Dorsa Amir
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Assistant professor @DukePsychNeuro studying kids & culture. Director of the @DukeMACLab. Mom x3. Some people just want to watch the world learn.
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Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee Dorsa Amir on How Culture Shapes the Mind
Image above: Dorsa Amir presenting at TEDxCambridge, 2019. Assistant Professor and 2026 Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient Dorsa Amir is the director of the Mind & Culture Lab at Duke University, where she and her colleagues research how culture shapes the developing mind. The Observer’s Digital Content Manager Lou Willwood asked Amir a few questions about her research, her career, and her advice for the upcoming generation of psychological scientists.
The emergence of cooperative behaviors, norms, and strategies across five diverse societies
Abstract Human cooperation involves a set of interconnected behaviors that develop in conjunction with the cultural environment. Despite recent advances in Western, industrialized contexts, we know far less about how cooperative behaviors emerge across cultures, how normative environments shape their development, and how these behaviors relate to one another.
Do we all see the same thing? We looked at 100 years of research on perception and found something surprising. Original
Science Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It’s one of the deepest mysteries of the human mind: Do we all see the world the same way? In 1956, three social scientists set out to answer this question. From their offices at Northwestern University, Donald Campbell and Melville Herskovits teamed up with Marshall Segall, of SyracuseUniversity, to coordinate an ambitious new investigation.
Do You See What I See?
A Diver Stumbled Upon the Treasure of a Lifetime—and It May Lead to a Hidden Shipwreck He uncovered 30,000 coins ancient coins in remarkable condition. They had to have come from somewhere. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A diver just stumbled upon a bounty of ancient coins off the coast of Italy. • Cultural ministers believe the that find could point toward an unknown …
A Famous Experiment Made Psychologists Question Everything About Perception. Well, We Just Discovered a New Twist.
Science Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It’s one of the deepest mysteries of the human mind: Do we all see the world the same way? In 1956, three social scientists set out to answer this question. From their offices at Northwestern University, Donald Campbell and Melville Herskovits teamed up with Marshall Segall, of SyracuseUniversity, to coordinate an ambitious new investigation.
Construct validity in cross-cultural, developmental research: challenges and strategies for improvement
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Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures - Nature Human Behaviour
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Abstract When interacting with infants, humans often alter their speech and song in ways thought to support communication. Theories of human child-rearing, informed by data on vocal signalling across species, predict that such alterations should appear globally. Here, we show acoustic differences between infant-directed and adult-directed vocalizations across cultures.
By Courtney B Hilton, Cody Moser, Mila Bertolo, Dorsa Amir, Constance M. Bainbridge, Jan Simson, Luke Glowacki, Andrzej Galbarczyk, Cody Ross, Mary Neff, Alia Martin, Laura K. Cirelli, Jinqi Song, Minju Kim, Adena Schachner, Tom Vardy, Quentin D. Atkinson, Amanda Salenius, Jannik Andelin, Jan Antfolk, Purnima Madhivanan, Anand Siddaiah, Caitlyn D. Placek, Gul Deniz Salali, Sarai Keestra, Cristina Moya, Brian Wood, Samuel A. Mehr
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A Viral Twitter Thread Reawakens the Dark History of Anthropology
Anthropology I’m an anthropologist and rarely have I seen such a harmful mix of inaccuracies and stereotypes about Indigenous people. By Dorsa Amir April 21, 2022 In March, a diet coach named Anthony Gustin, founder of an online food store called Perfect Keto (“Empowering your health journey in a food system that doesn’t care”), went viral on social media.
Dorsa Amir: Why do humans have a third eyelid?
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r/dataisbeautiful - [OC] To show just how insane this week's unemployment numbers are, I animated initial unemployment insurance claims from 1967 until now. These numbers are just astonishing.
you are effectively unemployed until travel restrictions are lifted. Even if the restrictions are lifted, many people will continue to stay home because of the health risks. Some people might go into work if it's a "come in or be fired" situation, but even that's not sustainable.
Personality is not only about who but also where you are
In the field of psychology, the image is canon: a child sitting in front of a marshmallow, resisting the temptation to eat it. If she musters up the willpower to resist long enough, she'll be rewarded when the experimenter returns with a second marshmallow. Using this 'marshmallow test', the Austrian-born psychologist Walter Mischel demonstrated that children who could resist immediate gratification and wait for a second marshmallow went on to greater achievements in life.
