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Marta Mangiarulo

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Psychology, Scicomm, and JDM research. marta-mm.github.io

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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
(1/2) Still recruiting participants, *Now open to adults (18+) NOT living in the UK!* This study is looking at how we make sense of probabilities. In an online task, you will see a series of general knowledge questions, and will be asked to rate them based on different criteria.
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
(1/2) Hello all, I am looking for participants for a study looking at how we make sense of probabilities. In an online task, you will see a series of general knowledge questions, and you will be asked to rate them based on different criteria.
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Post by Tuesday at the latest!!
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New paper out! In a qualitative research project, we explored how community members make sense of classical music ensemble participation as a catalyst for holistic life skills development in children and young people. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Harmony Beyond the Notes: Community Members' Perspectives on the Impact of Classical Music Ensembles on Children and Young People's Life Skills
This paper explores community members' perspectives on the developmental value of classical music ensemble participation for children and young people based in the North-West of England. Drawing on 1...
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Indicative ballot will close soon: vote now!
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Dozens of staff stood up and displayed these signs at the beginning of today’s address by the VC to demonstrate their lack of confidence in him and his ability to impose such devastating staff cuts across the university.
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
One week to go for the national demonstration called by UCU (@ucu.org.uk) against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Super proud of Kristen, her teach-out was definitely one of the highlights of these first two weeks of industrial action.
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Why we strike: Bargaining as an expression of human cooperation | BPS
Dr Kristen Syme considers labour action, and draws parallels with family conflict…
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This is how it feels in my head when it's the weekend, elvanse has just kicked in while I'm having coffee at the local cafe, and The Smiths are playing and I'm so happy I could cry
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A great turnout to our amazing rally today, with emotional speeches and incredible support from students, staff, and trade unions.
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
How can you help? Learn more here:
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October. Support our striking members, donate to the fighting fund if you're able. More details here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
To help our members prepare for the industrial action, we have updated our strike FAQs. Check them out here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/strike-quest...
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STRIKE QUESTIONS | University of Leicester UCU
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Done! Catch me at the poster session to discuss my disso students project (or my talk!)
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I really never learn. Every time I'm at a conference I think to myself "I'll do some work in the evening when I'm back to the b&b", every time I am too tired to do anything but go on netflix or do sudokus
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Ballot results are out!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/08/2025
very funny that the world's most high profile epic-science-rocket-to-mars guy lost the actual scientists
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New paper out! A monumental systematic review and meta-analysis lead by the amazing Ghassani Swaryandini. Open access link: rdcu.be/eCtnM
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of educational approaches to reduce cognitive biases among students
Nature Human Behaviour - This systematic review and meta-analysis of 53 randomized controlled trials finds that educational interventions can help students reduce cognitive biases, with a small but...
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
After a (quick) search, today I found out there is little to no research on ADHD in academia/academics. Or maybe there is, and I don't know how to use databases? :/
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
More ballots in ✅✅ Your turn now!
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European Association for Decision Making @eadmnews.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
One month to SPUDM2025! Find the programme here: spudm2025.imtlucca.it/program
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Program
Here you can find a preliminary PROGRAM AT GLANCE. The program will be updated constantly. This program's version is updated at the 25/July/2025. The conference will start at 3.00 PM on Sunday Augus...
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
One by one, it adds up. Keep voting!
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
More ballot posts coming!
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Be like Obi, do the right thing
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Confused about the E-ballot and mail ballot? Read here:
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Can you help me iron out a couple of things in my study before I can finally launch it? Click on the link to take part in the quiz, it takes less than one minute. Thank you! forms.office.com/e/hVCBe5Pefk
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's not too late to join! www.uculeicester.org.uk/join-ucu/
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Industrial action FAQs: www.uculeicester.org.uk/strike-quest...
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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A systemic approach to better coordination in science
Nature Human Behaviour - Although individualism and isolated work remain common in academia, coordination offers substantial benefits. This Comment calls on researchers, funders, policymakers,...
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Out of office on, currently at the University of Warwick attending the Innovation Accelerator Workshop I co-organised
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So i vividly remember reading a paper where they compared verbal labels for probability judgments and presented nice distribution plots showing how said labels compared to each other. Can anyone help me find it? Did I dream it or does it really exist? #jdmresearch
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Reposting for visibility!
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New paper out! How do people deceive? We investigated behaviour in strategic games and found that confidence signalling, even without lying, is sometimes used to deceive. Open Access paper available here: rdcu.be/ekoiC #jdmresearch #games #deception
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Confidence signalling aids deception in strategic interactions
Scientific Reports - Confidence signalling aids deception in strategic interactions
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New APA article spotlight out: www.apa.org/pubs/highlig...
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European Association for Decision Making @eadmnews.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
EADM is now on BlueSky. We will post about JDM news, papers, and events (like spudm2025.imtlucca.it, see you there)
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The 2025 “Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making” meeting will be held at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. It will take place from August 31st to September 4th 2025 and will ...
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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
THREAD (1/3) We are proud of the important role the Leicester UCU branch and members (www.uculeicester.org.uk/the-kathleen...) had in the renaming of the building that is home to the Schools of Archaeology and Ancient History and Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. On #IWD in 2018 (cont.)
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The Kathleen Kenyon Building | University of Leicester UCU
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Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🌟🧠💪📝 #BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology. PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025 For more: scienceofboosting.org @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social #policy #behavioralscience 1/ 🧵👇
The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads:

Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches.List with summary points:

1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice.
2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects.
3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy.
4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes.
5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires.
6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments.
7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches.
8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New paper exploring #cyberbullying and #cyberstalking victimisation in a #HE community and potential strategies for better supporting victims. Our findings contribute to the development of best practices and policies, ultimately fostering cyber user resilience. doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Cyberbullying and cyberstalking in higher education: policies and practices for supporting students and university staff - Social Psychology of Education
This paper explores cyberbullying and cyberstalking victimisation in a Higher Education community and potential strategies for better supporting victims. It analyses qualitative responses from a conve...
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
We thank the reviewer for their useful suggestions, which have greatly improved the paper
Package of Cinnamon Toast Crunch bacon
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Sam Vimes 🫜 @reaper-man.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I decided to give ChatGPT a try, to see what all the fuss is about. Its responses were staggeringly vivid and realistic. But there was something slightly off too. The uncanny valley of prose. I couldn't put my finger on it until I read this passage from Soul Music (Terry Pratchett, Discworld #16).
Susan got up onto the dais.

There was something odd about the things around her. Of course, there was everything odd about the things around her, but it was a huge major oddness that was simply in their nature. She could ignore it. But there was an oddness on a human level. Everything was just slightly wrong, as if it had been made by someone who hadn’t fully comprehended its purpose.
 
There was a blotter on the oversize desk but it was part of it, fused to the surface. The drawers were just raised areas of wood, impossible to open. Whoever had made the desk had seen desks, but hadn’t understood deskishness.

There was even some sort of desk ornament. It was just a slab of lead, with a thread hanging down one side and a shiny round metal ball on the end of the thread. If you raised the ball it swung down and thumped into the lead, just once.
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Did I end up in the bad place? Why am I already seeing so many bots on my feed and in my follows?
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thought you might find this very interesting @chrismbrand.bsky.social
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Royal Society fellow resigns over Musk membership. “Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of being a fellow is diminished by the fact it's shared with someone who appears to be modelling himself on a Bond villain.” Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
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Marta Mangiarulo @martam.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On a better note, don't know how i forgot, but here we go: new(ish) paper out: www.growkudos.com/publications...
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Impact of recall periods on responses to mental health questionnaires
There are numerous mental health questionnaires available to measure common symptoms which differ in many ways. Although a number of studies have examined how question wording affects responses, few s...
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