp82euTtx"
4637"@wesyang Excerpt that was cut from my cancel culture piece
4638
4639https://t.co/npIN5wURio https://t.co/Tb9JveqmJZ"
4640"% who agree ""All those serving in our armed forces should be described as heroes""
4641
4642Women: 57%
4643Men: 42%
4644
4645Blacks: 63%
4646Whites: 50%
4647
4648Democrats: 49%
4649Republicans: 58%
4650
4651https://t.co/grpGqJ7dRv https://t.co/7BIcUxI3wn"
4652"“you reveal a great deal about your social class by the amount of annoyance or fury you feel when the subject is brought up”
4653
4654Class by Paul Fussell 
4655
4656Amusing observations on the status system in America. The college chapter is especially fascinating 
4657
4658https://t.co/3fCNDSqf72 https://t.co/4OY6ADbD8T"
4659"""publicly expressed beliefs advertise the intellectual virtuosity of the belief-holder, creating an incentive to craft clever and extravagant beliefs rather than just true ones. This explains much of what goes on in academia""
4660
4661https://t.co/9y10ogtd29 https://t.co/aDW1pJ77XN"
4662"Likelihood of getting a divorce within the first 10 years of marriage
4663
4664College graduates : 11%
4665
4666Non-college graduates: 33% 
4667
4668https://t.co/KEiX7glp4c https://t.co/BLz1Qqs2SX"
4669“Cancel culture” may be new, but the impulses behind it are old. When you see groups target a person for exile, you’re witnessing a foundational ritual. Without understanding such atavistic impulses, we are more likely to enact them without consideration. https://t.co/luvIZONazh
4670"-Democrats and Republicans estimate that half of Republicans are 65 or older
4671
4672Reality: 27% of Republicans are 65 or older
4673
4674-Democrats and Republicans estimate that more than 40% of Democrats are younger than 30
4675
4676Reality: 22% of Democrats are under 30
4677
4678https://t.co/b1TXPSgCKp https://t.co/97zoarsIT7"
4679"""Rich kids and poor kids now grow up in separate Americas...Growing up with 2 parents is now unusual in the working class, while 2-parent families are normal and becoming more common among the upper middle class”
4680
4681https://t.co/S8hVp1dZIh
4682
4683-⁦@RobertDPutnam⁩ https://t.co/aN7JXn5qYR"
4684I expanded this into a brief essay on cancel culture for @CityJournal https://t.co/npIN5wURio
4685@xsplat Not sure. I read that excerpt here. Seems there's also a problem with solving homicides https://t.co/0x5yDf9DEE
4686"That Book About Harvard by @ekester
4687
4688Keen and crass insights into life at an elite college
4689
4690""Cheating is as much a tradition at Harvard as academic excellence...which should come as no surprise from a school that produces so many successful politicians.""
4691
4692https://t.co/vzsINqXynT https://t.co/D7vmrhNc4r"
4693"1. Women prefer tall men; tall men marry more desirable partners
4694
46952. Short women & men viewed as less attractive/successful
4696
46973. Height premium in earnings $
4698
46994. Height correlates with education
4700
47015. Short men report worse health
4702
4703My latest for @psychtoday
4704
4705https://t.co/T2mRAU21ne"
4706"Provided it is not accompanied by humiliation, discomfort can be endured without complaint...soldiers and explorers willingly tolerated privations exceeding those suffered by the poorest of their societies, sustained by awareness of the esteem in which they were held by others" https://t.co/C9NTUICQlR
4707https://t.co/TlMVgagC8e
4708"""a chief factor seems to be the household one is born into, and the culture of reading parents create within it""
4709
4710Somewhat skeptical. I grew up in foster homes with no books and no adults reading to me... 
4711
4712But occasionally, I do enjoy reading ?
4713
4714https://t.co/wo3yXFPLsK"
4715"“Between 1967 and 1995, the average length of time to finish a PhD increased in physical science from 6 to 8.4 years, and in social sciences from 7.7 to 10.5 years. In the humanities, the average time to a PhD is 12 years, and in education 19.9 years!” 
