Media has become increasingly negative since 2000, with more and more headlines expressing fear, anger, sadness, and disgust. Neutral headlines are getting rarer. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Overall, 71% of voters agreed that democracy is under threat, while only 7% of voters rank a threat to democracy as a major issue this midterm election cycle. thehill.com/homenews/36958…

This suggests the big problem is not about communicating the threat, but making people care.

⚠️New paper at Nature Human Behaviour⚠️

Can posed smiles make people feel happier?

In a global adversarial collaboration, we found overwhelming support for this controversial hypothesis.

But we couldnt resolve one thing: concerns about a popular pen-in-mouth smiling task.

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Very cool review in NatureHumanBehaviour discussing the effects of pandemic-driven social isolation on the brain, behavior and health by Danilo Bzdok and Robin Dunbar nature.com/articles/s4156…

People who write professionally about American politics should really have this framed somewhere.

Good to see our paper out: a major collaborative effort across disciplines. Thanks everyone! psychologicalscience.org/news/news-rele…

Internal TikTok and ByteDance materials show that ByteDance’s Beijing-based Internal Audit and Risk Control team planned to use the TikTok app to track the location of certain US citizens. This is the team that investigates employee misconduct.

forbes.com/sites/emilybak…

This beaver in a rehab facility decided to build a dam by the doorway..

You can take the animal out of the wild but you cant take the wild out of the animal....🦫🤩

Great Discussion on Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony. SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University Alison Taylor
Jay Van Bavel Dominic Packer #publicinnovation

A massive new study of over 400,000 college students finds that #Facebook exposure increased depression, especially among those who were most susceptible to mental illness, and reduced academic performance, by fostering unfavorable social comparisons. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

a constant battle to explain phylogeny instead of hierarchy (even to scientists) - this captures it so well #evolution

You can hear a pin drop at ⁦Dartmouth⁩ as ⁦#ThisFlag Evan Mawarire⁩ exhorts the audience to take their democracy seriously and engage with everyone, including those they might disagree with. ⁦Renew Democracy Initiative⁩ ⁦Dickey @ Dartmouth⁩