Robert Cialdini Endowed Professor at Arizona State University. I also founded Smart Air, a social enterprise dedicated to making low-cost air purifiers and teaching people how to build their own.
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Robert Cialdini Endowed Professor at Arizona State University. I also founded Smart Air, a social enterprise dedicated to making low-cost air purifiers and teaching people how to build their own.
Most papers free here: http://ssrn.com/author=1871056
It's not the warm fuzzies! The core of collectivism is concrete behavioral duties in close relationships. @asunewsofficial.bsky.social
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I had fun visiting the University of Toronto and talking about my new responsibilism paper. It was a beautiful fall day to walk with Spike Lee. @utoronto.ca
Agreed! 👍 Just in case it wasn't clear, that's *not* my inference at all. I brought it up (1) as a common argument against explicit prejudice measures and (2) a reason that data from IATs could be interesting. The conclusion from those slides is that explicit and implicit often move together.
Good point! Air travel has come down in price over the last few decades. The rise of ultra low cost airlines (pay extra for everything optional!) probably helped with that.
Post-doc and lab manager positions now being accepted at @uwaterloo.ca to work with Igor Grossmann on AI and decision-making. uwaterloo.ca/wisdom-and-c... @igi.bsky.social
Why are the patterns changing? Something in society? Sampling differences on Project Implicit? No answer from this study yet, but interesting questions raised. Credit to Tessa Charlesworth from Kellogg University.
But again, maybe people lie? What about implicit attitudes? Those seem to be going up since 2020.
Also, race going "up" seems to be going from a preference AGAINST white people to neutral (if I'm understanding the scale correctly).
The "100%" labels are a bit misleading because that's off a low base, but there does seem to be a small uptick.
But what about since 2020? This new analysis shows a different trend. Most explicit prejudices attitudes showed increases.
But maybe people are lying? Well, implicit attitudes (IAT) also went down on almost everything through 2020 among visitors to the website Project Implicit.
Is America becoming less biased? New results from a presentation at #SESP offered some data. đź§µ First, when researchers just asked people explicitly about their attitudes, everything went down from 2007-2020--race, weight, disability...
Interesting that "community projects" are up. Also, the category about taking an airline trip for personal reasons sounds a bit odd to me. I don't think I would have created that one!
Listen to me vent about my feelings! This is an important part of the distinction between warm fuzzy collectivism and responsibilism - emotions versus pragmatic behaviors.
I had fun talking about responsibilism and morality at SESP in Montreal! And here’s the answer to the puzzle. What’s the one thing that finally got American participants to say their mom has more of a duty than participants in China?
Many cultures around the world report having fewer experiences throughout the day related to care. But lots more coded as “don’t fit the categories” or vague. I think there might be something there! 🤔
Santiago Amaya talking about how to measure morality across cultures at SESP Montreal. #SESP2026
…and fewer words related to egalitarian values (such as fairness).
Places with stronger kinship practices tended to have more words related to binding values (such as loyalty).
Here are different moral foundations in Chinese texts measured over hundreds of years.