Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerChristoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/) 48542
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerCaroline Pioger @carolinepioger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🚨 New preprint! Public debate on decarbonization often rests on inaccurate beliefs about energy sources. We tested whether a reinforcement-learning-based intervention can correct them. 🧵👇 📄 Preprint: zenodo.org/records/2303...zenodo.orgCorrecting misconceptions and shaping preferences about energy with reinforcement learningAddressing the climate crisis requires citizens to make informed choices about sustainable energy policy, yet public debates are often shaped by inaccurate beliefs about the environmental and health i... 1114
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerKobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"A single evidence accumulation process informs perceptual choices and subsequent confidence reports"! Reviewed Preprint at @elife.bsky.social led by @johnpgrogan1.bsky.social , @lucvermeylen.bsky.social, @redmondoconnell.bsky.social, and others PDF: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Thread ↓↓↓ 1228
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerKobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Adaptive Regulation of Confidence Following Metacognitive Conflict: Evidence From Behavior and Computational Modeling"! Now out in #JEPGeneral led by @jintaoxing.bsky.social @stefherregods.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social and me. PDF: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... "Conflicting" Thread ↓↓↓ 12212
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerKobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Trial-by-trial fluctuations in decision criterion shape confidence"! Now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com led by Robin Vloeberghs, Lara Navarette, @anne-urai.bsky.social and me. PDF: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Fluctuating Thread ↓↓↓ 12818
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerJérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 22/09/20261/15 What do we actually do when we deliberate, and how does it change over time? New preprint with @wimdeneys.bsky.social : "Rhythm of Thought: Tracing the Dynamics of Deliberation in Reasoning". 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf... (yes, I like flashy titles 💅) A 🧵👇 11811
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerZoe Purcell 🕵🏻♀️ @zoepurcell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Why are people so bad at spotting fallacies in climate (mis)information? And what can we do about it? @bencebago.bsky.social and I found a big role of prior beliefs, evidence against identity-protective reasoning, and a neat way to improve climate argumentation. rdcu.be/8X6KVTwk5pTa 024
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerNick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 22/09/2026I'm pumped to see others beat me to a re-analysis of our earliest think-aloud datasets. Long live #openScience and #processTracing! We're also developing AI-mediated, human-validated approaches to public decision transcripts, albeit with slightly different research questions. Promising methods! 🧵 131
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 22/09/20261/15 What do we actually do when we deliberate, and how does it change over time? New preprint with @wimdeneys.bsky.social : "Rhythm of Thought: Tracing the Dynamics of Deliberation in Reasoning". 🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf... (yes, I like flashy titles 💅) A 🧵👇 11811
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerEsther Boissin @boissinesther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Happy to share a new preprint with @tomcostello.bsky.social, @dgrand.bsky.social and @gordpennycook.bsky.social 🧵 "What beliefs are most debunkable?" osf.io/preprints/ps... We investigate the characteristics of the beliefs that are (or are not) influenced by counterevidence in 3,341 AI dialogues. 13313
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing? 3212669
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerDaniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...daniellakens.blogspot.comWhich Data Repository Should You Use?The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F... 4198112
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerNicolas Beauvais @nicolasbeauvais.bsky.social · 07/09/20261/4 🧵 New paper out (open access!) with @wimdeneys.bsky.social Can people tell a strong argument from a weak one on the fly, or only once they stop to think? We find that people already have some intuitive sensitivity to argument strength, but deliberation helps a lot. 163
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026Oh my god, someone took the fully mapped brain off a fruit fly that was released by Google and loaded it into a Minecraft simulation. 2119236
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerMomchil Tomov @momchiltomov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Excited to share that our paper on explainable AI for autonomous driving is out today in @nature.com! Super proud to have been part of this amazing collaboration between Motional and MIT! Details in the 🧵 2259
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In this blog post with @wimdeneys.bsky.social, we discuss some of our recent research on dual-process theories; check it out if you're interested! bppblog.com/2026/08/27/w...bppblog.comWhen fast is right and slow is wrong (rethinking intuition and deliberation)The article by Jérémie Beucler and Wim De Nys critiques dual-process theory, highlighting some of its simplifications. They argue that intuition can be sound and deliberation sometimes ineffective … 021
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Social media discourse is driven by false #polarization We find that: 1) ideologues post opinions more than moderates 2) extreme attitudes are posted more than moderate one 3) This replicates in 40 countries 4) Opinions that users post are more hostile than the beliefs they keep to themselves 411363
