Ahra Ko 고아라
@ahra_ko
Social Psychologist | Postdoc @Wharton @Penn | Exploring Functional Flexibility of Social Cognition | @behaviorchange | https://ko-ahra.github.io/
women with chronically high levels of mating motivation weigh physical attractiveness more heavily in their happiness than others...as do women primed for mating and women in high-fertility ovulatory phase link.springer.com/article/10.100…
A new megastudy led by Profs. @AngelaDuckw and @Katy_Milkman, Co-Directors of @BehaviorChange, examines whether low-cost nudges informed by behavioral science can help teachers accelerate student progress in math: whr.tn/3QUnJSb The study is one of the largest of its…
Free access link! Did people's values change during COVID-19? Values surprisingly STABLE. But concern about romantic partners decreased, while caring for children and concern about disease increased. authors.elsevier.com/c/1fsz53tz48~w… @Cari_Pick @MeVarnum @ahra_ko @DouglasTKenrick
What is most striking to me here is the amazing alignment of MTurk with the average of samples from 27 other countries! Pretty damned good generalizability...
New paper asks people around the world about their fundamental motivations. Despite evolutionary psychology's focus on sex, status, and disease, people around the world say family is far more important to them--even MTurkers: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…
New paper asks people around the world about their fundamental motivations. Despite evolutionary psychology's focus on sex, status, and disease, people around the world say family is far more important to them--even MTurkers: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…
Our Perspectives paper is out--led by grad students @ahra_ko, @blueb_ari, Yul Kwon, w. @michael_barlev, @JaimieKrems, @becca_neel, Michael Varnum, Doug Kenrick, + many more! (1) In 27 societies people view familial motives as more important than mating. doi.org/10.1177/174569…