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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Historical Psychology Preconference is coming to Philly for #SPSP2027 ! Please join us on February 11th, 2027 for this year’s theme: How the Events of Yesterday Shaped the Minds of Today. @spspnews.bsky.social

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We argue that there isn't just one way to resolve moral conflicts. Multiple metamoral principles evolve culturally, and we identify four such systems: utilitarianism, honor, divinity, and self-interest.

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New paper out today in Social and Personality Psychology Compass! What happens when our moral values come into conflict? Our new paper explores "metamorality": the second-order principles we use to navigate conflicting moral choices. W/ Jesse Graham

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc in 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲! This project will focus on psychological change in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular interest in Islamic history. Topical themes include religiosity, creativity, morality, and institutions. 1/n

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New paper alert! "Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science! This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project). Short THREAD on the results:

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New chapter preprint: Is Empathic AI possible? osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New preprint! 🔔 We apply computational text analysis to over 2000 years of historical corpora in Classical Chinese. Beyond descriptives, we test the hypothesis that kin-based institutions shape important aspects of socio-cooperative psychology.

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our new paper is now out in Nature Human Behaviour: The chronospatial revolution in psychology. With Joe Henrich & Jonathan Schulz. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Our new paper, with my amazing PhD student, Aliah Zewail, is published in the European Review of Social Psychology. We review (and encourage) historical and geographical research on morality from a pluralistic perspective. Link: doi.org/10.1080/1046...

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A really important study with comprehensive analyses! I love this plot:

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It’s a privilege to work with this awesome team. Check out my students’ presentations at SPSP.

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Some of us have been meeting up at SPSP for the last few years. This year marks our fifth gathering. Email one of us if you want to join! Location TBD. @mdehghani.bsky.social @drsanaz.bsky.social @simine.com @dorsaamir.bsky.social

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

🚨New Preprint🚨 *Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models* We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways. Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

This is, of course, a very short opinion piece. We get more technical here: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.00509 and we have some benchmarking against historical ground truth. BTW, the first author is a historian :)

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

The Historical Psychology Pre-conference at SPSP is up! We have a fantastic lineup! Themes include the role of historical processes in psychological/economic outcomes today & historical narratives in intergroup relations. Send your abstracts! W/ @ashwinia.bsky.social & @joshcjackson.bsky.social

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

The Historical Psychology preconference at SPSP is back! See you in Denver! Co-organized with Joshua Conrad Jackson and @ashwinia.bsky.social

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Our paper, on honor culture, self-reliance, and family relations, is now published in PLOS ONE. Led by Peter Wang. With my wonderful mentor, Daphna Oyserman. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

We (w/ Josh Jackson) are very excited to announce the Special Issue “Historical Psychology” to be published at CRESP. Send your papers our way! Deadline: 9/1/24

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

Some papers have recently argued that GPT-4 has the same personality as a “random human.” So I asked OpenAI’s DALL•E to depict a random human... #WhichHumans

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Come see our awesome students’ research at SPSP!

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

🚨New preprint🚨 Led by Jackson Trager “The Morality of Too Much Money” We ask: Is it morally wrong to have an excessive amount of wealth? In 20 countries, most people think it’s not too wrong, but there is substantial cross-cultural variation. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

About 6 months ago, I was on a 12-hour flight and was not only bored, but also frustrated with some GPT applications in some psych papers. So, I began drafting a critique of "GPTology" — the unjustified reliance on LLMs in psychology. The preprint is out: osf.io/tg79n/

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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Puritanism needs purity, and moral psychology needs pluralism.

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