Dorsa Amir
@DorsaAmir
Assistant professor @DukePsychNeuro studying kids & culture. Director of the @DukeMACLab. Mom x3. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
Thank you @GurusPod for having me and @DorsaAmir on your show! A wonderful conversation about visual illusions and the role culture may (or may not) play in shaping them. decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mind-c…
Beautiful analysis by @DorsaAmir & @Chazfirestone of a classic illusion, which (as I suspected) is probably not a product of living in a carpentered world.
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
A fascinating podcast with Sheina Lew-Levy and Dorsa Amir about childhood across cultures, very insightful ideas about how contemporary Western parents could learn from forager childhoods, especially the importance of peer culture (read the Opies!). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/var…
New episode!! 🎙️📣 A chat w/ @DorsaAmir & @sheinalew about childhood across cultures. Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places. Listen: disi.org/varieties-of-c…
If anyone is looking for a great non-fiction editor, @bsgallagher is your man. He did brilliant work for me improving the draft of The Anxious Generation, and on @EthicalSystems. Highly recommend.
Some personal news: After more than 10 wonderful years, I got laid off from Nautilus magazine. It was quite a shock but that’s the business—journalism, including science journalism, is a tough industry.
Out today!
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865
🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @JohnsHopkins (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
some fun discussion of @DorsaAmir’s and my new paper on the @GurusPod! thanks @C_Kavanagh @ArthurCDent and @minzlicht for their take on this foundational question (and how to approach it)
SO love this post from @paulbloomatyale! Real-world effects are awesome when you can get them, but psychologists run experiments in controlled environments "for the same reason that chemists keep their test tubes clean". YES! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/its-fine-if-…
Our new target article, "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" by @sheinalew and @DorsaAmir is now accepting proposals for commentary! Deadline: March 21st, 2025 Learn more: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Read the paper: cambridge.org/core/services/…
The debate continues! 👇
It's a privilege to engage with an expert like @JoHenrich on a question as important and foundational as the role of culture in perception. But @DorsaAmir and I think this thread gets several key details wrong, both bigger-picture and finer-grained. Here's how (🧵):
Been following this with interest.
It's a privilege to engage with an expert like @JoHenrich on a question as important and foundational as the role of culture in perception. But @DorsaAmir and I think this thread gets several key details wrong, both bigger-picture and finer-grained. Here's how (🧵):
This bit in particular seemed unhelpful. True, I’m like any other WEIRD-o…but @DorsaAmir is a trained anthropologist whose primary research focus is cross-cultural comparison. You could hardly find a scholar more accepting of the existence and importance of cultural variation.
It's a privilege to engage with an expert like @JoHenrich on a question as important and foundational as the role of culture in perception. But @DorsaAmir and I think this thread gets several key details wrong, both bigger-picture and finer-grained. Here's how (🧵):
Let's review. Game on. The question: Is there evidence that population-level variation exists in susceptibility to visual illusions? @DorsaAmir & @chazfirestone wrote a fascinating paper to which I will reply in two storm tweets. I see major problems. Storm 1 coming...
Some of us have been meeting up at SPSP for the last few years. This year marks our fifth gathering. Email me or @NazaninKFP if you want to join! @MortezDehghani @siminevazire @DorsaAmir @sannnnnnnaz