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Social Psychologist working on mental health outcomes in a large residential treatment facility. Interested in science reform, emotions, psychophysiology, and applying dynamic systems to psychology.

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adanvers, to psychology
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New blog post! I wrote about making art as emotion regulation. I connect it to expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal, from James Gross's work.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202405/art-as-emotion-regulation

@psychology.grup.pe

adanvers, to tech
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According to this pitch deck, Open AI would be paid to feature certain publishers' info more prominently. Open AI gets to train on contemporary data from the publisher, the publisher gets links from their website promoted by the AI results.

This suggests that AI replacing search will not improve it, but just further a trend towards more "paid placements" in search results.

https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-preferred-publisher-program-deck/#

adanvers, to psychology
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Nice review of the evidence for banning phones in schools. This reviews huge studies across numerous countries. The big takeaway: there’s no effect on children’s outcomes. According to the latest evidence, cell phone bans don’t work.

https://theconversation.com/we-looked-at-all-the-recent-evidence-on-mobile-phone-bans-in-schools-this-is-what-we-found-224848

adanvers, to random
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What a banger from Teen Vogue! They are coming for NYT as the place to get the true story. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/cops-dont-belong-at-campus-protests-oped

adanvers, to psychology
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Nice piece in Nature warning against Jon Haidt’s new book on screen time and mental health. The case he is making for screen time is not supported by the evidence, but it’s something that seems plausible and people will be happy to believe. Recently, it seems like these kinds of loose, associative stories are winning out over careful reads of the evidence.
@psychology @psychology

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

adanvers, to psychology
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New blog post! It's about research done by a student in my first undergrad social psych class!

New research identifies three predictors of who is interested in sex with robots... and the factors really say something about human values.

@socialpsych @psychology https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202403/whos-most-interested-in-sex-with-robots

adanvers, to psychology
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Nice figures here on confidence intervals for t-tests.

"It is only when the statistical evidence against the null is overwhelming — “six sigma” overwhelming or more —that you’re also getting tight confidence intervals in relative terms. Among other things, this highlights that if you need to use your estimates quantitatively, rather than just to reject the null, default power analysis is going to be overoptimistic."
@psychology https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/03/07/relating-t-statistics-and-the-relative-width-of-confidence-intervals/

#Psychology #Research #Stats

adanvers, to psychology
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Very nice interview with Pete Etchells about his upcoming book on "screen time" and moral panics around technology.

Working at a mental health facility, my colleagues and I sometimes talk about this as something to discuss with patients (and maybe do psycho-education on). But I think it's worth trying to figure out if it's a problem at all. The story is definitely not going to just be "screens are bad!"
@psychology https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/its-down-you-be-more-reflective-around-screen-use

adanvers, to psychology
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In my first undergraduate social psychology class ever, I taught Connor! Now he's publishing awesome stuff about attitudes towards sex-bots!

"My inkling is that social sexism relates to robot sexuality, inherently," Leshner said, explaining sexists might prefer robots specifically because they're less than human. "... If (some) men are more interested in sex robots because they're less human, then how do they view women?"
@psychology

https://www.thestar.com/business/technology/sexist-men-may-be-more-likely-to-be-robosexual-form-sexual-relationships-with-robots-ontario/article_b85716d6-dd5d-11ee-8511-7f4aef1ad3c8.html

adanvers, to psychology
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For baseball fans: research suggests complaining to umps gets you more favorable calls.

"After being excessively criticized, home-plate umpires (N = 110 adults, employed in the United States) were less likely to call strikes to batters from the complaining team and more prone to call strikes to batters on the opposing team."

@psychology
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976241227411

adanvers, to psychology
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The "you are not immune to false information" effect:

"Results indicated participants were able to detect outliers. Nevertheless, participants’ estimates were still biased in the direction of the outlier, even when they were most certain that they detected invalid information. ... These findings suggest that individuals may incorporate invalid information they meant to ignore when forming beliefs."

@psychology

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241231571

adanvers, to psychology
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Interesting new study in Psych Science:

"inhibitory control predicted a shared or general psychopathology dimension, but not ADHD-specific, anxiety-specific, or irritability-specific dimensions. Inhibitory control also showed a significant, selective association with global efficiency in a frontoparietal control network delineated during resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging."

@psychology

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976241231574

adanvers, to science
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A new defense fund is being set up for scientific whistleblowers!

"We realized there didn't exist a legal defense fund for whistleblowers of research frauds. We decided to set one up so we can operationalize the legal support for scientific whistleblowers in partnership with University Impact, a 501(c)3 organization heavily involved by university students."

