Joshua Conrad Jackson
@joshcjackson.bsky.social
Cultural evolution of the mind | Assistant Professor @ University of Chicago, Booth School of Business & Faculty Affiliate of UChicago Data Science Institute | He/his | https://joshuaconradjackson.com
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We're excited to announce the first Mind & Machine Alignment Summit at Ohio State!
Join leaders from social science and the AI industry to advance AI that promotes well-being and aligns with human values. Learn about emerging work and connect with leading researchers and builders.
Join leaders from social science and the AI industry to advance AI that promotes well-being and aligns with human values. Learn about emerging work and connect with leading researchers and builders.
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
We're excited to announce the first Mind & Machine Alignment Summit at Ohio State!
Join leaders from social science and the AI industry to advance AI that promotes well-being and aligns with human values. Learn about emerging work and connect with leading researchers and builders.
Join leaders from social science and the AI industry to advance AI that promotes well-being and aligns with human values. Learn about emerging work and connect with leading researchers and builders.
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Before the end of this year, I’m glad to share a short perspective/policy piece, recently out with @joshcjackson.bsky.social , Zhao Wang, and @williambrady.bsky.social: “Large AI Models Have a Prioritization Problem: Policy Implications and Solutions.”
December 31, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Before the end of this year, I’m glad to share a short perspective/policy piece, recently out with @joshcjackson.bsky.social , Zhao Wang, and @williambrady.bsky.social: “Large AI Models Have a Prioritization Problem: Policy Implications and Solutions.”
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Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Postdoctoral Researcher Positions!
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UPDATE: Americans who use
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%
Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%
Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
UPDATE: Americans who use
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%
Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%
Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
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Americans are growing more socially isolated and politically divided.
Our new paper in Applied Network Science suggests these two forms of disconnection may be linked. People with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity.
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Our new paper in Applied Network Science suggests these two forms of disconnection may be linked. People with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Americans are growing more socially isolated and politically divided.
Our new paper in Applied Network Science suggests these two forms of disconnection may be linked. People with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity.
🧵
Our new paper in Applied Network Science suggests these two forms of disconnection may be linked. People with denser, more connected social networks often feel less partisan animosity.
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Only 2 days left to get your abstracts in!
👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November.
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES
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November 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Only 2 days left to get your abstracts in!
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Thank you to @joshcjackson.bsky.social and Dan Medvedev for a fascinating recent lab presentation on how attitudes toward the rich vary globally! Innovative methods and fascinating findings, all around. @robbwiller.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Thank you to @joshcjackson.bsky.social and Dan Medvedev for a fascinating recent lab presentation on how attitudes toward the rich vary globally! Innovative methods and fascinating findings, all around. @robbwiller.bsky.social
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What happens when we model the detective archetype at scale? 🕵️♂️📚
Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627
Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What happens when we model the detective archetype at scale? 🕵️♂️📚
Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627
Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627
And last but not least, Obshonka and colleagues find that Roman rule explains puzzling variation in modern well-being differences across Germany
Ancient Roman investment in infrastructure may explain why Southwestern Germans are so happy and healthy today
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ancient Roman investment in infrastructure may explain why Southwestern Germans are so happy and healthy today
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
And last but not least, Obshonka and colleagues find that Roman rule explains puzzling variation in modern well-being differences across Germany
Ancient Roman investment in infrastructure may explain why Southwestern Germans are so happy and healthy today
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ancient Roman investment in infrastructure may explain why Southwestern Germans are so happy and healthy today
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Masui and Miyamoto next map out trends in collective emotions in Japanese songs, finding a rise in anxiety from 1970 to 2019 but a decline in sadness
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Emotions in Japanese song lyrics over 50 years: Trajectory over time and the impact of economic hardship and disasters
The present work investigated changes in collective level emotions and their socio-ecological predictors through analyses of song lyrics from 1970 to …
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November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Masui and Miyamoto next map out trends in collective emotions in Japanese songs, finding a rise in anxiety from 1970 to 2019 but a decline in sadness
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Kaur, Watts and Halberstadt posit a provocative hypothesis that the availability of local materials (e.g., clay versus rock) may have shaped the historical development of god concepts, with preliminary evidence from the database of religious history
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Building faith: the relationships between materials, form, and worship in pre-industrial religious architecture
Religious structures have traditionally been seen as reflections of beliefs and practices, yet their design may also shape religious behavior and thou…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Kaur, Watts and Halberstadt posit a provocative hypothesis that the availability of local materials (e.g., clay versus rock) may have shaped the historical development of god concepts, with preliminary evidence from the database of religious history
