1/10 🚨 New preprint: Using Large Language Models to Estimate Belief Strength in Reasoning 🚨 When asked: "There are 995 politicians and 5 nurses. Person 'L' is kind. Is Person 'L' more likely to be a politician or a nurse?", most people will answer "nurse", neglecting the base-rate info. A 🧵👇

Great week at the CSBBCS/EPS conference! Speaking alongside two of my academic heroes and mentors was such an honour and a really special moment for me! Huge thanks to CSBBCS and Aimee Surprenant for the invitation and opportunity, and all those who attended our symposium 🙏 @exppsychsoc.bsky.social

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

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)

Come hear about moral psychology and AI at 11am today at #SPSP2025! @awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger

New pre-print with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social ! Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣 We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds. cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Let's give this a try ;-) go.bsky.app/TBS14hQ

📢Our paper on AI-mediated communication (out now!) shows that: 1) People expect others to use AI tools more than themselves 2) People are more accepting of open than secret AI use (at least, explicitly) bit.ly/zpurc 👥 w/ Mengchen Dong, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Nils Kobis, & Maurice Jakesch.

Today at IMBES my favourite talk was by @zoepurcell.bsky.social unpicking the relationships between partisan identity, prior beliefs, and reasoning. Partisan identity doesn’t make reasoning less accurate, but it does make the experience of reasoning subjectively more difficult. #academicsky

Was thrilled to present our work at #ICT2024! I was overwhelmed by the support for this new angle and am now riding a new wave of motivation for this project -- thank you all✨ @wimdeneys.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social