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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

there was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence 1/

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Fantastic researcher, open-minded thinker, dedicated mentor, and one of the absolute nicest people in the field.

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My friends @foddy.net and @gcuzzillo.bsky.social's game @babystepsgame.bsky.social came out today and it looks amazing. @foddy.net is an artist and philosopher in the truest sense of the words, who just happens to be using video games as his medium at the moment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

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When You Fall on Your Face, a Philosophical Designer Succeeds

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Nic Porot @nicporot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out. doi.org/10.21428/e27...

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The Language of Thought Hypothesis

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It was so great! Really lucky to have been able to listen and learn from Barbara, Liuba, & Benedek. Some of the most insightful research happening today, from just the absolutely nicest, coolest people.

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Hard to think of a better gig. So cool for Cornell too

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Excited about this in large part because Raphael is the absolute best

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

This work is so cool, (and Vlad rules to boot)

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David Melnikoff @d-melnikoff.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

A key takeaway from 20+ years of computational RL is: model-free=automatic, model-based=deliberate. My new paper w/ @benedek.bsky.social challenges this view, suggesting that MB algos are more ubiquitous, & automatic processing more sophisticated, than currently thought: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Model-based algorithms shape automatic evaluative processing | PNAS

Computational theories of reinforcement learning suggest that two families of algorithm—model-based and model-free—tightly map onto the classic dis...

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is really impressive. Hard to imagine a more painful (or dangerous) rollercoaster than the Cyclone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi_...

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YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Ummmm the Inside the NBA crew is at center court, watching Inside the NBA?

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Cuomo is coming for Eric Adams' trophy as the biggest butthead interviewee

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Griffin Pion @griffinpion.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Thread below! (🧵1/9)

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Pains me to give this any boost but my lord this tidbit

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Congrats Shannon! Can't wait to celebrate with you in Ithaca

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

CUNY Cog Sci continues to be 🔥. Thanks to Charles Yang for a super interesting talk on language learning and the Tolerance Principle.

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“My motto is never think inside the box. Never think outside the box. Think without a box”—

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Imagining Darwin opening his trench coat to display his finest treats

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

If you really love somebody, let them know by never emailing them

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This is a great idea in cognitive science and philosophy too. I would stop being a zealot for signing referee reports if they were just published alongside the paper

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Very excited to share this preprint with @thatadammorris.bsky.social and (newly minted ISCON Early Career Award winner) David Melnikoff in which we reexamine the question of whether people are aware of their implicit attitudes. TLDR: most likely not. psyarxiv.com/gak52/ For details, see 🧵 below.

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Ben Simmons pregame shooting is top drama. Just missed 9 in a row from ~ 12 feet.

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Tfw you step on a subway and it’s totally empty but smells so incredibly bad that you know something unspeakable has recently occurred. Did Garfield cover this in his Monday omens?

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

@levelsof.bsky.social visited NYC, brought all the milkshakes to the yard (which in this case was a fake sukkah). Her work on toddler's understanding of possibility and objects is just about the coolest thing happening in cognitive science.

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Roving militias hunting FEMA workers in disaster areas is just the state of nature, rational given that the government bakes hurricanes in its underground pizza oven www.instagram.com/postclimate/...

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

The new CUNY Cognitive Science season has begun! The first speaker in our series is the absolutely fantastic Philippe Schlenker. Room was packed—people lining the walls, and I am standing out in the hallway. Another solid 20 people on zoom. Come join us! www.gc.cuny.edu/philosophy/c...

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

🎉Our paper "Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Represent Mutually Exclusive Possible Identities" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 09/07/2024

I wrote a review of @De_dicto's seminal book on the perception/cognition border for Mind. Tl;dr: you should read the book. But also consider reading the review. Hard to imagine I'll ever have a harder or more meaningful review to write philpapers.org/rec/MANTBB

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Eric Mandelbaum, _The Border Between Seeing and Thinking_, by Ned Block - PhilPapers

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Nic Porot @nicporot.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

How gullible are people? If you’ve been following Twitter recently (or um…The New Yorker?) you might have seen that lots of people think: not so much! In a forthcoming paper (philarchive.org/rec/PORBDC), @ericman.bsky.social and I argue for the opposite view: people are (with some nuance) (1/15)

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

I'm delighted to announce the 2024 winner of the Stanton prize is @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social! The @socphilpsych.bsky.social Stanton Prize is awarded to a young scholar who has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary research & been active in the SPP. Congrats Tobi!

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Christmas, walked out of MSG, saw two guys get into a fight (that one did not seem to want) in front of a midtown police kiosk. Cops did nothing ofc but hey at least we are treating migrants right, right???

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

If you think social media misinformation isn't a big deal (eg @dgrand.bsky.social & @hugoreasoning.bsky.social) I wonder what you make of polls like this Economist/Yougov where 20% of under 30 Americans think the holocaust is fake and 30% aren't sure www.economist.com/united-state...

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One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth

Our new poll makes alarming reading

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Washed-in-their-prime Chicago playing “You’re the inspiration” on a Wonder Bread float is the most American thing I have ever seen

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Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Felipe's always thoughtful, and even though we disagree on what exactly constitutes pseudoscience it's hard to not find this all pretty reasonable

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