New publication @PNASNews: Frequent winners explain apparent skewness preferences
in experience-based decisions
https://t.co/fLJI0XOYcb
With @Mikhail_Spektor and @gael_lemens
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Open access paper published in Cognitive Psychology: "Compressed representations and attentional competition in numeric integration for average estimations" w/ Alice Mason from Uni Bath & @Seb_Olschewski
New short-form preprint in which we use Centaur to identify gaps in interpretable cognitive models and revise them accordingly using Qwen3 -- fully automated and without a human-in-the-loop.
https://t.co/z1GoaGNFWT
Completely nonsensical politicization of scientistics identifying and correcting problems in science.
- Gino's research was not "promoting progressive ideas"
- The problems were not found by "bloggers," but by leading researchers/faculty in the same scientific discipline.
In this article, Du & Haith show that behavior can become habitual in two different ways, involving response initiation and response preparation, respectively
https://t.co/SjRZSaCJMb
Excited to share a new Trends in Cognitive Sciences paper that I had the pleasure to be a part of. This is an interdisciplinary perspective on the dynamics of cognitive costs, namely when these costs occur and how they impact our decisions. #neuroeconomics https://t.co/qAK9JDdYFj
This meta-analysis of 79 RCTs by Hoppen et al found that social comparison is an effective behaviour change technique for pro-environmental-, health-, performance-, and service-related behaviours.
https://t.co/019kMN2CQm
New preprint out with an amazing 40-person team! We find that Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms incentivised human persuaders in a >1000-participant live quiz-chat in deceptive and truthful directions!
Announcing the summer school on "Cognitive Foundations of Decision-Making" to be held from June 30 to July 4, 2025, in Ghent, Belgium. For information and the application pprocedures, see
https://t.co/PRMTDmmaSu
We are looking for two PhD students at our institute in Munich.
Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible.
More information: https://t.co/wBE0mau7p3
Feel free to share broadly!
We concluded that keeping track of the number of ordinal wins over all outcome pairs of two sequences remains an important behavioral mechanism in decisions from experience. But we are looking forward to future work to better understand how people process skewed distributions.
@Mikhail_Spektor , @gael_lemens, and me engaged in an interesting debate about why people could prefer right-skewed outcome distributions in experience-based decision-making published in @PNASNews :
https://t.co/0kjbxxfQQS
However, we argued that such a mechanism would be inconsistent with other experimental findings from our paper “Frequent winners explain apparent skewness preferences in experience-based decisions”.
🚨Out today in PNAS @PNASNews🚨
https://t.co/J4gBSBjOtw
Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?
We analyze 100k estimates to find out🧵👇
Submissions for our 2025 @EcScienceAssoc European Meeting are now open!
Send in your abstract by May 5 and join us in September in Brno @muni_cz
https://t.co/PmoqiIAk9y
🚨 New paper 🚨
Out in @CommsPsychol: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and Christian Ruff
We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇
Why do people act randomly when playing games? And why do their actions depend on the context? An extended variational autoencoder models the cognitive processes that govern human decisions in games:
https://t.co/Ks9zHfAtpQ
With Guy Aridor and Mike Woodford.
Excited to share the materials for our course on open LLMs for science of science research @ZakASHussain
and I offered at the recent meeting of @euroscisci
at @LMU_Muenchen.
https://t.co/7XqejupoBs
I have written a review article on the research within experimental economics studying the impact of intelligence on economic decision making.
https://t.co/X12IK1oBJu
#econtwitter