Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90 Twitter profile

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Mohammad Atari

4 months

We (w/ Josh Jackson) are very excited to announce the Special Issue “Historical Psychology” to be published at CRESP. Send your papers our way! Deadline: 9/1/24

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

6 years

In conferences: Measurement matters. 👏 Replication studies matter. 👏 Non-WEIRD samples matter. 👏 In reality: A measurement replication in a non-weird sample gets “desk-rejected” in 6 journals.

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Mohammad Atari

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3 years

Going beyond WEIRD samples has been a “Future Direction” for a decade.

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Mohammad Atari

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1 year

🚨Out today! 🚨 In our new paper @PNASNexus , we show that moral language (especially purity- and loyalty-related language) is concomitant with hateful rhetoric and exclusionary language. Morality and hate go hand in hand (in language).

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Mohammad Atari

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10 months

🔔 New working paper! 🔔 WEIRD in, WEIRD out.

Joe Henrich

@JoHenrich

10 months

Computer scientists seem unaware of global psychological variation. WEIRD in WEIRD out. Check out our draft here @asifa_majid

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Mohammad Atari

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11 months

I am humbled and thrilled to announce that I’ll start as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UMass Amherst in the fall. @UMassAmherst @PBSUmass

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Mohammad Atari

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3 years

Dear Editor, It’s ok that you decided to desk-reject our paper with 3 pre-reg’ed studies incl. a non-WEIRD sample because some of our pre-reg’ed hypotheses were not confirmed! BUT, while I appreciate recommending alternative outlets, this condescending note was unnecessary:

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Mohammad Atari

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11 months

Our paper on culture and morality is out in JPSP. 1/7

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Mohammad Atari

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2 years

🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 Morality Beyond the WEIRD: How the Nomological Network of Morality Varies Across Cultures We present the Moral Foundations Questionnaire-2 (MFQ-2). W/ @JonHaidt , J Graham, @SenaKoleva , S. Stevens, and @MortezDehghani THREAD 1/20

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Mohammad Atari

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2 years

Cognitive science was not the future of psychology. Neuroimaging was not the future of psychology. And, computational social science won’t be the future of psychology. Psychology is the future of psychology. #RadicalOpinionThursdays

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

3 years

Our paper titled “Morally Homogenous Networks and Radicalism” is out in SPPS. Overall, in 5 studies, we find that individuals in morally homogeneous environments, especially social media, are more likely to resort to illegal/violent means “for the group."

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

10 months

My lab at University of Massachusetts Amherst ( @cam_lab_umass ) will be recruiting a Ph.D. student in social psychology for fall 2024. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in culture, morality, and/or computational methods.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

1 year

Our new paper (with @JoHenrich ) is out in Current Directions in Psych Science.

Joe Henrich

@JoHenrich

1 year

Check out our new piece on Historical Psychology; we explain why and how... @MohammadAtari90 @StevenHeine4 @slingerland20 @JonHaidt @David_S_Wilson @leraboroditsky @PsychoSchmitt

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Mohammad Atari

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9 months

About 6 months ago, I was on a 12-hour flight and was not only bored, but also frustrated with some GPT applications in some psych papers. So, I began drafting a critique of "GPTology" — the unjustified reliance on LLMs in psychology. The preprint is out:

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

New paper out! We (w/ Jesse Graham & @MortezDehghani ) examined the foundations of morality in Iran! To appear in the upcoming Special Issue of @HumBehEvoSoc edited by @JoHenrich & @corenapicella & Ara Norenzayan. 1/10

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Mohammad Atari

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4 years

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

JPSP must have been fun in the 1990s.

