Staggering numbers by the Lancet. Vaccinations have: - Averted 154 million deaths - For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average = 10.2 billion years total - Accounted for 40% of the observed decline in global infant mortality

New in @PNASNews! We analyzed 38 million US obituaries to see how we remember the deceased: - Tradition & benevolence dominate legacies - Major cultural events (e.g., 9/11) shifted what values were emphasized - Gender & age of the deceased shape legacies https://t.co/xsZnmjnXWr

I will be reviewing applications this fall for @ASUPsych’s clinical psych PhD program. Please send any prospective students with interests in alcohol, cannabis and co-use my way! My lab’s current and future priorities can be found here

Across six European countries, people feel more responsible to protect future generations than to directly reduce climate change. Both forms of responsibility predict support for climate policy, extending prior U.S. findings to Europe. 🔗 https://t.co/o4eXGNo16I New paper with

I’m excited to share our new @Nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment matters a great deal to our physical activity and health. Details in thread.🧵 https://t.co/omO3YcHrvG

Looking for a postdoc? Apply for Cornell’s Klarman Fellowship with me! I’m interested in rules, rule-breakers, and curiosity, broadly construed. Link for more info here: https://t.co/g0bKAmMQXY (3 years, $80K/yr; Oct 15th deadline) Email me directly if you’re interested!

I’ll be considering grad student applications this year @UMassAmherst - check out https://t.co/hlrl6uE38I for some of our current projects seeking to understand and treat self-injurious behaviors, suicide, and borderline personality disorder with digital health, DBT

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

People who cheat on their spouses are more likely to cheat at work, too. Evidence: Marital infidelity predicts 2-3x greater odds of professional misconduct among CEOs, financial advisors, and police officers. Integrity is not a 9-5 job. Character counts in every part of life.

There’s an ongoing effort by researchers from Arizona State University to understand people who choose to voluntarily participate in grass-removal programs. I spoke with ASU assistant professor Stylianos Syropoulos for @kjzzphoenix. https://t.co/1HE15ee0Yn

Back to X just to post new PNAS paper for @elonmusk: we find @CommunityNotes flags 2.3x more Republicans than Democrats for misleading posts! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... https://t.co/qnVNWCUHPt

🧵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

Excited to share @SeoyeonBae211’s first preprint—an ambitious global study of human motivation! Using data from 900,000+ people in 100+ countries, we find altruistic motives consistently outweigh egoistic ones across cultures. https://t.co/lvVAdqXoVT

"brief, low-cost psychological interventions can help individuals adopt a more expansive moral perspective to include future generations" https://t.co/UCGZ45IXrY via @ConversationUS

We asked over 8,700 people in 6 countries to think about future generations in decision-making, and this is what we found https://t.co/NBWpqNYTIY via @ConversationUS @SSyropoulos

Across 3 studies, we find that valuing future lives equally—regardless of their distance in time—predicts stronger interest in long-term oriented, high-impact careers. Preprint here: https://t.co/Wdiup3mBtv @SSyropoulos @PaigeAmormino @LianeLeeYoung @benrogersOB

Given everything happening to the students and postdocs everywhere right now... reminder we are still looking for a post-doc. A safe position in a stable, highly innovative environment in a safe, public health and public education loving country.

New preprint w/ @MaxMa1er, @vanessachg_, Fiery Cushman, & @FalkLieder: Disentangling Model-Based and Model-Free Moral Learning https://t.co/AnnnyYE0Se Excited to present this work at #CogSci2025!

It is easy to glance at the news and be captivated by whatever fresh travesty is happening in the world today. But the reality is that most of people’s moral lives play out in quieter, seemingly more mundane moments, such as those involving friends and family, at the grocery

This seems to mean whatever the authors want it to mean. Specific measures are used with ZERO discussion about nomological nets surrounding these underlying constructs.