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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I have tried to do this at the Frontiers (editors of a special issue were forcing the authors to cite their own bogus papers). No action whatsoever.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

He talked about it (and his other "experiments") as an experiment in teaching.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Hmmm, yes. Such a good movie, but not a Xmas movie. I am still baffled it was designated a comedy

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The factors that nudge the rates up make sense (e.g., concept creep, rewards, increased scrutiny), but the different rates across the institutions do not. There is a very interesting study hiding in there, as the student bodies are surely very similar for Yale and Stanford.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Jinli Wu's paper is out. "The mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind or mentalist focus/orientation) and that behavior carries greater significance in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus/orientation). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Why the West Minds and the East Behaves: An Integrative Review of the Cultural Evolution of Mind–Behavior Orientations - Jinli Wu, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, 2025

One fundamental characteristic of humans is that we have both “exteriors” (i.e., behavior) and “interiors” (i.e., mental states). This distinction between the m...

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

A parent of a magnet student here: you may have valuable ideas, but have done an exceptionally poor job communicating with the stakeholders.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Excited about this theoretical paper by Jinli Wu, accepted at JCCP. "Mind Focus in Western White Cultures, Behavior Focus in East Asian Cultures: An Integrative Review." osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A new theoretical paper on symptom heterogeneity, with Andrew Ryder. "Internalizing disorders as shape-shifters: Understanding individual and cultural heterogeneity in the presentation of symptoms" Accepted by Psych Review. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Or take the science path, but be primed to see all critical or ambiguous feedback as deeply biased and hurtful.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

ooh, that looks great, looking forward

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

But a perfectly normal reaction to an anonymous stranger that cannot admit being mistaken?

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Once again, you are mistaken. My public appearances are limited to my areas of expertise. I have never appeared on a broadcast talking about this.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I never appeared on CBS, let alone talking about topics outside of my areas of expertise. Check your facts before ranting?

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I personally think that the issue is that emotional language is used to make the costs of disagreement or expressing a judgment minimal. We do not disagree with feelings, so making everything a feeling is protective.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Interesting, although their language is very different in writing, where they routinely use expressions that few psychologists use, implying access to truth.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I am noticing that my students are using cognitive language (e.g., I think/know/believe) as much, replaced with emotional (I feel). I feel that these data are inconclusive. I feel that that is an interesting argument. What is this?

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So honored to have been one of Arthur Kleinman’s first students at @harvard.edu in 1984 and to be at his Last Lecture at Harvard today.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Awww, I did not realize this connection was there, amazing. Of course, impossible to exaggerate his influence on culture and emotion researchers like myself. We all owe so much to him.

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Steven Heine @stevenheine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

How exciting, Steve, I was hoping there would be a paper about this.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

They closed their own program for U refugees down last October, did they not? Just talked to a friend who worked with migrants and is helping those that entered prior to October get their docs.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

раз Труляля и Траляля решили вздуть друг дружку

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This may be due in part to low develomental exposure to risk, the same students remember doing potentially risky thinks at later ages in their childhoods.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In the US, encounters with other people, often with very limited contact (e.g., passersby that were perceived to be dangerous without actually displaying aggressive behavior) and descriptions of being alone (e.g., walking home alone, often after dark) were common.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Students in the US are more likely to consider events being alone as "potentially risky or dangerous" to themselves that students in Canada, Turkey and Russia. Most of these events looks benign otherwise based on descriptions of what happened.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I know your depression paper well, it is always a favorite in my culture and psychopathology seminar. Will read up on others. Other than sexual orientation, have you found any other phenomena that you thought may spread across the network but failed to do so?

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Thank you for your response. I am thinking about this in culture and mental health area (e.g., which MH symptoms are contagious and which are not/less so). It is clear that virality/extent of cultural shaping differs, but no clear model explains this.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

So what is the model on what is contagious, generally speaking?

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

But some of this work is not in their favor. My hope is that this is so tedious that few people would get into it.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here is where they cite their evidence, mostly pointing to single studies, but there is more work for each: www.ahead-app.com/science-at-a...

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Ahead App

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

For interventions focusing on negative emotions, it is dispersed.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Well, for positive interventions, I would use: Folk, D., & Dunn, E. (2024). How can people become happier? A systematic review of preregistered experiments. Annual review of psychology, 75(1), 467-493.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In the areas with systematic/preregistered work, it is a mixed bag, the app offers some effective and some ineffective techniques. Their research links are legit (although they are not always well-replicated). I think the biggest potential damage here is consumer-like emotional focus.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I am not sure about disruption - very hard to find reviewers as is, let along if they are busy reviewing old papers

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

After reading Anabasis with my teacher, thinking about perceptions of cultural contact as polluting/requiring cleansing in certain cultures. Squares with my experience of traveling as a teen and people scrutinizing my "new accent," behavior and opinions for signs of pollution.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If true, cultural differences are on the chopping block?

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I guess the work on disgust driving transmission seems pretty unconcerned with reputation. I think your account has merit, but there likely are a few accounts that have merit (e.g., danger and reputation and novelty)

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Some of the findings on what drives transmission do not fit with this account, right? Like transmission of info on threats/disgust etc

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I lived across the street, this was our neighborhood pizza joint. We were under a lockdown for hours.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Got it, thank you, will look! I guess I am wondering about different characteristics being helpful in different communities (or similar communities over time)

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Alberto, have you done this for other fields as well (I am curious re: psychology given the dynamics of responding to the replicability crisis)?

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#AcademicSky I still see many students taking notes by hand Turns out, there's a benefit! See meta-analysis: Laptop users take more notes, but under-perform. Students, resist temptation to write down everything we say! Listen, think, capture the key essence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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