Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026It’s true but what birding will there be in Baltimore in June? 110
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Good god this is terrible to hear. At least the prognosis is optimistic. But man what was the rating and restaurant?? 120
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025My god, I have found the Jersey grail originaltaylorporkroll.com/recipes/sizz...originaltaylorporkroll.comTaylor Sizzling Recipes - The Original Taylor Pork Roll 000
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Cancel your meetings and gaze upon the soul of my sweet Jersey www.nj.com/news/2025/12...nj.comTaylor ham, the untold story. Iconic N.J. food's legacy is tainted by scandal and cruelty.The inside story of how a revered pork roll brand became the domain of a mercurial owner. 130
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 30/11/2025A little funny seeing this in Nature after they put out this slop last week www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comBridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP 150
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comBridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Bridging the gap: explainable ai for autism diagnosis and parental support with TabPFNMix and SHAP 010
Reposted by Eric MandelbaumJake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025there 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/ 14118
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Well yes I would not call having associations anything like prejudice either…but the main issue there imo is with the idea that associations were doing much at all in the first place 100
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Not valid in what way? (I don't think there's any single way of measuring prejudice--I'm not even sure what it would mean). I would've thought IA measures are just other ways of tapping into attitudes (which can correlate with each other more or less closely) 100
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Wait, implicit attitude measures? They exist. What are you now critical of? The idea that IAs are the root cause of all prejudice? 110
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025eg attribution theory, placebo effects, the ncc's of inconsistency, vicarious dissonance... Just bc a counterattitudinal essay task didn't clearly show freedom of choice! (But maybe Bem's self-perception theory is still cool?) That said, I still haven't had a chance to read the paper! I will asap 010
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Man if this is enough for you to add cognitive dissonance to the list, I wonder if you also feel the same way about self-affirmation theory, the spreading of alternatives, balance theory, effort justification, selective exposure, and loads of work on consistency, nvm its explicit use elsewhere... 210
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025the next step of figuring out the individual and cultural differences in this, and separating these judgments from aversion to ambiguity, need for closure, cultural differences in deferences to authority... 010
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025It tries to both validate the scale and take shots at consistency and from 30,000 feet it looks good and then you look closer and start wondering things like wait wtf does the foot in the door paradigm have to do with consistency? And then start wondering if this scale is good, why isn't there... 110
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025people what did they have to change their view of the mind on bc of the replication crisis (I'm real fun). I think it's surprising how few things actually come up. Maybe CEOs were powerposing themselves into oblivion, but even if you believed in PPs, what followed from it (outside hilarity)? 140
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025It also has many decades of good findings. Even after all the malarkey, what findings did you really believe in that you've lost belief in because of the replication crisis? For myself, almost everything that was bad science was not something I was surprised had to go. At parties I often ask... 150
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Just retaught the Cialdini 95 last week and...I was surprised by it. In my memory it was much more of a challenge for inconsistency than it was upon re-reading. 110
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025The counterattitudinal essay paradigm is just one very small part of the theory. Social psychology has had decades of introducing new theories (or new names for old theories) the mechanics of which presuppose the consistency theorizing in dissonance. That is where the theory's strength derives from 130
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025(Also the amount of effects explicable by dissonance generally far outweighs the paradigm looked at here, which is why I think the dialectic is a bit strange on this discussion in general, though I have enjoyed this back and forth ) 110
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I think this is a deep and interesting question. Can you say more about individual differences for consistency? Is it the Cialdini PFC scale you have in mind or geography of culture findings or something else? 240
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025(Or whether monkey’s have an LoT and also avoid inconsistency…). But also since you’re wondering about the classic effects it makes me wonder if you are also skeptical of the spreading of alternatives variations? 100
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025the same idea is ofc extended elsewhere (the idea being we want to be consistent, and have justification of our behaviors). So...maybe chill? 160
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025 it *replicated the counterattitudinal effect!*. It just didn't replicate the forced/free choice moderator. That is interesting! Why and when feeling free affects choice matters but nonetheless the central posit--inconsistency driving attitude change (Festinger's not Cooper's) was replicated. And.. 171
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Church of the True World (Hardyck & Braden 1962), Ichigen No Miya (Takaaki 1972), BUPC (Balch 1997), Millerites (Melton 1985), Universal Link (Melton 1985), Rouxists (Van Fossen 1985). And as for the failed replication... 150
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I have no doubt that there is much shadiness in WPF. I mean, the whole set up is bonkers. But it does seem to hold outside of it (eg) Jehova’s Witness (Zygmunt 1970), Institute for Applied Metaphysics (ibid) Lubavich Hasidim (Dein 1997) Unarians, (Tumminia 1998) Chen Tao (Wright 1998),... 1100
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025WPF is more of a story than science, but when you look at other (more well studied) cases, the same idea holds (e.g., the articles on what happens to the Lubavitch post Schneerson's death [for the London community and the work of Simon Dein]) 170
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025This is all p misleading IMO. I just saw this link so haven't read it yet (but will, though I also think lots of the retweets of this haven't read it as well, given its provenance). I don't see how this counters (eg) Dawson 1999 which goes through 13 millennial cults and finds 12 show the effect 1/n 2217
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Greatest city in the world breaking new records! gothamist.com/news/number-...gothamist.comNumber of homeless students in NYC hits record high, new report findsNearly 1 in 7 NYC public school students were homeless at some point last year. 030
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Fantastic researcher, open-minded thinker, dedicated mentor, and one of the absolute nicest people in the field. 030
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025So good that it's 'Supernormal' which is the normalist. Nothing more normal than drawing upon a publicly available data set of 793 sex dolls 210
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025just more evidence why that doctrine has gotta go 020
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Jake gives me a normal running total and it’s always going like 0 for 15. I was due 010
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode 5213
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025See also www.ign.com/articles/bab...) "I wasn’t expecting one of my favorite games of 2025 to be about a socially awkward blob in a stained onesie with such poor motor skills that he ragdolls to the ground on the slightest of uneven surfaces, but here we are."--IGN & www.polygon.com/baby-steps-r...ign.comBaby Steps Review - IGN 020
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025My 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...nytimes.comWhen You Fall on Your Face, a Philosophical Designer Succeeds 271
Reposted by Eric MandelbaumNic Porot @nicporot.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Our 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...doi.orgThe Language of Thought Hypothesis 14111
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025It 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. 171
Eric Mandelbaum @ericman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Hard to think of a better gig. So cool for Cornell too 010
