Jean Decety ๐บ๐ธ ๐ช๐บ
@Decety
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Professor | University of Chicago Cognitive Neuroscience - Social Neuroscience - Psychology - Morality - Evolution
United States
Joined October 2009
Brain imaging reveals how wildlife photos open donor wallets, via @EurekAlert! @PNASNexus
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Brain imaging identifies the social and emotional features of wildlife photos that drive engagement on social media. Tara Srirangarajan and colleagues scanned the brains of 34 adults while the...
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How about the ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐บ ("Linda is a bank teller and feminist", etc.), not discussed in my piece? It ain't a real fallacy either. As Gerd Gigerenzer has shown, words like โprobableโ are ambiguous, and can also mean plausible, sensible, supported by
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A realistic perspective on Sapiens. We are not inherently cooperative but have the capacity for cooperation, just as we have the capacity for exploitation and selfishness. What matters at the individual level is the way we choose to behave towards others.
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An age-old debate about human nature is being energised with new findings on the tightrope of cooperation and competition
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"Neurodiversity advocates ignore the harsh realities of severe autism... Theyโve done a good job of hijacking the message & monopolising the discourse... controlling the narrative so tightly that people like my sons will have no choice in the world." https://t.co/5Lq3l5sfNp
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The movement has good intentions, but it favours the high-functioning and overlooks those who struggle with severe autism
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Hey, remember that music you loved when you were about 13 or 14? I bet you still loooove that music. Source: https://t.co/rdudW4nLf7
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Do you need to believe in God to be moral and have good values? Views on this question vary widely around the world, according to our 2025 survey of 25 countries. https://t.co/fXAgj9TrU7
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In a โnew paperโ, researchers argue that: โa primary cause of the rise in mental disorders [in youth] is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults.โ
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Even generous welfare states are not immune to a "Breaking Bad" effect. A study conducted in Denmark and the Netherlands shows that a cancer diagnosis can push people to crime.
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Even generous welfare states are not immune to a โBreaking Badโ effect
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Across 42 societies, women report stronger motivation for threat avoidance, long-term pair bonding and caregiving, while men report stronger motivation for status and mate-seeking. https://t.co/C9NX4PFFZx
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๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฆบ โฃ๏ธ With age, children increasingly prioritize younger individuals. Mothers prioritize younger and female lives. Evolutionary frameworks offer potential explanation for why such social norms seem pervasiveโ https://t.co/2SYJG7fLgx
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Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed | Science
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How heritable is human life span? If genetic heritability is high, longevity genes can reveal aging mechanisms and inform medicine and public health. However, current estimates of heritability are...
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"this paper has brought together evidence from evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, hormonal studies, cross-cultural surveys, and analyses of sexual orientation to demonstrate that biological factors play a foundational role in shaping sex and gender" https://t.co/ORxJCtYCTg
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Human Nature - This paper challenges the social constructionist perspective on sex and gender, which argues that gender is solely shaped by cultural norms and that biological sex exists on a...
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Collaborative groups often outperform single individuals in complex problem solving. A new paper examined how to create the right incentives to promote this kind of collective intelligence. Rewarding experts who are accurate can improve collective intelligence. But rewarding
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The Tale of Two Contagions In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Touretteโs typically affects boys and begins in early childhood. This was an
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El New York Times recupera evidencias sobre aprendizaje: leer en papel mejora la comprensiรณn, y tomar apuntes a mano aumenta la probabilidad de sacar sobresaliente hasta un 58%. No es nostalgia: es neurociencia aplicada al aula. Menos pantalla โ mรกs aprendizaje
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๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐น๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐, ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป โผ๏ธ This pattern challenges explanations based on sex roles and suggests these differences reflect a stable aspect of human nature. https://t.co/x6JCAgal1a
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Analysis by @uchicago sociologist @profjamesevans of 41 million papers finds that AI expands individual impact and accelerates careers. But for science as a whole, it narrows collective scientific exploration. https://t.co/hazsujQOdl
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Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration
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I need your opinion, medical professionals (physicians, clinical psychologists, nurses & medical students), for a new project on โผ๏ธ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒโผ๏ธ The survey below takes only a few minutes. โ๏ธ
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"DEI programs actually reduced gender and racial diversity in companies...policies also generally lowered the performance of the targeted groups and increased the perception of workplace unfairness. Many companies are now rapidly unwinding DEI programs."
theatlantic.com
The discipline points to constructive ways to celebrate differences in the workplace.
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