There is also funding for student journalism!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-scientific-integrity-fund-yun-fang-juan-bbkic/

@psychology
@socialpsych

adanvers, to psychology
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New blog post! I discuss the intersection of loneliness and attachment theory!

@psychology
@socialpsych
@socialscience
@socialsciences

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202402/understanding-loneliness-by-exploring-connection

adanvers, to psychology
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New blog post! I review a dynamic systems model of pursuing happiness. Zerwas and Ford find that the system of happiness and goal pursuit can potentially lead to paradoxical effects. Pursuing happiness too intensely can make you less happy!

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202401/systems-thinking-and-how-pursuing-happiness-backfires

@psychology
@socialpsych

Colarusso, to internet
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Don't Be Evil, TL;DR: @pluralistic explores the enshittening of the internet, where online services have become increasingly terrible, and argues that it's not due to moral decay but rather the result of institutional actions and the erosion of competition. He emphasizes the importance of fighting for a new, good internet that prioritizes human liberation.

https://locusmag.com/2023/11/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-dont-be-evil/?utm_source=pocket_saves

adanvers,
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@Colarusso @pluralistic great piece! We need to restructure incentives so that the “don’t be evil” side can win corporate arguments. That means collective action, not blaming bosses for being bad people.

adanvers,
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@qkslvrwolf the idea of a less punitive approach, where we try to acknowledge the conversations being had in a capitalist system, is actually more appealing to me. It's good to remember that a lot of Google employees want a free and open internet, even if the institutional structure--and the meta-structure of capitalism--push them away from that goal.

This video made me think more about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKOYmE7oRCQ

futurism, to random

Gen Z Kids Apparently Really Hate Sex Scenes in Movies https://t.co/4LCJDP9uOA

adanvers,
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@futurism the part about wanting to see more romance and relationships feels like a really positive development, actually! Movies aren’t giving realistic depictions of what to expect in a sex life, but they are better equipped to show healthy relationships.

brianklaas, to random
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If you poison the information pipeline to voters, you can kill democracy — it relies on informed consent of the governed, built on a shared sense of reality. That shared sense is splintering in ways that are tearing apart our societies, often based on widely held delusions. Musk made it way worse.

adanvers,
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@brianklaas the problem is figuring out where to go next. What is the way to stay connected and have “live updates” from real information? Feels like it’s harder to piece together a good information diet.

adanvers, to psychology
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New blog post on loneliness and time spent alone in daily life!

This provides insights into how loneliness and time spent alone change in relation to gender, age, and relationship status (single v partnered).

One finding: it's not about gender. It's about age and relationships.

We also found that the relationship between being alone and loneliness is different across the lifespan.

@psychology
@ejp
@socialpsych

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202310/understanding-age-and-loneliness

adanvers, to nuclear
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"A majority of Americans (57%) say they favor more nuclear power plants to generate electricity in the country, up from 43% who said this in 2020.

"Americans are still far more likely to say they favor more solar power (82%) and wind power (75%) than nuclear power. All three energy sources emit no carbon."

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/18/growing-share-of-americans-favor-more-nuclear-power/

adanvers, to China
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"Given these precedents, there is a growing apprehension that Wu's digital silence signals a new chapter in China's human rights transgressions–one in which the LGBTQ community potentially emerges as the newest target of state-led oppression, in keeping with global trends."

https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

adanvers, to random
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Newsroom raids are rare in the United States, said Lynn Oberlander, a First Amendment attorney.

"It's very rare because it's illegal," Oberlander said. "It doesn't happen very often because most organizations understand that it's illegal."

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-county-kansas-police-raid-first-amendment

adanvers, to Neuroscience
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New blog post on Psychology Today!

I'm finally reading Pessoa's The Cognitive-Emotional Brain, and I wrote a brief essay on it. I'm staying pretty high level, even though the book is pretty detailed and technical.

I hope to write a few posts on general thoughts as I read through it. I wish I'd gotten to it in grad school, because there's a lot of thoughtful analysis there!

@psychology
@neuroscience
@PessoaBrain

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202307/thinking-versus-feeling-in-the-brain

adanvers,
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@PessoaBrain @psychology @neuroscience yes, I am actually getting a copy the The Entangled Brain soon! I really appreciate the work you’ve done. I feel like it’s helping me trace out debates in the literature that I haven’t read about. I hope it encourages some people to look into the book!

adanvers,
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@teixi @PessoaBrain @psychology @neuroscience awesome! Thanks for pointing me to this podcast. I used to listen to Brain Science Podcast all the time, but I thought it had stopped being created. Great to see that it’s still going and interviewing innovators like Pessoa!

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