Assistant Professor @UCSanDiego @RadySchool. Researches Violence, Culture, Ethics. Views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of UCSD.
Jan 6, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I don’t know the folks pictured, and this isn’t intended as a personal attack, but I find this effort offensive, honestly, given that @SPSPnews censored their own conflict experts when they spoke out on Gaza, on grounds that the org is apolitical and ahistorical 1/
To recap, after oct. 7 SPSPnews put out a one-sided statement condemning “unprecedented Hamas attack”. When hundreds wrote a response letter describing the historical context and need for a ceasefire, spsp news refused to publish it on the open forum 2/ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Nov 7, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Some thoughts on "The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation" in @sciencemagazine today. Its the most theoretically ambitious paper I've encountered, maybe ever. 1/
@JF_Schulz @JoHenrich @DumanBRad jonathan beauchamp
science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…
About 10 years ago, Henrich et al. introduced the acronym WEIRD, to describe the Western college students that comprise most psychology experiments. Now WEIRD populations are notable because they really are weird. 2/
