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Benedek Kurdi

@benedek.bsky.social
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Experimental psychologist studying social learning and memory, assistant professor @psychillinois.bsky.social, SAB chair @projectimplicit.bsky.social, AE at JEP:G & @openmindjournal.bsky.social, immigrant, 🏳️‍🌈, he/him

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Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social · 3h
Did you know that your speed — in a simple task of quickly pressing a button every time you see a yellow square — is faster when you are exhaling or pausing then when you are inhaling? Dr. Erika Yamazaki figured this out, did all the work, and published on it this week www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Response speed is modulated by respiratory phase
Behavioral neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📊 New resource: ISAAC, an open corpus for studying social group attitudes 💬 527M+ Reddit posts (2007–2023) 🧠 Covers race, sexuality, age, ability, and skin tone 🗺️ Validated against Gallup and Google Trends 🔍 No-code or Python/SQL: isaac.psychology.illinois.edu 📖 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2609.27059
We introduce the Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC), an open, modular, and accessible corpus of 527 million+ English-language Reddit posts selected for relevance to six key social group distinctions based on race, sexuality, age, ability, body weight, and skin tone, covering the 17-year period from 2007 to 2023. A multi-step, human-audited filtering pipeline was used to keep irrelevant content in the curated dataset below 10%, both overall and for each social group distinction. Each post was then algorithmically annotated with the user's estimated home region, along with a suite of validated off-the-shelf and custom semantic labels including moralization, sentiment, emotion, and linguistic generalization. We confirm the validity of the resulting corpus through convergent evidence linking ISAAC to macro-level societal trends, such as online search behavior, temporal spikes during major societal events (both nationally and regionally), and long-term shifts in public attitudes. By offering a unified, public infrastructure, ISAAC eliminates research fragmentation and enables seamless replication while supporting diverse empirical workflows at scale. Specifically, ISAAC allows investigators to perform cross-category comparisons, conduct high-precision tracking of long-term temporal shifts in social group discourse, and map spatial variation onto localized public opinion and policy outcomes. ISAAC's fully public, modular pipeline facilitates easy extension of the corpus to new platforms, languages, and social categories. To accommodate various research needs, ISAAC is accessible both without coding through a point-and-click website and labeler web-apps, and programmatically via an SQL playground, a Python package, and HuggingFace.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interested in the social impact of AI? Consider applying for this new post-doc at Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32805
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Duke University, Social Science Research Institute
Job #AJO32805, Postdoctoral Associate, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 Nominations Open: ISCON 2026 Early Career Award! 🚨 Celebrating junior scientists making theoretical & empirical impact in social cognition. • Eligibility: PhD earned 2020 or later • Winner: Address at SPSP Preconf (Feb 2027) 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 1, 2026 🔗 socialcognition.net/early-career-award
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 Nominations Open: ISCON 2026 Early Career Award! 🚨 Celebrating junior scientists making theoretical & empirical impact in social cognition. • Eligibility: PhD earned 2020 or later • Winner: Address at SPSP Preconf (Feb 2027) 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 1, 2026 🔗 socialcognition.net/early-career-award
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...
article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Updated preprint out! 📢 How do implicit vs. explicit evaluations change when we get new information? A classic study suggests that they update in completely different ways.