4716
4717https://t.co/JPP5VAuGQv https://t.co/5FK57fKfVZ"
4718“Cancel culture” has become a reliable way to achieve upward mobility, establish social connection, and identify allies and enemies by isolating people who have violated ideological rules. https://t.co/luvIZONazh via @robkhenderson
4719"""Adding the letter 'o' to the word “so” is one of the most feminine linguistic traits. Among the words most disproportionately used by women are 'soo,' 'sooo,' 'soooo,' 'sooooo,' and 'soooooo'""
4720
4721https://t.co/q9VWPC6PCC https://t.co/nIs3oYsbir"
4722"""Among the words used much more frequently by men than women are 'fuck,' 'shit,' 'fucks,' 'bullshit,' 'fucking,' and 'fuckers.'""
4723
4724https://t.co/q9VWPC6PCC https://t.co/IK61cstGPD"
4725"Four traits that both left-wing and right-wing political extremists have in common, and which differentiate them from political moderates:
4726
47271. Psychological distress
47282. Cognitive simplicity
47293. Overconfidence
47304. Intolerance
4731
4732https://t.co/GEQX0qGFbg https://t.co/mVwkotgYlQ"
4733"“College women indicate that their minimal acceptable percentile for a husband on earning capacity is the 70th percentile, or above 70 percent of all other men, whereas men’s minimum acceptable percentile for a wife’s earning capacity is 40th.”
4734
4735?: https://t.co/Glg8OEBEqK https://t.co/LojsDtlSid"
4736"“Successful women turned out to place an even greater value than less professionally successful women on mates who have professional degrees, high social status, and greater intelligence and who are tall, independent, and self-confident”
4737
4738https://t.co/Glg8OEBEqK https://t.co/lgVcgG51hm"
4739"@clairlemon @wesyang Yeah classic finding 
4740
4741“Men regretted failures to act on sexual opportunities significantly more than women. Women were more likely to have regretted acts of sexual commission—wishing they had not had sex with someone that they did have sex with.”
4742
4743https://t.co/Glg8OEBEqK https://t.co/bb5UEgvwdk"
4744"Before deciding, people are 7 times more likely to ask Google whether they will regret not having children than whether they will regret having them
4745
4746After deciding, people with children are 3.6 times more likely to tell Google they regret their decision than ppl without children https://t.co/q4C3XxxXeO"
4747https://t.co/q9VWPC6PCC
4748"""There are twice as many complaints [on Google] that a boyfriend won’t have sex than that a girlfriend won’t have sex. By far, the number one search complaint about a boyfriend is 'My boyfriend won’t have sex with me.'""
4749
4750https://t.co/q9VWPC6PCC https://t.co/hsw9im8w4I"
4751@ImHardcory The author uses Google Trends but I'm not sure about the specifics (e.g. date range he uses). Here's what I got when I entered both phrases for 2004-present https://t.co/J7JoIHX8MC
4752@ImHardcory Interesting. I shared your intuition about how vs. why--surprising findings. Fwiw the author speculates that men might feel more comfortable discussing with friends while women are more likely to turn to Google for solutions
4753@wesyang My impression is that for older gen, upward mobility meant assimilating to whiteness. For younger gen, esp among the educated, upward mobility means avoiding association with whiteness
4754"In the absence of legitimate calamities, we create artificial ones... Outrage culture is simply the calamitization of the mundane. It is a process by which group solidarity can be lazily achieved by combatting non-existent crises." https://t.co/F5c2vX4D4o via @Quillette
4755"""A whopping 50% of births to American women without college degrees are non-marital, but only 6% of births to college graduates are.""
