Paul Vanags
PhD researcher. Interested in prosociality, moral and environmental psychology, paulvanags.com and part of sdn-lab.org
- At this point in my #Pint25 talk I was regaling the audience, who understandably thought they had come to a science talk, with a brief diversion into the cultural influence of world religions on our perception of prosociality and wealth. Scientists do not operate in a vacuum! (Well arguably some do)
- I'll be talking about our findings on prosociality and wealth in a pub in a couple of weeks.. pintofscience.co.uk/event/genero...
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A new journal just for publishing reanalyses of published empirical research findings statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/16/a... - New WhatsApp integrated Meta AI..
- Reposted by Paul VanagsExcited to share a new paper on children's third-party punishment across societies. This was a big collaborative effort and I'm so grateful to my wonderful co-authors for their contributions to this project. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...
- Reposted by Paul Vanags💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
- Reposted by Paul VanagsPeople with higher incomes and people who describe themselves as “living comfortably” are more likely to report donating, volunteering, and helping strangers than people with lower incomes and people who are merely “getting by.” In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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- I will post occassionally about the progress of my thesis write up. It will help motivate me, plus if anyone asks me "how's it going" they can be referred here, saving us both the awkwardness of a withering look. I have a contents page! Nearly done, right? +100 words written for every like/share.
- Interesting and thoughtful consideration of the pros and cons of pre-registration and its use/abuse since inception as mitigation against some of the problems that led to the replication crisis. "Replication is the only arbiter of replicability". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Paul Vanags🌵Out now! Using an RL task that manipulates people's beliefs about agency, we show that exposure to & severity of early-life adversity is associated with lower learning rates & agency beliefs. w/ the brillant @thephelpslab.bsky.social, Kate McLaughlin, & Bryan Dong learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/1...
- New paper! Greater (objective and subjective) wealth is consistently associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviours across 76 countries. Resource scarcity (precarity) also has an effect. bit.ly/410jni3 @thepsychologist.bsky.social @fabiankosse.bsky.social @drjocutler.bsky.social
- Freedom of speech is it? abcnews.go.com/US/usda-orde...
- The thesis write up has begun. Any ideas for content, please DM.
- This is smashing, very brave to stand up and be counted, inspiring www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
- Reposted by Paul VanagsAbstract Art **Hey, get a signed print of one of my comics: bit.ly/mind-print
- Reposted by Paul VanagsMusk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
