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@chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social
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Interested in how causal reasoning helps us to understand the world, and how causal reasoning tricks us. Using automatic posting to collect causation related papers.

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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 10h
Out today!
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 15h
Moral responsibility and psychopathy: the limits of the empirical evidence
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Moral responsibility and psychopathy: the limits of the empirical evidence
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Grief and the reality of others
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Grief and the reality of others
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Young children can infer what speakers know based on their causal influence over listeners
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Young children can infer what speakers know based on their causal influence over listeners
Publication date: January 2027 Source: Cognition, Volume 278 Author(s): Aaron Chuey, Robert Z. Sparks, Hyowon Gweon
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Agent-regret, psychological distance, and first-person perspective
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Agent-regret, psychological distance, and first-person perspective
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Please imagine Helen with a smile”: philosophical playfulness and the legacy of Helen De Cruz
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“Please imagine Helen with a smile”: philosophical playfulness and the legacy of Helen De Cruz
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The phenomenology of generalized episodic remembering
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The phenomenology of generalized episodic remembering
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Narrative identity under bipolar disorder: Selfhood, continuity, and psychiatric disruption
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Narrative identity under bipolar disorder: Selfhood, continuity, and psychiatric disruption
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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We often say that humans struggle to produce random sequences… but what if that's not the whole story? In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @samiyousif.bsky.social & I show that context matters (a lot!). When playing strategic games, humans can produce near-random behavior osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beyond stagnation and acceleration: the shared atemporal core of bipolar experience
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Beyond stagnation and acceleration: the shared atemporal core of bipolar experience
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What you foresee isn't what you forget: No evidence for the influence of epistemic states on causal judgments for abnormal negligent behavior
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What you foresee isn't what you forget: No evidence for the influence of epistemic states on causal judgments for abnormal negligent behavior
Publication date: January 2027 Source: New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 84 Author(s): Samuel Murray, Paul Henne, Kevin O'Neill, Kristina Krasich, Devon Guzy, Felipe De Brigard
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Weiji Ma @weijima.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW PAPER on backward reasoning in a single-player puzzle game, based on so-called AND-OR trees: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A puzzle of trust
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A puzzle of trust
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Making up patients: diagnostic classification, administrative kinds, and the limits of psychiatric identity
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Making up patients: diagnostic classification, administrative kinds, and the limits of psychiatric identity
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Making up recovery: looping effects of recovery-oriented psychiatry
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Making up recovery: looping effects of recovery-oriented psychiatry
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The role of pitch in the vocal communication of intentions
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The role of pitch in the vocal communication of intentions
Publication date: January 2027 Source: Cognition, Volume 278 Author(s): Pauline Larrouy-Maestri, Hanna Ringer, David Poeppel, Daniela Sammler
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is Appearance-Related Social Comparison a Causal Mechanism Underlying Appearance-Related Psychopathology Among Young Adult Women? An Experimental Test
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Is Appearance-Related Social Comparison a Causal Mechanism Underlying Appearance-Related Psychopathology Among Young Adult Women? An Experimental Test
Publication date: Available online 15 September 2026 Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy Author(s): Tapan A. Patel, Jesse R. Cougle
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The burden of the story: narratives of recovery and hermeneutical injustice
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The burden of the story: narratives of recovery and hermeneutical injustice
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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Philosopher @nathansen.bsky.social has created a website that uses AI to take people through a Socratic dialogue about a philosophical thought experiment I gave it a try. In my opinion, it really does help users think through these questions www.ux-phi.com/experiments
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ian Hacking’s looping effect and the psychiatrization of society: a five-step model
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Ian Hacking’s looping effect and the psychiatrization of society: a five-step model
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ian Hacking and science policy: styles of reasoning and looping effects in psychotherapy
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Ian Hacking and science policy: styles of reasoning and looping effects in psychotherapy
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cognitive agency and the emergence of epistemic regulation
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Cognitive agency and the emergence of epistemic regulation
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The senses as modes of perceptual exploration
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The senses as modes of perceptual exploration
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Making sense of edge beliefs
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Making sense of edge beliefs
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Openness and freedom: future perspective in phenomenological psychotherapy
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Openness and freedom: future perspective in phenomenological psychotherapy
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Systems of emotional co-dysregulation: emotional disorder as a social phenomenon
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Systems of emotional co-dysregulation: emotional disorder as a social phenomenon
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The cost of “what might have been”: false memories for counterfactual actions
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The cost of “what might have been”: false memories for counterfactual actions
Publication date: January 2027 Source: Cognition, Volume 278 Author(s): Silvia Seghezzi, Maia Juliet Armstrong, Patrick Haggard
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can young children grasp causality in scenarios involving two causal variables?
