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Steven Heine

@stevenheine.bsky.social

Canadian social/cultural psychologist at UBC. Japanophile. Author of "Start making Sense," "DNA is not Destiny" and "Cultural Psychology."

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steven t. piantadosi@spiantado.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"basic cognitive processes underlying explanatory reasoning give rise to a systematic inherence bias among practicing scientists—a tendency to explain phenomena in terms of their inherent properties rather than external factors" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Steven Heine@stevenheine.bsky.social · last yr.

I reply here to Mickey Inzlicht’s critique of our assessment of the TMT literature -led by former grad students, Lihan Chen and Rachele Benjamin. We consider the question of how can we best evaluate a literature and, judging from his critique, reach a controversial conclusion.

Michael Inzlicht@minzlicht.bsky.social · last yr.

Last week I declared terror management theory dead and accused my friend Steve Heine of motivated reasoning. Steve responded like the mensch he is with a solid rebuttal instead of blocking me. Read his guest post and tell us both who you think is right in the comments!

Anders M Fjell@andersfjell.bsky.social · last yr.

Very nice in @pnas.org - people who slept closer to their own culture's norms for sleep duration had better overall health. Sleep duration is more complex than often considered in a strict neuroscientific or biomedical sense. @ChristineOuBC @stevenheine.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Healthy sleep durations appear to vary across cultures | PNAS

Past research finds that sleep duration is reliably linked with health yet sleep durations differ substantially between countries. We investigated ...

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UBC Psychology@psych.ubc.ca · last yr.

Think 8 hours of sleep is the magic number? Research from Dr. @stevenheine.bsky.social included the analysis of over 5,000 people in 20 countries, revealing that the hours of sleep required for good health varies significantly across different cultures. psych.ubc.ca/news/sleep-c...

What’s a healthy amount of sleep? It differs from one country to another - UBC Department of Psychology

Your optimal amount of sleep may depend on where you live, new UBC Psychology research has found.

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UBC News@news.ubc.ca · last yr.

What’s a healthy amount of sleep? 😴 A new UBC study analyzed sleep data and health outcomes for nearly 5,000 people in 20 countries, which revealed that the hours of sleep required for good health varies significantly across different cultures. Read more: bit.ly/4jEq3JG

What’s a healthy amount of sleep? It differs from one country to another - UBC News

New research challenges the common belief that everyone needs the same amount of sleep for good health.

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David P. Schmitt, Ph.D.@psychoschmitt.bsky.social · last yr.

"most [psychologists] thought ‘Homo economicus’ (self-interested rationality) poor model human behaviour...split on whether personality largely stable...researchers in evolution/comparative thought theories should focus more on evolution of mental faculties [evo psy]" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Differences in psychologists’ cognitive traits are associated with scientific divides - Nature Human Behaviour

Scientific disagreements are not just a matter of using different methods or having conflicting data. Sulik et al. surveyed psychological scientists and found that disagreements are also associated wi...

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Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent critique of childhood development interventions: "The privileged of Global North & South can find solace in the idea they have little responsibility for inequality. If bad childcare & poor brain development are major contributing factors to poverty, then it's parents’ job to overcome it"

The problem with parenting interventions in the Global South | Aeon Essays

Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions

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Steven Heine@stevenheine.bsky.social · last yr.

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

Steven Heine@stevenheine.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's a blogpost I wrote on the ironic challenges that we face from having too many choices in our lives. People tend not to appreciate how much anxiety comes with the responsibility of blazing your own trail. www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ma...

Embracing Our Freedoms, but at What Cost?

People in individualistic cultures celebrate their many choices. But we often fail to recognize the psychological costs that come with having to figure everything out on our own.

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Steven Heine@stevenheine.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's a tribute that I wrote for David Lynch. We used his films in our research to reveal how people strive to find meaning in what can seem meaningless. I discuss some of this work in my new book: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/steve...

Start Making Sense

A "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning—and ...

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Beth Bonness@bethbonness.com · 2y ago

Sad to see David go too … “Rest in peace, David Lynch. Thanks for leaving us with your beautiful & masterful films. You made us confront some of our most potent emotions & your work illuminated some of the darker recesses of our minds.” @stevenheine.bsky.social @nautil.us nautil.us/david-lynch-...

Will Gervais@willgervais.com · 2y ago

Got friends into books like The God Delusion, The Righteous Mind, and The WEIRDest People in The World? Try Disbelief, which dives in similar waters! (& at times points out where their evidence is dodgy) Give you & yours the gift of science this year, nerds 📚💙 🧪 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

Dawkins The God DelusionHaidt Righteous Mind bookHenrich WEIRDest People bookDisbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species book by Will Gervais
Steven Heine@stevenheine.bsky.social · 2y ago

New Paper Alert! How can we evaluate the evidential value of a literature? We submitted the published literature on the mortality salience hypothesis (k = 825) to a thorough systematic review consisting of 7 different assessment tools. A 🧵.

Will Gervais@willgervais.com · 2y ago

👋 Intro 2.0 👋. 💙📚 🧪 When not Science Shitposting™️, I study atheism from a cultural evolution perspective. I also wrote a (kinda shitpostey) book about why humans are a uniquely religious species, and how atheists arise within it. You'll love it, buy 3-7 copies! 🧵👇 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

Book cover, church ruins with blue sky in background title- Disbelief: The origins of atheism in a religious species author- Will M Gervais, PhDDan Barker: “it’s now one of my favourite books of all time, it’s like reading a mystery novel” Michelle Gelfand: “Disbelief is an intellectual feast…Gervais illuminates what it truly means to be human for all of us.” Phil Zuckerman: “Accessible and conversational while still being scholarly and erudite, Disbelief is raw intellectual pleasure."“Gervais approaches his subject with abundant intellectual curiosity and grounds his study in accessible discussions of evolutionary theory and research on present-day increases of disbelief… a trenchant study of a noteworthy cultural phenomenon.” Publisher's Weekly“So many people are religious, it's tempting to imagine that religion is hard-wired into us, or conjecture simplistic explanations for its prevalence. Will Gervais gives us a more careful view, grounded in history and experiment. This book will help you understand why some people are religious, why many others are not, and why these questions have been so difficult for so long.” Sean Carroll
Will Gervais@willgervais.com · 2y ago

I’ve got a book out soon, grandiosely entitled “Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species.” What’s my book all about, you ask? A thread 🧵👇 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...