Sign in

Kyle Fischer

@akfischer.bsky.social
298 followers 500 following 6 posts

Postdoc. Interests: evolutionary approaches to the behavior of humans and other animals; politics; religion; wellbeing; digital media; the spread of (mis)information; etc.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Kyle Fischer
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 27/06/2025
‪🚨New preprint with @akfischer.bsky.social‬ What drives engagement with *reliable* news on social media? osf.io/jvxen_v1
osf.io
OSF
1177
Kyle Fischer @akfischer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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
131
Reposted by Kyle Fischer
Guy Lavender Forsyth @guylavenderforsyth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Extremely 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...
journals.uchicago.edu
The Dual Foundations of Political Ideology Are Ubiquitous across Human Social Life | Current Anthropology
Many people in Western countries represent the political landscape as a single dimension of conflict: authority, hierarchy, and tradition on the right versus greater freedom, equality, and systemic ch...
3103
Kyle Fischer @akfischer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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
020
Kyle Fischer @akfischer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Ever 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...
100
Kyle Fischer @akfischer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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...
010