🏳️🌈 Professor studying The Social Ecology of Health and Wellbeing
British Columbia, Canada
Joined September 2020
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Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
📣 Join us for our next webinar on Feb 17th📣
Registration is now open for our webinar w Dr Nina Goldman and Dr @kiffercard talking about their intl perspectives on loneliness & social connection policies and guidelines, followed by a Q&A.
More info here: lonelinessresearch.org
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
100%! 4-6 intimate connections is said to protect our health and happiness, along with joining 3 or more groups and communities (online or offline)
Check out my podcast announcing the new social connection guidelines for Canada with @kiffercard
youtu.be/SmOfm6d0KA4?si=LM38…
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
This is a controversial claim, but in my experience, more than 90% of the time, when people bring up neuroscience during explanations of psychological phenomena, the neuroscience adds nothing of value to the explanation other than making the explanation *seem* more authoritative
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.
ALT https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-020-01985-6
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
The right says the country is dying so you should vote for Trump despite his flaws. The hard left says the country is a hellscape so you may as well vote in protest for a 3rd party or sit out the election. My NYT op-ed this morning shows in 8 graphs why these are seriously deluded. The country faces problems (as always) but is in better shape than for most of its past. nytimes.com/2024/10/29/opini…
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
Who would have thought high intensity interval training would be so controversial.
As I've always said, the best #exercise, is the one people will do. If that's HIIT- great. If not- that's fine.
There is no one-size fits all.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.113…
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
App usage is
- contagious (sd increase of roommates’ in-college app usage raises own by 4.4%)
- detrimental to academic performance and labor market outcomes (sd increase reduces GPAs by 36% and wages by 2.3%)
App restriction policy would boost wages!
nber.org/papers/w33054
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
Wow this NPR article on internal TikTok documents that were unintentionally leaked by the company is WILD. Major points in the thread 👇
npr.org/2024/10/11/g-s1-2767…
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
"We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists.... Studies have shown that a person-centred, non-diagnosis-led and least-medicalised approach is more effective, quicker and with fewer clinical returns over the longer term."
theguardian.com/society/2024…
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
bias taxonomy: many human biases can be summed up as a few basic biases/beliefs, with confirmation bias [peoples’ tendency to process information in a way that is consistent with their prior beliefs] amplifying/combining with all of them journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… h/t @SteveStuWill
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
Somewhere along the way “correlation is not causation” morphed into “until the causal link is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, ideally with a large scale RCT with global external validity, than the correlation likely reflects the impact of some unobserved factor I can’t name.”
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
Remote work is not a distraction. It's a chance to concentrate.
Government workers were 28% more productive on days when supervisors assigned them tasks to do at home, because they were more focused.
The office is good for interaction, but it's not always ideal for deep work.
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
New research alert! @PNASNexus
People systematically and selectively underestimate the income of the top 1%, but not of other percentiles. This matters for policy and redistribution!
Read the thread for more or check out shorturl.at/92olj...
@jonj @hb_hooman 1/8
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
When the scientific consensus diverges from people’s political beliefs, people change their political beliefs. Just kidding! As shown in the graph below, people often just change their beliefs about scientists, seeing them less favorably and as less moral. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/p…
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD.
Recent working paper by
@EvaRanehill, @annahsandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström.
Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…
Prof. Kiffer Card retweeted
The much-anticipated report "A Healthier Canada" is here!
🔎Every $1 invested in social prescribing can return $4.43 to society by reducing healthcare costs & improving quality of life.
Learn more about how it supports aging adults, youth, & more: bit.ly/47i9X2Y
