jonathan r goodman

@jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social

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Assistant research professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge, and science writer (INVISIBLE RIVALS out now with Yale UP) interests: trust, inequality, public health http://jonathanrgoodman.com

Jonathan Goodman and Mariam Rashid host a panel, "Traitors: This is my research" at Cambridge Festival
An article called 'Supremely Selfish' for the New Scientist
Text from a poem of Jozsef Attila: They can tap all my telephone calls (when, why, to whom) They have a file on my dreams and plans And on those who read them. And who knows when they'll find Sufficient reason to dig up the files That violate my rights.
Findings from our accents study follow up: image showing that study accent–listeners had the highest probability of a correct response (62.49%–70.12%), followed by UK/Ireland (53.18%–62.44%), and other English-speaking country (50.03%–56.85%) and non-English speaking country (49.72%–58.32%).
Picture of "Invisible Rivals: How we evolved to compete in a cooperative world"
Picture of book titled Notes From Ivory Flats
An image of "You," a sphere at the Wellcome Genome Campus
Image of an article called "Erosion of Trust"
"If I may hazard a guess: Israel after the war will be much more rightwing, militant, and racist. The war forced on it will have cemented the most extreme, hateful stereotypes and prejudices that frame - and will continue to frame all the more robustly - Israeli identity. And that identity will from now on also embody the trauma of October 2023, as well as the polarisation, the internal rift."
"I do not know whether Hamas operatives should be called "animals", but they have undoubtedly lost their humanity."
"But make no mistake, and do not be confused: with all the fury at Netanyahu and his people and his policies, the horror of these past few days was not caused by Israel. It was effected by Hamas. The occupation is a crime, but to shoot hundreds of civilians - children and parents, elderly and sick in cold blood - that is a worse crime. Even in the hierarchy of evil, there is a "ranking" There is a scale of severity that common sense and natural instincts can identify. And when you see the killing fields of the music festival site, when you see Hamas terrorists on motorcycles chasing young partiers, some of whom are still dancing without realising what's going on ..."
"What is happening now is the concrete price Israel is paying for having been seduced for years by a corrupt leadership which drove it downhill from bad to worse; which eroded its institutions of law and justice, its military, its education system; which was willing to place it in existential danger in order to keep its prime minister out of prison."
Word suggests that I have misspelled "patrilineality" when I wrote "matrilineality"