Choice Blindness Lab

New Preprint out: Conformity and Partisanship Impact Perceived Truthfulness, Liking and Sharing of Information Online. @granwald @philipparnamets @alexande Wåhlander Małgorzata Kossowska Torun Lindholm osf.io/preprints/psya…

🚨 New article 🚨 How do people search for information before making a choice? Analyzing over 1,000,000 sampling decisions, @Mikhail_Spektor and I show that people are adaptive explorers who reduce multiple types of uncertainty and leverage prior expectations and meta-knowledge about their decision environment. Out now in @PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

This is finally out, after so many years in the making! 🥹🥹 We have a new paper out in PNAS today! "Aligning the smiles of dating dyads causally increases attraction" ❤️ @PNASNews A thread... 🧵🧵

Aligning the smiles of dating dyads causally increases attraction | PNAS pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10… Great work by @pablo_arias_sar @ChoiceBlindness and others

🚨🚨🚨 VERY excited to share our new paper on how AI can facilitate democratic deliberation, published today in @ScienceMagazine! Together with @mhtessler, @summerfieldlab, and other amazing collaborators at @GoogleDeepMind we've been building the "Habermas Machine"

🏯🕌🏦 New paper in @PNASNews: Historical Large Language Models (HLLMs) can be a tool in behavioral science for collecting data from *past societies* by simulating responses from “participants”—namely, the dead—through history. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 🧵1/3

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Congrats to @zaidzada_ et al. on their awesome paper exploring the representational space that enables transmission of linguistic information from one mind to another during conversation. It was a pleasure to preview it with @ev_fedorenko! cell.com/neuron/abstrac…

Our monthly discussions on multimodal social interactions will resume this month with a super interesting speaker @pliang279, an expert in multisensory AI! This is opened to everyone so feel free to join if you are interested in the topic! 😊

Excellent new paper that should be of interest to - and can be tested by - anyone working on the evolution of vertebrate cognition, whether in comparative cognition, neuroscience, or paleontology

For folks who aren't able to attend in-person, we are excited to be able to stream all talks this year on our youtube channel: @cogcompneuro" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@cogcompneuro Papers can be found here: 2024.ccneuro.org/poster-session… Please share!

If you're at @escan2024 today, I'll be presenting our new experimental platform DuckSoup, which enables researchers to collect social interactions online while using voice/face filters! 🥳🥳🥳 Where? Tutorial 5, Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Leslokaal 3.2

1/ Really excited to share: Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines w @Nancy_Kanwisher @ev_fedorenko @AnnualReviews We survey the insights that language models (LMs) provide on the question of how language is represented and processed in the human brain. rb.gy/8afztv

How well do people know their own social abilities? @P_Heck, Matt Brown, and I ran two studies (N=927) that each showed a surprising pattern: a negative relationship between people's self-rated skill and actual performance for social ability. People who rated their social skills higher did worse on a three-test objective measure of social ability (r = –.26 & –.37, N=505 & 422). This pattern was not observed for general intelligence: people who rated their intelligence higher were not meaningfully worse at tests of cognitive ability (r = –.04, N=422). Full open access article: swisspsychologyopen.com/articles/10.53…

@affectScience @claire_whiting Very honored to win the best Flash talk award at the @affectScience SAS conference! I presented our latest work on social interactions, done in collaboration with @jjtokyo @ChoiceBlindness @rachaelejack @SchynsPhilippe Thread with the talk here: twitter.com/pablo_arias_sa…

After seven (7!) years of work with >20 researchers at 10 different institutions, we are super excited to release NextBrain, a next-gen probabilistic atlas of the human brain with 333 regions: github-pages.ucl.ac.uk/NextBrain Preprint, data, code, videos, and much more in this 🧵(1/5)

📣Excited to share my first first-author paper in @TrendsCognSci!📣 We ask - what does the brain find rewarding and why? @docqhuys @michaelbrowni19 and I provide a novel computational account of pleasure processes and pathways to anhedonia.🧵👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Super excited to present our new experimental platform DuckSoup at #AffectScience2024 (this Sunday, 3/3/2024, from 9:30:00 AM ) during my talk “CAUSAL SOCIAL INTERACTION RESEARCH WITH FACE TRANSFORMATION FILTERS” 🥳🥳

Our paper on Sense of agency and its disturbances is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…

1/3 I am looking to hire new PhD students in Psychology & Decision Science, focusing on human agency, starting in August 2024. It's a fully funded 4-year position, part of my Freedom to Choose grant with Alexander Cappelen (@TheChoiceLab), @jayvanbavel & @mollycrockett. RT = 🙏