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Paul Piff

@pkpiff

Associate Professor of Psychology. Amateur archaeologist, coffee roaster, cassette collector.

 UC Irvine
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Joined September 2013
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I'm recruiting a post-doc! Are you interested in emotion, morality, or collective action? Do you want to live in sunny SoCal? If your answer is yes to either (and ideally both), consider applying! Start date is between May and June 2025. More info here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09482
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REMINDER: Feb. 28 is the deadline to apply to be a postdoctoral scholar starting this May or June in @UCIrvine psychological science Associate Professor @pkpiff 's Morality, Emotion, and Social Hierarchy Lab: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09482
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Want to be as happy studying happy as @UCIrvine psychological science Associate Professor @pkpiff and the Anteaters behind him? Apply to become a postdoctoral scholar in his Morality, Emotion, and Social Hierarchy Lab: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09482
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Cool analyses using large cross-national data on effects of social class and income inequality on morality and prosociality. Led by @CElbaek nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Subjective socioeconomic status and income inequality are associated with self-reported morality...

Subjective socioeconomic status and income inequality are associated with self-reported morality...

Nature Communications - People differ in the extent to which they experience a lack of economic resources compared to others. Here, the authors show that such experiences at the individual level as...

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My @TEDTalks on why we moralize effort is now up. Based on work w/ @pkpiff (who gets a cameo), @BizarroPolitix, @gregoryscience, Hyunjin Koo & led by @JaredCelniker. Thanks to TED (who chose against my suggested title: Working in the Age of Effort Porn) ted.com/talks/azim_shariff_d…
Azim Shariff: Does working hard really make you a good person?

Azim Shariff: Does working hard really make you a good person?

Around the world, people who work hard are often seen as morally good -- even if they produce little to no results. Social psychologist Azim Shariff analyzes the roots of this belief and suggests a...

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Who is more sympathetic & supportive towards the poor--those born into wealth or those who moved up the ladder themselves? People tend to think it's those who Became Rich. Our new paper, led by twitter-free PhD student Hyunjin Koo, suggests otherwise. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… 🧵
If I Could Do It, So Can They: Among the Rich, Those With Humbler Origins are Less Sensitive to the...

If I Could Do It, So Can They: Among the Rich, Those With Humbler Origins are Less Sensitive to the...

Americans venerate rags-to-riches stories. Here we show that people view those who became rich more positively than those born rich and expect the Became Rich t...

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Love the concept of the Umwelt in how Animals See Themselves: "bespoke slivers of reality" nytimes.com/2022/06/20/opini…
Opinion | How Animals See Themselves (Published 2022)

Opinion | How Animals See Themselves (Published 2022)

The most familiar of settings can feel newly unfamiliar through the senses of other creatures.

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Jamil Zaki@zakijam18 Mar 2022
The 2022 World Happiness Report (WHR) just pubbed. Lots of powerful insights, but I want to highlight one that doesn't seem to show up in the news: Around the world, people have become *much* kinder during the pandemic, and that kindness is likely supporting our reslience. 🧵
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The top 10 insights from the "science of a meaningful life" in 2020 ow.ly/Rkm750COpTc @KiraMNewman @jeremyadamsmith @Svobodster @slyubomirsky @eeweisz @Jill_Jord @pkpiff @prilleltensky
The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2020

The Top 10 Insights from the “Science of a Meaningful Life” in 2020

Our team names the most provocative and influential findings published during this past year.

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Dylan Wiwad@D_Wiwad20 Nov 2020
New paper out today in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology with my co-authors @mercierbrett, @pkpiff, @azimshariff, & @lbaknin! [1/9] sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Excited to share new work led by @pia_dietze. In it, we find that social class is inversely related to Theory of Mind (ToM) performance in adults. 1/6 bit.ly/3cT8oLu
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Commentary: Coronavirus crisis may help Americans remember that economic inequality is not fair or just latimes.com/socal/daily-pilo… @D_Wiwad @lbaknin
Commentary: Coronavirus crisis may help Americans remember that economic inequality is not fair or...

Commentary: Coronavirus crisis may help Americans remember that economic inequality is not fair or...

Historically, Americans have paid little attention to situational constraints surrounding poverty. Compared to citizens in other countries, Americans are among the most likely to attribute poverty to...

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very proud of this work. @D_Wiwad deserves all the props. mapping out an inequality intervention with the potential for long-term efficacy.
Nature Human Behaviour (@NatureHumBehav) profile pictureNature Human Behaviour@NatureHumBehav23 Mar 2020
What motivates opposition to inequality? @pkpiff and colleagues find that attributing poverty to situational forces rather than controllable individual factors increases opposition to economic inequality @D_Wiwad @lbaknin @mercierbrett @azimshariff nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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Does engagement with an extremist online forum simplify your worldview? In a large web scraping study, @gregoryscience finds it does: integrative complexity decreases as engagement increases. Ideological echo chambers become more insular psyarxiv.com/uf2gr/ via @OSFramework
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Have you been thinking about inequality in the age of #COVID19? Our new work on why are the poor poor and why it matters, with @D_Wiwad, @lbaknin, @mercierbrett, @azimshariff nature.com/articles/s41562-0… Shifting beliefs about poverty increases egalitarianism up to 5 mos. later
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Do drivers of fancy cars yield less for pedestrians? Interesting replication of prior work. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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does making more money relate to making mean jokes? interesting work on facets of social class and the use of aggressive humor via empathic concern sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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To what extent are voters willing to apply dehumanizing metaphors to out-partisans? @JamesMartherus, A Martinez, @pkpiff & @AGTheodoridis find that inter-partisan dehumanization is related to extreme affective polarization @UCMercedPoliSci @VandyPoliSci politicalbehavior.wordpress.…
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Looking for a reason to be outdoors this weekend? Here's a bunch. Pleased to share our new review paper on nature and sociality, co-authored with Sean Goldy. Toward a Social Ecology of Prosociality: Why, When, and Where Nature E... sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #nature #awe
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It's about time!!!
Dylan Wiwad (@D_Wiwad) profile pictureDylan Wiwad@D_Wiwad7 Jun 2019
Boy, that was a journey! SO happy to finally say that our development of the Support for Economic Inequality Scale (SEIS) is finally In Press at @PLOSONE. You can find the in press version, with supplemental materials, here: psyarxiv.com/58e76
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