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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

so cool! Congratulations, Valeria!!

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Jonas Dora @jonasdora.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'm really excited to share a new preprint! Lab studies have consistently shown that stress and negative emotions make people drink alcohol, but studies of daily life (EMA) keep failing to find it. What does that mean for the shared theoretical prediction both designs test? osf.io/preprints/ps...

Figure summarizing new EMA data from our lab

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Thanks for the reply, Floor! Makes sense and I'll look forward to the preprint. Thanks for the overview as well, very helpful. Such an exciting collection of topics!

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

sounds fascinating, congratulations! Are symposium materials (going to be) available somewhere?

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Interesting and promising work! I’d be very curious about out‑of‑sample / external validation performance

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Congrats to all on this beautiful work!

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Late-breaking abstract submission until 20 March! Our amazing keynote speakers are Laura Bringmann (U Groningen), Judith Homberg (Radboud U), Stephan Lewandowsky (U Bristol), Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin), and Katalin Oláh (Eötvös Loránd U). Join us in Dubrovnik, and spread the word!

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Join us in beautiful Dubrovnik for the XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (21–24 May 2026)! This year’s theme focuses on adaptation and its limits across multiple timescales, individual differences, and mental health. Abstracts from all areas of cogsci welcome! Visit: ducog.cecog.eu

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DUCOG — Conference 2026

Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

todoist! You may use it as a simple to-do-list but you can also go wild and create projects, tasks, subtasks, set priorities, dates, etc. I guess that you get basic collaboration functionality with the free version, and would have to pay for the more advanced features

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Friends in Budapest, check out these great talks next week :)

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Machinery of Misbelief A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...

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Machinery of Misbelief

A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age

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Marcelo Mattar @marcelomattar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature

Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/06/2025

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes. This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

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AI, peer review and the human activity of science

When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

What a great pleasure to be back in Leuven and hear about amazing research at the #saa2025 ! If you are interested in Pavlovian biases vs. regulating mood with fun activities and rumination under stress, please come by our poster this afternoon - w/ Hanneke den Ouden and @leventeronai.bsky.social

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

New ESM study out in J Pers! 👀 We show that disorganized schizotypy specifically predicts both psychotic- and stress-reactivity in response to social, economic, and health-related stressors - thanks a lot Levente Rónai, Flóra Hann, and Szabolcs Kéri onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I can totally second that! This is such an interesting and relevant study, congratulations. We were trying to wrap our head around this issue for a measure of stressor exposure in an esm study and arrived at quite similar conclusions. Great to see this written up so neatly!

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I see, thanks a lot for the response!

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

What is reflected in the cross-sectional correlation? How does it relate to associations at the level of stable individual differences vs. correlations within individuals over time? It really depends! And it's hard to know without intensive longitudinal data. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Looks fascinating! Quick question (without having thoroughly read the paper): how does this align with the optimism bias literature?

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Johannes Algermissen @johalgermissen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Very happy that this preprint (I'm 2nd author & taking over for the bluesky-less Vanessa Scholz) is finally out! In a large online sample, we investigated how Pavlovian/motivational biases are associated with psychiatric symptom dimensions (as first defined by Claire Gillan).. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Fascinating!!! The link does not seem to work for me though and could not find your preprint with google (scholar) neither

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Marco Gandolfo @marco-gandolfo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)

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PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Quite a few studies show attractive integration between perception and imagery/VWM such that e.g. imagining a left-tilted grating makes a perceived grating seem more left-tilted. Does anybody know of any studies showing repulsion? I.e. making the perceived grating seem more right-tilted?

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 05/01/2025

English-speaking readers, this one is worth your time:

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A great causal inference reading list!

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

And I'd also consider the overall compliance in your study and the % of the observations in question - does it make any difference in the end? If there's a lot of them, what bias could be introduced by throwing them away, and are you fine with that?

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I see! Let's assume these are occasions when nothing bad happened and they just want to indicate that by picking the lowest value. I'd guess such occasions would provide sort of a baseline - maybe you meant this by using them as a neutral?

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Ahh of course, it might be careless responding as well! Could it interesting to see then if there's any pattern

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Those higher answers seem a bit more puzzling to me. maybe they're just reporting their general level of feeling bad - do these correlate strongly with momentary affect levels? Or maybe they don't report the impact of the worst recent event but of some other (non-worst, non-recent) event?

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I see, thanks for explaining! Might the floor responses mean that they were looking for an option to kind of "opt out" and this was the best they could come up with (especially if they thought they cannot skil that item)?

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Such an interesting question! What were the instructions for the emotion ratings, and what's your assumption about how people interpret these items if no worst event happened?

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Fascinating work on controllability estimation in social contexts

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Bertalan Polner @bertalanpolner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So, here we go: hello Bluesky! Reposting the last one from my Twitter. Looking forward to connecting! Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making - new article out! Much enjoyed writing this together www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making

Serotonin has been associated with a wide range of neural computations and behaviours, yet an overarching function of this neurotransmitter has been h…

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