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Using AI helps people get higher grades and get their work done faster, but they learn less & suffer on actual exams I saw this in my own large Intro Psych class: -the exam average is 85% -after AI, it shot up to 95% -after I made the final in person it went to 68% www.economist.com/graphic-deta... 14391150
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerLeya @aleyamarzuki.bsky.social · 14/08/2026📢 Our paper is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We know that symptoms of OCD fluctuate substantially. But what are the exact conditions that precede symptom escalations? We found evidence for metacognitive processes being a key antecedent. 1/nature.comDrops in confidence precede symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder - Nature CommunicationsTo devise effective interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is crucial to understand antecedents to symptom emergence. Here, the authors show evidence for self- and decision making underco... 12512
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerPaper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network 2114142
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerJan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgTwo types of response inhibition failures in humansResponse inhibition is a key control function that allows humans to perform safe, goal-directed behaviors. The dominant behavioral-computational model holds that response inhibition fails when the inh... 13718
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerAndrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Yet another (popular) article on human/LM reasoning that (as usual) I'm deeply disappointed to see casually presupposes that humans do something called "reasoning" that's implied to be linking together steps that logically follow without any qualification, then proceeds to be dismissive 1/ 3675
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerDeniz Vatansever @neurodenizen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026💡What makes some ideas spring to mind while others we have to reach for? We built an #NLP #fMRI #MachineLearning framework to find out. New study from our lab, led by @kaixiangzhuang.bsky.social out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CognitiveNeuroscience #Fudan #ISTBI 23914
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerZoe Purcell 🕵🏻♀️ @zoepurcell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026How can we collectively contain the threat of dishonest delegation to AI? Our paper "Whistleblowers can contain the unethical externalities of human–AI delegation" is out in PNAS, with @nckobis.bsky.social , Andrew Samuel, and @jfbonnefon.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings 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... 165
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerCentre for Brain and Behaviour, QMUL @queenmarycbb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Check out this new work from @ranimo.bsky.social and colleagues, who used reinforcement learning to study the cognitive biases that affect us when forming beliefs based on non-credible information. elifesciences.org/articles/106...elifesciences.orgDisinformation elicits learning biasesLearning from potential disinformation introduces specific cognitive biases, causing individuals to systematically deviate from an idealized Bayesian updating strategy. 042
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerDaniel Spinoza-Martín @d-spinozamartin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026In a new paper out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, @gordpennycook.bsky.social and I argue the classic view that System 2 spontaneously corrects System 1 is flawed. We provide evidence that S2 is instead triggered by conflict between competing S1 intuitions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 33210
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Very creative use of comp modeling on an important question, with rich data! 🙌 010
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Hier soir, j’ai eu la chance de participer à @pintofscience.fr pour parler des biais de raisonnement, ainsi que des modèles qui permettent de mieux comprendre quand nous avons tendance à délibérer un peu plus (ou pas) 😮💨 161
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Very nice piece on our recent paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social by @carlhendrick.substack.com 🙌 carlhendrick.substack.com/p/rethinking...carlhendrick.substack.comRethinking Fast and SlowNew evidence suggests the standard dual process story undersells intuition 032
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerJérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Are you thinking in vain? New paper with @zoepurcell.bsky.social, @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social, @wimdeneys.bsky.social & @kobedesender.bsky.social 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘪𝘯: 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... A 🧵 1155
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Are you "thinking in vain"? 🫵 Take this (very short) test and see for yourself: jeremie-beucler.github.io/thinking_in_... 🔗 Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 000
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Are you thinking in vain? New paper with @zoepurcell.bsky.social, @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social, @wimdeneys.bsky.social & @kobedesender.bsky.social 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘪𝘯: 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... A 🧵 1155
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerMarius Mercier @mariusmercier.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Thrilled to share that our new paper is now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social: "Who knows what? Bayesian Competence Inference guides Knowledge Attribution and Information Search," with @oliviermorin.bsky.social , @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & @tadegquillien.bsky.social! Link: tinyurl.com/ykyhxcc6 35825
