@akfischer.bsky.social
Postdoc interested in evolution/neurobiology/cognition/behavior of humans & other animals, currently studying digital media psychology with Alberto Acerbi
🚨New preprint with @akfischer.bsky.social
What drives engagement with *reliable* news on social media?
osf.io/jvxen_v1
Abstract:
18.06.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Had fun, met a lot of great people, and saw some very interesting talks at HBES & NEEPS evolutionary psychology conferences in Atlantic City, USA! For HBES, I presented the below work that I'm doing with @acerbialberto.com
18.06.2025 18:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Extremely happy to see some of my PhD work out in Current Anthropology!
"The Dual Foundations of Political Ideology Are Ubiquitous across Human Social Life"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Economic game studies show conservatives are less prosocial, but it is specifically economic conservatism that's linked to selfishness/competitiveness whereas social conservatism is not & is instead linked to 'groupishness'/intergroup-biased prosociality: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vcgsj_v1
26.02.2025 10:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Overall, economic game studies show conservatives are less prosocial, but more specifically it is economic conservatism that is linked to selfishness/competitiveness whereas social conservatism is not, and is instead linked to 'groupishness' and intergroup-biased pro-sociality.
26.02.2025 00:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ever wondered whether progressives are really nicer than conservatives? Check out our very short chapter that just came out in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Preprint of our chapter (for the EHBEA textbook “Evolution, Culture and Human Behavior”) in which we harness the explanatory power of an evolutionary perspective to examine digital media’s effects on wellbeing, cooperation, (mis)information, and politics. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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