Cory Clark

Nov 20, 2023 | pnas.org | Marten Scheffer |van Nes |Cory Clark |Lee Jussim Ph. D.

The vulnerability of aging states: A survival analysis across premodern societiesContributed by Marten Scheffer; received December 9, 2022; accepted October 12, 2023; reviewed by Sean S. Downey, Robert D. Drennan, and Ann KinzigSignificanceHumans become increasingly fragile as they age. We show that something similar may happen to states, although for states, the risk of termination levels off as they grow older, allowing some to persist for millennia.

Sep 14, 2023 | link.springer.com | Cory Clark |Philip E. Tetlock

AbstractThe behavioral sciences have taken a substantial reputational hit over the past decade. Some highly publicized findings have failed to replicate, and many highly touted “science-based” interventions have failed to produce promised positive social change—even when massive efforts are dedicated to making them work.

Jul 29, 2023 | researchgate.net | Cory Clark

Use It and Lose It: Exerting Scientific Authority for Political Ends Undermines Scientific Authority Cory J Clark University of Pennsylvania Corresponding author: Cory Clark; [email protected] This chapter may be cited as: Clark, C. J. (in press). Use it and lose it: Exerting scientific authority for political ends undermines scientific authority. In J.P. Forgas (Ed.), The tribal mind: The psychology of collectivism. London, UK: Routledge.

Jan 23, 2023 | researchgate.net | Cory Clark |Maja Graso |Ilana Redstone |Philip E. Tetlock

HARM HYPERVIGILANCE 11 Consistent with our primary preregistered hypotheses, Table 1 and the top left quadrant of Figure 1 show that for all scientific findings, participants overestimated harmful reactions with effect sizes ranging from small/medium to large/very large. We did not preregister hypotheses for the other kinds of behavioral reactions, but in nearly all cases, the results are conceptually consistent with the “harm hypervigilance” hypothesis.