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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Excited to share our new published paper! Do we hold speakers to what they exllicitly say or what they imply? Across 3 experiments, the objective truth of implied content shaped commitment to both meanings, while explicit truth mainly affected what was said. doi.org/10.1017/lang...

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Excited to share another preprint, in which we continue exploring the representational structure of (dis)belief, and what it means to believe or disbelieve. We also use some pretty cool computational analyses. Would really love it if you checked it out 🤍 doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A work with the great Prof. Ruth Mayo and Prof. Einat Shetreet

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

New preprint! How do people form trust under (mis)information? Across 8 experiments, trust in news sources mostly followed an equal-weight strategy rather than “one strike and you’re out”. But for political content, Democrats (but not Republicans) differed in mechanism. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Btw, do you (in general) have the same thoughts regarding anendophasia? It seems to follow the same rational of not the most essential source of simulation (but intuitively feels relevant to emotion regulation,or lackof in case of some OCDs). But I guess there's not much research on anendophasia yet

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Letters are also much shorter and to the-point. Which can also be of great value :)

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It’s been half a year since this publication in @pnas.org, which means it’s now fully open access :) If you’re interested in how belief and disbelief shape the way we process narratives and information, take a look! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

My favourite part of writing is naming studies/proposals after somewhat obscure films, feeling clever until a peer deletes the title without mercy. This round: 'The Self of Another', inspired by 'The Face of Another'.

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Almog Simchon @almogsi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This project wouldn’t have come together without the amazing team -- Tomer Zipori and @louisteitelbaum.bsky.social for the heavy lifting and computational analysis, @lewan.bsky.social for his insight, and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social whose vision made this possible. Truly grateful for this!

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Vivienne Ming @socos.org · 15/10/2025

The Timbre of Lies Ever feel like people who believe the same story are on the same wavelength? Their brains might just be.

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New preprint alert! 🐥 "Continued memory for misinformation, continued trust in the sources that spread it: The effects of language and self-correction". In my completely unbiased opinion, it’s a very nice and interesting read! Full paper at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

But wont most random people (not philosophers/scientists) percieve color to be more of a physical property? I think it will be a very skewed split of responses

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

There are things similar to pain, like heat/cold. But maybe something being 'beautiful'? You can see it as your own perception or the object/scene having some kind of "physical" beautiful properties? Doesn't 100% fit, but somewhat close

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Looks really cool. Congratz to all involved! Can't wait to read it more thoroughly :)

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

NEW preprint! We study cases with several meanings (e.g., replying “I’m feeling sick” to “Wanna go to the beach?”). How does being truthful in one meaning, but maybe not another, shape perceived commitment to each meaning and overall trust in a speaker? doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Bed-bound with high fever, while now and then having to run to a shelter filled with children. So.... seems like the right time to write and share my second substack post: "How scientific value is too often measured in dollars" open.substack.com/pub/gabrielb...

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How scientific value is too often measured in dollars

In this post, I want to touch on something a bit more controversial.

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Just me trying to write some words about belief, without having to be too formal and in APA7 open.substack.com/pub/gabrielb...

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Belief as the cognitive default

Hey there!

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Neat! Congratulations and good job!

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

My intuition was: less visual imagery -> probably more 'rational' (?)-> more leaning towards deterministic views in general + anti free will views But maybe it's just me basing it on myself (I can't even imagine my parents, they're just blobs)

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Neat! Also happy to personally correspond with the correlation's direction

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Totally agree there’s a lack of neuroscientific work on misinformation. Honestly, even the basics of belief vs. disbelief in information is surprisingly underexplored. We just released a new paper, and our very first sentence makes exactly that point. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Shared disbelief and shared belief: Belief and disbelief as drivers of interpersonal neural synchronization during narrative processing | PNAS

Despite living in an era where the mere concept of truth is increasingly contested, the cognitive processes underlying the processing of informatio...

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Together, the results show how (dis)belief shapes narrative processing. Behaviorally, belief bias supports the notion of belief as a cognitive default, while neural patterns show belief and disbelief drive distinct processing, shared across like-minded listeners. 6/6

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Neural synchrony associated with actual belief revealed broader patterns. High belief and high disbelief led to distinct activation patterns, which were unique to each narrative. This suggests shared interpretations shaped by how much participants believed (or disbelieved). 5/6

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Now to brain processing: context shaped neural synchrony. Some regions synced more in belief contexts, others in disbelief, but never both. Disbelief boosted synchrony in cognitive control regions (Exp 1) + DMN (Exp 2, pic), while belief was focused in the DMN (Exp 2, pic). 4/6

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Let’s start with behavior: did actual belief match the context? The answer was no! Even when told the witness was lying, many still chose to believe. And the mismatch wasn’t random, it consistently leaned toward belief. Some call it “truth bias,” but I prefer belief bias. 3/6

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

In practice, participants heard testimonies under belief/disbelief contexts while we scanned their brain activity. Afterward, they rated how much they actually believed the speaker. We then asked: how synchronized were their brains with others? And did belief boost synchrony? 2/6

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

How do belief and disbelief shape how the brain processes narratives? Unlike discrete facts, narratives push us to actively build interpretations. We manipulated contextual belief (told if the speaker is lying/truthful) and measured actual belief. Then looked at the brain. 1/6

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Gabriel Braun @gabrielbraun.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

For my first BlueSky post I want to share this freshly published paper in PNAS @pnas.org! We show how belief and disbelief shape narrative processing in the brain, not just as opposites of a continuum, but as distinct effects, including a cool truth/belief bias. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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