In conferences:
Measurement matters. 👏
Replication studies matter. 👏
Non-WEIRD samples matter. 👏
In reality:
A measurement replication in a non-weird sample gets “desk-rejected” in 6 journals.
Mohammad Atari
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Mohammad Atari
@MohammadAtari90
Assistant Professor of Psychology @UMassAmherst | Research Associate @Harvard | Director @cam_lab_umass
- Going beyond WEIRD samples has been a “Future Direction” for a decade.
- I’ll be recruiting one (or two!) Ph.D. student(s) to start in Fall 2025! My lab (@cam_lab_umass ) studies culture, cultural evolution, morality, AI, and historical psychology. Programming background is a plus, love for parentheses (and hyphens) is a must! Deadline: Dec 1st.
- 🔔 New paper out in @PNASNews 🔔 “Large Language Models based on historical text could offer informative tools for behavioral science” W/ Michael Varnum, Nicolas Baumard, & @kurtjgray
- 🔔 New working paper! 🔔 WEIRD in, WEIRD out.
Replying to @JoHenrichComputer scientists seem unaware of global psychological variation. WEIRD in WEIRD out. Check out our draft here psyarxiv.com/5b26t @asifa_majid - 🚨Out today! 🚨 In our new paper @PNASNexus, we show that moral language (especially purity- and loyalty-related language) is concomitant with hateful rhetoric and exclusionary language. Morality and hate go hand in hand (in language).
- I am humbled and thrilled to announce that I’ll start as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UMass Amherst in the fall. @UMassAmherst @PBSUmass
- Our paper on culture and morality is out in JPSP. 1/7
- My 'GPTology' paper, on perils and opportunities in using LLMs in social science, is now published in @PNASNexus academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…
- Dear Editor, It’s ok that you decided to desk-reject our paper with 3 pre-reg’ed studies incl. a non-WEIRD sample because some of our pre-reg’ed hypotheses were not confirmed! BUT, while I appreciate recommending alternative outlets, this condescending note was unnecessary:
- 🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 Morality Beyond the WEIRD: How the Nomological Network of Morality Varies Across Cultures We present the Moral Foundations Questionnaire-2 (MFQ-2). psyarxiv.com/q6c9r W/ @JonHaidt , J Graham, @SenaKoleva , S. Stevens, and @MortezDehghani THREAD 1/20
- Cognitive science was not the future of psychology. Neuroimaging was not the future of psychology. And, computational social science won’t be the future of psychology. Psychology is the future of psychology. #RadicalOpinionThursdays
- Our paper titled “Morally Homogenous Networks and Radicalism” is out in SPPS. Overall, in 5 studies, we find that individuals in morally homogeneous environments, especially social media, are more likely to resort to illegal/violent means “for the group." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
- My lab at University of Massachusetts Amherst (@cam_lab_umass ) will be recruiting a Ph.D. student in social psychology for fall 2024. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in culture, morality, and/or computational methods. blogs.umass.edu/matari/
