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🚨New publication alert🚨 Our paper with @M_B_Petersen has been accepted at American Political Science Review @apsrjournal. "The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis". psyarxiv.com/hwb83/ Thread 🧵👇
@M_B_Petersen @apsrjournal There appears to be a public consensus that online discussions about politics are terribly hostile, more so than offline discussions. We show evidence of such ⭐️hostility gaps⭐️ from two representative samples in USA and Denmark. But why the large asymmetry? /2 
Prominent explanations emphasise a #mismatch between the evolved mind and the novel features of online communication environments: no non-verbal cues, no personal reputations (large networks, anonymous accounts, strangers hopping from one community to another). /3
There is gold in "unpublished" dissertations
According to #evopsych, it's not surprising that male tourists pay for sex with locals. What is surprising, as April Gorry found, is that women do the same. Is #evopsych wrong about women's mating psychology? In some ways, yes:
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According to #evopsych, it's not surprising that male tourists pay for sex with locals. What is surprising, as April Gorry found, is that women do the same. Is #evopsych wrong about women's mating psychology? In some ways, yes:
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2. White women tourists visiting the Caribbean and other warm-weather locales are stereotyped as sex-starved nymphomaniacs lusting after sexually potent dark-skinned men. Where did this myth come from?
3. Western tourist women often do enter into sexual relationships with local men in Belize, where Gorry did her fieldwork, and many other resort locations:
I’m sure this person thinks they’re being clever, but you know what, let’s do this: Newton WAS wrong. A thread on perspective, bias, and how our particular circumstance impacts our thinking. 1/x
I’ll start with the laws of motion. When Newton wrote these up, he was observing momentum. The concept of "energy" as we understand it today did not exist 2/x
One hundred years later, Émilie du Châtelet, dropped heavy balls onto soft clay from different heights and realized that Newton’s calculations were wrong. The force of impact depended something other than momentum. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mil… 3/x
