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neele engelmann

@neeleengelmann.bsky.social
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cognitive scientist. postdoc at center for humans and machines, MPI for human development, Berlin. Interested in moral psychology, human-AI interaction, (experimental) philosophy and other things. neeleengelmann.com

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please share widely, especially to researchers in disaster and war zones. Proud to launch the 2nd round of the Max Planck mentoring program for researchers (including students) at risk due to natural disaster or war. Deadline 18 October. www.maxminds.mpg.de/3630/apply
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 28/09/2026
🗓️ Reminder: The first OSF Projects transition deadline is 7 weeks away. Starting November 16, 2026, you will no longer be able to create new OSF Projects or add new components to existing projects. (🧵1/3)
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Marcel Binz @marcelbinz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📢 The CORE COGNITION lab (core-cognition.github.io) is looking to hire another PhD student, working on automated scientific discovery and knowledge representation in cognitive science. Starting date: March to September 2027. 🙏 Please share widely!
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CORE COGNITION
CORE COGNITION works towards a unified theory of human cognition, instantiated in models that simulate, predict, and explain human behavior.
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joannad-c.bsky.social @joannad-c.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hiring! 🧠❤️🤔If you’re a philosopher working in ethics/ x-phi/ empirically informed moral philosophy / moral psychology / applied ethics, consider applying for a 2.5 year research postdoc with me in my lab at Oxford. Deadline noon 16th Oct. Details 👉 philjobs.org/job/show/32101 Hit me up with q’s!
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Kathryn Francis @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We’re hiring! Four new roles in the Design Bioethics Lab @ox.ac.uk Join our team working across bioethics, neuroethics, psychology, and mental health research. Roles will support 'ARIADNE', exploring how AI could support clinical evaluation of psychosis risk. Please share! Links below🧵
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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Come join my team at NUS! Working on empirical and experimental studies around public attitudes and psychology around AI, longevity, precision medicine, genomics. Research Fellow (Quantitative Research) careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...
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Research Fellow (Quantitative Research)
Research Fellow (Quantitative Research)
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If this makes you mad, submit your cognitive science research to @openmindjournal.bsky.social No APCs, no subscription fees. It's funded by university libraries, at low cost.
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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Study on the file drawer problem in experimental philosophy Core result: The main thing creating the file draw problem is the sheer amount of time and effort it takes to write studies up for publication link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Publication bias in experimental philosophy: a survey on the file drawer problem, research attrition, and open science practices - Synthese
The “file drawer problem” – where study results remain unpublished – distorts scientific evidence and wastes resources, yet its impact on experimental philosophy has remained unexplored. We conducted ...
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Nikolai Shurakov & Alex Wiegmann offer an empirical investigation of the robustness of the folk concept of #lying doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sweet. Literally in dem Moment, in dem ich die App aus Neugier angesehen habe, kommt eine Kontrolle vorbei. Gleich eingegeben. 😍
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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
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Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If was this years old when I realized you can hover over references in @zotero.org to open a preview ... wonderful. What other Zotero hacks are out there I probably don't know that will make my life easier? Actually while we're at it, I find dragging pdfs into zotero finnicky. Where to drag?
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N. Heinzelmann @nheinzelmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Join us for a talk by @neeleengelmann.bsky.social (Berlin, MPI for Human Development) on Tue, 3.30pm CEST, at ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6873663193... www.neeleengelmann.com #AI #ethics #agency #CognitiveScience #XPhi #LLMs
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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🚨Student Job Alert @mpib-berlin.bsky.social 🚨 We're hiring TWO student RAs on climate risk & adaptation: one computational, one qualitative. Both start Sept 2026. Check below for details👇 1. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2373015/2026... 2. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2373048/2026...
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Christine Gundermann @cgpublichistory.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
1/ Volle Solidarität mit Christina Brüning. Universitäre Lehre braucht politischen Schutz. Und eine starke und… www.hessenschau.de/gesellschaft...
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Professorin berichtet über Morddrohungen an Uni: "Marburg ist für mich zum Angstort geworden"
Schmierereien mit Mordaufrufen, Störungen in Seminaren und wachsender Druck: Die Marburger Historikerin Christina Brüning spricht erstmals öffentlich über Bedrohungen gegen sie, warum sie sich an ihre...
