Applications for the summer school (July 27-31) are open until the end of the month! Both in-person and virtual options available. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How do we equip #AI with the social intelligence it needs to be a good teammate, collaborator, or driver? Embedding real-time cognitive models in DNNs allows them to pick up on humans' latent goals and motives, providing a big step toward effective AI theory of mind: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(Mic check 1-2-3) I'm on the job market🚨 I’m a social psychologist building computational models to study social cognition, attitudes, polarization, and how people update beliefs. Evidence accumulation models, Hierarchical Bayes, Agent-based models, NLP, etc. Interested in formal theorizing!

Abstract submission are open for the MathPsych/ICCM 2026 conference in Montreal July 17 to 21, 2026 mathpsych.org/conference/23/ The submission deadline is February 28!

Out now in Social Cognition! We present the "Tug-of-War" (computational) model of attitude associations. It posits a specific mechanism behind behavior on implicit cognition tasks (IAT here; working to implement it to other tasks). We believe it enhances theory and psychometrics🙌

Machine learning / AI approaches can work well for model comparison and fitting, but how do they stack up against likelihood-based methods like hierarchical Bayes / MCMC? link.springer.com/article/10.3... (Generally the same for fitting, but neural networks were better for model comparison!)

The 2025 MathPsych/ICCM meeting starts tomorrow with a day of workshops and symposia! #iccmpsyched but can't make it this year? Get your fomo here:

What are the differences between diffusion and accumulator models, and can you even tell them apart? "The Tweedledum and Tweedledee of dynamic decisions: Discriminating between diffusion decision and accumulator models" open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Now officially out and open access: doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! 🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World". ✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

Here's a starter pack for mathematical psychology! please add if you know folks who should be on here go.bsky.app/QNKpfeS

I am currently co-organizing a preconference for Psychonomics with the topic "Memory in the Wild". Registration will close soon! Check it out: mathpsych.org/conference/17/

How do people make good decisions when their options change over time, such as dynamic housing markets? New paper at Psych Review suggests evidence is accumulated for unavailable options -- a serious challenge to "option-specific" diffusion / accumulator models: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

First first-author paper submitted; preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We (@colinsmithpsych.bsky.social and @peterkvam.bsky.social ) give a tutorial on a mathematical model of attitudes associations, the Tug-of-war model (TOW), as applied to IAT data (N > 10,000). TOW quantifies associations as (1/13)

VOTE NOW! While you are enjoying the Virtual MathPsych/ICCM 2024 pre-recorded presentations, don't forget to hit the ❤️ up at the top for your favorites to vote for the 2024 People's Choice Awards. One award is given for the MathPsych track and one for ICCM track. #iccmpsyched

Don’t miss your opportunity to discuss a career in mathematical psychology with 2022 Senior Fellow Jerome Busemeyer in the live Q&A on June 18 at 12:30 EDT. Watch his "Conversation with a Senior Fellow" at mathpsych.org/presentation... #iccmpsyched

👀 READY FOR VIEWING AT VMP2024 👀 Pre-recorded presentations are posted for viewing for the Judgment session in the "Day 2" room. Live Q&A will start June 18 at 12:00 EDT. #iccmpsyched mathpsych.org/session/400

👀 VIEWING IS LIVE AT VMP2024 👀 Pre-recorded presentations are posted for viewing for the Development & Dynamics session in the "Day 2" room. Live Q&A with the authors will start June 18 at 13:00 EDT. #iccmpsyched mathpsych.org/session/398

Virtual MathPsych/ICCM 2024 is LIVE at mathpsych.org/conference/16/! 👀 Watch the pre-recorded talks at your leisure. Then join in for the live Q&A with the authors, held via zoom; details on mathpsych.org/conference/1... #iccmpsyched

👀 WATCH NOW! 👀 Pre-recorded presentations are posted for viewing for the VMP 2024 Methods & Models session in the "Day 1" room. Live Q&A will start June 17, at 12:00 EDT. mathpsych.org/session/409 #iccmpsyched

👀 READY TO WATCH NOW 👀 Pre-recorded presentations are posted for viewing for the Virtual MathPsych Measurement & Reasoning session in the "Day 1" room. Live Q&A will start June 17, at 13:00 EDT. mathpsych.org/session/396 #iccmpsyched

👩‍🏫 FAST TALKS ARE LIVE FOR VIEWING! 👨‍🏫 Pre-recorded presentations are posted for viewing for the VMP2024 Fast Talk session in the "Day 1" room. Fast Talks are VMP’s virtual poster sessions. Live Q&A with the authors will start June 17 at 14:00 EDT.  mathpsych.org/session/397 #iccmpsyched

The 2nd talk in Measurement & Reasoning is “Revisiting the role operational definitions in psychological science” by Peter Kvam @peterkvam.bsky.social mathpsych.org/presentation... #iccmpsyched

How do we make choices when our options change over time? In a new paper with @lazyneuron.bsky.social & Andy Fitch, just accepted at Psych Review, we explore "alternative-general" representations of evidence that allow us to make good decisions even when our options shift. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Just got this in an email from UF admin. They like to do this on Friday afternoons so that we can enjoy our weekends.

A short piece on what we do -- and more importantly, don't -- know about the relationship between human behavior and evolution. Plus, what approaches like computational evolution can tell us: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/defi...

What is a scientific model? www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/defi... Models bridge the gap between what we can understand and what we want to understand -- and extend that bridge in both directions. Now on the front page of Psychology Today! psychologytoday.com/us #PsychSciSky #scicomm #science

We often take them for granted, but operational definitions are a weird vestige of early 20th century science. It's time for psychology to leave them behind in favor of better measurement models: Re-assessing the role of operational definitions in psychology osf.io/preprints/ps... (Reposted 🐦🦣🧵)

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Have you heard these claims? "AGI (short for “artificial general intelligence”) is imminent!" or "At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!" We explain why, and present a formal proof that, such claims are false and misleading. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/d...