Esteban Hernández-Rivera

@Conacyt_MX Fellow🇲🇽 • PhD student in Experimental Psychology @McGillPsych & @debra_titone lab • Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Morality & Bayesian things

[Esteban Hernández-Rivera @Estebhr]

Some will say my first day of my PhD at McGill campus is photoshopped.

[Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrd_nick]

@xphilosopher @UMichConceptLab @Willemsen_Philo @VlastaSikimic What's the "normal" number of calls per day people receive from their mother?

And what's the "reasonable" number?

Daniel Martín found FASCINATING patterns in such judgments of frequency, averages, normality, and ideals.

Follow for the publication alert: https://t.co/dQFNBrUF9n

[Dominique Makowski 🧙 @Dom_Makowski]

🍫 ⚠️ Do you use subjective rating scales in your research (with extremities like negative-positive, true-false, correct-incorrect, fake-real, etc.)? If so, this paper is very relevant 🔥

Preprint:
https://t.co/9uukAzJhr0

1/7

[Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology @CanJournExpPsyc]

Luk, G., Hernández-Rivera, E., Tarín, K., Chen, D., Jang, M., & Titone, D. (2025). Math attitudes and verbal memory in multilingual younger adults. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale.

https://t.co/uo5nOsztr5

[Liwei Jiang @liweijianglw]

I'm thrilled to share that our Delphi paper is officially published today at @NatMachIntell after almost four years of hard works from all my amazing collaborators (a quite insane timeline considering the rapid AI world)! Special thanks to the unwavering support of my advisor, the marvelous @YejinChoinka! This project has defined my PhD experience and profoundly shaped how I view and approach science. The challenges along the way have made this journey all the more rewarding; it has been a truly unique and transformative training experience—one that anyone could aspire to during their PhD! https://t.co/aT7wrGnRr8

[Esteban Hernández-Rivera @Estebhr]

5/n Multiple other factors are, of course, relevant here + there’s likely by-context variation that’s important to consider. More work on the pipeline! 🤞🏾

[Esteban Hernández-Rivera @Estebhr]

Happy our paper on #bilingualism and #self-evaluations is published!

Here, we discuss some of our ideas on why some of the self-reports we often use in #multilingualism research may not be as stable as we’d like to believe!

https://t.co/ELn0UKRIDP

[Esteban Hernández-Rivera @Estebhr]

4/n The idea presented in this paper is that *some* of the self-evaluations we make about our language experience (i.e., how good am I at X…) seem to depend on our language-related attitudes towards the language we are being asked about!

[Esteban Hernández-Rivera @Estebhr]

@theCRBLM @debra_titone Thanks for having us, we had a lot of fun with the interactive eye-tracking demos! ☺️

[Alicia Chen @aliciamchen]

I'm excited to share this new preprint with @rebecca_saxe: We find that knowing about an existing social relationship can drastically change people’s expectations and evaluations of generosity. (1/11)

📄https://t.co/JMWnakk3Xn

[Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg]

Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

Making slides for a talk tomorrow — This is a prompt to talk about the importance of showing problems in implementiing Bayesian workflows, not just successes

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

Likert scores are not integers and they cannot be subdued by pretense. Stop pretending and meet me in the warm 3rd circle of stats hell and learn about ordered categorical models. Lecture: https://t.co/n8QZ1e46hv

[Esteban Hernández-Rivera @Estebhr]

@brouwer_susanne For peeps interested in bilingualism, I also often refer to this paper! https://t.co/jpjxHetqFs For what is worth, I strongly agree with the authors view.

[Esteban Hernández-Rivera @Estebhr]

@brouwer_susanne 2/n this paper: https://t.co/QRvmRgMETL There are more sources/papers I’d be happy to share if you are interested!

[Esteban Hernández-Rivera @Estebhr]

My notebook used to look like this when I was designing my stimuli for my studies on moral decision making and reading 😂

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

seen this week on a colleague’s whiteboard. too scared to ask what the checkmarks mean

[𝐷𝑖𝑛𝑜.𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑠( ) @JustaNormalDino]

We know that many scales are #ordinal and not #interval. But have you ever 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 this ordinality?
Here you can see a 5-point Likert scale (on trust in science and vaccination) and how the jump from 4 to 5 is much bigger than the jump between previous levels.

[Andrew Gelman et al. @StatModeling]

The authors of research papers have no obligation to share their data and code, and I have no obligation to believe anything they write.
https://t.co/tgfhNLiwPE