This research examined the processes by which explicit and implicit attitudes changed to systematically differing levels of counterattitudinal (CA) information. Explicit attitudes changed quickly in response to relatively small amounts of CA information, reflecting rule-based reasoning. On the other hand, implicit attitudes changed more slowly in the face of CA information, reflecting the progressive accretion of evaluation-attitude object pairings. Thus, explicit attitudes were extremely malleable and changed quickly when CA information was presented, however, implicit attitudes revealed a slow, linear change trajectory resulting from the on-going accrual of information about the attitude object. Implications for the processes underlying implicit and explicit attitudes are discussed.Rydell et al. (2007) documented a dissociative pattern of updating such that implicit (automatic) evaluations changed continuously, whereas explicit (controlled) evaluations changed asymptotically in response to increasing amounts of counterattitudinal information. The present project consisted of two preregistered experiments (total N = 1,090). In Experiment 1, implemented as a close replication, implicit evaluations changed asymptotically, whereas explicit evaluations changed continuously, thus deviating from the original result. In Experiment 2, designed as a test of boundary conditions, neutral statements were omitted from the learning phase, and implicit evaluation measurement was improved. Here, implicit and explicit evaluation change were both asymptotic. These results demonstrate that the functional trajectories of evaluative updating are highly variable across independent investigations. Given that these divergent patterns are challenging to reconcile with any single existing account, they underscore the value of grounding future research in quantitative models of learning.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚀 Project Implicit’s critical work continues! Our website remains fully operational 24/7, collecting data and launching new studies. We are finalizing a new organizational structure to carry our research and educational mission forward. Thank you to our global community. ➡️ implicit.harvard.edu
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Project Implicit Continues its Critical Work
We are more excited than ever to not only continue but to expand the scientific collabora-tion at the heart of Project Implicit. With the non-profit that served as our operational home for two decades shutting down, a new organizational structure is being finalized to carry our research and educational mission forward.
In the meantime, the Project Implicit website (http://implicit.harvard.edu/) remains fully operational and continues to collect data 24/7. New studies, programs, and educational ef-forts are actively underway. We expect public data to remain available in perpetuity, and new data from 2026 will be released in January of next year.
We express our deep gratitude to everyone who has helped create, sustain, and grow Pro-ject Implicit. This includes the founders, members of the Board of Directors and the Scien-tific Advisory Board, staff members of the non-profit, international collaborators, and the students across dozens of labs tending to tasks big and small. We are also thankful to our generous donors who have answered our calls and supported our mission, and especially the millions of annual visitors who continue to honor us with their curiosity, time, and data.
We look forward to providing more details in the weeks ahead.
Jordan Axt, McGill University
Yoav Bar-Anan, Tel-Aviv University
Benedek Kurdi, University of Illinois
Calvin Lai, Rutgers University
Ryan Lei, Haverford College
Curtis Phills, University of Oregon
Kate Ratliff, University of Waterloo
Colin Tucker Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
Jennifer Steele, York University
Heidi Vuletich, University of Denver
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚀 Project Implicit’s critical work continues! Our website remains fully operational 24/7, collecting data and launching new studies. We are finalizing a new organizational structure to carry our research and educational mission forward. Thank you to our global community. ➡️ implicit.harvard.edu
September 17, 2026
Project Implicit Continues its Critical Work
We are more excited than ever to not only continue but to expand the scientific collabora-tion at the heart of Project Implicit. With the non-profit that served as our operational home for two decades shutting down, a new organizational structure is being finalized to carry our research and educational mission forward.
In the meantime, the Project Implicit website (http://implicit.harvard.edu/) remains fully operational and continues to collect data 24/7. New studies, programs, and educational ef-forts are actively underway. We expect public data to remain available in perpetuity, and new data from 2026 will be released in January of next year.
We express our deep gratitude to everyone who has helped create, sustain, and grow Pro-ject Implicit. This includes the founders, members of the Board of Directors and the Scien-tific Advisory Board, staff members of the non-profit, international collaborators, and the students across dozens of labs tending to tasks big and small. We are also thankful to our generous donors who have answered our calls and supported our mission, and especially the millions of annual visitors who continue to honor us with their curiosity, time, and data.
We look forward to providing more details in the weeks ahead.
Jordan Axt, McGill University
Yoav Bar-Anan, Tel-Aviv University
Benedek Kurdi, University of Illinois
Calvin Lai, Rutgers University
Ryan Lei, Haverford College
Curtis Phills, University of Oregon
Kate Ratliff, University of Waterloo
Colin Tucker Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
Jennifer Steele, York University
Heidi Vuletich, University of Denver
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply
cdmlab.wustl.edu
Control and Decision Making Lab
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey folks, I'll be considering PhD applications for the 2026-27 cycle over here at Duke Psych. To learn more about the lab, check us out at www.mindandculturelab.com and/or read through this short FAQ for prospective students: www.mindandculturelab.com/faq
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Social Cognition @socog-guilford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Welcome Eva A. García Ferrés (@egarciaferres.bsky.social) as the inaugural Social Media Coordinator for Social Cognition (@socog-guilford.bsky.social)! Eva, a PhD candidate at the University of Florida, will share and highlight the innovative scholarship of our authors! Follow us for more!
