Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

🪦 New in @pnas.org: we analyzed 38 million U.S. obituaries to ask what signals a life well lived: What values are people most remembered for? How do legacies shift with cultural events? How do age and gender shape what it means to have lived well? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy to share that my first paper is out in Thinking & Reasoning! 📄📢 With Aikaterini Voudouri, @boissinesther.bsky.social & @wimdeneys.bsky.social we show that deliberate reasoning helps not just to correct but also to justify intuitive judgments. 🔗Full paper: shorturl.at/JTeTi Quick thread below!

Today’s popular fictions can be extremely far from reality: The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, The Legend of Zelda, Avengers: Endgame. But has this always been the case?

Curious about the mechanisms behind biased reasoning and metacognition? 🤔 📍 Come see our poster at #CCN2025, Aug 12, 1:30–4:30pm We show how a biased drift-diffusion model can explain choice, RT and confidence in a base-rate neglect task, revealing why more deliberation doesn’t always fix bias.

We need data, not guesses, on how future tech may reshape behavior & society. Our new paper with @azimshariff.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social out in @nature.com spells out a framework we call the ❝science fiction science method❞ (sci-fi-sci) + www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/8 New (and first) paper accepted at JEP:LMC 🎉 Ever fallen for this type of questions: "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?" Most say "Two," forgetting it was Noah, and not Moses, who took the animals on the Ark. But what’s really going on here? 🧵

Excited to share my latest research ! Key findings reveal that a negative emotion triggered reasoning. #epistemology #Psychology #Cognition #Research #Science #Neuroscience #Reasoning #CognitiveScience #AcademicTwitter 📖 Read the full study: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Do AI builders hold different values from AI users? We show that AI builders and men are more utilitarian and less supportive of pro-diversity outputs, highlighting ongoing concerns about workforce diversity and whose values are shaping AI. tinyurl.com/AIcognit

👀 Just out in Thinking & Reasoning with @boissinesther.bsky.social @mts-raoelison.bsky.social @wimdeneys.bsky.social Curious how intuitive reasoning develops through adolescence? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KFH5K... Quick summary👇

🚨In PNAS🚨 The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨New paper!🚨 Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵 Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal

this is roughly my gutfeel for interpreting logit coefficients. #stats #rstats

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

Using this as an excuse to share a great post by @natehaines.bsky.social on modelling and Dunning-Kruger. haines-lab.com/post/2021-01...

William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience "But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

New preprint: “Folk Thinking, Fast and Slow: Intuitive Preference for Deliberation in Humans and Machines” Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation. tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)

Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵

The reasoning team from LaPsyDE in New York for the #SJDM & #Psychonomic conferences! @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social w/ @ninafraniatte.bsky.social @boissinesther.bsky.social @lauracharbit.bsky.social Matthieu Raoelison @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social & @wimdeneys.bsky.social

📢 Delighted to share the second preprint of my PhD work! 🎉   Across 2️⃣ experiments (N=3410 unpaid citizen scientists, N=52 paid participants), we developed a new smartphone game 📱👾 to measure metacognition 🧠 reliably, rapidly and remotely over time   osf.io/preprints/ps... … 1/10

New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread! #psychology #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps...

A new Master’s program in #cogsci is born! Operated jointly by Sorbonne U and U Paris Cité, in Paris with 100% of classes & internships in English, the cog-SUP program will open in Sept 2024 with its first class of students. Applications open soon! #neuroskyence cog-sup.fr