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Samani and Baumard map out trends in Romantic love in Persian literature from 10th century to 20th century CE. They find an increasing emphasis on romantic love over time, particularly during the Safavid era. This may reveal a link w economic development
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Samani and Baumard map out trends in Romantic love in Persian literature from 10th century to 20th century CE. They find an increasing emphasis on romantic love over time, particularly during the Safavid era. This may reveal a link w economic development
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fan and Baumard reveal new evidence of rising individualism over history, which suggests that wealth rather than Protestantism contributed to individualism
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Fan and Baumard reveal new evidence of rising individualism over history, which suggests that wealth rather than Protestantism contributed to individualism
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Niedenthal and Wohltjen review the varied emotional and personality adaptations to historical heterogeneity, synthesizing evidence from multiple fields
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Historical migration patterns and the evolution of culture
Cultures change, but new cultural systems and practices also emerge over history. The socio-ecological factors that exert pressure on human values and…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Niedenthal and Wohltjen review the varied emotional and personality adaptations to historical heterogeneity, synthesizing evidence from multiple fields
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
McClain and Kenny dig into the history of collectivism in Japan, conducting a pre-registered analysis of self-reported collectivism and tightness in the Japanese social survey and linking responses to historical subsistence patterns across Japan
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
McClain and Kenny dig into the history of collectivism in Japan, conducting a pre-registered analysis of self-reported collectivism and tightness in the Japanese social survey and linking responses to historical subsistence patterns across Japan
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@joannaschug.bsky.social leads a paper on gendered racial stereotypes. They show that the civil rights movement coincided with a rise in language about black men, but not black women
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@joannaschug.bsky.social leads a paper on gendered racial stereotypes. They show that the civil rights movement coincided with a rise in language about black men, but not black women
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mohammadatari.bsky.social and I begin with an editorial reflecting on the origins, current trends, and future of historical psych
The future requires strong causal identification and theorizing about how institutions can cement or change historical trends
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The future requires strong causal identification and theorizing about how institutions can cement or change historical trends
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@mohammadatari.bsky.social and I begin with an editorial reflecting on the origins, current trends, and future of historical psych
The future requires strong causal identification and theorizing about how institutions can cement or change historical trends
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The future requires strong causal identification and theorizing about how institutions can cement or change historical trends
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our "Historical Psychology" special issue is now out in CRESP!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Co-edited with @mohammadatari.bsky.social and featuring historical perspectives on love, racial identity, emotion expression, well-being, collectivism, religion, and more!
Brief 🧵
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On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
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This thicc 71-chapter book (academic.oup.com/edited-volum...) arrived just in time to use as the textbook for my new "Cultural Evolution" class I've just started teaching!
Featuring this chapter from @cailinmeister.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social & Jingyi Wu as well as much more including...
Featuring this chapter from @cailinmeister.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social & Jingyi Wu as well as much more including...
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This thicc 71-chapter book (academic.oup.com/edited-volum...) arrived just in time to use as the textbook for my new "Cultural Evolution" class I've just started teaching!
Featuring this chapter from @cailinmeister.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social & Jingyi Wu as well as much more including...
Featuring this chapter from @cailinmeister.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social & Jingyi Wu as well as much more including...
Adam Smith wrongly predicts that celebrity wages will drop once people begin to like celebrities
(Wealth of Nations was published in 1776)
(Wealth of Nations was published in 1776)
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Adam Smith wrongly predicts that celebrity wages will drop once people begin to like celebrities
(Wealth of Nations was published in 1776)
(Wealth of Nations was published in 1776)
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How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone?
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
October 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone?
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
Our new preprint, led by
@anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social
shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
Only two days left to apply!
🚨Historical Psych Pre-Conference🚨
We have a great lineup of speakers for the #SPSP2026 edition!
Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23 (link below!). Open to folks from any career stage
Any research on psychological change or historical context of social psych is welcome!
We have a great lineup of speakers for the #SPSP2026 edition!
Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23 (link below!). Open to folks from any career stage
Any research on psychological change or historical context of social psych is welcome!
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Only two days left to apply!
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Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
You can submit applications here: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...
Please share with any students/colleagues who are not on bluesky but have relevant work!
Please share with any students/colleagues who are not on bluesky but have relevant work!
2026 Preconference Submission Portal
Use this submission form for all preconference submissions. Select your preconference first as this may change submission fields. The submission guide can be found here .
You may submit to multi...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You can submit applications here: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...
Please share with any students/colleagues who are not on bluesky but have relevant work!
Please share with any students/colleagues who are not on bluesky but have relevant work!