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Niklas Buergi @niklasbuergi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Autism has long been linked to difficulties with Theory of Mind. But what exactly is driving these differences? And what happens in the brain? In our new preprint, we show that adaptive mentalization might be key. A 🧵 #CogSci #CogNeuro osf.io/preprints/ps...
Repeated Rock-Paper-Scissors task used to study adaptive mentalization, alongside a schematic showing increasingly sophisticated reasoning strategies, from responding to past actions to trying to guess the opponent’s prediction about one’s own next action
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Ariel Levy @arielevy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New preprint with @fierycushman.bsky.social! Cultures vary in teaching practices: some emphasize examples, others favor direct rules. How can this difference affect cultural evolution? We use computational modeling and an iterated learning experiment to explore this question. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 WashU is hiring! 🚨 As part of WashU’s +AI Initiative, the search includes tenure-track opportunities in Psychological & Brain Sciences for people who place AI or machine learning at the center of their research. I'm on the committee, so feel free to reach out with questions. Please repost!
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Rules of Life
Recruiting interdisciplinary expertise to explore fundamental questions regarding living systems and the physical world
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Incredible opportunity for early career faculty! Apply to the CIFAR Global Scholars program, to be immersed in a research program full of luminaries in your field, and build community (and dedicated professional development) with other ECRs across all of CIFAR's programs! cifar.ca/next-generat...
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CIFAR Global Scholars Program - CIFAR
Support and training for the research leaders of tomorrow.
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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is now out in Perspectives on Psych Science: doi.org/10.1177/1745...
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Social-Information Seeking in Development: The Child as Experimental Psychologist - Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz, Azzurra Ruggeri, 2026
Research has established that children are “naive psychologists,” adept at understanding and navigating the social world from an early age. However, most of thi...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 25/08/2026
Which of these two people is more trustworthy? Humans make unsupported judgments about character traits such as trustworthiness based on facial features. A study finds that major LLMs do the same, despite being predominantly trained on text. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/2Rri50ZEOTV
Most humans rate the computer-generated face on the right as more trustworthy than the face on the left. LLMs agree.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
County-level implicit + explicit racial biases—among White residents overall, and White teachers specifically—were consistently and positively associated with Black–White disparities in AP course enrollment (although this was not the case for AP exam taking and passing). www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@arthurpr4t.bsky.social has a new preprint with important results on a famous psychophysical law (Weber's law). It isn't, in fact, a law, because it can be broken. A more fundamental principle (efficient coding) shows when and why Weber's law holds true. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Efficient coding makes and breaks Weber's law
Weber's law is a rare quantitative regularity in psychology, yet its origins remain debated. Here we provide causal evidence that it arises from the more fundamental principle of efficient coding. Thi...
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Taylor Chamberlain @tchamberlain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sometimes we know an experience is important in the moment. Other times, its importance only becomes clear after the fact. Do these two cases have different consequences for memory? In our new paper we found that both kinds of prioritization impact memory in different ways! doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...
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Prioritizing Detailed Item Memories Through Post-Encoding Motivation Requires Consolidation
Abstract. Prioritizing memories that are motivationally salient is adaptive for goal-directed behavior, ensuring that information being retained is the most relevant to future goals. Past research dem...
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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
BBS recently published a great piece by @mdubova.bsky.social & @sabinasloman.bsky.social on “Excess capacity learning”. I argue D&S’s framework overlooks a special kind of representation that encodes information both minimally and perfectly: lossless compression. philpapers.org/archive/BOGC...
Figure for my BBS commentary ("Compression without compromise") on Dubova & Sloman's target article ("Excess capacity learning")
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can use this R function to download all of the files associated with an OSF project. Improvements are coming in the next version to include registrations. Should we add a function to download all your public and private projects? osf_file_download(“abcde”) www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/
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Check Research Outputs for Best Practices
A modular, extendable system for checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Over the next several months, we will phase out some popular OSF features. These changes do not affect current public content, which remains safe and accessible. We have prepared support material to help users adapt. I am very sorry for the disruption to your work. Please read this post for details.