4756
4757https://t.co/EVxtB9eTYy https://t.co/956qyjAHvu"
4758@razibkhan Seems like many, especially white people, think of white people as the Independent Variable, and nonwhites as the Dependent Variable
4759Cancel culture is likely here to stay. The social rewards are immediate and gratifying and the dangers too distant and abstract. https://t.co/luvIZONazh via @robkhenderson
4760"""Overall, there is a suggestion of two reproductive strategies proving to be successful in modern Western societies""
4761
4762-Socially conservative; commitment to children within marriage
4763
4764-Antisocial behavior, early sexual experimentation, many sexual partners
4765
4766https://t.co/07YaZXFtVg https://t.co/r7COTwSaNF"
4767"Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at."- True Detective
4768"""women preferred omnivorous (meat-eating) men, rated them as more attractive, and felt more positive about them than vegetarians...vegetarian men were considered less attractive because they were perceived as less masculine""
4769
4770https://t.co/c2EZQOwbwE https://t.co/GSG9DXh3X5"
4771Related https://t.co/rtmQu456oW
4772"Weight of average American woman
4773
47741960: 140 lbs
47751970: 143 lbs
47761980: 145 lbs
47771990: 151 lbs
47782000: 161 lbs
47792010: 165 lbs
4780
4781Weight of average American man
4782
47831960: 165 lbs
47841970: 170 lbs
47851980: 174 lbs
47861990: 180 lbs
47872000: 189 lbs
47882010: 195 lbs
4789
4790https://t.co/ubBekmVwje https://t.co/Isvd1bnS57"
4791@WoodburnPaddy I spent some time in the 2020 (195+) category. Recently returned to 1960...
4792"People prefer partners who are, on average, genetically equivalent to fourth or fifth cousins 
4793
4794https://t.co/ZyEU660XmX https://t.co/flEFV1cM1W"
4795“how intelligent people end up believing crazy things...The answer I found was that, if we’re psychologically healthy, our brain makes us feel as if we’re the moral heroes at the centre of the unfolding plots of our lives. Any ‘facts’ tend to be subordinate to that story” https://t.co/PF4R5yjqPt
4796Source https://t.co/u8LdeKwScv
4797"""overweight Asian individuals were perceived as significantly more American than normal-weight versions of the same people, whereas this was not true for White, Black, or Latino individuals""
4798
4799Time to hit a Shake Shack
4800
4801https://t.co/nZB0yLQhDV https://t.co/NByF0y4mwa"
4802“Cancel culture” has become a reliable way to achieve upward mobility, establish social connection, and identify allies and enemies by isolating people who have violated ideological rules. https://t.co/luvIZONazh via @robkhenderson
4803"""Replacing a gunner who scores at the 20th percentile on an IQ test with one who scores at the 55th percentile improves the likelihood of hitting a target by 34%”
4804
4805https://t.co/b3WtWDMpkV https://t.co/4faUbJH5S7"
4806"“it’s good to see successful people fail occasionally”
4807
4808Very liberal: 44%
4809Moderate: 31%
4810Very conservative: 20%
4811
4812“successful people need to be brought down a peg or two even if they’ve done nothing wrong”
4813
4814Very liberal: 30%
4815Mod: 20%
4816Very conservative: 14%
4817
4818https://t.co/egAnXe0Ik0 https://t.co/jc9hFNmC6E"
4819@Scrivmaster Possibly they equate "successful" with "rich" https://t.co/QRW4chJGEH
4820@Scrivmaster Agree. Would also be interesting to see if different labels for the successful/rich elicit different responses by political orientation. E.g. "Hollywood stars" versus "CEOs"
4821@ericchendriks is it more elitist to take the Joker movie seriously or not take it seriously? Asking for a friend...
4822To a useful approximation, humans want to be comfy, healthy, fed, warm, respected, and loved. But I think a better approximation is that humans try to avoid being open to criticism. They work harder at blocking others' criticisms than they do at any other goal.
4823"@LucioMM1 The researchers give these possibilities for the higher divorce risk
4824
4825-Wife's high income makes it easier to exit unhappy marriage
4826
4827-Non-traditional arrangement upsets the husband
4828
4829-Wife working harder increase her income because of unhappy marriage"
4830"""What do you think is more important in life?""
