Andres Montealegre
@AndrsMontealegr
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postdoc at @YaleSOM, interested in judgment and decision-making and research methods.
Joined December 2012
David Lynch Dead at 78: The World’s Most Influential Filmmaker Redefined Cinema — and Became an Adjective
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David Lynch dead at 78 [Obituary]: Tribute to the most influential filmmaker of our time behind 'Blue Velvet,' 'Twin Peaks,' and 'Mulholland Drive.'
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Our new paper on why people love sad art The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
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🚨 Calling all PhD applicants 🚨 Are you applying for PhD programs in Management? Please consider applying for our program at @USCMarshall (Management & Organization), where applications are due December 15th. Details 🧵
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Just a math test? New article with Yigal Attali, Maya Bar-Hillel, @ShaneFs5cents, and the late @kahneman_daniel shows that the CRT’s predictive power comes from its ability to measure reflection. https://t.co/cBRbG1Seve
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We report the findings of an adversarial collaboration examining whether the cognitive reflection test (CRT) measures anything beyond mathematical ...
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A key lesson of the replication crisis is that a certain type of study just generally seems not to work I wrote a blog post trying to bring out the larger issues that arise from this result https://t.co/x8onORYvPW
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In situations of disagreement, signaling tolerance (by adopting relativism) is more effective. On the other hand, in contexts of agreement, signaling intolerance of disagreement (by adopting objectivism) is more advantageous.
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Previous research shows that people sometimes view moral questions as objectively true, while other times treating them as true only relative to different perspectives. In our new paper, we present evidence that social rewards may explain this apparent inconsistency...
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I was very struck by this new Moss et al. theory about why people sometimes endorse moral relativism Just wanted to say a little more to bring out what is so deep about this new idea
Studies find that some people espouse moral relativism, others espouse moral objectivism. What explains this mix? New Cognition paper with evidence for a surprising answer: People espouse relativism to signal tolerance, objectivism to signal intolerance https://t.co/8BiCdMawms
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This is a very common sentiment: people who have never subjected their hypotheses or forecasts to actual testing think that anything that seems plausible to them is completely obvious and couldn't be otherwise.
This is a perfect example of why so much social science is nonsense. You don’t need a study for this. Just ask anyone with a passing familiarity with marijuana: “hey do you think legal weed will increase the number of people who play video games and eat snacks all day?” Uh…yes?
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Studies find that some people espouse moral relativism, others espouse moral objectivism. What explains this mix? New Cognition paper with evidence for a surprising answer: People espouse relativism to signal tolerance, objectivism to signal intolerance https://t.co/8BiCdMawms
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Also relevant to the upcoming season of @RememberThisPod, coming in January!
On what would be her 95th birthday, dive into the sensational life story of Grace Kelly as told by @KarinaLongworth in this classic episode of @RememberThisPod. 🎞️ https://t.co/69HSoO61kG
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They really don’t get bigger than Quincy. What a career. RIP. https://t.co/0ybnzjo2Qq
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As I've said since the late 1990s, experimental games are designed, with cues of money and anonymity, to tap "impersonal social norms" NOT dispositional preferences. Probably a long thread coming...
@JeffreyVButler @ignaziano @giladfeldman (was also thinking of asking @JoHenrich , who has collaborated with Colin on the topic)
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Request: Are there examples of replications or studies examining whether results change when tested with a larger or different sample of stimuli?
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Happy to share our new paper!! Moral praise signals what is typical and expected, indicating that an action goes above the norms. Ironically, this could lead to decreases in people’s willingness to behave as prosocially in the future (1/4) https://t.co/FDYAy89J8J
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If you still use Excel to organize data and want to avoid common errors, make sure to read this paper by @kwbroman & @kara_woo: https://t.co/MeMzEXOthi
"Why Microsoft Excel won’t die" > because it has long been, and remains, the best piece of software ever written. I am always deeply sceptical of Excel haterz.
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tons of academics in the QTs explaining "but you don't understand, sampling on the dependent variable IS my research method!"
(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards...
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I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab at Brown! Please apply if you're interested in judgment and decision-making, social+cognitive psych, or using games/experiments/computational models to understand human behavior. Apps due Dec 1! More info:
davidlevari.com
Visit the post for more.
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Lay people and economists think *very* differently about markets. @akbhattasch & Jason Dana pick apart this discrepancy between expert and lay economic reasoning, and propose an evolutionarily rooted mental model to explain it, in this fascinating paper: https://t.co/2SiFlMA9U6
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