The mere possibility of invoking Colombia’s “no sea sapo” social norm, which tells people to mind their own business, does not just offset but entirely counteracts social norm enforcement through third-party punishment.

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“Here, we—two early-career psychologists from Germany and India and one global health researcher from the UK who all conducted field work in LMICs—summarize key questions and concerns that we wish someone would have told us before conducting our research in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India”

Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time

"... individual-level analyses are needed to discern how specific cultural and ecological factors influence cognitive development."

w/ @frankiefong.bsky.social, Sarah Caldwell, Roman Stengelin & Daniel Haun

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What are commonly known as the six classic basic emotions do not reliably co-occur with their predicted facial signal.

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Deviations from preregistrations happen (pretty normal, IME), but how to best report those deviations?

This new template -developed from many sources, including a survey of editors- looks like a promising solution

📝 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

GDoc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The effects of temperature on prosocial and antisocial behaviour: A review and meta-analysis

'...we find little support for either the warmth-primes-prosociality view or the heat-facilitates-aggression view'

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Interested in studying the role of honor in interpersonal/group processes using comparative/historical approaches?

I have a ringfenced PhD scholarship open to applicants from anywhere. Please consider applying with relevant project proposals by 19/01/24

www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

The good, the rich and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance: http://osf.io/x75vw/

An anti-car rant by someone deliberately carless in Missouri.
How amazing is it that car deaths are often taken as this unmovable/necessary price we pay for societal structures. As if car deaths are this force of nature, or cars are something we cannot do without as a society.

Call for submissions now open!
SIPS 2024 will be held June 10-12 in Nairobi, Kenya. We will also offer an online post-event, June 19-20, 2024, which will build on the meeting in Kenya.

General information about SIPS 2024 and the submission portals is here: www.improvingpsych.org/SIPS2024/

This is a great response by ECRs to a paper that came out recently that didn’t include a single Ethiopian author, even though the research was done in Ethiopia. The last paragraph is 🔥. 🏺

Discussion Forum on my "Rethinking Norm Psychology", edited by @dryan149.bsky.social. 14 great commentaries by @duhe.bsky.social @evanwestra.bsky.social @kristinandrews.bsky.social @thepsychologist.bsky.social Molly Crockett, Kim Sterelny...#neuroskyence #philsky journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...