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Michael Muthukrishna
@mmuthukrishna
Prof #LSE. Author: A Theory of Everyone. Researching & spreading the word on how to evolve a better world. atheoryofeveryone.com
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    Michael Muthukrishna
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    Apr 20, 2022
    🧵of 🧵s of papers I've tweeted about. A selected publications list / Twitter CV. First, some older papers I quite like before I was more active on Twitter. More here:
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    PUBLICATIONS - MICHAEL MUTHUKRISHNA
    Under Review or In Preparation   Kroupin, I., Davis, H. E., Lopes, A. J. P., Konkle, T. & Muthukrishna, M. (under review) Visual illusions reveal wide range of cross-cultural differences in visual...
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    Oct 10, 2023
    Paper on cultural evolutionary behavioral science: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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    Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ
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    Oct 10, 2023
    There is a new paradigm in public policy. The 4th wave. Prof @mmuthukrishna calls it culture-evolutionary-behavioral paradigm. Draws from a wider pool of disciplines and collective experience. @priya_27_ traces the contours here. Eventually, it will get to Dharma metaphysics
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    Feb 11, 2019
    New paper: we argue that the replication crisis is rooted in more than methodological malpractice and statistical shenanigans. It's also a result of a lack of a cumulative theoretical framework: nature.com/articles/s4156… & muth.io/theory-nhb
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    May 21, 2021
    🚨New target article in @BBSJournal: "Cultural Evolution of Genetic Heritability" w/ @RyutaroUchiyama & @RachelASpicer Preprint: muth.io/cegh BBS: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Long thread, but important topic. Helps to resolve controversies such as IQ differences 1/
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    Dec 21, 2023
    I'm creating a list of 5 of the "best books that will change how to see the world" for @Shepherd_books. I went through the (extensive!) Further Readings list in A Theory of Everyone and have narrowed it down to 15 books. Please help me shortlist with ♥️, 🔁 & 💬! 🧵
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    Jan 18, 2021
    🚨New paper on "The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation" in Annual Review of Psychology w/ @JoHenrich. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain human cooperation. How well do they explain the breadth, intensity, & variation across societies, history, & domain? 1/
    The origins and psychology of human cooperation
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    May 22, 2020
    🚨Now out! Beyond WEIRD Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… Summary thread: 1/ The world is not WEIRD vs non-WEIRD. How psychologically and culturally distant is the US from Canada? China from Japan?
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    Jul 27, 2023
    🚨New paper on "What makes us smart?" w/ @JoHenrich Unpacked in my soon-to-be-released book, "A Theory of Everyone" Take home: Studying hardware won't help you understand the capabilities of pivot tables in Excel nor Code Interpreter in ChatGPT. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… 1/
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    May 7, 2022
    Nudge theory ignores the systems-level says @NickJChater & Loewenstein, summarized in @FT by @TimHarford. Totally agree. Cultural evolution is the missing science of the systems-level. Cultural evolutionary behavioral science is the natural next step: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    Jan 11, 2022
    A preview of a forthcoming piece @schimmelrob & I are putting the finishing touches on: cultural evolutionary behavioral science is the natural next step for behavioral science. templetonworldcharity.org/blog/cultural-…
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    Templeton World Charity Foundation
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    Jan 11, 2022
    Applied cultural evolutionary behavioral science is in its infancy but promises to impact public health, sustainable development, & digital behavior. Learn more about its potential use in public policy from @mmuthukrishna & @schimmelrob templetonworldcharity.org/blog/cultural-… #HumanFlourishing
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    Sep 7, 2019
    Does science self correct such that non-replicating papers get cited less? Apparently not. The prediction market can predict what won't replicate, but apparently the field doesn't. #metascience2019
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    Michael Muthukrishna
    @mmuthukrishna
    Dec 14, 2023
    Replying to @AAAzzam
    I met Terry in the early 2000s. He had recently won the Fields & I was just an eager undergraduate but he took the time to chat and answer my many questions. The epitome of "the nicest, most humble people are those with nothing to prove". Other than challenging conjectures...
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    Michael Muthukrishna
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    Jan 6, 2023
    Religiosity-IQ correlation is weakly negative. Education seems to make religious beliefs more complex. It's a mistake to think atheism is a product of IQ rather than cultural transmission. Imo, the secular/sacred separation is WEIRD / isn't carving nature at its joints.
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    Alice Evans
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    Jan 4, 2023
    Replying to @akhivae
    I’m prepared to accept that some irreligious people may struggle with intellectual coherence … I recall @mmuthukrishna tweeting that atheism doesn’t correlate with iQ …
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    Michael Muthukrishna
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    Jul 21, 2022
    Story time: In 2018 we launched a new BSc in Psychological & Behavioural Science at the LSE. We just got the NSS satisfaction scores: 100% satisfaction! The first cohort graduate tomorrow. I'm incredibly proud of all of them and the program we’ve co-created. How we got here: 1/