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New paper just accepted at @SciReports w. @hauselin + @minzlicht!🥳👀Cognitive Effort for Self, Strangers and Charity #scicomm #science #psychology. Building from work by @thepsychologist on physical effort 💪 we examined decisons to invest mental effort for self and others🧠.🧵

Participants repeatedly chose to invest effort or not in exchange for money for themselves, for a charity they selected, or for a stranger, making 75 choices for each. They then added a number (e.g. 3) to 4 digits for a higher reward 💰, or added 0 for a lower baseline reward 🪙.

On each trial, the target (...

We examined their revealed preferences to determine how participants subjectively valued their own cognitive effort when working for themselves, a charity, and a stranger. #econtwitter Like physical effort, people avoided mental effort, and were more willing to work for the self.

Proportion of trials where ...

Take note AEC Industry - integrating these principles w/in our own businesses, as well as the design/construction process itself, would go a long way to more effectively addressing the built environment's impact on inequity, health/wellness, & climate change.

https://twitter.com/David_S_Wilson/status/1296061017059991558

As this paper points out, we already integrate individual CDPs under different names w/in our organizations & during design/construction. Ostrom's framework provides a systemic means for more successfully integrating all of them. 2/

#Prosocial

Their implementation can facilitate "companies [becoming] solid citizens that hold each other accountable for contributing to the welfare of society." Arguably this is necessary for addressing the built environment's impact on inequity, health/wellness, & climate change. 3/

1/3: As we continue navigating the pandemic (likely for some time), looking at how we modify our built environments & how to operate them, assessing reoccurring policies of lockdown vs opening up, mask wearing, physical distancing, &...

#pandemic #COVID19 #prosocial #behavior

https://twitter.com/MaxBeilby/status/1267450343312502784

2/3: the inequities of the pandemic's impacts, it's important that we also listen to those who's expertise includes human behavior & the evolutionary underpinnings of that behavior.

This is important not just for addressing the immediacy of the pandemic, but re-imagining our...

3/3: post-COVID19 world across all aspects of society. The protests occurring in the U.S. & across the globe right now should demonstrate the desperate need for such a re-imagining.

Listen to the anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, cultural evolutionists, ...

1/6: A very smart interview of my favorite economist @MazzucatoM by @ezraklein

Confronting the myth of the market economy & how we define value are integral to more effectively & equitably addressing the pandemic & re-envisioning a post-#COVID19 world.

stitcher.com/podcast/vox/th…

2/6: @BranchPattern often used quantified estimates of productivity/health to help drive sustainable, healthy, & #prosocial decisions during the design/construction process.

However, this is sometimes less effective for school projects vs corporate office projects, as the...

3/6: salaries for educators are on average, disgracefully substantially less than for the corporate sector. We greatly undervalue the contributions of educators to society's ability to function & it's longevity.

While we often discuss the impacts on student learning when...

1/4: I agree, though it's not just architects, but the whole AEC Industry who must come together to help create a world in harmony w/ #nature, or the non-human built world. A world where the human social/cultural phenotype is adaptive for our long-term future & short term needs.

https://twitter.com/AIANational/status/1250830236398256128

2/4: The pandemic does provide an opportunity for this, & the AEC Industry must take action via education, application, advocacy, activism, & modeling behavior. linkedin.com/pulse/coronavi…

3/4: But it's not just our environments that must be aligned w/ human physiological, psychological, & social/cultural needs resulting from our evolutionary history, but also the design/construction process used to create them. #prosocial evolution-institute.org/blurring-the-l…

1/6: @Gardiner_Beth - you might find this @guardianeco piece interesting if you haven't seen it.

#AirQuality #ClimateChange #COVID19 #evolution #prosocial

theguardian.com/environment/ng…

2/6: There's a huge overlap in human actions contributing to both poor outdoor air quality & climate change. There's also a degree of overlap w/ human actions contributing to pandemics (as well as our ability, or lack thereof, to react to said pandemics).

3/6: So much of contemporary society, of our constructed environments, are mismatched w/ how our evolutionary history designed our physiological, psychological, & social/cultural systems to operate most effectively. That is if one defines "effectively" as equitable access...

1/4: If this is what we're really facing, then we need to recognize the opportunity in front of us to re-imagine our larger political, economic, & social spheres of interaction.

via @voxdotcom @B_resnick

vox.com/science-and-he…

2/4: We intellectually know significant changes in the status-quo are required to address climate change, the wealth gap, institutional racism, etc. We now have a situation where we must re-examine the nested hierarchical social, political, & economic systems...