Personality is not only about who you are but also where you are
In the field of psychology, the image is canon: a child sitting in front of a marshmallow, resisting the temptation to eat it. If she musters up the willpower to resist long enough, she’ll be rewarded when the experimenter returns with a second marshmallow. Using this ‘marshmallow test’, the Austrian-born psychologist Walter Mischel demonstrated that children who could resist immediate gratification and wait for a second marshmallow went on to greater achievements in life.
Personality is not only about who but also where you are
By Dorsa Amir In the field of psychology, the image is canon: a child sitting in front of a marshmallow, resisting the temptation to eat it. If she musters up the willpower to resist long enough, she’ll be rewarded when the experimenter returns with a second marshmallow. Using this ‘marshmallow test’, the Austrian-born psychologist Walter Mischel demonstrated that children who could resist immediate gratification and wait for a second marshmallow went on to greater achievements in life.
Personality Is Not Only About Who But Also Where You Are
In the field of psychology, the image is canon: a child sitting in front of a marshmallow, resisting the temptation to eat it. If she musters up the willpower to resist long enough, she’ll be rewarded when the experimenter returns with a second marshmallow. Using this ‘marshmallow test’, the Austrian-born psychologist Walter Mischel demonstrated that children who could resist immediate gratification and wait for a second marshmallow went on to greater achievements in life.
Your personality is not just who you are but also where you are
30 minutes ago Dorsa Amir, Aeon Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Comments Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Comments In the field of psychology, the image is canon: a child sitting in front of a marshmallow, resisting the temptation to eat it. If she musters up the willpower to resist long enough, she’ll be rewarded when the experimenter returns with a second marshmallow.
Personality Is Not Only About Who But Also Where You Are
In the field of psychology, the image is canon: a child sitting in front of a marshmallow, resisting the temptation to eat it. If she musters up the willpower to resist long enough, she’ll be rewarded when the experimenter returns with a second marshmallow. Using this ‘marshmallow test’, the Austrian-born psychologist Walter Mischel demonstrated that children who could resist immediate gratification and wait for a second marshmallow went on to greater achievements in life.
Measuring subjective social status in children of diverse societies
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Personality is not only about who but also where you are – Dorsa Amir | Aeon Ideas
Two Shuar children play in the rainforest in Amazonian Ecuador. Photo by David Ducoin/Gamma-Rapho/Getty In the field of psychology, the image is canon: a child sitting in front of a marshmallow, resisting the temptation to eat it. If she musters up the willpower to resist long enough, she’ll be rewarded when the experimenter returns with a second marshmallow.
Dorsa Amir: How the Industrial Revolution changed childhood
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Opinion | We have slashed and burned the core features of childhood
(Michelle Kondrich/For The Washington Post) July 30 Dorsa Amir is an evolutionary anthropologist and postdoctoral research fellow at Boston College. Nearly 100 years ago, a team of archaeologists working in Greenland stumbled onto something strange: careful arrangements of brightly colored stones nestled into the frozen landscape. There was no mistaking they were intentional, the ovals of red and white pebbles, but what were they?
Love, Death, and Other Forgotten Traditions - Issue 64: The Unseen - Nautilus
The science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein once wrote, “Each generation thinks it invented sex.” He was presumably referring to the pride each generation takes in defining its own sexual practices and ethics. But his comment hit the mark in another sense: Every generation has to reinvent sex because the previous generation did a lousy job of teaching it. In the United States, the conversations we have with our children about sex are often awkward, limited, and brimming with euphemism.
Modest Advice for New Graduate Students
Throughout the course of my years in graduate school, I kept a running list of the best advice given to me, and the strategies that helped keep me sane. I hope it will prove useful to others. 1. The Phenomenology of Graduate School: Impostor Syndrome is 100% real and will affect you (yes, even you). But you can learn how to better manage it over time. The best cure is building up enough knowledge & experience that you start thinking, “Hey, maybe I do know what I’m talking about”.
Love, Death, and Other Forgotten Traditions - Issue 54: The Unspoken - Nautilus
The science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein once wrote, “Each generation thinks it invented sex.” He was presumably referring to the pride each generation takes in defining its own sexual practices and ethics. But his comment hit the mark in another sense: Every generation has to reinvent sex because the previous generation did a lousy job of teaching it. In the United States, the conversations we have with our children about sex are often awkward, limited, and brimming with euphemism.
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