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Benjamin Pitt

@benjaminpitt.bsky.social
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Cognitive diversity, development, & dynamics. cognitiveconstructionlab.com

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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi
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Science Magazine @science.org · 27/07/2026
Before entering a long decline that continues into the present, humanity may have spoken far more languages, experiencing a “golden age” of linguistic diversity, with tens of thousands of languages spoken worldwide only several thousand years ago, a new Science study finds. scim.ag/4b8zW0b
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The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Another cool study on children's algorithmic learning abilities!
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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New paper finally out in @NatureComms with E. Leib, D. O’Shaughnessy, C. Gallardo, @sferrigno.bsky.social, and @spiantado.bsky.social. 📝Children across cultures discover the latent algorithms that structure what they see, even without instruction, feedback, or formal schooling.🧵 tinyurl.com/4a238m2d
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Stephen Ferrigno @sferrigno.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Cognitive Origins Lab @uwpsych.bsky.social is hiring! We are looking for a full-time Research Specialist (postbac) to work on non-invasive primate + child cognition research. Full-time, 2 years, starts June 2026. Apply here: wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Madison/j...
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Research Specialist
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Job Category: Academic Staff Employment T...
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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j
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Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager - Cognitive Construction Lab) - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager - Cognitive Construction Lab) Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work Locat...
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What does it mean for culture to “shape” cognition? In our new TiCS paper, @benjaminpitt.bsky.social & I offer a typology of four possible effects: culture can Privilege one cognitive process over others, Prune out disfavored ones, Produce new ones, or have no effect. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!
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Olympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Humans exhibit an astonishing variety of marriage systems. Sometimes monogamous, other times polygamous, occasionally we even marry ghosts. The diversity can seem to defy any general explanation. In my new piece for Works in Progress, I write about the Darwinian logic behind it. 1/
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The market for marriage - Works in Progress Magazine
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good agricultural surplus, must be in want of a wife.
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"We say things like, ‘You have some food on your left cheek,’” said @benjaminpitt.bsky.social. “We would never say that you have some food on your down-river cheek or on your east cheek, but other cultures do.”  www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2026-ja...
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Across Cultures, People Combine Reference Frames to Orient Themselves
A 2025 study explores allocentric and egocentric references and whether the two can be integrated simultaneously in a single action.
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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Highly highly recommended! The place is great and @cmolho.bsky.social is fabulous to work with!
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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Come work with me on cognitive diversity, development & dynamics in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! Graduate student applications are due a week from today. cognitiveconstructionlab.com
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏
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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Do people remember where things are relative to their body (e.g. my left side) or relative to the environment (the North/uphill side)? The answer is both at once, according to my new paper now out in Psychological Science! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the faculty at @umassamherst.bsky.social next year as an assistant professor in Psychological & Brain Sciences! 🥳
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a cartoon of homer simpson says whoo-hoo in front of a stone wall
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson says whoo-hoo in front of a stone wall
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Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!
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Léo Fitouchi @lfitouchi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Our new paper, on the evolution of institutions, is out in PNAS! How can institutions promote cooperation when they themselves rely on cooperation? Check out JB's awesome thread! Very proud of this paper with @jliep.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
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No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Disadvantageous inequity aversion (IA), a negative response to receiving less than others, is a key building block of the human sense of fairness. While some theorize that IA is shared by species acro...
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