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Steven Heine

@StevenHeine4

Canadian social/cultural psychologist at UBC. Japanophile. Author of "Start Making Sense.," "DNA is Not Destiny," and "Cultural Psychology."
Joined August 2020
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Steven Heine @StevenHeine4
Another finding that suggests that sleep duration is not the key variable associated with sleep health.
Dr. Dominic Ng Verified account @DrDominicNg Jan 2
New Cell paper from the team that discovered glymphatic clearance (how your brain removes waste during sleep).

Sleep hours DIDN'T predict brain cleaning. Neither did REM or deep sleep.

They found what actually matters - and why some sleeping pills might undermine it 🧵
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Steven Heine @StevenHeine4
I'm always struck by how researchers aren't more aware of the ecological fallacy. It's always an issue when comparing individual and aggregate level data.
Sasha Gusev Verified account @SashaGusevPosts Oct 31, 2025
It's actually hard to convey how much absolute dreck gets published in this field. In this paper an obvious statistical artifact is reframed as "an enigma"

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Steven Heine @StevenHeine4
This is one of the more striking cultural differences: money appears to be a more motivating force in some Western countries than in others. It makes one wonder what economics would have looked like if it had first emerged outside the West.
Thomas Talhelm @ThomasTalhelm Aug 22, 2025
I wrote a piece for Scientific American about our study finding that money is more powerful in WEIRD cultures (and stronger in English than in Hindi!). @sciam @DanMedvedev6 @CDR_Booth
scientificamerican.com/article/cash-r…
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