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Can young children grasp causality in scenarios involving two causal variables?
Publication date: October–December 2026 Source: Cognitive Development, Volume 80 Author(s): Fuyumi Hayashi, Keito Nakamichi
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The (under)diagnosis of endometriosis: epistemic and affective injustices in the medical niche
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The (under)diagnosis of endometriosis: epistemic and affective injustices in the medical niche
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Narrative mindshaping, neoliberalism, and mental health
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Narrative mindshaping, neoliberalism, and mental health
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why Spinozism looks false: introspection, folk psychology, and the Cartesian illusion of belief
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Why Spinozism looks false: introspection, folk psychology, and the Cartesian illusion of belief
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When science models the self
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When science models the self
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A Commotion in the Mind: Direct and Indirect Associations of Moral Injury Symptom Severity and Stoicism with Suicide Risk in U.S. Military Veterans
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A Commotion in the Mind: Direct and Indirect Associations of Moral Injury Symptom Severity and Stoicism with Suicide Risk in U.S. Military Veterans
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Change in looping effects
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Change in looping effects
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Artificial intelligence and the automation of looping effects
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Artificial intelligence and the automation of looping effects
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ian Hacking on suggestibility: from psychology to logic
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Ian Hacking on suggestibility: from psychology to logic
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Simon Stephan @simonstephan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
(1/7) New paper in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social: "Manipulating Prior Causal Beliefs Affects the Formation of Apparent Causal Illusions" Why do people sometimes "see" causal links in zero-contingency data? We tested if this is rational updating, not bias. 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Manipulating prior causal beliefs affects the formation of apparent causal illusions
Non-contingent learning data can produce an apparent “illusory” or “false” perception of causality (“causal illusion”), especially if a potential caus…
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Docile minds: a neuro-philosophical framework for understanding non-conscious compliance in social governance systems
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Docile minds: a neuro-philosophical framework for understanding non-conscious compliance in social governance systems
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Manipulating prior causal beliefs affects the formation of apparent causal illusions
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Manipulating prior causal beliefs affects the formation of apparent causal illusions
Publication date: December 2026 Source: Cognition, Volume 277 Author(s): Simon Stephan, Michael R. Waldmann
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Correction
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Correction
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Rethinking mental representation through the epistemology of modeling
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Rethinking mental representation through the epistemology of modeling
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The confidence reorientation account: psychedelics, self-model precision, and death anxiety
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The confidence reorientation account: psychedelics, self-model precision, and death anxiety
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Normative problems in the psychology of reasoning: deductive constraints on Bayesian rationality and the problem of arbitration
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Normative problems in the psychology of reasoning: deductive constraints on Bayesian rationality and the problem of arbitration
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
On the nature of belief and the social significance of purely epistemic evaluation
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On the nature of belief and the social significance of purely epistemic evaluation
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Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 10/08/2026
new preprint! in my final grad school project led by @kmiceli.bsky.social & @ninavanrooy.bsky.social w/@felipedebrigard.bsky.social, we challenge ~20yrs of causal cognition research by finding a context in which people's causal judgments are completely *unaffected* by norms! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Episodic recollection and past perception
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Episodic recollection and past perception
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Misrecognition in MI-BCI agents
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Misrecognition in MI-BCI agents
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Trust me, I’m a doctor: a phenomenological account of epistemic privilege in the medical context
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Trust me, I’m a doctor: a phenomenological account of epistemic privilege in the medical context
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Tian @chen2tian1shu1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Personality: Its Content, Causes, and Consequences
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Personality: Its Content, Causes, and Consequences
Publication date: Available online 3 August 2026 Source: Current Opinion in Psychology Author(s): Reinout E. de Vries, Kibeom Lee, Michael C. Ashton
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tadegquillien.bsky.social @tadegquillien.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Interested in learning about Causal Models? The slides for the summer school course that @bonan.bsky.social and I taught at Tsinghua are now online: quillienlab.github.io/summer_school/
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