🧠 New paper alert! Can people infer others’ values not from what they choose, but simply from what comes to mind? Across four studies, we show they can—drawing on an intuitive theory of how options are generated. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106238 👇

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Listen to the whole speech. This is history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ys...

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

We're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly 🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏

1/6 Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! rdcu.be/dYl7T Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @xiaosigu.bsky.social, @joebarnby.com, & I call for cognitive models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms🧵

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

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Best summer school ever!! Thanks so much to @thecharleywu.bsky.social and @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social for being amazing organizers and for cultivating such a lovely community 💗

📢 My lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine is considering graduate student applications this fall We welcome applicants interested in using computational modeling & fMRI to study social connection 🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025 🔗 Learn more: sinclaboratory.com/apply #comppsychiatry #socialneuro

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall!  The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so. I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

I'll be reviewing computational/cognitive and clinical psychology applications this year for the Translational Lab at Emory 💭🔬 Please share broadly and send applicants my way! 🔄 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We are looking for a research assistant/lab manager to join the lab! A supportive, collaborative environment where you can learn neural recording with Neuropixels, optogenetics, fiber photometry, and neural data analysis.

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share new research on teaching! Work supervised by @cocoscilab.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and @markkho.bsky.social. This project asks: When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3 osf.io/preprints/os...

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

New preprint! Thrilled to share my latest work with @esfinn.bsky.social -- "Sensory context as a universal principle of language in humans and LLMs" osf.io/preprints/ps...

Want to share your research and build support for science, but don’t know where to start? Register for our science communication workshop: tinyurl.com/scicomins 📝Practice your sci comm 🤝Meet scientists on social media 🤳Make a video (could be featured on our page) DM us with any questions!

Congratulations to Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto on receiving the Turing Award in recognition of their significant contributions to ML. I also stand with them: Releasing models to the public without the right technical and societal safeguards is irresponsible. www.ft.com/content/d8f8...

Men will literally prefer going Bayesian instead of going to therapy.

new paper out with @ashleycleung.bsky.social and dan yurovsky in child development! 📄🔓: doi.org/10.1111/cdev... brief 🧵 below on our findings!

Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

We are looking for a postdoc at the Translational Lab (translational-lab.com) at Emory! Pls 🔄 We focus on: * when & why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety * developing potent and scalable interventions A range of projects are possible w/in this scope. Informal inquiries welcome

New research from SFI’s Simon DeDeo and Claire Bergey using LLMs delves into the dynamics of conversation. 🧠 Discoveries from the CANDOR corpus reveal insights into information density, cognitive load, and the role of backchannels. Read more here 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2403.08890

Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...

New paper demonstrating the hidden cost of receiving favors led by Xiaoxue Gao with @eshjolly.bsky.social, Hongbo Yu, Huiying Liu, & Xiaolin Zhou. We demonstrate that brain patterns of emotional states can be integrated with economic utility models to predict reciprocity behavior bit.ly/41Pm7O2.

My first bsky post! New paper in Perspectives with my fantastic colleagues on why we need to better understand social interaction & how new tools are accelerating that progress.👇

📢Postdoc alert!📢 Come work with me as a Guarini Dean’s Postdoc Fellow at Dartmouth! This 2-year fellowship supports scholars whose research addresses questions about intergroup dynamics in social interactions and relationships. Apply by Feb 1! Position begins this summer apply.interfolio.com/137922

I’m pleased to announce our preprint 😃 – Toward a More Biologically Plausible Neural Network Model of Latent Cause Inference. URL: arxiv.org/abs/2312.08519 (1/N)

I'm hiring a lab manager! The Social Identity in Dialogue (SID) Lab at Dartmouth is seeking a full-time lab manager interested in the social psychological study of interracial interactions, relationships, and conversations about race. Pref. apply by Jan 9 searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/71464

*NEW* "Common ground in cooperative communication" led by @XiaoranHao and Yash Jhaveri has been accepted to @NeurIPSConf! #NeurIPS2023 We introduce the first mathematical definition of common ground, show it generalizes previous models, and derive a connection to the new cVAE!

Why do people process language differently from each other? In a new paper, @esfinn.bsky.social and I show that the “concreteness” of word meanings plays a central role in shaping our unique experiences of natural language. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below! 1/9

Pymer4 0.8.1 now has support for arm-based macs (m1, m2, etc) and Python versions up to 3.11! Sorry for the delay on this folks 😅 eshinjolly.com/pymer4/new.h...

A short piece from Luke Chang, Jeremy Manning, Matt van der Meer, and me about the motivation behind, our experiences with, and the future of Method In Neuroscience at Dartmouth (MIND): https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/08/vox-populi-keeping-next-generation-mind

It's happening! There will be a Computational Preconference at #SPSP2024! Keep watching the convention website (and here) for details on schedule, speakers, and how you can apply to present in the data blitz! We're excited to see you in San Diego! https://spsp.org/events/annual-convention