John Michael

12 month postdoc in Milan, contact me if interested unimi.it/it/ricerca/ric…

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Phd positions in cognitive science in Milan: unimi.it/it/corsi/corsi…

New paper out! People act prosocially (generosity and trust) towards partners who send informative signals to support coordination. This is driven by the communicative intent behind the signal more so than it’s utility in the interaction. authors.elsevier.com/a/1eeZJ2Hx2piYV

Wie menschlich darf/sollte ein Roboter sein, damit er von der breiten Öffentlichkeit angenommen wird? Dieser Kernfrage bin ich heute gemeinsam mit @JohnMichaelXYZ nachgegangen.

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New book on commitment, open access: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/…

probing the sense of commitment in borderline personality disorder sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Probing Commitment in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder academia.edu/45228586/Probi… via @academia

Have you ever seen any replication attempt of any Ig Nobel prize study? Neither had we. We have now done and published a replication attempt of an #ignobel study - on chimpanzee imitation. A short thread. @improbresearch

I don’t even know what’s right anymore.

@proeccentric @cyclehire_edi @Edinburgh_CC Helmets do not make cycling safer, and add extra inconvenience and cost to Cycling. Helmets would be more useful in cars.

"Measuring Animal Behaviour - Workshop on Methods for Coding Facial and Body Expressions" at the Vetsuisse in Bern, Switzerland in October 2019. Amazing speakers, amazing university, amazing organizer, amazing city - reserve a place now! tierschutz.vetsuisse.unibe.ch/about_us/event…

A new paper contends that infants are not inherently prosocial but gradually develop prosociality through interactions with their caregivers in the first 2 years of life. When children are 3, they start using moral judgments to decide who to help. buff.ly/31JKLQJ

„For all age groups, [Theory of mind] tasks showed minimal correlations with each other.“

Tool use in crocodiles anyone? insider.com/crocodile-spot…

@edyong209 @matt_chennells tag you’re it

New study w/ large, representative US sample finds no evidence that bilingualism improves executive function (advanced mental abilities that allow us to control our thoughts & behavior) nature.com/articles/s4156… My piece on this from 3 yrs ago --> theatlantic.com/science/archiv…