William McAuliffe

@w_mcauliffe

3x alum , now a postdoc . A psychologist passionate about arepas, pad kee mao, and coffee.

Boston, MA
Joined November 2017

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    Jan 29

    Check out this new feature piece in highlighting & 's work on "The Big Questions".

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    Jan 28

    This time it IS out! Not Born Yesterday, arguing that people aren’t gullible. Psychology! Political science! History! Anthropology! Media studies! ToC below, and threads to follow with stuff I wish I’d put in the book

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    Jan 27

    How does children's sociometric status relate to their personality? In a recent interview told us about his recent multi-method study on their cross-lagged associations. Read all about it on the blog at

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    Jan 22

    New article by and myself! If you've ever wondered why the past plays such an important role in human (social) life, find out about our attempt at an answer here:

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    10 Things About Gullibility You Probably Don't Know. Great piece by Hugo Mercier, author of the forthcoming book Not Born Yesterday. HT

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    Jan 22

    "The fact that we are better at suppressing our empathy than we are at boosting our empathy could suggest that we are walking around, out in the wild, with reasonably high amounts of empathy already."

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    Jan 22

    Can we boost empathy through perspective-taking? Here's a little something I wrote for .

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    Jan 21

    Our latest paper is online at Journal of Personality: Nothing Going On? Exploring the Role of Missed Events in Changes in Subjective Well-Being and the Big Five Personality Traits. With , and Mira Beermann. (Thread)

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    Jan 19

    A poll tax by another name. Disgraceful. We ALL know what this is really about. Florida Supreme Court rules convicted felons must pay off fines before voting - CBS News

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    Jan 19

    New release (v1.1) of Population & Quantitative Genetics book. Fully open access (CC-by). All code for figures provided.

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    The 2020 Summer School of Personality Science is now accepting applications! It will be held July 5-13 in Madrid, Spain, with 6-8 faculty teaching 12-16 graduate students. Applications are due February 5. Follow the link for more information.

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    Jan 14

    Fans of (1) evolutionary moral psychology, (2) 's provocative incentives-based Twitter-thread critiques of the latter, and (3) & 's interactionist theory of reason are, imho, gonna dig 's new book👇

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    Jan 10

    Haruki Murakami ( ): "No matter where I go I still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change but I'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy." Me: People are fixed effects

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    Jan 10

    Across income levels, people think they don't have much to spare for charity, but those who earn a little more than them do

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    Jan 10

    Children are more willing to delay gratification for cooperative than for individual goals Indicates that- "from early in life, human children are psychologically equipped to respond to social interdependencies in ways that facilitate cooperative success"

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    Jan 6

    I wish the media would not think of being vegan like being kosher or halal. It's not about purity, it's about saving the planet and reducing animal suffering.

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    I love collecting animal videos that show off that they have feelings and emotions and weird cognitive abilities, here are a few I've found in the past few months Here's a frustrated and exasperated raccoon MERRY CHRISTMAS

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    Jan 1

    Excellent article with very large data set showing effect of sex ratio at sexual maturity on male mortality (thanks to

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