Excited to have this out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social!
We found that real & fictional people communicate roughly 1.5x more about the past than the future.
In turn, this influences the interferences we make about past & future events in *other* people's lives.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Temporal asymmetries in inferring unobserved past and future events - Nature Communications
Memories of our past experiences enable us to reconstruct (in the present) our past better than our future. Here, the authors show that we are also able to better reconstruct the pasts (versus futures...
@contextlab.bsky.social🚨 Updated preprint (lead: @xxming.bsky.social) on how inferences about unobserved past/future events are informed by conversations! osf.io/yp2qu/ 🚨
This update includes a new pre-registered replication + meta analysis. We think we've found some neat fundamental properties of human conversation!
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