4831
4832“Do things that give you personal satisfaction/pleasure""
4833
4834Very liberal: 66%
4835Moderate: 49%
4836Very conservative: 33%
4837
4838""Work hard and do what is expected of you""
4839
4840Very liberal: 31%
4841Mod: 49%
4842Very conservative: 65%
4843
4844https://t.co/sEKYaXOmO2 https://t.co/2YlSqE2CQO"
4845"""SAT coaching has a positive but small effect: Perhaps 10 or 20 points in total...these effects cannot be distinguished from measurement error (When the College Board checks the noise in scoring on the SAT, it finds a standard error of 32 points)""
4846
4847https://t.co/rB5tKPFrmg"
4848"What Americans think makes a person wealthy
4849
4850Hard work/grit: 50%
4851Ambition: 38%
4852Family connections: 31%
4853Risk taking: 29%
4854Education: 27%
4855Inheritance: 27%
4856Self-discipline: 27%
4857Getting lucky: 20%
4858Natural intelligence: 18%
4859Race and gender: 11%
4860Gov't favors: 9%
4861
4862https://t.co/fqB6SeL1Pv https://t.co/JorPBAK6IB"
4863"Even a 1-inch increase in height is associated with greater weekly earnings—and other surprising advantages that tall people enjoy
4864https://t.co/mz8qlgCRHa"
4865@Scientific_Bird @EPoe187 @ImHardcory Breakups might fall under “typical life events” https://t.co/oN2lU5oehr
4866"Almost nothing that happens to us has a significant impact on our happiness beyond about 3 months 
4867
4868""It appears that typical life events lose their effects on subjective well-being after 3 to 6 months""
4869
4870https://t.co/gn4Uey45ig https://t.co/yFr79SJbdA"
4871"""My life is determined by my own actions"" 
4872
4873Very liberal: 33%
4874Moderate:  37%
4875Very conservative: 52%
4876
4877""When I get what I want, it's usually because I worked for it""
4878
4879Very liberal: 30%
4880Moderate: 45%
4881Very conservative: 53%
4882
4883https://t.co/5ZCtNyq3QY https://t.co/M1ZJAVHXI6"
4884@EPoe187 @Crey1959 Fun brain twister is thinking about what it’s like to not believe in free will while believing you didn’t have a choice in that belief. And acting as though other people don’t have free will but arguing with them as if they have the ability to change their mind
4885“When we want to believe something, we ask ourselves ‘Can I believe it?’ Then we search for supporting evidence. When we don’t want to believe something, we ask ourselves ‘Must I believe it?’ Then if we find a single reason to doubt the claim, we can dismiss it.” https://t.co/PN07vx8FCj
4886"@WilcoxNMP @MailOnline Orgasm rates for women 
4887
4888Most recent hookup, no previous hookups with this partner: 11% 
4889
4890Most recent hookup, 1 or 2 previous hookups with this partner: 16% 
4891
4892Most recent hookup, 3+ previous hookups: 34% 
4893
4894Most recent sexual event in relationship lasting 6+ months: 67% https://t.co/f0LyOin6KR"
4895"@WilcoxNMP @MailOnline Orgasm rates for women 
4896
4897Most recent hookup, no previous hookups with this partner: 11% 
4898
4899Most recent hookup, 1 or 2 previous hookups with this partner: 16% 
4900
4901Most recent hookup, 3+ previous hookups: 34% 
4902
4903Most recent sexual event in relationship lasting 6+ months: 67% https://t.co/f0LyOin6KR"
4904@WilcoxNMP @MailOnline Source https://t.co/aaH5taBRJn
4905"What people say causes success 
4906
4907When people want to be successful, they emphasize how hard they work 
4908 
4909-To convince others whatever success they’ve already obtained is the result of their efforts
4910
4911-To convince others to give them opportunities
4912
4913These raise their status"
4914"When people are already successful, they emphasize how lucky they are
4915
4916-To avoid envy
4917
4918-To demonstrate warmth (They’ve already demonstrated competence)
4919
4920These raise their status (more)"
4921https://t.co/wS3s6YwqED
4922Accurate. My first two jobs: Dishwasher & grocery clerk. Great line from Curmudgeon's Guide by @charlesmurray https://t.co/cL3LVrUx1e
