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Maximilian Maier

@maxmaier.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School | Decision-making, applied statistics, & meta-analysis | Open science | Previously @EP_UCL, @ResMaPsychology

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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Now out in Behavior Research Methods! With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder, we developed the 12-item Decision Process Scale, which measures how much people rely on rules vs. cost-benefit reasoning and intuition vs. deliberation in individual dilemmas. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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The Decision Process Scale (DPS): Self-report measures of reliance on rules, cost–benefit reasoning, intuition, and deliberation in (moral) decision-making - Behavior Research Methods
Understanding how people make decisions in specific situations is a central challenge in (moral) psychology research. Yet there are no existing self-report scales for measuring the process of decision...
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Maximilian Maier @maxmaier.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I was just trying to download some replication files from Management Science and came across this highly unusual policy! This seems very problematic as it would allow the journal to reject any work scrutinising the paper completely at their discretion, without possibility of submitting elsewhere.
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sjdm-tweets @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Today's HotFresh recommended paper is: Maier, M., Harris, A. J. L., Kellen, D., & Singmann, H. (2025). Decision making under extinction risk. Cognitive Psychology, 159. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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Nina Wang @ninawang.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Exciting #rstats news for Bayesian model comparison: bridgesampling is finally ready to support cmdstanr, see screenshot. Help us by installing the development version of bridgesampling and letting us know if it works for your model(s): pak::pkg_install("quentingronau/bridgesampling#44")
R code and output showing the new functionality:
``` r
## pak::pkg_install("quentingronau/bridgesampling#44")
## see: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bridgesampling/vignettes/bridgesampling_example_stan.html
library(bridgesampling)

### generate data ###
set.seed(12345)
mu <- 0
tau2 <- 0.5
sigma2 <- 1
n <- 20
theta <- rnorm(n, mu, sqrt(tau2))
y <- rnorm(n, theta, sqrt(sigma2))

### set prior parameters ###
mu0 <- 0
tau20 <- 1
alpha <- 1
beta <- 1

stancodeH0 <- 'data {
  int<lower=1> n; // number of observations
  vector[n] y; // observations
  real<lower=0> alpha;
  real<lower=0> beta;
  real<lower=0> sigma2;
}
parameters {
  real<lower=0> tau2; // group-level variance
  vector[n] theta; // participant effects
}
model {
  target += inv_gamma_lpdf(tau2 | alpha, beta);
  target += normal_lpdf(theta | 0, sqrt(tau2));
  target += normal_lpdf(y | theta, sqrt(sigma2));
}
'
tf <- withr::local_tempfile(fileext = ".stan")
writeLines(stancodeH0, tf)
mod <- cmdstanr::cmdstan_model(tf, quiet = TRUE, force_recompile = TRUE)

fitH0 <- mod$sample(
  data = list(y = y, n = n,
              alpha = alpha,
              beta = beta,
              sigma2 = sigma2),
  seed = 202,
  chains = 4,
  parallel_chains = 4,
  iter_warmup = 1000,
  iter_sampling = 50000,
  refresh = 0
)
#> Running MCMC with 4 parallel chains...
#> 
#> Chain 3 finished in 0.8 seconds.
#> Chain 2 finished in 0.8 seconds.
#> Chain 4 finished in 0.8 seconds.
#> Chain 1 finished in 1.1 seconds.
#> 
#> All 4 chains finished successfully.
#> Mean chain execution time: 0.9 seconds.
#> Total execution time: 1.2 seconds.
H0.bridge <- bridge_sampler(fitH0, silent = TRUE)
print(H0.bridge)
#> Bridge sampling estimate of the log marginal likelihood: -37.73301
#> Estimate obtained in 8 iteration(s) via method "normal".

#### Expected output:
## Bridge sampling estimate of the log marginal likelihood: -37.53183
## Estimate obtained in 5 iteration(s) via method "normal".
```
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
How do people choose between moral rules or cost-benefit moral reasoning when faced with dilemmas? Research by @maxmaier.bsky.social et al suggests metacognitive learning from *consequences* shapes moral decision-making, which is surprisingly malleable: buff.ly/6SREXa0
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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Our new research paper is out in NHB, which we apparently coauthored with acclaimed actor Ryan Reynolds. Critics are calling it his best work since Deadpool.
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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
For all those at #CogSci2025, @glenspiteri.bsky.social will be presenting this work at 14:15 PDT (22:15 BST for those online and UK based)! “Communicating Global Income Rank Increases Charitable Donations” Session: ‘Talks 8: Social Cognition’ @cogscisociety.bsky.social
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Tarandeep Kang @tarandeepkang.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
@fbartos.bsky.social @maxmaier.bsky.social‬ & EJ Wagenmakers have extended RoBMA with 3-level publication bias-adjusted model-averaged meta-regression models in R along with the usual code-free and intuitive @jaspstats.bsky.social implementation. Nerdy details are osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Daniel Leising @leising.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
In Deutschland wird leidenschaftlich über mögliche Änderungen an den Strukturen der wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit diskutiert. Das Ziel ist, die vielfältigen Verführungen zum Machtmissbrauch, die das gegenwärtige deutsche System beinhaltet, stärker zu beschränken.
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Maximilian Maier @maxmaier.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Happy to share that I passed my viva yesterday without corrections and will start as Assistant Professor at Warwick Business School on 1st of August - I look forward to the next chapter at Warwick and to building new collaborations with the exceptional colleagues there!
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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Out in Cognitive Psychology, led by @maxmaier.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A new lottery task with choices that matter across trials; the risky option has a chance of going extinct, which ends the study. We derive optimal policies and develop a strategy-classification model.
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Decision making under extinction risk
In everyday life, people routinely make decisions that involve irredeemable risks such as death (e.g., while driving). Even though these decisions und…
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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New preprint w/ @glenspiteri.bsky.social , @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder: Telling people their global income rank (RBN) increased charitable donations. Also explored RBN’s effect on perceived global income distribution + whether asking how much others should donate increased giving (IDT) 🧵…
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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New paper with Tong Liu and Arndt Broeder, just accepted in Cognition. We test novel qualitative predictions from sampling-based models of probability estimation in an event ranking task. Results provide evidence for the idea that mental sampling underlies probability judgements.
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David Young @davidyoung-psych.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
First time on Blue Sky! Super happy this article is now out in an issue of Political Psychology! And honoured by the promo tweet with custom-made graphic! @leede-wit.bsky.social
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/03/2025
Dave Lagnado is looking for a post doc to work on causal inference! The BR-UK team is doing some very cool stuff, so if you're currently looking for a job, check this out: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Maximilian Maier @maxmaier.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
New preprint "Decision Making Under Extinction Risk" with Adam Harris, David Kellen, and @singmann.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We updated our preprint on moral decision-making in LLMs (osf.io/preprints/ps...) with a new study investigating sources of the yes-no framing bias and amplified omission bias. Results show that they likely arise from fine-tuning for chatbot applications. (w/ @maxmaier.bsky.social and Falk Lieder)
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Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
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Maximilian Maier @maxmaier.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
New paper "Model-Averaged Bayesian t tests" in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review with Frantisek Bartos, @dsquintana.bsky.social, Fabian Dablander, Don van den Bergh, @maartenmarsman.bsky.social, Alexander Ly, & @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.3758/s134... Tutorial video & summary below👇
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Model Averaged Bayesian T-Test
YouTube video by JASP Statistics
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