People tend to be OK with unfair resource distributions when they stand to gain at another's expense. Can we teach people--via observational learning--to punish advantageous inequity? Collaboration with Shen Zhang, @orielf.bsky.social, and Seb Hétu, out today: elifesciences.org/articles/102...

if you are starting a sentence expressing disbelief with the interjection 'Bro' in a work email context what is the preferred punctuation? Bro: ... Bro, ... or Bro;...

one time our exalted premier walked past me and a colleague speaking loudly in english (as i do) and grinned like a cheshire cat at us

That feeling when a pedant says they are being pedantic in that moment

Is “neuroscience” the more rigorous-sounding stand-in term for “doing psychology”

New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS: Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? (or why does it hurt to think) never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience

are you a clinical researcher? join our warm and supportive department (open rank!) mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...

do classic decoy effects take place in real-world shopping decisions? wine purchase records in a massive grocery dataset says: yes new work with (former) student Sean Devine, @anyaskatova.bsky.social , James Goulding, and John Harvey www.nature.com/articles/s41... (sorry for the titular pun)

ah you must mean a team of smarties

new work just out by (now Dr!) Anna Jos in collaboration with @awestbrook.bsky.social how do pupil diameter changes track the behavioral expression of flexible versus stable control? find out NOW in the latest issue of Psychophysiology : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

bayesians gotta relax with the taking credit for the concept of infering things about the world

Self-pubbed book my dept mailbox today (and everyone’s ) . Are we the sorcerers here ? Hmu if you want my copy

At #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including: - amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks - panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social) - group brainstorming session! Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild

Take that , computational psychiatry

ashamedly i've never tried this (from Kahneman's 1973 'Attention and Effort')

social psychology in the wild: it's surprising, in may cases, which (canadian) people here take firm stances about (not) visiting the states, similarly as it was hard to predict, during you-know-what, who was going to become lockdown restriction enthusiasts (versus lockdown loosey goosies).

🧠💡 NEW PAPER ALERT 💡🧠 Together w/ Isabelle Jacques, @katieinsel.bsky.social, @arossotto.bsky.social, & Leah Somerville, the 1st project from my PhD is now out in JEP:G! How do children, adolescents, & adults decide when to think hard? Our study examines learning the value of cognitive effort.

🚨 Workshop alert 🚨 If you're interested in RL and real-world data, come to our workshop @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social! Including cool talks, a panel debate, and a group brainstorming activity. sites.google.com/view/rlinthe...

I love making a significant scientific discovery and running blindly through the crowded halls of my early twentieth century university with a bundle of loose papers in my outstretched arms

Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025! 🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF... Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.

And now it is online! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🤖 Meet Our Incredible Speakers! 🧠 We’re thrilled to announce the invited speakers for RLDM 2025: ✨ Iain Couzin ✨ Andreas Krause ✨ Alison Adcock ... and many more (see pictures)! 📅 Don’t miss their insights on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making 🎟️ Register now: rldm.org/call-for-abs...

Happy 50th anniversary to Blood on the Tracks.

we've seen goal gradient like effects emerge in cognitive effort tasks but how does attention to goal progress ? a new study from our lab, by Sean Devine and others, uses eyetracking to answer this question link.springer.com/article/10.3...

generating AI slop to field an anonymous reviewer's request to caveat an article title

Hello, World (of Psychology) 👋 We're here to share the latest in McGill's psychological research and updates from our faculty and students!

talk about a cabal ! anyone on here do jokes yet

Come join us at Trinity College Dublin for the 6th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2025) Abstract deadline January 15: rldm.org/submit

undergrad asked me today if thursday's class was marked as 'traveling; no class' in the syllabus because I was going to see tay tay's show in toronto #psychonomics2024

Does learning context bias cognitive effort evaluations? A study with Sophie Desjardins and with Mathieu Roy (among others) suggests that effort evaluation, like everything else, "is all relative" link.springer.com/article/10.3...

when do we 'go for it' (cognitively speaking) ? new work by Sean Devine with Mathieu Roy and Ulrik Beierholm finds evidence for Clark Hull's goal-gradient effects in human cognition psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Russ here, excited to finally thrown down against Amita !