Who should have a voice in a just society? 🗳️ Our new JEP:G paper finds that young children and adults believe voting should be for everyone—not just the elite or the most capable. But being morally bad is seen as a fair reason to lose this right. https://t.co/gvq71WDBEt

🧵 What makes someone truly devoted? @FanYangUChicago and I uncover a key behavioral cue: rejecting alternatives. People perceive greater devotion when someone actively turns down other options—but not all rejections are equal. Here’s what we just published in @JournalPHP: 👇

The study was led by former PhD student Kevin Wei, and we are grateful for insightful feedback from Dr. Alex Shaw, Dr. Jane Risen, and Dr. Boaz Keysar @KeysarLab

New paper online! Despite a competitive world, we find children and adults view social resources like love and trust as renewable and non-zero-sum. Recognizing renewability reduces zero-sum belief, offering hope for a world where we can thrive together.😀 https://t.co/E3i5TFI5A5

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member @ghezae_isaias and in collaboration with @FanYangUChicago explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind

Is the purpose of a life at all related to the purpose of a knife? They seem totally different. Yet, 3 large experiments (total N = 13,720) revealed a striking degree of similarity in purpose judgments across domains https://t.co/VDzxX5OBQh

New paper with @PearlHanLi "Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Children Appreciate Reasoners Who Approach Moral Dilemmas With Humility" - Even 5 year olds value reasoners who admit there is no one "right answer" to complex moral decisions

New paper out! We all want our kids to be happy, but what does happiness mean to them? My review of recent evidence shows that no single philosophical theory fully captures children's perceptions of happiness—it's about both feeling good and being good😃 https://t.co/4K3rPybNNn

.@FanYangUChicago’s talk on children’s need to create had just the right amount of nihilism for the last talk at #CDS2024.

I was so sad to learn that Frans de Waal has died. He put so many bold ideas out there and influenced the careers of countless scholars across biology, anthropology and psychology. Here's a lovely piece that Emory produced:

Grateful for the wonderful collaboration with my student, Arta O'bi! Special thanks to Dacher Keltner, @pkpiff, @JonHaidt, @YenaSci, @sbkaufman, Lani Shiota, Jennifer Stellar, Howard Nusbaum, @GreaterGoodSC, @UchicagoCPW, and others for inspiring and supporting our work!💗

🌟Excited to share our new paper in Child Development! Four preregistered studies explored the roots of #awe in young minds, revealing children's deep appreciation for diverse "zooming out" awe-inspiring experiences. Open access article here👉 https://t.co/JEz2rSC5cu @SRCDtweets

Thrilled and honored that our paper on #meaning ( https://t.co/BmbMsj77T8) has received the Best Paper Award! It was a great collaboration with @huang_mengdi, and the recognition means a lot to us. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported our work!🩷

Join us for our next lecture livestream on Human Nature & Potentials by Dr. @FanYangUChicago: Monday Feb 26 at 1:30 pm CST at the @UChicago @UChicagoSSD Center for Practical Wisdom. https://t.co/Mp6f9hGTBb #Wisdom #WisdomResearch

Money increases happiness, but Nobelists argued this stopped at $80k. A new paper shows that for the vast majority, the effect of higher income works all the way up with no limit in sight barring scales not going high enough to capture the joy.

When is #nonconformity valued, not condemned? Our new paper found that group orientations matter: Children disapprove of nonconformists by default, but they value nonconformity when it's evident that nonconformity may benefit one's group and foster intergroup connections.