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Adi Pizanti

@adipizanti.bsky.social
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MA Student | Cognitive Psychology | Bar-Ilan @SharpLab

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Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We're excited to share the lab's findings at #Cpconf See 🧵 below & come by! C71 + poster spotlight! @adipizanti.bsky.social finds overthinking (using MB planning more effortfully without any benefit) is related to worry in 2 large datasets, and explains it with a new DYNA + internal checking model:
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Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🚨 Our lab's first paper is published! The claim: anxiety distorts not just what looks threatening, but the task models people use to plan. 🧵 This tiny study provides preliminary support that world model variation is critical to explaining anxiety. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Anxiety is Associated With Biases in Task Generalization
Anxiety is known to distort threat perception, but can it also distort the task representations we use to plan? This study shows that individuals high in trait worry systematically undergeneralize ac...
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