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Mohammad Atari

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1 year

🚨 Introducing a new theory-driven text-analysis tool: Contextualized Construct Representation (CCR) A new method that combines the predictive power of language models with psych theories (and measures). Thread 1/n

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Mohammad Atari

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1 year

New paper.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

10 months

🚨 Out today w/ @JonHaidt Ownership is (likely to be) a moral foundation "We caution against ignoring cultural variation in ownership norms and against explaining complex, contested moral phenomena using a monist approach." Commentary on an excellent piece by @PascalBoyerUSA

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Mohammad Atari

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1 year

We (w/ @Ali0mrani ) are doing a hands-on workshop on *theory-driven* text analysis in psychology at @SPSPnews . We'll cover our upcoming #rstats package and more. You won't see a single word-cloud or any mention of ChatGPT in the entire workshop, I promise!

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

As surprising as it may be, a grad student’s job—either teaching or research—needs focus and peace of mind. How can one focus on their research design, data analysis, writing, presentations, and class materials, if they are not sure what’ll happen to them tomorrow. #StudentBan

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

2 years

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 In this working paper, @JoHenrich and I review the benefits of psychology as a historical science, and highlight how text analysis can help us better understand and explain psychological differences across time and space. Short THREAD 1/3

PsyArXiv-bot

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2 years

Historical Psychology

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Mohammad Atari

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1 year

A friendly reminder to fellow moral psychologists who've gotten excited about GPT: language models have been outperforming dictionaries (and word embeddings) in detecting/labeling morality (and emotions) for a while...

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

Has anyone read a replication paper where Western researchers replicate an effect that was originally found & reported in a non-Western culture?

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

🔴New Preprint Alert! We (/w @MortezDehghani ) examine how hate and incitement to violence work in more than 24 million posts on Gab, an unmoderated social media platform which you have probably heard a lot about these days. A THREAD. 1/7

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

“Privilege includes who gets to decide what research questions are important, as well as who gets to become a research participant” (Medin, 2017)

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

1 year

Our cross-cultural work on interpretations of difficulty, especially perceiving difficulty as character-building and an opportunity for self-betterment, is (finally) out in PSPB! All credit to @EdScientists , @DOyserman , and @gkipsss .

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

2 years

Our recent paper is out in CRESP.

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Mohammad Atari

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1 year

Our paper, "Hate Speech Classifiers Learn Normative Social Stereotypes", is now out in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

3 years

This is an amazing review of text analysis in psychology, by @berendennedy @AshuAshok @DrRyanBoyd @MortezDehghani

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3 years

Text Analysis for Psychology: Methods, Principles, and Practices

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Mohammad Atari

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1 year

Thanks to everyone who came (and my apologies to those who had to sit on the floor). This was so much fun! #SPSP2023

Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

1 year

We (w/ @Ali0mrani ) are doing a hands-on workshop on *theory-driven* text analysis in psychology at @SPSPnews . We'll cover our upcoming #rstats package and more. You won't see a single word-cloud or any mention of ChatGPT in the entire workshop, I promise!

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Mohammad Atari

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4 years

This is my own favorite part 😉

Science on Religion

@SciOnRelOrg

4 years

Beyond #WEIRD morality: How Iranian ideas about honor and #morality differ from those in the West, and what this says about the evolution and behavioral ecology of human values: @HumBehEvoSoc @MohammadAtari90

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Mohammad Atari

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2 years

Happening right now: @improvingpsych hackathon on Global South perspectives in psychology at #SIPS2022 ! I’ll be talking about WEIRD stuff. W/ many interesting perspectives by @SakSGhai @cris_esalvador @AdeyemiAdetula1 @hcp4715

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Mohammad Atari

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9 months

Just arrived! Excited to dive in! @psmaldino

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Mohammad Atari

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5 years

This is a very important paper: The first psycho-lexical study to attempt to capture (and replicate) the WEIRDly found structures in a non-WEIRD language (Farsi). 12000 words -> 1300 descriptors -> 147 items. Agreeableness was not found! Instead a religiosity factor emerged.