3/4: within which our day-to-day occurs. If we don't, it will negatively impact our ability to maintain an average quality of life over the next 6 to 18 months that isn't significantly below current levels.

1/3: All good stuff, via @ArchDaily. But IMO the key is still how you facilitate the actual #prosocial decisions to pursue these steps on every project.

archdaily.com/935230/how-to-…

2/3: I've written about this at the individual project level here: evolution-institute.org/constructing-o… (particularly pp. 45-54),...

3/3: & here: evolution-institute.org/blurring-the-l…

And I've a forthcoming article in ArchDaily about our larger social, political, & economic spheres of interaction that often work against such #prosocial decisions/actions, & how the AEC Industry can work to make change at these larger levels

1/3: The 1st premise of @FutureEarth's D^2S agenda nails it, though I wouldn't use the word "perhaps". It absolutely is a social challenge more than anything else.

And I'd argue that the digital disruptors of the...

via @GreenBiz @ShanaRappaport

greenbiz.com/newsletter-30/…

2/3: 2nd premise are important components for contextually implementing, at larger scales, #Ostrom's principles for optimizing #cooperation within & between groups. I'd encourage @FutureEarth to look at what the @EvoInstitute institute is doing at Prosocial.world.

3/3: Take a look at the largest implementation of #Prosocial to date (to my knowledge) here: evolution-institute.org/evolving-a-sus…

And follow @David_S_Wilson

1/6: "Deep decarbonization is a global collective action problem." - Yes, exactly.

via @GreenBiz @MarkJaccard

#carbon #energy #policy #ksleg #ClimateAction #prosocial

greenbiz.com/article/carbon…

2/6: "If we say consumer behavioral change is essential, we again let politicians off the hook, enabling them to claim that they are waiting for that behavioral change." - Spot on.

"An intensifying global crisis, including mass migrations..."

#ksleg #carbon #energy #policy

3/6: "... of climate refugees, awaits us if we cannot quickly replace international wishful thinking w/ international realpolitik. An enduring global effort is unachievable w/out enforcement mechanisms that will be objectionable to some countries, at least initially." -Again, yes

1/5: Yes - much of GDP is rooted in the fallacy of Homo economicus that views "humans as agents who are consistently rational, narrowly self-interested, & who pursue their subjectively-defined ends optimally...

via @CollectiveEvol

#ProSocial

collective-evolution.com/2019/12/06/pri…

2/5: [w/ respect to these very narrowly defined factors]."

This limited view of humans, intertwined in many ways w/ the myth of the individual, has greatly contributed to our vast, growing wealth gaps, inequities in general, & #climatechange. It's decreased our...

3/5: long-term fitness levels as a nation & species.

Several years ago I conducted a small study that found, all else being equal, the more people who have a say in the decisions involved in a construction project (particularly earlier in the process), the more likely...

1/6: There’s much about this article I like. But I take issue with the framing of these revelations about collaborative behavior as “leaving the Darwinian consensus behind.”

via @Slate #prosocial #collaboration #cooperation #evolution

slate.com/technology/202…

2/6: #Cooperation and #competition are both evolutionary adaptive strategies – which one is primarily in play at a given level of selection depends largely on whether within group or among group selection forces are dominant at that level.

3/6: And the answer to that is influenced by host of contextual factors, complicated by the multitude of overlapping nested hierarchies of life on this planet (including humans).

One can also make the argument that #Darwin recognized the importance of group...

1/5: Interesting study, though outcome was also dependent on the specific experts engaged. The AEC Industry has a direct role to play in STE1 & STE2, though can also provide varying contributions to the other 4 STEs covered.

#ClimateAction #Prosocial

pnas.org/content/early/…

2/5: Near the end, the authors state the following: "We call on both social & natural sciences to engage more intensively in collaborative interdisciplinary research to understand rapid social transformations, STEs, & their interactions w/ tipping elements in the Earth system."

3/5: I would add this interdisciplinary research should be done w/in a multi-level selection evolutionary framework. Such approaches to economics, sustainability & prosocial behavior/decision-making, found at Prosocial World (prosocial.world), @EvonomicsMag, ...

1/5: 100% agree w/ Victoria Mills, Managing Director of
@EnvDefenseFund, an argument increasingly being made by others. I've been making similar arguments for the AEC Industry.

