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ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2025 Best Social Cognition Paper Award! This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2025. Deadline Nov 1. Full info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...

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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

☀️ Excited to be part of this project! We investigate how language transmission (via written advice) can enable cumulative gains when observing another's behavior is insufficient

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Semantic knowledge is key for human innovation and cultural evolution! Our paper (thread in repost), led by fantastic @anilyaman.bsky.social & rising star @ts-brain.bsky.social is out in @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I will present this work at APS Barcelona (29/5), happy to chat!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Very grateful that our paper was awarded ISCON’s Best 2024 Paper in Social Cognition!! Huge thanks to the fantastic team: Ben Stillerman, @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social , @leorhackel.bsky.social , Damaris Hagen, Nils Jostmann, and @davidamodio.bsky.social 🎊💐

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Sepehr Razavi @srazavi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I am pleased to announce that @davidschultner.bsky.social will be our next guest as part of the SoCR Lab's Invited Talk Series. Dr. Schultner will present recent work that offers evidence for a parsimonious and mechanistic explanation of human social learning strategies via reward learning!

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837

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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🎊 New paper out! In this @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Forum, we (with @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social) summarize how reward learning can lead to adaptive social learning. We also explore the broader consequences for cultural evolution: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🚄

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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

💥 Our new paper (with ‪@lucasmolleman.bsky.social and ‪@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social‬) is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com‬ 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠 Here, we advance a novel RL account—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—that explains how people learn to learn from others! 🤝 🧵👇

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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 How do people make moral judgments as third parties? 👀 We show how two motivations—inequality aversion (fair = moral) ⚖️ and the common-is-moral heuristic (frequent = moral 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧—interact to shape evaluations 🧵👇 📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A fantastic blog post on our recent PNAS paper! It elegantly describes our rather complex findings and discusses their implications for bias reduction. And I love the AI-generated podcast version, too. Thanks @thepeoplegeek.bsky.social! davehodges.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

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The Hidden Game of Bias: How Prejudice Goes Viral Without Saying a Word

In the interest of providing multiple means of engaging with this blog, below is the podcast style conversation, using our AI friends Johnny and Joanne.

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David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

New paper from the lab! w/@davidschultner.bsky.social @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social & Mina Cikara We show that merely viewing a prejudiced person’s intergroup behavior induces bias in observers—a novel learning mechanism for prejudice formation and propagation science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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