Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social

Spring 2025 Cooperation Colloquia We're delighted to present an exciting line-up of interdisciplinary speakers. Every 2nd Friday, 15:00 UTC+1 Note: This will be by last post on Twitter; for updates, see the mailing list of Bsky. Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/list…

@SimonvBaal @mkasper_ I was gonna say "should've just googled it", but @qinyu_xiao messed this up earlier this year all by himself, didn't he? Maybe it's contagious on your floor.

Don’t use ChatGPT to set up an out of office notice in mail - unless you want to respond to every single email you have ever received that you‘ll be out of office. 🥴

Next Cooperation Colloquium Kristen Syme @kristensyme Testing the fitness interdependence theory of cooperation across human ecologies Friday Dec 13, 15:00 UTC+1 / 9 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/list…

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Cooperation Colloquium this Friday: Hirotaka Imada @Hiro_IMADA Indirect reciprocity and psychology of ingroup favouritism Friday, Nov 15 15:00 UTC+1 / 9 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/list…

🚨New Preprint! 🚨 What drives sellers to accept an offer or push for a higher one? To find out, Anna Esslinger from @EuckenInstitut and I analyzed auction data from the popular German TV show "Bares für Rares" (@ZDF). 1/

🚨Excited that our meta-analysis is out in JPSP @APA_Journals. We synthesized 6 decades (1958-2017) of empirical evidence on social dilemmas and tested which structural features (most strongly) promote cooperation: 📄doi.org/10.1037/pspi00… 1/10

Discrimination in selection (accepting LinkedIn requests), but not cooperation (responding to DMs) Consistent with recent work by Baldassarri et al., who similarly found in-group favouritism in partner choice, but not cooperation: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11-3…

📢 JOB ALERT: Post-Doc position 📢 Please join our group, and explore human social behavior on a fully funded 3y Post-Doc position at it-u.at/en. The position is open for people doing lab experiments or modeling. Details: christian-hilbe.github.io/postdoc_positi… Please share! 🚨

Cooperation Colloquium this Friday: David Schultner @DSchultner Independent contributions of inequality aversion and conformity in moral judgments Friday, November 1 15:00 UCT+1 (CET) / 10 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/list…

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Arkady Konovalov @arkadykonovalov Facilitating cooperation by manipulating attention October 18, 15:00 UTC+2 / 9 am ET Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/list…

New work in PNAS Nexus with @mlandauwells and @rebecca_saxe We ask: if two groups hold opposing beliefs, when does debunking by an authority lead to belief convergence and when does polarization persist? Paper: tinyurl.com/mr2e4kvx MIT News: tinyurl.com/3bud9z4f 🧵1/N

Interested in doing a PhD on intergroup/intergenerational cooperation? We have two PhD studentships you can apply for: Uni studentship: deadline on Oct 26 (!), starting in Jan 2025 (!) SEDArc studentship: deadline on Jan 6th, starting in Sep 2025 DM/email me for more detail:)

[Please retweet!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary! Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/psya…

Cooperation Colloquium this week: Léo Fitouchi @LFitouchi @IASToulouse Just desert: Compensatory computations explain moralistic punishment October 4, 15:00 UTC+2 / 9 am ET Sign-up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/list…

PhD position "data-efficient machine learning for context-sensitive affective computing" with my friend and collaborator Bernd Dudzik at TU Delft tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/…