Mohammad Atari
@MohammadAtari90
Assistant Professor of Psychology @UMassAmherst | Research Associate @Harvard | Director @cam_lab_umass
Another amazing finding from the lab of my colleague David Reich: Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language origins — Harvard Gazette news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…
🧠 Is your research still relying on Western participants? 15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by @JoHenrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples. In this paper, published in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that.
Our new paper at the intersection of causal cognition and linguistics Take a sentence of the form “AGENT caused OUTCOME” Our studies suggest: Some surprising effects in intuitions about these sentences can be explained using theories from linguistics about the “agent role”
Suppose Tom loses control of his body, and his bodily motions then cause an accident. Would it be right to say “Tom caused the accident?” A new paper explores the role that language plays in these links between agency and causation! 🔗👇
Skewed sex ratios correlate with violence against women from spouses, boyfriends and in-laws, but less so for honour-based violence from natal family| Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - @OLKCampbell Maheen Pracha @tavitonst @Journal_EHS cambridge.org/core/journals/…
If you can't get basic physiology correct using WEIRD samples, can you really get psychology and cognitive science correct? @StevenHeine4 @MohammadAtari90 @slingerland20 @JonHaidt
Do women feel some emotions more strongly than men? Out today in Affective Science, I argue that claims like this make a notoriously subtle mistake. What is it? And what does it have to do with an astigmatic painter and thyroid medicine? A short thread... link.springer.com/article/10.100…
I'm delighted to see this published! I owe a debt of gratitude to my wonderful interdisciplinary team and I hope that our Geo-Psych Interactionist Framework will be useful for for many others who work at the nexus of psychology and geography. Open access: rdcu.be/euCU9
A new Perspective by @FriedrichMGoetz, @d_t_luca, @DouglasTKenrick et al proposes a unifying Geographical–Psychological Interactionist Framework, aiming to inspire concrete & testable hypotheses. nature.com/articles/s4156…
New paper by @MohammadAtari90 and @Jackson_Trager
Most people don’t find excessive wealth immoral when considered separately from economic inequality; however, people in countries with high GDP and high levels of inequality find being too rich more morally wrong than being of average wealth. Read now: ow.ly/9Qmf50Wjbmr
Most people don’t find excessive wealth immoral when considered separately from economic inequality; however, people in countries with high GDP and high levels of inequality find being too rich more morally wrong than being of average wealth. Read now: ow.ly/9Qmf50Wjbmr
Article in Science News about the emerging historical psychology movement: sciencenews.org/article/ai-cul…
Happy to share our paper is now out in @PNASNexus !!!
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
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Congrats to new HBES @HumBehEvoSoc Rising Star @MohammadAtari90!
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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: mohammadatari.com