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Eric Neumann

4 months

My @TEDx talk is out!! The scariest and most vulnerable moment of my PhD is now available online. Ft. latest trust research, personal backstory, and, naturally, a pic of me with the Justin Bieber haircut. Why Your Struggles Aren't a Burden to Others:

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

We talk about how academia leads us into long-distance romantic relationships. But friendship also becomes long-distance. It can be hard to stay friends with people who live far away, and to make new friends, to open up to new people, every time you move.

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

Work-life balance does not mean strategically taking time off to regain energy to do more work later to prove one's worth as a person.

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Eric Neumann

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4 years

What is the best academic writing tip you ever received?

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

"Why don't you become a prof in 🇩🇪?" Government is now planning a law where you can only postdoc for 3yrs. Then become prof, or you are out. Except there are no professor positions. We call this verschlimmbessern: trying to make a bad situation better, but making it worse.

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

Top 10 science-based books that have reduced my cynicism about human nature. (I used to be very cynical!) No particular order. 1. Sam Bowles - The Moral Economy A society built on the cynical idea that people are selfish will paradoxically *increase* self-interest.

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

608 PhD students were studied during their first year of grad school. Those from lower SES backgrounds felt less integrated as they struggled to make academic friends, lost non-academic connections, felt misunderstood inside and outside of academia.

SPSSI Journals

Students from lower socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds can experience stigma in undergraduate educational settings but little research on this topic has been conducted at the PhD level. Lower-S...

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

Poverty can lead to support for authoritarianism if it promises social re-inclusion.

It’s (a) Shame: Why Poverty Leads to Support for Authoritarianism - Jasper Neerdaels, Christian...

The literature has widely discussed and supported the relationship between poverty and support for authoritarian leaders and regimes. However, there are differe...

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

I feel like academia is often portrayed as an all-serious business. Especially on Twitter. To provide some balance: What is the funniest thing that happened to you as an academic?

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

Now published: This study followed 1 Mio Reddit accounts that posted at least once over 18 months. What % of accounts posted at least one toxic comment? It's... only 3%. But these accounts are overly prolific, producing 33% of all Reddit comments.

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

To get into a PhD program in the US, it is often extremely helpful to have postgrad research experience. Yet, those positions are almost entirely unavailable to international students. Please consider this when i-students apply for a PhD position.

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Eric Neumann

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1 year

Insightful overview of how people justify doing horrendous things. Distrust/cynicism provide one justification. It's easier to do terrible things if you believe that others would do the same, and that those who wouldn't are naive and beneath you.

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

You often hear: "Older people are more cynical. They've been around the block, and they no longer wear rose-colored glasses." However, in the ~15 studies I have run this last year, NOT A SINGLE TIME have I found evidence for this. Usually, cynicism DECREASES with age.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

A prof in the department never responded to my email. Now I am taking her class. Today, she accidentally opened her inbox and had 177,000 unread emails. It's so hard to remember that "no response" often means "I am busy," rather than "I hate you, so I deliberately ignore you."

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

10 months

I'm unsure how to feel about people these days. So I read >150 books in 2023 to find out. My 10 favorites below, no specific order. Note: Some are.. more uplifting than others. 1. How Fascism Works. Jason Stanley. Way too accurate, way too relevant.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

Why are there no psychology museums? There could be well-designed charts, exhibitions on different topics and fields, validated tests for adults and kids, social rooms for those needy to belong, cafés that only serve marshmallows, inflatable growth mindset height scales...

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

What is your biggest pet peeve in academic writing?

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

Have you ever made your writing more complex to signal your intelligence? Don't. It has the opposite effect. "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly" - Daniel Oppenheimer

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

5 years

I am BEYOND MESMERIZED to announce that I will be joining @StanfordPsych as a PhD STUDENT this fall!! As a first-gen student, this is 500 dreams coming true at once, and I absolutely can't wait to join @StanfordSNL and start research with the amazing @zakijam ! 🥳😱😭

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

Lots of content about how hard, unrewarding, painful, exhausting a PhD is. Good to know, but also a bit terrifying for people like me who start their PhD... in a month! So, what's something about pursuing a PhD that turned out BETTER than expected?

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

FIRST FIRST-AUTHOR PAPER ACCEPTED!! 🥹 @zakijam and I argue in Trends in Cognitive Sciences that people easily get trapped in a cynical mindset. People can overestimate others' self-interest, create it through their expectations, or overstate their own to not appear naïve. 1/6

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

More new evidence in Nature Human Behavior for the contagious nature of distrust. Perceiving an institution as corrupt undermines trust in complete strangers (not affiliated with the institution!) This in turn reduces prosocial behavior.