4923"The Young Male Syndrome
4924
4925""Homicide is overwhelmingly a male affair...Victim and offender populations are almost identical, with unemployed, unmarried, young men greatly overrepresented...many, perhaps most, homicides concern status competition""
4926
4927https://t.co/jWdn2NLDdA https://t.co/9IGTMGCQ6L"
4928"% who say they would “definitely” have one-time sex with a celebrity 
4929
4930Unmarried people with more than 5 sex partners: 46%
4931
4932Unmarried people with less than 5 sex partners: 32%
4933
4934Married, more than 5 sex partners: 24%
4935
4936Married, less than 5 sex partners: 12%
4937
4938https://t.co/3S61kNKmeD https://t.co/tYuUxRhRPe"
4939@aeseia Married people who have had sex with more than 5 people
4940@ESYudkowsky Yeah, this is self-report...46% might be lower than actual preference
4941"""A zeal for justice can lead to new injustices, too. The spirit of accusation is a dangerous one. It flattens human beings; it denies an individual’s development and complexity, and it often obscures more than it clarifies.""
4942
4943in @yaledailynews today:
4944
4945https://t.co/DkfAPZG1pt"
4946"Guy ""You wrote the luxury beliefs article?"" 
4947
4948Me ""Yeah""
4949
4950Guy ""When I set my Tinder radius to 5km around [university], half the women's profiles read 'polyamorous.' When I extend to 15km to include the outskirts of the city, half the women are single moms""
4951
4952https://t.co/pWqr4mRynk"
4953"""Imagine that it is wartime, and you must cast your presidential vote today. Would you vote for face A or face B in Figure 1 below? Most people quickly go with A. What if it is peacetime? Most people now go with B.""
4954
4955https://t.co/1ZbQAZUEkk https://t.co/tw4AQxZAcN"
4956"""The shortest man a woman would date is 68.9"" (5'9) and the tallest is 75.3"" (6'3). The shortest woman a man would date is 60.6"" (5'1) and the tallest is 69.8"" (5'10). 23% of men and 4% of women would accept a relationship where the woman was taller.""
4957
4958https://t.co/dIkUEDYyqh https://t.co/08KcwosLOZ"
4959"""The importance women grant to social status in mates is not limited to the United States...women valued status 63% more than men in Taiwan, 30% more in Zambia, 38% more in Germany, and 40% more in Brazil""
4960
4961https://t.co/Glg8OEBEqK https://t.co/OEElbBhtjI"
4962"""a man who dates an unattractive woman experiences a moderate decrease in status, whereas a woman who dates an unattractive man experiences only a trivial decrease in status...having an unattractive mate hurts a man’s status more than it does a woman’s""
4963
4964https://t.co/Glg8OEBEqK https://t.co/jwzuE4Cmyc"
4965"""Moral Grandstanding Motivation is associated with a general desire to improve one’s status...moral grandstanding is associated with various narcissistic traits, which are known to be associated with status seeking""
4966
4967https://t.co/XPA10DNeM2 https://t.co/BWozCXZl4G"
4968"% of 18-30 year olds reporting no sex in the past year
4969
49702008
4971
4972Women: 8%
4973Men: 10%
4974
49752018
4976
4977Women: 18%
4978Men: 28%
4979
4980https://t.co/AAegjsMEAr https://t.co/6dP0fN8gCz"
4981"@RealYeyoZa @keese09 @J_Bloodworth 20% of men account for 70% of sexual partnerships with women
4982
4983https://t.co/lBK5PI0KmH https://t.co/0qNZ0CQIH1"
4984whoah, nearly 3x increase in men and more than 2x increase in women reporting going without sex on the past year in just a decade https://t.co/KDuYK27asP
4985Stunning data in this piece from @robkhenderson & @vincentharinam: "a child born to a never-married mother in the bottom 5th of family income is 3x more likely to stay in the bottom 5th than a child born to a married mother with an equally low income" https://t.co/eUYUR2ggDt
4986@EPoe187 Objectively one of your best threads ? https://t.co/mPmXYolv3H
