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Samuel Aeschbach

@aeschbach.bsky.social
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Cognitive Science, Complexity, Mental Representation, Risky Decisions | Postdoc @unibas.ch | Guest Researcher @arc-mpib.bsky.social

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Samuel Aeschbach @aeschbach.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We're hiring a PhD student at the Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, @unibas.ch! How do people and societies make sense of technologies and their risks? Details and link to apply in the job posting, review of applications begins on 24 June 2026. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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Universität Basel: Doctoral Position at the Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences
The Faculty of Psychology is one of seven faculties of the oldest university in Switzerland. With our core focus Society & Choice and Health & Interventions, we are successful both nationally and inte...
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Small World of Words @smallworldofwords.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🇩🇪 SWOW-DE preprint and data available After more than a decade, the German free-association norms are now available for over 6,000 words based on 22,026 participants. Congratulations to @aeschbach.bsky.social Rui Mata, Kaidi Lõo & Dirk Wulff! Data + preprint: smallworldofwords.org/en/project/r...
Participants from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and beyond.
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Samuel Aeschbach @aeschbach.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New semantic network paper in @plosone.org with @ruimata.bsky.social at @unibas.ch and @dirkwulff.bsky.social at @arc-mpib.bsky.social! We ran large-scale simulations to test how well common behavioral tasks measure a person's semantic network. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Measuring individual semantic networks: A simulation study
Accurately capturing individual differences in semantic networks is fundamental to advancing our mechanistic understanding of semantic memory. Past empirical attempts to construct individual-level sem...
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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! 🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World". ✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
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Samuel Aeschbach @aeschbach.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Our tutorial on mapping mental representations with free associations and the associatoR R package was published this week in @jcgntn.bsky.social! With @ruimata.bsky.social at @unibas.ch and @dirkwulff.bsky.social lff.bsky.social at @arc-mpib.bsky.social. Read open access: doi.org/10.5334/joc....
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Samuel Aeschbach @aeschbach.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Preprint: Individual-level semantic networks are a critical ingredient for building realistic cognitive models. In our simulation, @ruimata.bsky.social, @dirkwulff.bsky.social, and I show when measurements of individual semantic networks are accurate and when they are not. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2410.18326
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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Wie sieht dein mentales Lexikon aus? Mit unserem Wortassoziationsspiel möchten wir herausfinden, wie Wörter im #Gedächtnis angeordnet sind. Nimm teil! smallworldofwords.org/de #CitizenScience #Sprache
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Small World of Words
Play a word association game and contribute to science.
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
There's been lots of speculation about potential societal impacts of LLMs 🌍 In a new Nature Human Behaviour (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) article, I and 27 researchers argue that we should be thinking about those impacts through the lens of collective intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How large language models can reshape collective intelligence - Nature Human Behaviour
Collective intelligence is the basis for group success and is frequently supported by information technology. Burton et al. argue that large language models are transforming information access and tra...
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In-Mind: Psychologie für alle! @handle.invalid · 05/08/2024
Junge Menschen sind häufiger Single und zufriedener damit: mehr Infos in dem neuesten Artikel von Tita Gonzalez Avilés. de.in-mind.org/blog/post/da...
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Das Singleleben im Wandel der Zeit: Warum Jugendliche heute zufriedener sind
Die Heiratsraten sinken, die Scheidungsraten steigen und immer mehr Menschen entscheiden sich bewusst für ein Leben als Single. Das Singleleben erlebt einen bemerkenswerten Wandel. Doch sind Singles h...
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Samuel Aeschbach @aeschbach.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
Unsere Wortassoziationsstudie zeigt nun die Häufigkeit der eigenen Assoziationen an. Zudem werden die häufigsten Assoziationen aller Teilnehmer:innen angezeigt. 5 Minuten teilnehmen und eigene Assoziationen vergleichen: smallworldofwords.org/de
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Samuel Aeschbach @aeschbach.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
I am happy to share a preprint of a tutorial with @ruimata.bsky.social and @dirkwulff.bsky.social on analyzing free associations using our new R package associatoR! Have a look... 📄 at the preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 💻 at the R package: github.com/samuelae/ass...
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