Social psych + evo anthropology: Cooperation, interdependence, emotion. Assistant Professor @uarizona, Department of Psychologypsycheddiego.mystrikingly.com Tucson, AZJoined June 2019
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Can shared faith help people cooperate on something as complex as health care?
In the U.S., health care sharing ministries (HCSMs) offer a powerful real-world example of how religion can facilitate cooperation.
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…#Religion#Cooperation#HealthCare
I will be reviewing applications this fall for @ASUPsych’s clinical psych PhD program. Please send any prospective students with interests in alcohol, cannabis and co-use my way! My lab’s current and future priorities can be found here psychology.asu.edu/research/labs/…
Does gender diversity in peer groups benefit performance?
I ran a 7-year field experiment with 3,000+ students to find out
Key findings: As gender diversity increases
– Course grades in short & longer run⬆️
– Dropout rates⬇️
– Performance inequality in groups⬇️
Details below🧵
🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings.
pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en
A Registered Report by Batruch et al aimed to replicate 35 key hypotheses from 17 correlational and five experimental studies using quota-based or probability samples from the U.S., France, Switzerland, and India.
nature.com/articles/s4156…
What if there’s no such thing as a unified “self”?
According to a modular view of the mind, what we call the “self” is really a collection of specialized systems, each shaped by evolution to navigate a messy social world.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…#CognitiveScience#ModularMind
This is one of the most exciting and interesting papers I've worked on in a while. I was fortunate enough to have @EdgarDubourg as a collaborator to help bring this idea to life.
Vulnerability and the computational logic of fear:
insights from the horror genre
A short 🧵
🚨New in @BBSJournal:
"Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework" is out as a target article & now open for commentary proposals! Ever wonder why an environment once full of promise 🥰 can later feel constraining 😮💨? doi.org/10.1017/S01405… 🧵
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Behavior and learning in Apis mellifera.
Research on the evolution of cooperation and altruism.
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Behavior and learning in Apis mellifera.
Research on the evolution of cooperation and altruism.
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