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Mike Le Pelley

@mikelepelley.bsky.social
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Professor at UNSW Sydney - cognitive psychology

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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
FIVE academic jobs currently open in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney, across a variety of areas; see links below. Please come and join us! It's an outstanding department with excellent people. tinyurl.com/4p6tp2j3 tinyurl.com/yxm565xs tinyurl.com/2u8m77z8 tinyurl.com/3wu9hnb5
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor - Psychology
A Lecturer (Level B) / Senior Lecturer (Level C) is expected to carry out activities to develop their scholarly research and professional activities both nationally and internationally and to contribu...
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Pablo Martínez-López @martinezlopezp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Habit research has accumulated many tasks that supposedly tap into the same construct, yet their psychometric properties are rarely examined. Here, we assess their construct validity evidence and analyze their reliability to facilitate interpretation of previous studies and guide novel research ⬇️📝
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New preprint! @martinezlopezp.bsky.social in this systematic review takes a look at the validity & reliability of current tools used for studying habits in the human lab. There are a lot of them! But studies about construct validity were sparse, while reliability analyses were almost nonexistent...
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Tom Hardwicke @tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Level B/C (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) continuing position, open area, available at our School of Psychology at the University of Sydney 🐨 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
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Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology
1 full-time continuing position available, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to contribute to research and teaching in a world leading Psychology department Base...
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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We're hiring! Looking for a postdoc to work at UNSW Sydney, studying impacts of reward and information on attention, using eye-tracking, EEG, and modelling - with Kelly Garner, Daniel Pearson and me. Application link below, please spread the word! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
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Research Associate - Psychology
The Research Associate (Level A) is expected to contribute towards the research effort of UNSW and to develop their research expertise through the pursuit of defined projects relevant to their particu...
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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New preprint with Chris Nolan and Kelly Garner in which we develop a new metric - transition entropy - that can be used to measure the extent to which behaviour in cognitive tasks is based on a routine. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.
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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I agree. For me, at first, Academia was very much an identity and a calling. Years later, after some experience of terrible university management, it is "a job". Some other reflections (which turned out to be about workload management, and ways of working)
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David Luque @davluque.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
JOB ALERT: I am offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is specifically linked to the project “Assessing the balance between goal-directed and habitual processing through the course of learning". The project is about learning habits and include eye tracking and pupillometry...
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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New paper with Tom Whitford, using EEG to investigate inner speech in people with auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia. academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
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Corollary Discharge Dysfunction to Inner Speech and its Relationship to Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
AbstractBackground and Hypothesis. Auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVH)—the experience of hearing voices in the absence of auditory stimulation—are a cardi
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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I often see papers using GPower for power analysis in repeated measures factorial ANOVA designs. I don’t know what it’s doing, but it’s definitely giving wrong answers: substantially underestimates required sample size. MorePower seems like a much better alternative github.com/LewisPeacock...
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GitHub - LewisPeacockLab/MorePower: Installer for MorePower 6.0 (windows)
Installer for MorePower 6.0 (windows). Contribute to LewisPeacockLab/MorePower development by creating an account on GitHub.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Habits Need Time: Evidence of Habit-like Behavior After Short Training Likely Reflects Failures in Habit Testing: osf.io/zh39t
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Dr Poppy Watson @popwatson.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
New paper in Cognition and Emotion with Daniel Pearson and @mikelepelley.bsky.social! We focus on best practice for measuring attentional disengagement - we hope it will be a useful reference for all attention researchers, and those interested in the role of attentional processes in psychopathology.
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Dragan Rangelov @neuronomist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
📢 Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology is hiring! 📢 There is an ongoing, full-time, level B position available in the domain of Clinical Psychology. Applications close 23/02/2025. Learn more here: swinjobs.nga.net.au?jati=14B144C...
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Swinburne University - Lecturer, Psychology
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Mike Le Pelley @mikelepelley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
New paper in QJEP with Dave George, Dom Dwyer and @markhaselgrove.bsky.social. We discuss a recent claim to have shown complex statistical reasoning in crows, and show the simplest S-R learning would give the same behaviour. A fun paper to write with old friends. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning - David N George, Dominic M Dwyer, Mark Haselgrove, Mike E Le Pelley, 2024
Johnston et al. report results which they argue demonstrate that crows engage in statistical inference during decision-making. They trained two crows to associa...
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