Mohammad Atari
@MohammadAtari90
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Assistant Professor of Psychology @UMassAmherst | Research Associate @Harvard | Director @cam_lab_umass
Amherst, MA
Joined January 2017
RT @JoHenrich: If you can't get basic physiology correct using WEIRD samples, can you really get psychology and cognitive science correct?….
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RT @VladChituc: Do women feel some emotions more strongly than men? Out today in Affective Science, I argue that claims like this make a no….
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RT @FriedrichMGoetz: I'm delighted to see this published! I owe a debt of gratitude to my wonderful interdisciplinary team and I hope that….
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RT @PNASNexus: Most people don’t find excessive wealth immoral when considered separately from economic inequality; however, people in coun….
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Somewhat related to @Aella_Girl ‘s original post on capitalism, a history of protestantism can attenuate the effect of purity on perceiving excessive wealth as immoral:.6/
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What country-level variable might explain this variation? .5/
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There are also cross-cultural differences. Interestingly, USA is somewhere in the middle from a global perspective. 4/
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People who endorse purity and equality see excessive wealth as morally wrong. Equality is somewhat obvious. Purity is the interesting one. There are some other significant predictors too. 3/
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It appears that most people don’t think of excessive wealth as immoral. Also, immorality of excessive wealth is distinct from wealth equality. Still, there are individual differences and cultural differences. Let’s begin with individual differences: .2/.
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Is it morally wrong to have too much money? . In our new paper, just out in PNAS Nexus, we (with @Jackson_Trager ) addressed the question: . THREAD
How do you feel about capitalism? || If you push the button, the avg wealth (and associated living standard) of everyone in the world decreases by 3%, BUT ALSO the top 0.1% wealthiest people in the world lose 99% of their net worth, it just vanishes. Do you press button?.
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Congrats to HBES Rising Star Mohammad Atari, for his work on the intersection of culture, evolution, and morality, particularly how social structures and immediate contextual cues impact people’s moral judgment and acceptance of social norms:
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RT @HistoricalPsy: Historical psychology of China. Natural language processing + History + Cultural evolution + Religious studies + Economi….
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RT @cam_lab_umass: New preprint by @MohammadAtari90 and colleagues. Psychological diversity across 2,000 years and 270 prefectures in China!.
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RT @JoHenrich: To extract psychological measures from historical text, we bolted a pre-processing step (for questionnaires) onto the front….
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RT @YukiYuqiChen: Thrilled to work with @MohammadAtari90, @JoHenrich and all the fantastic coauthors!.
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