Corrupt third parties undermine trust and prosocial behaviour between people

Nature Human Behaviour - Across five studies, Spadaro et al. show that perceiving representatives of institutions as corrupt is associated with lower interpersonal trust and prosocial behaviour...

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

Replicated across 116k lies: Most people are honest most of the time. The majority of lies are told by a few prolific liars. Once more, a widespread antagonistic behavior is driven by a small group of prolifically antagonistic individuals.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

Seems like a good day to finally put up that flag in my bio. 🏳️‍🌈

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

My research participants are doing a much better job at explaining public goods games than I ever could.

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Eric Neumann

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1 year

Once again, own trustworthiness predicts perceived trustworthiness of others. Liars often assume that others are lying too, and this distrust makes them more lonely - even when their lies are never detected.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

10 months

New meta-analysis across 158k people: Believers of conspiracies tend to be deeply cynical about others, while feeling quite narcissistic about themselves or their co-conspirators.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

11 months

I have mastered the arts!

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

First ever in-person poster... done! Here is a PDF if you couldn't make it.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

The academic ideal of moving wherever the job market takes you is hard to reconcile with the fact that you might only be comfortable being openly LGBTQ in so many places.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

This stunning book has not received enough attention. Saul Kassin asked the world's leading social psychologists to write about their life & research journey. Pillars of Social Psychology, one story more compelling than the next, now finally published:

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

Communal narcissists are people who see themselves as the kindest, most generous people ever. Once more, research finds they are actually *less* kind, and people usually do not like them. No surprise to me - I mean, these items make me want to throw up.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

"If a major point of yoga is quieting the ego and reducing focus on self, why are there so many yoga pose pictures on Instagram?" Showing off about being more authentic than others might just mean you are an authentically narcissistic person. @sbkaufman

The Science of Spiritual Narcissism

Self-enhancement through spiritual practices can fool some of us into thinking we’re evolving and growing when all we’re growing is our ego

www.scientificamerican.com

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

My first paper is now officially published! AND my wonderful RA @migloo16 is graduating from college today!! Ahh!!!

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

Grad school application season! Time to share the top 3 worst pieces of advice I got when I was applying. 1. "Don't worry about department culture. It's all about research." No, mental health is also a thing. Also, a competitive workplace makes you LESS productive.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

Another enormous loss for the field. Al Bandura passed away last night at the age of 95. Up until the day before his passing, he was working on his "Farewell Book." Below article from 2006 paints a nice picture of the person behind the big name.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

1 year

Why is there so much hate? These days, I often think back to this paper from '22. Hating a group can give people a lot. It can even give them meaning in life, i.e, a purpose to fight "them," and a clear, coherent understanding of the world.

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

I think about this paper a lot. Kindness is reciprocated in like measure, while selfishness is reciprocated more extremely. That might be why revenge often escalates, and "an eye for an eye" is more of a restraint than anything else.

Reciprocity Is Not Give and Take: Asymmetric Reciprocity to Positive and Negative Acts - Boaz...

Unlike economic exchange, social exchange has no well-defined “value.” It is based on the norm of reciprocity, in which giving and taking are to be repaid in eq...

journals.sagepub.com

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

Lee Ross just gave his last lecture - after 52 years as a professor. "My hope is that I have motivated you to have deep, important discussions, lasting hours into the night. Good luck to everyone joining the field and goodspeed to you all."

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

We underappreciate the skills required to communicate your science in English AND your native language. When I talk about my research in German, I sound like a 2 year-old. In English, at least I sound like a 4 year-old.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

Imposter syndrome has many faces. Have lately been feeling guilty for enjoying my PhD so far, when so many people (esp. on Twitter) really seem to hate everything about the experience. A PhD is often portrayed as terrible, so am I not working hard enough if I enjoy mine?

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

I just had my fellowship extended, now covering the full 5 years of my PhD!! This will give me financial certainty longer into the future. As a first-gen student, I cannot express enough how much this means to me... 🥲

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

One of my favorite findings of all time. Let me restate it: "Selfish, deceitful, and aggressive individuals were no more likely to attain power than were generous, trustworthy & nice individuals.”

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

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A 14-year study finds good news: “Selfish, deceitful, and aggressive individuals were no more likely to attain power than were generous, trustworthy & nice individuals.” While the assertiveness of jerks helps them, it is undercut by a lack of generosity!