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Mohammad Atari

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4 years

Iranians to Europeans who have been “banned” for *30 days*

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Mohammad Atari

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6 years

Our new preprint on bodily representations of moral concerns showing that, among other things, liberals and conservatives feel moral violations in "different parts of their body." All credit goes to our wonderful team @aidaa @MortezDehghani

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Mohammad Atari

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2 years

I wrote a short piece on our recent paper on morally homogeneous networks on social media and radicalism. I’ll be presenting this + new data in the Psych of Media and Technology pre-conference on Feb 17th at #SPSP2022

Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism - Mohammad Atari, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Drew Kogon,...

Online radicalization is among the most vexing challenges the world faces today. Here, we demonstrate that homogeneity in moral concerns results in increased le...

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology

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2 years

New #SPSPblog : Moral Echo Chambers Breed Radicalization by @MohammadAtari90

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Mohammad Atari

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3 years

Does experiencing difficulty make you grow stronger? In our new work (led by @EdScientists ) we show that people’s responses vary across cultures. Endorsing “difficulty-as-improvement” is associated with conservatism, religiosity, virtues & karma. W/ Daphna Oyserman & @gkipsss

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3 years

Difficulty-as-improvement: The courage to keep going in the face of life's difficulties

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Mohammad Atari

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5 years

Maybe some big journals should stop desk-rejecting not-generalized, not-bold papers. Maybe.

PNASNews

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5 years

The tendency of scientists to favor generalized, bolder claims in their research may sacrifice precision and could potentially have the unintended consequence of spreading misinformation, according to a new study. In PNAS:

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Mohammad Atari

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4 years

In my biased opinion, Computational Psychology’s (and Computational Social Science’s) biggest problem is not “big data” sharing or “deep learning” or data access. It’s theory. I’ll write a review paper/opinion piece on it, if this tweet gets 2M likes.

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@MohammadAtari90

4 years

It would be great if we were more cautious with using the word “people” in psych papers, especially when samples are college students, WEIRD people, etc. It’s quite hard, and somewhat ridiculous, to talk about “people” with a sample of 90 college students.

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Mohammad Atari

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9 months

My lab according to AI:

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Mohammad Atari

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4 years

gentle reminder that @SPSPnews will be online this year, which means we can actually hear from researchers who cannot travel to the US due to travel ban(s). If you are preparing a symposium, please consider inviting researchers outside the US (and Canada and Europe and Australia)

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Mohammad Atari

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3 years

One of the most persistent types of discrimination I’ve seen is anti-Afghan discrimination in Iran. There are about 2.5 million undocumented Afghan refugees living in Iran (total population ~ 85 million). There is almost no empirical social psychological work on this issue.

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Mohammad Atari

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5 years

“Privilege includes who gets to decide what research questions are important, as well as who gets to become a research participant. It may be that the quickest way to study population diversity is researcher diversity.” (Medin, 2017, Pers. Psych. Sci.)

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4 years

very important! Having non-WEIRD participants is not enough. Our research questions should be reconsidered. Having non-WEIRD researchers who are not hesitant to ask non-WEIRD questions can enhance our understanding of human psychology. And Editors who care about such questions.

Hu Chuan-Peng | @hcp4715.bsky.social

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Now we started the first to de-weird our research: including more participants in our research. The next step would be: asking research questions from non-weird perspectives.

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Isn't something missing in the title? like... "In the U.S."?

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Mohammad Atari

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4 years

These are the ten most populous countries accounting for 58% of human populations, according to Wikipedia. How many of these countries/cultures do you think are represented in Psych Science Editorial Board?

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

3 years

SPSP is, for all intents and purposes, a U.S./Canada organization. They/we sometimes say nice things about being international too. The reason that many *people* don’t get vaccines these days is that they don’t have access to it!

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3 years

Biggest predictor of vaccine hesitancy is partisanship. I didn’t know being a republican works in France and New Zealand as predictor? #spsp2021

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4 years

It’s not humble to say you’re humble. So, it’s humble of you to say you’re not humble, but also you would be lying which humble people see as unhumble. Good luck measuring humility using self-reports.

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Mohammad Atari

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11 months

Academic institutions: "We deeply care about mental health! We can help!" 👏👏👏 Academic: "OK, I'm navigating a mental health challenge." Institutions: "Sure... You still need to publish 5 high-impact papers, finish those revisions, and join 3 committees this year!"

