Get that nice shiny "preregistered" badge while retaining full analytic flexibility with this one simple trick (preregistering your analysis plan as "we will analyze the effect of the IVs on the DVs") 🫠

Now available as a preprint: this paper about judging people (morally) for ...feeling emotions (!)👇 www.researchgate.net/publication/... Follow @isernmas.bsky.social, @joannad-c.bsky.social, and Ivar Hannikainen (www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivar...) for more.

To celebrate the launch of the xphi-journal and kick-off our talk series, we are happy to invite everyone to this talk by Edouard Machery. ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6780355881...

going through my bluesky followers/following list since becoming a section editor 👀

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If you’re into beautiful graphs and rigorous science, check out Ruben’s new position at Uni Witten/Herdecke. I’ve worked with him for over a decade, and it’s been an inspiring, supportive collaboration throughout.

📢 Se ofertan 29 contratos predoctorales concedidos a @universidadgranada.bsky.social, uno de ellos para trabajar con nosotrxs en el proyecto PID2024 sobre inferencias de estados mentales en el dominio moral! ⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25 🔗 investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...

die startseite der ARD MEDIATHEK wünscht heute am 25.11. allen, die feiern, einen fröhlichen tag gegen gewalt an frauen

Thrilled to teach again this year, on the evolution of social cognition, at the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences! Apply before December 15th 👇 Brochure: lnkd.in/e_R7cQTP Application: lnkd.in/eey-fEJ

Looking for a funded Ph.D. in #CogSci in an interdisciplinary, research-first program? Apply to CEU! cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students! #PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.

The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi We will soon also be found under xphi.eu. Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.

Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science? Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)

📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with @normann.bsky.social, Nina Rulié, & @ostypa.bsky.social We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice! arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636

Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.

gegenvorschlag : einfach alles wurst nennen

🚨 New article 🚨 Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap. Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3... R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...

Über Nacht von Null auf 12.000. DA geht noch was. weact.campact.de/petitions/ch... #Chatkontrolle

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Delighted that our paper on 'Delegation to AI can increase dishonest behaviour' is featured today on the cover of @nature.com Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Automatically disadvantaged? What benefit recipients think about the use of #AI in welfare decisions. A new study @mpib-berlin.bsky.social and @tse-fr.eu reveals discrepancies in attitudes between social benefit recipients and non-recipients. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/press-releas...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Excited to share that my recent paper *many llms are more utilitarian than one * has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! 🎉 #NeurIPS Thanks to my amazing collaborators! @razanbaltaji.bsky.social Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00814

🧠🤖 Ever wondered about the risks of the increasing customization capabilities of AI/AI-powered chatbots & what we can do about it? Check out our recent-ish paper: The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities. doi.org/10.1177/2379...

Does ‘discrimination’ inherently imply unfairness, hence making it an evaluative (rather than a descriptive) term? Research by Willemsen et al concludes it is a “thick concept” that fundamentally blends descriptive and evaluative content: buff.ly/DUysv3c HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky. @xphijournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/xphi... Please share!

Fully funded PhD scholarships at the Max Planck School of Cognition (Deadline Dec 1st) You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty. Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

We are finalizing the program for the workshop 'Moral Epistemology and Social Progress: Experimental and Philosophical Perspectives' Do you know someone who might be interested in submitting a proposal? philevents.org/event/show/1...

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Would you like to contribute to cross-cultural research in bioethics? We have received expressions of interest from over 20 countries, but many world regions remain under-represented. ⬇️ Sign up to take part here ⬇️ www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

🚨Publication Alert🚨 “Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?” 5 years in the making ~ 5000 participants 10 countries 6 languages Forthcoming in American Psychologist With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr. Short thread and preprint below

Great to see this out! I hope platforms like @joinprolific.bsky.social take note, it currently looks like online behavioral research is becoming increasingly infeasible

Looking forward to (virtually) presenting this work later today at #CogSci2025!

Mengchen Dong @iyadrahwan.bsky.social and I report data from 3,000+ people (incl. welfare claimants) showing how much accuracy they're willing to sacrifice to get faster AI decisions for social benefits. it's very hard for non-claimants to understand claimants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If anyone wants to hire me, I am soon to be unemployed and desperately want to run a series of studies exploring how teaching people about the architecture of LLMs changes the way they think and talk about LLMs

I think we are walking into the same traps with AI as we did with social media: information technologies are making new areas and scales available, but they are not neutral but built by people and companies for certain goals and won’t just magically align with democratic values or well-being, … 1/2

Visiting Norrköping for @ic2s2.bsky.social #IC2S2 this week? Here's a little unofficial local guide to food, coffee (all within 5mns walk!) & activities—compiled by someone who lives here! (1/6)

I just posted a new pre-print where I argue that dual character concepts are something new and interesting in legal philosophy and beyond and that they can't be reduced to ambiguity, prototypes, or metalinguistic negotiations. Comments are very welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Anyone else presenting virtually at #CogSci2025 who understands the updated presenter guidelines? Do we still need to submit a recorded talk or not? And do we need to upload our slides at all? cognitivesciencesociety.org/presenter-gu...

After lunch, @neeleengelmann.bsky.social addressed why delegation to #AI may encourage #cheating: Factors - Transparency of how much unearned gain an [AI] delegate produces for the user and how it achieves this - Framing: whether dishonest actions are explicitly labeled as such - Their interaction?

📊 🇨🇭 🧵 Today and tomorrow, I'm posting about the talks and posters from the 2025 BioXPhi Summit in #Switzerland. Follow along! The #conference website: ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-ou... The program: ibmb.unibas.ch/fileadmin/us... #bioethics #xPhi #medicine #healthcare #policy #cogSci #psychology #AI

🚨 Call for Proposals: DFG Priority Programme “Rethinking Disinformation (Re:DIS)” (SPP 2573) The DFG invites interdisciplinary research on disinformation from an epistemic perspective. 🗓 Deadline: 1 Nov 2025 📍 Online info roundtable: 27 June 2025, 4–8pm CET www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Wir öffnen unsere Türen zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften! ✨ Vielfältiges Programm für Groß & Klein – kommt vorbei! 📍 Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin (Lentzeallee 94) 📆 28. Juni 2025 💸 Jubiläumstickets online: nur 5 € 🔗 Programm: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2047157/prog...

Fresh in #PNAS: The final paper from my PhD is out! We experimentally study how delegation to artificial agents affects cooperation in a collective-risk dilemma. Read the full paper → doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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

We often have to judge who is knowledgeable—precisely when we are not. Can humans really do that? Our new paper in Psychological Science shows that, surprisingly, we can. drive.google.com/file/d/1b15E...

YouTube Auto translate doing the classic XKCD ass-car thing, I love it. They even translated it to a closed compound 👌