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

One day, I will write a paper consisting 100% of GRE advanced vocabulary. It will be the first and last time I ever use those words, but it will be quite an unreticent lachrymose tome.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

10 months

Qualitative data: people say owning pets boosts their well-being. Quantitative data: no effect.

The Perks of Pet Ownership? The Effects of Pet Ownership on Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic...

Pet ownership has often been lauded as a protective factor for well-being, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. We expanded this question to consider how ...

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

Someone mentioned this in class and now I cannot stop thinking about this. What if we're not only overgeneralizing from WEIRD populations, but also forget we live in a particular time as a species? We can hardly sample participants from the past, certainly not from the future.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

A prof once ran into me in a dining hall. He joined me for lunch. He devoured his food in 3 minutes, sweating like he was having a heart attack, left. Responding to my shock at his speed, he said "publish or perish!" Was a great teaching moment. Teaching me what not to become.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

1 year

What a cool new pre-print by @josh_c_jackson , @kurtjgray et al. As people's social networks become more complex, they see others' moral character as increasingly unidimensional: good vs bad. This makes people more accurate at predicting who cooperates.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

Can bookstores stop equating the Psychology section with Deepak Chopra and Tarot Card readings?

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

New key paper on norms by David Kalkstein, Greg Walton, et al: "Beyond simply shaping what people do, we argue that norms constrain what behaviors even come to mind as options, effectively excluding counternormative behaviors from consideration."

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

My first-ever publication!! Ahhh!!! 🥳 (This is where I thank my mom for things, right? 🙃) Read about how markets impact how we see each other: do we think others are more prosocial in market settings, or less prosocial? Answer: Both! It's complicated. 1/2

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@zakijam

4 years

Thrilled to share a short review co-authored with @ericneumannpsyc and @DeanBalti on "market cognition." Markets and their accompanying ideologies, e.g. neoliberalism, dominate modern life. How do they affect our sense of ourselves and each other? 1/

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Eric Neumann

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1 year

What is the link between temperature and prosocial/antisocial behavior? Some argue: heat facilitates aggression. Others argue: warmth primes prosociality. New review and meta-analysis argues: no link whatsoever.

British Journal of Social Psychology | Wiley Online Library

Research from the social sciences suggests an association between higher temperatures and increases in antisocial behaviours, including aggressive, violent, or sabotaging behaviours, and represents...

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

Wow! New paper: social learning is not created equal. We copy first and foremost those who are in our group, even using minimal group paradigms. Group membership matters more than perceived warmth and competence. Explains lots of inefficient behaviors..

Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a...

Surprisingly little is known about how social groups influence social learning. Although several studies have shown that people prefer to copy in-group members,...

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

Vulnerable narcissists feel like misunderstood geniuses, people whose greatness is unrecognized by others. New paper finds they have more FOMO, leading to more addictive social media use.

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Eric Neumann

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4 years

I'd love to see a Youtube channel where academics react to new papers.

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

Telling PhD students to be more productive despite their anxiety about the job market is like telling poor people to save money so they can exit poverty.

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

"I'm first-gen." "Oh, it must be tough not having intellectual discussions with your family!" What. Step-dad just called me all excited, mouth still stuffed with food, because he has been thinking about my work, and wanted to share an insight that turned out to be brilliant.

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

One of many nails in the coffin of the Stanford Prison Experiment: selection bias. Participants who sign up for a "study of prison life" show higher levels of aggression, authoritarianism, narcissism & lower levels of empathy and altruism.

Revisiting the Stanford prison experiment: could participant self-selection have led to the...

The authors investigated whether students who selectively volunteer for a study of prison life possess dispositions associated with behaving abusively. Students were recruited for a psychological...

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Eric Neumann

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4 years

In the daily hassle of grad school, it can be easy to lose sight of what a privilege it is to be in academia. I will never forget the moment I realized for the first time there exists a job where I get paid, in part, to just think about stuff I find interesting.

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Eric Neumann

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7 months

Well, this is surreal. Honored, excited, totally not nervous to announce I'll be revealing my trust issues, sorry trust *research, on the @TEDx stage on Stanford Campus on April 20!

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

People in the Stanford Prison Experiment probably acted out of control because they only used 10 percent of their brain, exclusively in the right emotional hemisphere.

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Eric Neumann

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1 year

"High status predicts better health." New study replicates this only in US-American men. In Japanese men, high status predicts LOWER health. In the US, status is seen as a license to do whatever. In Japan, it is seen more as a burden and responsibility.

