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Marco Biella PhD @marcobie.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My first methods paper #Award! It proposes a #mixedmodel based approach to #information #sampling and utilization ( #advicetaking, #judgment). It's flexible & overcomes known paradoxes. The merit goes to the driving force behind it @tobiasrebholz.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

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Marco Biella PhD @marcobie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Today, I found a comment from #reviewer2 that was improving our manuscript tremendously! I was a bit surprised and I asked myself which changes are needed to make #peerreview *always* helpful. Any suggestions? @academic-chatter.bsky.social @academiclife.bsky.social @openscience.bsky.social

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Marco Biella PhD @marcobie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Intellectuals and science people, I need your advice! What, in your opinion, makes a research idea worth investigating? How do you recognize an idea as worthy when you hear it? #science #research #idea #society @openscience.bsky.social @openscience.software @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Marco Biella PhD @marcobie.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

early stage #factchecking was working. we investigated the link between #media consumption and anti #vaccination attitude. use of #socialmedia was a protective factor! guess which channel had greater antivax attitude? hint: related to hypochondriasis pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Marco Biella PhD @marcobie.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

gentle checklist to quit harmful social media 1. mute notifications from that app 2. remove the bookmark from your browser 3. uninstall the app 4. close the account immediately closing the account triggers regret, these steps gently break down usage habits. #twitter #x #meta #MetaPlatforms

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Marco Biella PhD @marcobie.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

homophily explains why we connect with like-minded people. my research investigates the minimal cognitive processes supporting it. the sampling approach and information flows are sufficient to trigger homophily and the social structure it creates (e.g., small-world network). #psychology #sociology

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Marco Biella PhD @marcobie.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

When navigating the social world, you look for pleasant encounters. You just "wander around" until you find a nice spot to stop. If you are looking for something specific (someone to hire or the love of your life), your search will follow drastically different dynamics! doi.org/10.1177/0146...

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Navigating the Social Environment: Linking Motivations, Impressions, and Behaviors Via a Sampling Approach to Trustworthiness - Marco Biella, Mandy Hütter, 2024

Our understanding of impression formation comes from experiments constraining participants’ control over information sampling. This limits our understanding of ...

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