Mohammad Atari
@MohammadAtari90
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Assistant Professor of Psychology @UMassAmherst | Research Associate @Harvard | Director @cam_lab_umass
Amherst, MA
Joined January 2017
New Special Issue now out in CRESP. Read our editorial with Joshua Jackson : “Historical psychology: How the events of yesterday shaped the minds of today.” There are 8 empirical papers in this collection, featuring diverse topics!
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Just out! 🎧 I visited the Chicago Booth Review podcast to talk about data showing that people tend to be happier in cultures where relationships start more and stop more. Check it out! https://t.co/qaXpDTjzJ5
chicagobooth.edu
Thomas Talhelm describes his research on social circles and happiness.
NEW podcast: Does choosing your friends make you happier? Chicago Booth's @ThomasTalhelm discusses his research on social circles and happiness.
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I’ll be giving a talk this Friday at 4pm CET at the Institute of Philosophy, Heidelberg (and online via Zoom): https://t.co/fNja5tDnwP “Many LLMs Are More Utilitarian Than One” accepted for #NeurIPS2025
https://t.co/xpaW6yhyRN
arxiv.org
Moral judgment is integral to large language models' (LLMs) social reasoning. As multi-agent systems gain prominence, it becomes crucial to understand how LLMs function when collaborating compared...
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Currently in FirstView: “Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos.” @marvinstecker and @freddy_hopp examine 810 party manifestos in 4 languages to study how different instruments lead to different results for extracting moral foundations.
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New chapter preprint out! With @kurtjgray & @sharlenef221 Our chapter, Empathic AI Will Undermine Human Kindness, explains how LLMs that offer empathy could weaken the kindness that comes from humans exchanging empathy with each other. https://t.co/LjxgwZVghz 🧵below:
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amazing paper!
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science Opinion by M.J. Crockett & Lisa Messeri Free access before Dec 10: https://t.co/7KY3xJMUNi
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Great lineup!
🚨Historical Psych Pre-conference at #SPSP2026 Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23,link below. We especially encourage early-career researchers to submit. Any research on psychological change, cultural evolution,or historical context of social psych is welcome!
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Two days left!
🚨Historical Psych Pre-conference at #SPSP2026 Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23,link below. We especially encourage early-career researchers to submit. Any research on psychological change, cultural evolution,or historical context of social psych is welcome!
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our psychology of peace and violence program: https://t.co/6bJRY6lRK0
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We are hiring in Social Psychology! Tenure-track position, focus on the Psychology of Peace and Violence, UMass Amherst. Review of applications will begin on October 24th. Let us know if you have any questions! Link in comment.
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This new QJE paper finds: excessive mobile app use among the youth is contagious and costly. Roommates’ app use boosts your own. Heavy app users get lower Grade Point Averages, earn less, sleep less, skip more class. Extending gaming limits to college students could raise wages.
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The third Historical Psychology pre-conference at SPSP! Great lineup of speakers!
🚨Historical Psych Pre-conference at #SPSP2026 Submit your poster or data blitz abstract by Oct. 23,link below. We especially encourage early-career researchers to submit. Any research on psychological change, cultural evolution,or historical context of social psych is welcome!
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This study took us years and years, and it's finally out! 🥳 Here's years of our life in 60 seconds. 🚨 https://t.co/jBDW47RpBK
@BPSOfficial @AlexEngPsych @liuqing_wei @Tongrongtian
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Does moving to a new environment change people's cultural thought style? We tracked the cultural thought style of 1462 university students at 18 sites over time after they moved across China for...
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There is no such thing as a single, reductionist monolithic human empathy, argue @mohammadatari90 et al. Hence, equipping AI with a capacity for empathy is a bigger challenge than is sometimes assumed: https://t.co/oCHIZLxTBJ
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Looking forward to my talk at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst tomorrow (October 17)! (accessible version: https://t.co/I2ONZpRUTj)
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this year, co-organizing with Aliah Zewail and Joshua Jackson.
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