When High Subjective Social Status Becomes a Burden: A Japan–U.S. Comparison of Biological Health...

High subjective social status (SSS) is believed to protect health in the current literature. However, high SSS entails social responsibilities that can be stres...

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

Birds of a feather flock together. Or so we think. New paper finds that we trust someone less when they have untrustworthy friends, even if they consistently behave kindly.

Social interactions unfold within networks of relationships. How do beliefs about others’ social ties shape—and how are they shaped by—expectations about how ot...

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

Incoming PhD students have asked me how to "prepare" during the summer before their 1st year. If you WANT to, go prepare. But don't feel guilty if you do not do anything for now. Consider this time as a chance to breathe & to think about what you want to get out of grad school.

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Eric Neumann

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10 months

Cynics might be grumpy, but at least they won't get fooled. Right? Study finds cynics are WORSE at detecting liars than high trusters. When people do not trust, they get little training data on who can be trusted.

Not Pollyannas: Higher Generalized Trust Predicts Lie Detection Ability - Nancy L. Carter, J. Mark...

This research used a job interview context to investigate the relationship between peoples’ degrees of generalized trust—their default assessments of the likely...

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Eric Neumann

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3 years

What is a good example of somebody voluntarily giving up power?

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2 years

"Do we praise altruistic acts because they produce social benefits or because they entail a personal sacrifice? Across five studies, we find that people mainly rely on personal cost rather than social benefit when evaluating prosocial actors."

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2 years

My new paper with @zakijam is now officially published online @TrendsCognSci ! Being cynical is painful, and yet many people are cynical. We argue social psychology can explain why: it is easy to get stuck in a cynical mindset. 50 days free full access:

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Eric Neumann

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9 months

A few hyperactive social media users are shaping our politics. Their activity makes them seem like opinion leaders and shapes what content is suggested to everyone, hyperactive or not.

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

A young, confused academic is about to review their very first paper. Anyone have any advice on good reviewing practices?

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

Nutpicking - maybe the most useful concept I have learned recently.

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Eric Neumann

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4 years

Got my brain scanned today. I expected many things, but I did not expect it to look like my cat.

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

@dggoldst German language is good at coming up with words. German bureaucracy is good at coming up with ideas so stupid they need their own words.

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2 years

"Online trolls just want to be included!" Feeling excluded has no relationship with trolling. Being sadistic (r = .48) and psychopathic (r = .49) does. Replicating previous work that "trolls just want to have fun":

Troll story: The dark tetrad and online trolling revisited with a glance at humor

Internet trolling is considered a negative form of online interaction that can have detrimental effects on people’s well-being. This pre-registered, experimental study had three aims: first, to...

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Eric Neumann

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2 years

We hear about trolling all the time, so it is tempting to cynically conclude: many people are trolls. But much trolling is driven by a small group of highly antagonistic people. Depending on the measure, sadism alone correlates w/ trolling at up to .71!

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Eric Neumann

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1 year

More and more claims are being filed to ban LGBTQ books. 🏳️‍🌈 But the majority of 1,000+ claims were filed by just 11 people! Let's not understate the power of a few individuals, also in creating a (self-fulfilling?) misperception that *lots* of people oppose these books.

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Eric Neumann

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4 years

It has been found that the German word for social distancing, "Mindestabstandsregelung," is itself 6feet long.

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Eric Neumann

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4 years

Never really understood why many Chinese friends avoid Chinese food in the US until someone offered me, a German, a beer cheese superjumbo pretzel along with my chicken Schnitzel, delivered with Bavarian folk music in the background.

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After months of back and forth, I now successfully landed in the US and just arrived on campus!! I'll have one day to sleep and then I'll finally get started @StanfordPsych . 🥳 No idea what awaits me, but I will for sure look back at this moment many many times.

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When overconfident people receive years of accurate, precise, public, and continuous feedback, do they become more humble? New pre-print: No. Bonus replication: those with the least skills were the most overconfident.

Overconfidence persists despite years of accurate, precise, public, and continuous feedback: Two...

Overconfidence is thought to be a fundamental cognitive bias, but it is typically studied in environments where people lack accurate information about their abilities. Tournament chess players...

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Eric Neumann

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New longitudinal study analyzes nearly 1 Million toxic Reddit accounts. "Abusive accounts themselves make up just 3.1% of all accounts, but make up 33.3% of all comments to Reddit." Plus ideas for reducing toxicity.