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Hayoung Song @hayoungsong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling. thesonglab.github.io
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Open Mind @openmindjournal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments
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No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments
Abstract. Experimenter demand effects occur when participants alter their behavior to align with perceived study hypotheses, threatening internal validity. Concern about demand effects is pervasive…
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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
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Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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Akram Bakkour @akrambakkour.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
📢New paper out today in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social led by Seoyoung Lee! Does reward spread across multiple links in memory organized in a cognitive graph? Yes! We see graded spread through a recalled (even if incorrect) learned graph. Reward preserves proximal structure to support decisions.
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Reward selectively preserves relational structure in memory
Memories tend to form networks that reflect relationships between experiences. These networks, or cognitive graphs, have been used to study how struct…
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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Attention early career methodologists and quantitative psychologists: Berkeley Psychology is hiring! This is an assistant teaching professor position with potential for security of employment (equivalent to tenure). Please share widely! Thank you! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05480
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Assistant Teaching Professor Quantitative Methods-Psychology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Paul Stillman @stillman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
We're hiring! The Boston University Marketing Department is recruiting for a tenure-track assistant professor whose research focuses on Human-AI teaming: how consumers or firms work with AI. Happy to answer any questions! More info available here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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#marketing #artificialintelligence | Carey Morewedge
JOIN US IN BOSTON. Our future with AI depends on what we make of it. At the Questrom School of Business, Boston University, we’re searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Marketing whose ...
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Gabor Scheiring @gscheiring.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Iván Szelényi (1938-2026), a towering figure in sociology, one of the finest global intellectuals Hungary and Eastern Europe has ever produced, has died. Rest in peace and solidarity. 1/6
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Max Primbs @maxprimbs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We moved the deadline to August 15th! Last chance to submit your work and be part of our special issue!
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Ashwini Ashokkumar @ashwinia.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New paper in @nature.com with @lukebeehewitt.bsky.social, @isaiasghezae.bsky.social, & @robbwiller.bsky.social: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 experiments, we find a strong correspondence (r=.85) between predicted and observed effects. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🚨Job Alert!🚨 Assistant/Associate Professor of Human Communication and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Come join us here in Silicorn Valley! Deadline Sept. 15. #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant/Associate Professor- Communication, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Duties & Responsibilities
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Eric Hehman @erichehman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We have a new paper in Psych Review, creating a taxonomy of discrimination, in hopes of better organizing results and knowing when they might generalize With Becca Neel, @lorapark.bsky.social, Keita Christophe Free link: erichehman.com/wp-content/u...
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kiraharris.bsky.social @kiraharris.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
1/4 Why do we gravitate toward some people over others? I'm excited to share new work with Peter Mende-Siedlecki, @andyluttrell.bsky.social, and @leorhackel.bsky.social! We use perceptions of others' personality traits more in related contexts, but rewards elicit general positivity 🧵👇
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Nicole Long @dorsolateralpfc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My lab is hiring! We are recruiting a full time research coordinator to support our projects on memory brain states. More info and application: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
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Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia
Apply for Research Coordinator, Long Term Memory Lab - Psychology job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Other at University of Virginia
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Nearly four years ago we asked ourselves, "what would it look like to have a field-leading, completely free reference work for cognitive science"? It's been so fun editing OECS with @asifamajid.bsky.social and @hbaum.bsky.social. I can't believe we have published 200 (!!) articles! oecs.mit.edu
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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 22/07/2026
Congratulations to the “Project Implicit,” which received🏆2026 SIPS Mission Award! Project Implicit offers online tests to millions of participants, uses those tests to document implicit and explicit biases, and shares massive open datasets to power discoveries in psychology and beyond.