4987"""In 2008, President Obama noted that children who grew up without a father were '5 times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, 9 times more likely to drop out of school, and 20X more likely to end up in prison'""
4988
4989My latest with @vincentharinam
4990
4991https://t.co/h0rgU7gNvf https://t.co/6sZM53n0tq"
4992"“Children raised by single parents are 3X more likely to be abused...Children raised by single parents with a live-in partner are 10X more likely to be abused... it’s not that intact families are so great. It’s that broken families are exceedingly unsafe”
4993
4994https://t.co/h0rgU7gNvf https://t.co/3iI7fCHLYg"
4995"When it comes to spotlighting the problem of child abuse, there is one ""institution"" that has so far managed to avoid the media/public spotlight:
4996
4997Cohabitation. Look at these #s: https://t.co/ypMUjMnwtw"
4998@CityJournal I talked about #CancelCulture today with @glennbeck (starts around 15:13) https://t.co/5apkOGvCKA
4999"""Today only one group in the entire country has seen its marriage rates increase since 1970—the women with the top 5 percent of incomes...Everyone else is more likely to be single""
5000
5001https://t.co/b2NAFqZNjs https://t.co/q5uEiBLa2K"
5002"""What we’ve done is we’ve taken things like sugar or salt that were once comparatively scarce and valuable commodities and made these things massively available...it’s just a matter of designing products that will essentially maximize that brain reward""
5003
5004https://t.co/4V0lqT7PUp https://t.co/sCpdtZHMn7"
5005"""A funny thing happens when you take young human beings, whose minds evolved for tribal warfare, and tell them that one side is good and the other is bad. You turn on ancient tribal circuits, preparing them for battle. Many students find it thrilling""
5006
5007https://t.co/XIpVO0w9US https://t.co/eClyrHVOfu"
5008"Affluent people focus on education and economics for upward mobility because they take their intact families for granted
5009
5010They're so used to having stable families, it doesn't occur to them what it would be like to go without
5011
5012Like asking a fish about the importance of water"
5013@ImHardcory I think not understanding our evolved impulses makes us more likely to succumb to them...but occasionally I second guess this
5014https://t.co/XY2LffeXPE
5015"“22% of men aged 21-30 with less than a bachelor's degree reported not working at all in the previous year—up from 9.5% in 2000...In 2000, 35% of lower-skilled young men lived with family. Now, more than 50% live with parents"" 
5016
5017https://t.co/L4l5EPWhrL @AndrewYang in @Quillette https://t.co/KUlNHqwg88"
5018"When kids first begin school, oldest kids are 20% older than the youngest 
5019
5020""the youngest students score substantially lower than the oldest students...the youngest members of each cohort are even less likely to attend university”
5021
5022https://t.co/g0UFdTRTDS https://t.co/L2hEEZnSd2"
5023"In earlier times, food, water, warmth were matters of uncertainty. Satisfying these needs provided a pulse of dopamine. Since brain-centered regulation depends on dopamine pulses, we feel uncomfortable without them and seek new sources" (sweeter/greasier food, drugs, alcohol) https://t.co/4WsXcj6gc8
5024Coming up tomorrow @SESPcon at 9:45am: Our symposium "Double Down or Defend Decency? When Teammates Transgress." I'll present work with @robkhenderson on social threat and morality.  #SESP2019 https://t.co/2zKF1MKGQK
5025If you ever read something and love it and wonder, "should I email the person who wrote it and tell them?" the answer is always yes
5026“people will use gossip to rat out selfish, exploitative individuals in experimental game situations even when they have to spend money to do so. In other words, prosocial gossip is so rewarding that people will even incur a cost for the opportunity to engage in it.” https://t.co/vac3ObZVt0