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I had anxiously scheduled a podcast for next week with the rather impressive and busy Carol Dweck. She now learned I'm on vacation then. She just reached out to reschedule, telling me to fully take time off, to enjoy "a wonderful trip home". This made my day. #worklifebalance

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Eric Neumann

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Publishing a paper is fun. Infinitely more fun is seeing my family, all without a college degree, print out a terrible Google Translate German version of my paper, and receiving occasional messages from them raising brilliant points in response.

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"My group always fights for the poor and oppressed!" Enter the concept of communal collective narcissism. People who claim to belong to the nicest group ever are actually not so nice when an outgroup member questions their alleged moral character.

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3. "Your research interests should be the same for all schools. Have them figured out." You have not even started grad school. You should not have everything figured out. Also, people have multiple interests. Life is complicated. You are a hero for even applying this year.

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3 years

I'm always impressed when someone remembers details from a paper they read 20 years ago. I can barely remember details from the paper I wrote a year ago.

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Money is a bigger motivation for individuals in WEIRD cultures. Interesting because WEIRD countries tend to already have more money. But they also have more of a "market mentality of exchanging time and effort for material benefits."

The motivating effect of monetary over psychological incentives is stronger in WEIRD cultures

Nature Human Behaviour - Monetary incentives were found to be more motivating than psychological interventions for individuals in the United States and the United Kingdom, compared with individuals...

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2 years

I'm sorry but I will have to drop everything I had planned since I just learned that there is now a video recording of @mollycrockett and @JoHenrich and @ThuptenJinpaLa talking with the DALAI LAMA about cultural and moral psychology. 🥲

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Just got an invite to participate in a "Stanford Prison Project." 👀 Had a mild shock, but then realized it's a project to discuss an academic topic of my choice with prison inmates. Fantastic project, unfortunate project title.

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Eric Neumann

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"We sponsor visas." THANK YOU. A few words that mean so much. I-students looking for pre-doc positions are often immediately disqualified because they would not get a visa. No matter how brilliant they are. And it's often hard to get a PhD position w/o pre-doc research...

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I'm hiring a pre-doc to work with me at @StanfordGSB on Industrial Organization and Applied Micro projects starting Fall '22 I'm lucky to work with an amazing group, which is the best part of my job. Apply to be part of the team :) We sponsor visas!

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"Grad school is like every day could be a Saturday. Only that you also work on weekends."

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@EricNeumannPsy

4 years

Applying to grad school is intransparent and often unfair. What I found most helpful was NOT browsing forums or even chatting with profs. It was talking with grad students. Please reach out WHENEVER and I'm happy to chat with you! Feel it's the same with many other PhD students

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

New paper on improving academic work-life balance: "Studies show output of working hours to not increase linearly after a threshold and absence of a rest day to decrease output, as long hours result in errors and accidents, fatigue, stress, and sickness"

Ten simple rules to improve academic work–life balance

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

New paper asks: what happens when conspiratorial individuals vote for their preferred candidate - and see them win? Answer: it reduces their conspiracist ideation (CI). Suggests CI seeks to fulfill social motives to belong to a successful group.

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

Faculty at prestigious institutions dominate scientific discourse. Why? It's not because they have more inherent talent. It's because they have more funding to hire grad students and postdocs.

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@_szhang

2 years

1/ Excited to share our new paper "Labor advantages drive the greater productivity of faculty at elite universities" in @ScienceAdvances with @hneutr @danlarremore @aaronclauset : Why do faculty publication rates increase so much with prestige? Let’s go:🧵

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

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3. Corruptible. @brianklaas . Terrific blend of political science and psychology. Is a hunger for power born or made? Good or bad? Why do we keep electing terrible people? Maybe we should stop doing that?

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

Jamil Zaki, Carol Dweck, and I have been working on TRUST MINDSETS - lay views about how trust works - and how those mindsets impact when and whom we trust. Visit my SPSP poster or come chat about trust, cynicism, podcasting... some other time. DM me!

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

2 years

Is social media comparable to a Skinner Box, just with humans and not rats? New in Nature Communications: "Our results consistently show that human behavior on social media conforms qualitatively and quantitatively to the principles of reward learning."

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

Everyone knows the trust game. But have you heard of the distrust game? Game in a nutshell: A can steal any amount from B's endowment (0-5$). How much is B willing to pay to not play the game? Finding: People are too cynical. 1/3

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Eric Neumann

@EricNeumannPsy

3 years

Attending my first-ever dissertation defense. Also there - the student's entire family. Last part of the defense - the mom defending certain baby pics of the daughter, highlighting "how much she has grown." Please tell me every dissertation defense is like this. 🥲

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