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Project Implicit
Project Implicit runs on small donations, most under $5. That’s what keeps the tests online, the data public, and the science accessible to anyone around the world who is interested in learning about…
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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
New from me and Alan Leslie! We got the band back together to lay out our view on object representations in the infant mind: non-discursive indexes that operate within a language of thought, & which get development of a more complex object concept off the ground www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Now out in Noûs: A communication-first account of explanation, with Jacqueline Harding (jacquelineharding.github.io) and Thomas Icard (stanford.edu/~icard/). Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.03732
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are the mental contents underlying implicit evaluations accessible to conscious introspection? Prior studies show high predictive accuracy, leading to a growing consensus that people can introspectively access their implicit biases. New paper out in JPSP! 🧵🧵🧵
The tide is turning against a major idea in social psychology: that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that lies beyond conscious awareness. This view is being reconsidered in light of mounting evidence that people can predict their own implicit evaluations with high accuracy. However, there are reasons to question whether such predictive accuracy reflects introspective access. First, prior studies have relied almost exclusively on familiar targets (e.g., racial groups), allowing predictions to be informed by background knowledge (e.g., knowing that a group is stigmatized) rather than introspection. Second, implicit and explicit evaluations have been highly correlated in prior work, enabling accurate predictions simply by assuming that implicit evaluations mirror explicit ones. Here, we report eight experiments (five pre-registered; N = 6,794) designed to minimize these nonintrospective routes to predictive accuracy. We introduced participants to novel targets and shifted implicit and explicit evaluations of these targets in opposite directions, rendering explicit evaluations an unreliable cue. Under these conditions, predictive accuracy ranged from low to nonexistent; participants frequently anticipated shifts in their implicit evaluations in the opposite direction of the actual change. These results generalized across two learning paradigms (impression formation and attribute conditioning), two implicit evaluation measures (Implicit Association Test and evaluative priming task), and between-participant and within-participant designs. We consider multiple interpretations of these findings, including the possibility that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that is largely or even entirely inaccessible to conscious awareness.
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looking to work with a postdoc. Prior experience with fMRI and computational modeling required, interest in psychiatry desired. Fellowship provides three years salary plus independent travel/equipment funds. Send CV and 2-3 manuscripts (preprints OK).
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are the mental contents underlying implicit evaluations accessible to conscious introspection? Prior studies show high predictive accuracy, leading to a growing consensus that people can introspectively access their implicit biases. New paper out in JPSP! 🧵🧵🧵
The tide is turning against a major idea in social psychology: that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that lies beyond conscious awareness. This view is being reconsidered in light of mounting evidence that people can predict their own implicit evaluations with high accuracy. However, there are reasons to question whether such predictive accuracy reflects introspective access. First, prior studies have relied almost exclusively on familiar targets (e.g., racial groups), allowing predictions to be informed by background knowledge (e.g., knowing that a group is stigmatized) rather than introspection. Second, implicit and explicit evaluations have been highly correlated in prior work, enabling accurate predictions simply by assuming that implicit evaluations mirror explicit ones. Here, we report eight experiments (five pre-registered; N = 6,794) designed to minimize these nonintrospective routes to predictive accuracy. We introduced participants to novel targets and shifted implicit and explicit evaluations of these targets in opposite directions, rendering explicit evaluations an unreliable cue. Under these conditions, predictive accuracy ranged from low to nonexistent; participants frequently anticipated shifts in their implicit evaluations in the opposite direction of the actual change. These results generalized across two learning paradigms (impression formation and attribute conditioning), two implicit evaluation measures (Implicit Association Test and evaluative priming task), and between-participant and within-participant designs. We consider multiple interpretations of these findings, including the possibility that implicit evaluations reflect mental content that is largely or even entirely inaccessible to conscious awareness.
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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just up: my entry on #Categorization for @oecs-bot.bsky.social - Western vs Buddhist ”classical” views, William James, behaviorism, prototypes, theories, chinchillas & mantis shrimp, neural nets — it‘s got it all. oecs.mit.edu/pub/mrj0pnj5...
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dupsychdept.bsky.social @dupsychdept.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎉 Congrats to Dr. Heidi Vuletich on being named a 2026 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science! A well-deserved recognition of her impactful research and future contributions 👏 #DUPsychology #RisingStar
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social et al.'s "Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition" is out in BBS, highly worth your time: bit.ly/BBSLevine26 if you had time left, I had thoughts: "Non-negotiable problems for a negotiation framework of morality" bit.ly/BBSTUCom26
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