Steven Heine
@StevenHeine4
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Canadian social/cultural psychologist at UBC. Japanophile. Author of "Start Making Sense.," "DNA is Not Destiny," and "Cultural Psychology."
Joined August 2020
It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! Very happy to announce the release of my new book, Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help us Build Meaning Lives in Absurd Times. A 🧵.
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RT @StefanFSchubert: In the 18th century, there was a real chance of death at any point in life, and there wasn't a big peak in old age. I….
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RT @SashaGusevPosts: Oof. Polygenic scores for IQ lose 75% of their explained variance when adding family controls, even worse than the att….
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RT @JoHenrich: Peter misses the argument here, making the entire piece misleading. Once you understand the actual argument, the aDNA data i….
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Perhaps the most striking cultural differences are findings that people literally see the world differently depending where they grew up.
Nice pop press piece in science on how people in different populations see the world quite differently using visual illusions. Confirms prior work with larger samples and better methods. @MohammadAtari90 @mmuthukrishna @asifa_majid
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RT @JoHenrich: New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organiz….
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Finally a serious effort to make sense of the diverse set of ways that people present their distress across cultures and history.
Chentsova-Dutton, Y. E., & Ryder, A. G. (in press). Internalizing disorders as shape-shifters: Understanding individual and cultural heterogeneity in the presentation of symptoms. Psychological Review. Thank you @ChentsovaY77157 for leading the way!.
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RT @ACSHorg: Sleep Like A Local: Why One-Size-Fits-All Sleep Advice Doesn't Fit Anyone / American Council on Science and Health. While slee….
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RT @jayvanbavel: Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation?. This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we survey….
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RT @CTVMorningLive: On CTV Morning Live with @Keri_Adams, Dr. @StevenHeine4 of @UBCSociology & Dr. Christine Ou of @UVicNursing share study….
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RT @AndersFjell: Very nice in @pnas - people who slept closer to their own culture's norms for sleep duration had better overall health. Sl….
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RT @yoshimu39: 睡眠の各国比較において、日本人の睡眠時間は6:18で20カ国中最も短い。しかし日本人が望む理想の睡眠時間は約7時間と考えられており、そこに近いほど健康状態は良い。睡眠時間が長くても文化的に理想とする睡眠時間の差が大きいと健康によくない。PNAS.h….
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Here's a nice summary of our PNAS paper showing that healthy sleep durations vary across cultures.
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RT @JoHenrich: Just finished "Abundance" by @ezraklein and Derek Thompson. Fantastic book! I found myself thinking, "I couldn't agree more.….
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A reminder that not all replications are equal. Online replications can't always be expected to replicate findings that are contingent upon in-person cues.
1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟. Does moral licensing really exist?? 👀(doing a good thing, then a less good thing). ➡️ Many failed replications. Why?.➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test—to uncover when & why it happens. 🧵👇. @NorthumbriaPsych #SocialPsych
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How might we best evaluate the evidential value of a large literature?.
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RT @realchrisboutte: The new reading list is up, and we have 11 books from some amazing authors like @StevenHeine4 @ezraklein @DKThomp @bri….
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RT @xphilosopher: New PNAS paper led by Will Gervais. The question: Do people implicitly see atheists as morally bad?. The paper uses an im….
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RT @behavioralgroov: Is Your Life Due for a Meaning Audit? #buildingmeaningfulconnections #b. via @YouTube.
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RT @mmuthukrishna: 🚨Science communication at its best. @dr_appie teamed up with @Lizah_Aart to illustrate the take-home from our recent @Na….
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