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2 years

🔔 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! Come join our first “Historical Psychology” preconference at @SPSPnews Drop me a line if you have any questions!

Joe Henrich

@JoHenrich

2 years

SPSP Preconference on Historical Psychology led by @MohammadAtari90 . In addition to economists, sinologists, historians, classicists and anthropologists we even invited some psychologists!! @StevenHeine4 @slingerland20 @azimshariff @aiyanakoka @diyclassics @_MaxPosch_ @MeVarnum

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3 years

Great to see this in print: “Introducing the Gab Hate Corpus: Defining and applying hate-based rhetoric to social media posts at scale” If you are interested in studying hate and prejudice in language, this corpus is right up your alley.

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Excited to announce that our multi-year, many-collaborator paper “Introducing the Gab Hate Corpus” (GHC) is now published and available online at Language Resources and Evaluation

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Mohammad Atari

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4 years

One of the cool social psychology findings is that how you ask a question shapes people’s answers. Another cool social psychology finding is that who asks the question shapes people’s answers.

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1 year

We are very excited for a get-together of Iranian Behavioral Scientists at @SPSPnews We are aiming to meet on Friday, Feb 24th, time & location TBD. When2meet: Please let me or @NazaninKFP know if you have any questions. More updates soon! #SPSP2023

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4 years

Even psychology of #coronavirus is WEIRD.

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Mohammad Atari

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9 months

Here are a few:

Alice Evans

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Dayooth and Ghayrah are fundamental concerns for many people, yet I struggle to find a single book or article discussing its history and cultural evolution. cc @JoHenrich @mmuthukrishna

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4 years

I'd like to highlight three points: (A) I do believe that researcher diversity is quite important, as is sample diversity, but the former receives less attention (see Medin, 2010, 2017). WEIRD social scientists = WEIRD social science. 8/10

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-Unlike in many WEIRD countries, Moral Foundations Questionnaire does not do well in Iran (at all). -The network of moral foundations differ between Iran and the US. -MFQ scores are not comparable between Iran and the US. 3/10

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4 years

Hello Reviewer #3 : Thank you for this comment: "This is among the most impressive psychology manuscripts I have ever read." You made my day! (ps: the paper was rejected "because theory")

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4 years

@SPSPnews is creating a new award called the “International Bridge-Building Award” for researchers from “underrepresented regions of the world”. Good. BUT an eligibility criterion is being already an “SPSP member”. That’s not how bridges work. This crierion should be waived.

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Check out our new work (led by @aidaa ) combining “classic” social psychology theories of stereotyping and new #NLProc methods in automatic detection of hateful/violent texts online. NLP needs social psych theory and social psych needs NLP methods.

Morteza Dehghani

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3 years

In 3 studies, we assess the role of social stereotypes in the detection of hateful language by examining the relation between individual annotator biases and erroneous classification of texts by hate speech classifiers @aidaa @MohammadAtari90 @berendennedy

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Based on theoretical work, especially Relationship Regulation Theory ( @tage_rai ), we now break the Fairness foundation into two distinct constructs: Equality and Proportionality. So, MFQ-2 has 6 subscales. 3/20

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"As AI makes its way into more areas of our lives, rooting out implicit bias is more crucial than ever", says USC computer science student Aida Mostafazadeh Davani. @USCViterbi @nlp_usc CC: All computational psychologists.

USC Student Develops AI Tools To Tackle Hate Speech, Hate Crimes - USC Viterbi | School of Engine...

As AI makes its way into more areas of our lives, rooting out implicit bias is more crucial than ever, says USC computer science student Aida Mostafazadeh Davani.

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Just realized I won’t ever be able to call my future lab (hypothetically) the “Atari Lab” because people would assume I study video games. Maybe I should?

