Our article (my first published paper) in @NatureHumBehav on the dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology is out! With @DrQueue @scottclaessens @ChrisGSibley and Ananish Chaudhuri.

Preprint of @acerbialberto and my chapter for the EHBEA textbook “Evolution, Culture and Human Behavior”. We harness the explanatory power of an evolutionary perspective to examine digital media’s effects on wellbeing, cooperation, misinfo, and politics.

RT @danwilliamsphil: Publishing tomorrow:

@Russwarne @eawilloughby They did not measure left-wing authoritarianism though. Left- and right-wing authoritarians share many cognitive traits so I'd be surprised if they did not also share similar levels of cognitive ability.

RT @JMchangama: 1/ THREAD 🧵Elite panic over A.I. disinformation and deepfakes in the EU elections was rampant. But did democracy drown in…

RT @acerbialberto: The right direction

RT @SteveStuWill: Meta-analysis: Levels of discrimination against different groups in studies where researchers send fake CVs to employers…

RT @glenngeher: “While some evolutionary psychology research focuses on adverse elements of the human experience, it would be…foolish to th…

@acerbialberto @GGCanto Haidt's focus is on girls' anxiety/depression. Hancock doesn't look at this & Godard shows actively using social media increases teen depression. The effect size is small but Haidt would argue it's big enough to be concerning & it'd increase for passive use among teen girls.

RT @acerbialberto: Excellent point. Vaccine-related flagged misinformation was 0.3% on Facebook (usual) BUT non-flagged vaccine-skeptical c…

@acerbialberto There don't seem to be any great meta-analyses that include longitudinal studies. See point 5.17 of this doc:

@acerbialberto Here's another meta-analysis: but see page 249 & 250 of Haidt's collaborative review doc

@acerbialberto Also have a look at this:

I agree with this: "Ultimately, both Haidt and his critics overstate their evidence. The former’s case isn’t strong enough to prove that iPhones “destroyed” Gen Z, but it also isn’t so weak that it can be dismissed as the mere byproduct of a moral panic."

Did a New Study Show that a Norwegian "Ban" on Smartphones Helped Kids?, by @CJFerguson1111

Does social media usage really make people miserable? Fact-checking claims about the psychology of Facebook | Popular Culture Series | the InMind blog | In-Mind

"I go to work each day and see what adolescents are really up to on their devices," @candice_odgers writes. "And it turns out that the story behind teen social-media use is much different from what most adults think."

RT @mnvrsngh: Experts who write fearfully about misinformation often depict humans as gullible saps whose zombie minds are infected by lies…

@PiotrMarczyski @mathver Did you get access? We did not.

Happy to be starting as a postdoc working on how to increase engagement with reliable information online, with @acerbialberto

RT @danwilliamsphil: New essay: I argue that misinformation is often better viewed as a symptom of deep societal problems rather than their…