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Karlo Doroc

@karlodoroc.bsky.social
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Decision scientist at the University of Melbourne, views are my own.

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It’s official! 🎓 My PhD - The effects of computational resource requirements and cognitive capacities on human decision-making - has finally been conferred 😁.
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Recently, I got quite frustrated listening to a large group of economists discussing preregistration and pre analysis plans. So, I've channelled that into an argument for why they should be preregistering their work whenever performing confirmatory research kdoroc.substack.com/p/arguing-wi...
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Arguing with economists: the case for preregistration
At a recent economics conference there was a long discussion on preregistration where we heard questions and comments from ~20 different people at varying levels of seniority.
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
End of an era! 🤠🌅 Last week I gave what will likely be my final PhD presentations at the regional meetings of the Society for Experimental Finance & the Economic Science Association. The notorious "economist Q&A" rumors were greatly exaggerated—everyone was lovely! 🧵👇
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Today, public school teachers in Victoria are going on strike 🎳⚾🎳. Here's what you need to know 👇📜
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Chronic stress is a modern health epidemic that shortens lives, lowers quality of life, and costs billions. We thought it would break our ability to make good decisions. We were wrong. 📉🧠 New preprint on stress and decision-making under varying computational demands. 🧵👇 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Indiana Jones' tour of the Healthy Cognitive Ageing speaking circuit continued in Singapore last week at the Australasian Mathematical Psychology Conference 🤠🇸🇬 I spoke about decision-making with healthy ageing under varying computational demands + snagged an award for Best Student Talk 🏆🧵👇
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Excited to see our research on stress and decision-making featured in Pursuit today 😁 It's great to see these findings reaching a wider audience and I hope people find it interesting! Read the full story here: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/str... #DecisionScience #Stress #Psychology #SciComm
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Stressed and rushed? Your decisions might suffer
New University of Melbourne research reveals how the combination of stress and time pressure can wreak havoc on our ability to make good choices
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Indiana Jones and the Temple of... Cognitive Ageing? 🤠🧠 Wrapping up a big month at #ACNS2025! I presented my work on how healthy ageing impacts decision-making capacity. 📄 Read the full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... A few highlights from the conference below👇
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🚨 New in Communications Psychology: we investigate the causal link between acute stress and higher-order decision-making. Using a task with multiple levels of complexity, we find stress impairs decision quality—but not in the way you might think. 📜 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Acute stress impairs decision-making at varying levels of decision complexity - Communications Psychology
This study finds that acute stress alone has a surprisingly limited effect on decision-making, irrespective of the decision’s complexity. However, on decisions with experienced time pressure, acute st...
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Philosophy meets Psychology. 🧠💭 Last week I was at #ASPP2025 presenting my work on how perceived chronic stress impacts decision-making. It was a fascinating few days of interdisciplinary ideas. A few highlights from the conference 👇
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Karlo Doroc @karlodoroc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It’s been a massive month! 🌪️ Two weeks ago, I spoke at the Monash Business Behavioural Lab (MBBL) Symposium on judgment & decision-making in virtual/physical worlds. Huge thanks to Kristian Rotaru for pulling together such a stellar lineup, brief thread below 🧠👇
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I need to stop drinking for health reasons. Will be transitioning from vodka to water. Via whiskey. Should be complete by 2070.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Someone tell the Albanese govt
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
NEW paper! 💭🖥️ “Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?” — Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Here is a clip of the student's speech.
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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“Instead of spending millions of dollars competing with one another using advertising campaigns that no longer work, universities could improve their reputations by investing properly in staff and lifting the quality of their courses." Hard agree from me
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Congratulations @olivia.science 🎊 🎉 So deserved. Thank you for all you do for the students and our education program. We are so lucky to have you working with us at the School of AI and @dondersinst.bsky.social !
Picture of Olivia Guest receiving the Takent Award
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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Gave a talk to our PhD students today, and feeling appreciative of all the recent methods work on improving common practices. Thanks to all the authors who work to make their work accessible, especially on social media. A few articles we discussed:
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/01/2025
Happy new year! Look what we found in the mailbox today. Here’s to all new milestones in 2025 🥂
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