Gordon Hodson

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#SocialPsychology peers, know of a URL for good video demonstration of Sherif's autokinetic effect?

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Hits a bit close to home for me

When I read the first part of this sentence, I thought it would end "walk into a bar...."

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Yesterday I had tons of tabs open and then lost power.

All that information gone.

So today I've decided to work with even more tabs open.

Can't push me around.

#StubbornAcademic

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It is admittedly cool to have a political leader who is very smart and who improves and challenges himself by learning other languages & cultures.

Slight worry:

The Carney love-in will collapse like the Trudeau love-in did.

Idolized leaders inevitably break hearts.

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Yes, social activities are important. I get it. I'm a social psychologist

But society needs to move past the idea that all people need the same amount of social stimulation

And that's okay. More than okay. People differ on this dimension as they do other dimensions. Variety, baby!

Reading may protect older adults against loneliness better than some social activities A new study finds that a daily reading habit is linked to lower loneliness in older adults. For those with few close friends, reading may offer more emotional protection than attending organized socia...

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Bookish introverts everywhere:

"Yeah. That's what we've been telling everyone, but no-one listens!"

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cop making notes from andy capp after fight "I thought he was going to hit me so I hit him back first"

March, so far

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My take:

It's fine for effects to occur under specific conditions.

But most of these theories (e.g., TMT), propose very global, if not universal, effects.

So they're still in weak positions.

I also wonder if this is unique to sexism, as opposed to other prejudices.

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However, if you teach Age-Period-Cohort (APC) effects, this could make for great culturally relevant discussions!

As a boomer, I’m shocked by gen Z’s attitude towards women – something has gone very wrong | Joan Smith New research suggests older people have more progressive views on women’s rights than younger generations. This direction of travel is deeply concerning, says Joan Smith, former co-chair of the Mayor ...

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We live in bizarre times.

Now Boomers are more progressive than Gen Z (e.g., attitudes toward women's rights)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Consider these legal commitments, that show very different priorities:

Canada: “Peace, order, and good government”

US: “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

These represent 2 very different visions of social life and collective commitments.

I must admit, I no longer have conversations with people about whether "Canada is basically the same as the US", culturally etc.

The world now sees that these are 2 very, very different countries, even culturally. Especially culturally.

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Holy cow. Look at the difference! Polarization, eh?

Yes, now that you say it, I share that concern.

Interesting.

Do you have an example?

And do you mean RESEARCHERS doing this, or non-researchers?

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I'm a convert to your way of thinking, methinks.

Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests Analysis shows average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific

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Infuriating that we keep being gaslit over crises (climate change, AI, collapsing democracy) as overblown concerns.

But the data almost always shows we UNDER (not over) ESTIMATED the risks/problems.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

photo of dog cowering in front of very young kittens

A good reminder to us all:

There is strength in numbers.

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The fact that they won't provide us with a paper copy of the free work that we donate to their money-making exercise is really the final straw for me.

I mean, they're delighting in rubbing salt in that wound.

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My correspondence with academic publisher (below).

I think I'm getting to the end of my patience regarding how much $$$ academic publishers make relative to how much free labour (and time away from family & hobbies & sleep) I've given over the years.

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Friends don't let friends make needless complicated journal figures simply bc the software makes it easy to make such figures.

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Dunno about you, but my bread-making enthusiasm is positively correlated with news-awfulness.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ellen Liebenthal. #NewYorkerCartoons

scientist in balloon basket, looking at twisted balloons above

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Psychologists working on the #ReplicationCrisis

In general, academics are far too confident about AI

About whether their assignments are "AI-proof" for instance

Most don't know what they're talking about. I mean, the people who *developed/invented* the very AI tools admit they don't really know what's under the hood, or where this is going