🧠 Is your research still relying on Western participants? 15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by @JoHenrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples. In this paper, published in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that.

Recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. https://t.co/BNUfCKDZT5

As academic hiring season begins, search committees will again wrestle with the topic of faculty diversity. After years of these discussions, I’ve found they often skip the most fundamental question: Why does it matter? Diversity for what? New piece in Nature Reviews Psych 🧵w/🔗

Lupin spent five episodes mastering disguise and plotting impossible heists at the Louvre. Meanwhile, someone just walked in during daylight and did it.

🚨 New Chapter Preprint: Is Empathic AI Possible? W/ @firat_sekr & Aliah Zewail Many AI researchers treat empathy as something to engineer into machines. But empathy is shaped by culture and context. We must first accept that there is no single "human" empathy. @cam_lab_umass

If you know a 🚨 Scholar at Risk 🚨 please share! I am delighted to share that applications are now open for the MAXMINDS mentoring program. This initiative supports researchers who have been displaced, or are at risk of displacement, due to war or natural disasters, and who

Trying to figure out how future technologies will reshape behaviour and society is tough, but indispensable. In a new @Nature paper w/ @iyadrahwan & JF Bonnefon, we describe an experimental approach we call "the science fiction science method” (sci-fi-sci)

Thanks to Jean-Francois Bonnefon Molly Crockett @DoniecKatarzyna @JoHenrich Julian Jamison, @iyadrahwan Zoe Rahwan, and Azim Shariff for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of the article. @UniofExeter @UniofOxford @ethicsinthenews @mpib_berlin

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I also provide helpful tips and starting points to consider for each. Each method comes with trade-offs—whether in cost, scalability, or cultural nuance—but together they offer practical routes to make behavioural science more globally representative.

I present a range of strategies, from targeted site selection, to public-facing serious games (e.g. Moral Machine) and team-driven collaborations, as well as more scalable or accessible methods such as social media recruitment, third-party panels, and leveraging historical data.

Looking forward to presenting and meeting everyone there

🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango ( https://t.co/nyTTUInkbs), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months https://t.co/fZr6MJQrWF

How do we choose between protecting nature & meeting human needs? Exploring this through our Citizen Science project #LastHaven @EdmondAwad 's letter to the editor: https://t.co/jjFq24Orec Take part▶️ https://t.co/IPrdg4PxrW #antitheses #ethics #Philosophymatters

New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organization of families (kin-based institutions) shapes our psychology. @MohammadAtari90 @slingerland20 @KevinHong1991 @JF_Schulz

How do we choose between protecting nature & meeting human needs? Exploring this through our Citizen Science project #LastHaven @EdmondAwad's letter to the editor https://t.co/FUUiwfiYYn Take part▶️ https://t.co/1Rbxx0GjRQ #CitizenScience #antitheses #landuse #housing #ethics

That’s exactly what we explore in Last Haven: 🌍 https://t.co/dHJ6CiC0Fy #LastHaven #conservation #planning #housing #biodiversity #publicopinion @ANTITH3SES @Ethox_Centre @juliansavulescu @ethicsinthenews @mgreinecke @UniofOxford @UniofExeter

These trade-offs are not just about land use—they reflect real choices about what we protect, what we sacrifice, and whose interests we prioritise.

It responds to their recent article revealing that over 5,000 English nature sites are at risk under new planning proposals: 🌱

Glad to see that @guardian published my letter on one of the most urgent dilemmas we face today: how to balance housing needs with protecting nature. 📄