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerJason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 11/03/2026🧑💻 New paper at #chi2026 w @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social Are you worried about how social media algorithms affect people’s beliefs? We are, so we tested engagement-based ranking algorithms against alternatives in a pre-reg’d collaborative filtering experiment... 🧵 2199
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerBAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty: @meganakpeters.bsky.social @marcelomattar.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social Apply now here: www.bambschool.orgbambschool.orgBAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of BehaviorIntensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026. 12827
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerAli Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 09/02/2026💡 Our new #preprint is available online! How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change? In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments. 🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf... It's a thread 🧵 12911
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerAli Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Calling all scientists: Support your Iranian colleagues www.nature.com/articles/d41... 073
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerMichael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 04/02/2026After 20 years as psychology's golden child, ego depletion collapsed. Now it's back...with a catch. The secret? Make people work for 30-40 minutes instead of 5. In other words, we finally discovered fatigue. New post on the redemption tour.speakandregret.michaelinzlicht.comCongratulations, You've Discovered FatigueJust when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. 1166
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerDavid Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 03/02/2026🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps... 211747
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerBenoît de Courson @bdecourson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026🔺 New preprint 🔺 Why does poverty increase time discounting? With W. Frankenhuis and @danielnettle.bsky.social, we argue that current models do not account for discounting in *persistent* poverty, and show that a desperation threshold can! A quick 🧵 1149
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Rationality (especially its analytic component) is consistently associated with both earnings and wage gaps across 101 occupations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 041
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Our paper with @zoepurcell.bsky.social , @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social and @wimdeneys.bsky.social on using LLMs to estimate belief strength in reasoning is out in Behavior Research Methods. If you're interested in reasoning biases & LLMs as measurement tools, check it out: rdcu.be/eZXGK (free pdf) 181
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerThomas Beuchot @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026🎉 Our paper is out in Communications Psychology: a perspective on behavioural public policies & the psychology of poverty. Core idea: poverty can shift psychology, so the same intervention won’t work the same for everyone. Thread 🧵 172
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :). www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...staff.universiteitleiden.nlMachine-learning competition on forecasting depression in young adults - Leiden UniversityAfter nearly 5 years of work, the research team led by Eiko Fried has finished data collection in the ERC-funded WARN-D project on building a personalised early warning system for depression. But just... 03926
Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 07/01/20261/13 New paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social accepted at @cognitionjournal.bsky.social 🥳 Is creativity intuitive? 👩🎨 A 🧵👇 1183
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerThomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 29/12/2025🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨 Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache Illustration: Ana Yael. 1/n 34718
Reposted by Jérémie Beuclerkoenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Self-control—the ability to ignore short-term temptations in favour of long-term goals—leads to better health, career success, financial security, but does it lead to wellbeing? New research suggests it’s the other way around, writes @ewdolan: buff.ly/u7HGaMz 034
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerKobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Modeling Speed–Accuracy Trade-Offs in the Stopping Rule for Confidence Judgments! Now out in #PsychologicalReview (aka we can finally say we do comp models)! Led by @stefherregods.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓desenderlab.com 13215
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerStefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Excited to announce our symposium on how AI and humans shape each other “Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences” 9 Jan at ENS Paris. Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social . Program ↓ 0218
Reposted by Jérémie BeuclerJamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Just published in Behavior Research Methods: The individual-level precision of implicit measures w/ @ianhussey.mmmdata.io 🧵👇 link.springer.com/article/10.3...link.springer.comThe individual-level precision of implicit measures - Behavior Research MethodsImplicit measures are used extensively in psychological science. One fundamental goal of these measures is to provide information diagnostic of an individual’s attitudes or beliefs. After 25 years of ... 15122