#ClimateAdvocacy #ClimateAction #Prosocial #Business

greenbiz.com/article/new-de…

2/5: quoting Andrew Winston: "The climate crisis is upon us, and there’s no time to wait for voluntary corporate action to tackle the challenge. We need the collective will that government provides. Many in business will rebel against this idea, but we are long past the point..."

3/5: "where free markets alone could solve the challenge in time (if such a possibility ever even existed)."

"We need a new benchmark to define leaders and laggards in 2020 and beyond: climate policy advocacy. In this critical decade for climate action, the real measure..."

1/3: Not surprising for those familiar with Elinor Ostrom's eight principles for forming collaborative groups (originally managing the commons), multi-level selection theory, or #ProSocial, or for many anthropologists in general.

via @InsightOnWork

workplaceinsight.net/workplace-goss…

2/3: Gossiping likely evolved as a type of graduated response to selfish & prosocial actions among our hunter/gatherer ancestors - something to discourage behavior that's unhelpful to the group & encourage helpful behavior (principle 5). At least that's one functional benefit.

3/3: Contextual occurrences start having negative consequences for a group/organization when it begins interfering w/ the other principles. For example, toxic forms of gossip that result in employee cynicism often undermine principle 1 - shared identity & purpose.

1/4: I particularly like the discussion of our need to use "...new models for financially servicing development that incorporate adaptive reuse, and new models for historic preservation that consider a conservation of energetics."

@MetropolisMag

metropolismag.com/architecture/n…

2/4: Such a shift requires that long term factors - long term costs & benefits that impact not just individuals & companies, but also communities & societies - outweigh narrow short term factors, like an organization's annual profit margins.

3/4: I've written elsewhere how the #Prosocial process, #Ostrom's 8 principles, quantifying health/productivity impacts, & quantifying the social costs of carbon, can help drive that in the AEC Industry. Many of the articles at @EvonomicsMag & @tvolmag are also good resources.

1/6: In the AEC Industry, as it is elsewhere, addressing social/environmental justice issues is also a fundamental component of addressing #climatechange.

via @MetropolisMag @okamoto__

#equity #socialjustice #architecture #urbanplanning

metropolismag.com/architecture/s…

2/6: "Social impact thinking—particularly at the community level—needs to be introduced in the early stages of forming a design brief, sometimes years before an RFP is even issued. And the power to form a brief that takes equity seriously lies disproportionately..."

3/6: "with the client, be it a developer, building owner, city agency, nonprofit, or foundation."

"#Equity can’t be an add-on; it actually needs to be foundational." - Jacqueline Patterson, director of the @NAACP's Environmental and Climate Justice Program.

1/6: "Meanwhile, progressive businesses will have to get better at collaborating with their rivals to drive industry-wide improvement, reckons Mike Barry, former director of Plan A at Marks & Spencer."

via @GreenBiz @MadeleineCuff

greenbiz.com/article/10-key…

2/6: "'The last decade has seen business ‘play' at collaboration on sustainable change,' he tells @BusinessGreen. 'Now it needs to get serious and collaborate with pace and scale to change the whole economic system, supply chains and consumer behavior.'"

This is one...

3/6: of the things that the #Prosocial process is geared to enable, as laid out at prosocial.world...

1/7: "Come-to-carbon moments" - whether or not the author coined the phrase, I like it.

via @ArchDaily

I've had a lot of those moments over the years, though for me it extends beyond a building's level of GHG pollution.

#architecture #ClimateAction

archdaily.com/931008/a-great…

2/7: It's more of a "failure to meet people's needs" moment. A "carbonated" building's contribution to #climatechange certainly falls into that category. So does poor IEQ, or controls that occupants or maintenance staff don't find useful.

3/7: Every time we're unable to adequately engage key stakeholders early on, account for the social costs of carbon, our evolutionary history, and productivity/health impacts during design, or conduct post occupancy evaluations, is a gut punch.

1/5: "... researchers concluded that simply engaging in a discussion about #climatechange with someone you trust & respect increased a person’s belief in the scientific reality."

via @GreenBiz @phillipberry

#trustthemessenger #prosocial #scicomm

greenbiz.com/article/holida…

2/5: Important to keep in mind for any controversial issue - having trust in the messenger & talking through the details contributes to understanding & finding common ground.

I wrote about this from a cultural evolutionary perspective here evolution-institute.org/blurring-the-l…, via @tvolmag

3/5: Here's a study finding social/cultural factors like trust have more influence on decision-making than technical knowledge. Specific topic was acceptance of wasterwater reuse linkedin.com/posts/marcel-h…

#trustthemessenger #prosocial #scicomm