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This is a fantastic collection of chapters on language analysis in psychology! Must-read for all who want to do theory-driven NLP in social sciences and digital humanities. Edited by @DrRyanBoyd @MortezDehghani

Morteza Dehghani

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2 years

Look what arrived in the mail today! I was excited to finally see this! @DrRyanBoyd @guilfordpress #SPSP2022

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PsyArXiv bot v2

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Should large language models replace human participants?

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A 103-year-old woman has survived the #coronavirus in Iran. She has fully recovered and is "doing very well" according to her doctor.

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On a hot day in summer 2018, @berendennedy and @aidaa and I talked about how we can “see” morality in language, as we were sipping on iced coffee. The result just came out today. Thanks to @MortezDehghani for patiently putting up with us in this project (and others!).

Morteza Dehghani

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We show 1. Moral concerns are observable in language 2. This signal is differential: each moral domain maps onto a distinct linguistic signature 3.Exclusive moral lang is not a great predictor of individuals' moral concerns @berendennedy @MohammadAtari90

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This was the most trans-disciplinary group of people I have met in one room. A one-in-a-lifetime experience.

Joe Henrich

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10 months

Our workshop on the new field of historical psychology. Fantastic group of historians, classicists, economists, psychologists, data scientists and one wayward cultural anthropologist. Held in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. @WalterScheidel @JF_Schulz

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This paper was a part of my PhD dissertation, and I really wanted to go beyond the WEIRD! Thanks to @MortezDehghani for supporting me in this, taking sample diversity seriously (and acquiring funding for this expensive project!). 4/20

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3 years

Conclusive evidence that “happiness” is decreasing universally: I look forward to a desk-accept at pnas.

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I’m happy this paper is out today in Nature Communications, though the 21-month review process was quite peculiar. Amazing, as always, to have worked with @JoeEHoover , @aidaa , @berendennedy , @missloveleigh , and @MortezDehghani Short summary below: 1/7

Morteza Dehghani

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3 years

After 3 editors, 6 reviewers & 5 revisions, after our text analysis of Gab was removed by editors post-review process along with references to “conservatives”, and after the Peer Review file was censored, a whitewashed, butchered version of our paper was published @NatureComms

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An important trade-off between depth and breadth to think about. Although there are many (&I mean MANY) good things about many-culture studies, they are potentially prone to test WEIRD ideas/models without adequate cultural contextualization & considering within-cultural nuances.

Patrick S. Forscher | @psforscher.bsky.social

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4 years

@MohammadAtari90 @NeilLewisJr Perhaps one unfortunate side effect of the current wave of many-culture studies is that they gloss over some of the nuances necessary to time a measure to one culture (unsure if I believe this; thinking it through)

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In two nationally representative surveys of American adults, masturbation and hookups were not associated with unmarried men wishing to be married, while pornography use was robustly and linearly associated with a *higher* likelihood of wanting to be married.

Samuel Perry

@profsamperry

4 years

Just out! Might shock some. Contrary to arguments that "low-cost sex substitutes" make single men less eager to marry (based on an exchange theory of gender & sex behavior), I find porn use linearly predicts a GREATER desire to be married for single men.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

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Academics be like: A: Congratulations on your new paper! B: Thank y... A: By the way, my paper was also published last week.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

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I will be hiring a PhD student for Fall 2024 at the Culture and Morality Lab (🐫). I will soon announce hirings at other levels. You can follow the lab’s news and announcements on Twitter: @cam_lab_umass

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

5 years

Yes yes yes! WEIRD researchers are a part of the WEIRD system of research. There is a non-zero number of non-WEIRD researchers out there, some of whom are working on this very problem. SURPRISE!

