Socioecological and cultural psychology. Inequality, guns, & bootstraps aka why America is strange. Asst prof at Wisconsin-Madison. Tweets are not my own.
Joined December 2009
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16 Aug 2022
Who owns guns in America today, and why? We argue White Southerns responded to the emancipation of Black Southerners by buying firearms, and this culture continues: slavery in 1860 predicts today's gun ownership in the US South.
Now out at @PNASNexus : academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
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29 Jul 2024
@UWPsych @UWMadison is hiring 2 social psychologists, one TT (deadline 9/15/24) and one tenured, open rank (deadline 10/08/24)! Info here: psych.wisc.edu/psychology-de…
RT far and wide! @SESPcon @SPSPnews @SASstudents @affectScience @SPSSI
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14 Aug 2024
Come join us, and I'll take you sailing!! (Plus do some very cool science with very cool colleagues in a very cool department)
29 Jul 2024
@UWPsych @UWMadison is hiring 2 social psychologists, one TT (deadline 9/15/24) and one tenured, open rank (deadline 10/08/24)! Info here: psych.wisc.edu/psychology-de…
RT far and wide! @SESPcon @SPSPnews @SASstudents @affectScience @SPSSI
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1 Aug 2024
Are political conservatives better off? It depends how you define it: while conservatives tend to report happier and more meaningful lives, this isn't true of folks living a rich interesting life.
New paper w/@Shige_Oishi @samjheintz @NickButtrick, now in press at JRP 🧵
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6 Mar 2024
Our March issue is online! Why birds are smart, vagal signals and goal-directed behavior (@glassybrain @cornu_copiae), what LLMs can tell us about human cultures (@NickButtrick), and more: cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
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23 Jan 2024
Gotta read it carefully, but I love the idea proposed here... Decent
23 Jan 2024
What can ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) tell us about people? As a collection of compressed cultural artifacts, LLMs potentially allow for the study of culture at a massive scale. But caution is needed. 1/n 🧵
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What can ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) tell us about people? As a collection of compressed cultural artifacts, LLMs potentially allow for the study of culture at a massive scale. But caution is needed. 1/n 🧵
Now out at TiCS
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23 Jan 2024
Understanding how given groups are represented in the broader culture is still interesting of course, but it is not necessarily the same as understanding ground-truth differences in how groups understand the world themselves. 9/10
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15 Nov 2023
Come work with my amazing colleague! @SPSPnews @SASstudents
15 Oct 2023
With #SESP wrapping up, it’s a good time to say I’m hoping to recruit a grad student (or 2!) this year! If you’re interested in guns, culture, or novels/reading, please reach out - I’d love to hear from you and chat about Madison.
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15 Oct 2023
With #SESP wrapping up, it’s a good time to say I’m hoping to recruit a grad student (or 2!) this year! If you’re interested in guns, culture, or novels/reading, please reach out - I’d love to hear from you and chat about Madison.
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13 Oct 2023
“What is it about fiction, about poetry, about narrative that makes it so powerful? …that makes philosophers think of mass murder?” - @NickButtrick on Plato
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13 Oct 2023
Does what we read shape our worldviews? People who read more literary fiction growing up exhibit more complex worldviews (eg attributional complexity, lower essentialism) as adults - @NickButtrick
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