Mark Brandt

@mjbsp

5 years

Similarly, giving researchers from nonWEIRD countries a platform in The Atlantic (not to mention our own journals...) could help build the necessary networks.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

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Puritanism needs purity, and moral psychology needs pluralism.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

2 years

Importantly, we found that not only _endorsement_ of moral foundations varies across populations, but also its psychometric network is culture-dependent. Please say goodbye to the _universal_ individualizing-binding taxonomy of moral concerns as it may be WEIRD. 8/20

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

2 years

Finally, we have substantially updated @YourMorals_org . And, our central measure is MFQ-2 now. Give it a visit (and get your scores!): Feel free to contact me if you need more info! Thanks. FIN. 20/20

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

When you are the only one who used the #SPSP2021 template slides on a symposium:

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

All measures _can be_ translated to other languages. All cognitive tasks _can be_ implemented in other cultures. But it’s important to note that, in Medin’s language, “privilege includes who gets to decide what research questions are important & who gets to become a participant”.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

(B) Qualitative work (especially in non-WEIRD contexts) is cool and can uncover things that you never would have thought. (C) Descriptive studies are absolutely needed in social/personality/evolutionary/cultural/moral psychology (see Rozin, 2001). 9/10

Social Psychology and Science: Some Lessons From Solomon Asch - Paul Rozin, 2001

This article presents a methodological critique of the predominant research paradigms in modern social psychology, particularly social cognition, taking the app...

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

We found that Qeirat values are about protecting, supporting, devoting, & loving mate, family, female kin, and country. If you are interested to learn more about this construct please check out this amazing preprint by @pooya_rzv et al: 7/10

Gheirat as a Complex Emotional Reaction to Relational Boundary Violations: A Mixed-Methods Invest...

People from different cultural backgrounds vary in how they define, perceive, and react to violations of relational boundaries. Muslim cultures are diverse and include nearly one in four people in...

osf.io

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

2 years

🚨 We are hiring a postdoc! Join our team at @HarvardHEB at the intersection of history, psychology, and Natural Language Processing (PI: @JoHenrich & @JF_Schulz ). Description below. Reach out if you have any questions.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

“Behavioral researchers themselves are mostly from WEIRD countries. A recent study, for example, tells us that three ZIP codes in the United States account for more than 50% of the research published in top-five journals of economics.”

Hans Rocha IJzerman

@hansijzerman

4 years

“In the top six APA journals, 68% of the samples studied are drawn from the United States, and 96% from WEIRD countries.”

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

In some countries, that is a Full Professor’s annual income.

nature

@Nature

4 years

The journals will charge authors up to €9,500 to make research papers free to read, in a long-awaited alternative to subscription-only publishing.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

6 years

A very cool application of text analysis in mating psychology research by @antlee53 , @Ben_C_J , and @LisaDeBruine . This paper advances our understanding of mating-relevant self-concepts using a data-driven approach in a real-world setting. Code publicly available on OSF.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

5 years

Computer scientist: I’m going to write a paper which might be relatively irrelevant in 10 years. The field is dynamic. I hope my preprint helps. Psychologist: My paper is going to explain human behavior over the last 70 million years and should be cited for the next 52 years.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

So we can put quotes at the beginning of papers, but not memes? sad!

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

every time

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

Another example: researchers from many underepresented regions of the world cannot pay the annual membership fee. Sometimes bc it’s big money in their currency, sometimes because there is simply no way to pay (eg, Iranians cannot use int’l credit/debit cards bc of sanctions).

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

3 years

It’s wonderful that some American/EU journal editors (& reviewers) are talking about taking 2-3 weeks off. Just a very gentle reminder that many academics/authors (in non-Western countries) don’t care about this time of year much.

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

4 years

Such an important project and a wonderful paper. I enjoyed reading the preprint in 2018, great to see it out in print in Psych Science.

Michael Muthukrishna

@mmuthukrishna

4 years

🚨Now out! Beyond WEIRD Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance Summary thread: 1/ The world is not WEIRD vs non-WEIRD. How psychologically and culturally distant is the US from Canada? China from Japan?

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Mohammad Atari

@MohammadAtari90

3 years

A summary of our recent work on how moral values can motivate hate crimes and justification of hateful acts against marginalized populations in the US.

PsyPost.org

@PsyPost

3 years

New research suggests that hate crimes are motivated in part by perceptions of moral violations

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