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Lara Kirfel @larakirfel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Representing possible alternatives lies at the heart of moral judgment. As LLMs become embedded in our reasoning processes, they change the set of alternatives we bring to mind. 💭 Our #CogSci2026 paper shows that AI might be making us judge people harsher. ⚖️ osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We are delighted to announce that our journal has published its first article!🎉🍾 Read it here: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xp...
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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Very happy to invite you to the third online talk in our series. Next Thursday, 11th June, 4pm CET, Pascale Willemsen and Lucien Baumgartner. Everyone welcome! Link: uzh.zoom.us/j/6510778643... Meeting-ID: 651 0778 6432 Kenncode: 235823
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.
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Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth
In this blog post I will analyse the arguments that Dr. Amy Cuddy provided in a blog post “The "Power Posing Was Debunked" Myth: What the Re...
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neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
New preprint on LLM moral advice - joint work with Eva-Madeleine Schmidt, Ali Alhosseini, @ivarr.bsky.social, and Mengchen Dong Find the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
People Accurately Anticipate the Influence of Human and LLM Moral Advice
Neele Engelmann1, Eva-Madeleine Schmidt1, Ali Alhosseini1, Ivar Rodríguez Hannikainen2, Mengchen Dong1
1 Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
2 Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada
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People are often skeptical of AI in the moral domain, yet AI-generated ethical advice can influence moral judgments as much as human advice. We examined whether people accurately anticipate this influence or specifically underestimate the impact of AI moral advice. First, we developed realistic everyday moral scenarios and collected persuasive advice from both incentivized human writers (N = 92) and GPT-4. AI-generated advice was longer, more linguistically complex, more semantically uniform, more virtue-oriented, and less extreme than human advice. Next, a new sample of participants (N = 390) either revised initial moral judgments after receiving human or AI advice or indicated how much they expected such advice to influence them. Contrary to the idea of AI-specific miscalibration, participants were equally influenced by human and AI moral advice, expected similar influence from both sources, and accurately anticipated the overall extent of that influence. These findings suggest that abstract skepticism toward AI in moral contexts does not translate into reduced influence or uniquely poor insight into that influence: people may be influenceable, but they are not blindly swayed.
Keywords: Moral Judgment; Metacognition; Algorithm Aversion; Advice-Taking; Human-AI InteractionViolin plot showing Weight of Advice (0 to 1) on the y-axis by Advice Mode (actual vs. hypothetical) on the x-axis, split by source (AI in orange, Human in purple). Each condition shows the distribution of individual data points along with a black dot and error bar marking the mean. All four means sit close together at around 0.27-0.28, and the distributions look broadly similar across both sources and both modes.
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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Happening next week! Experimental Philosophy in China: Webinar Series – Session 1, An Introduction to Experimental Philosophy Time: 9:00 AM, May 28 (Thursday), Beijing Time (UTC+8) Tencent Meeting (VooV Meeting) ID: 772-802-605 Link: meeting.tencent.com/dm/QvL0uTil6... Speaker: Joshua Knobe
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Kevin Tobia @kevintobia.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Postdoc opening in experimental jurisprudence at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
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Real signals or artificial stereotypes?
Adventures with a cultural Copilot
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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT www.404media.co/nature-retra...
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'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”
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Izabela Skoczeń @izaskoczen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
‼️Conference Norms in Language-based Human-AI Interaction 📆 5th of June📍Bracka 12, Kraków ☑️preliminary program: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @talkingtobots.bsky.social @edouardmachery.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @monasimion.bsky.social
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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New paper in Cognition: We know people find LLM (moral) arguments persuasive, but are people being persuaded in an epistemically responsible way? No. 🧵 With @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social and @jimaceverett.bsky.social #philsky #psychology #AI www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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People defer to AI moral advice, but not blindly
As AI large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in everyday technologies, should we be concerned about their capacity to influence hum…
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Qiankun Zhong @qkzhong.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It was an awesome conference @thomasfmueller.bsky.social recommended me. I presented our work on the influence of AI substitution on creative industry and knowledge production: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03541 and hopefully will see this fun crowd again at @ehbea2026.bsky.social in Leiden soon!
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Group Selection as a Safeguard Against AI Substitution
Reliance on generative AI can reduce cultural variance and diversity, especially in creative work. This reduction in variance has already led to problems in model performance, including model collapse...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Remember that you compute power for the smallest effect size of interest. Not the effect you hope for. The smallest effect that you do not want to miss. This is in line with the basic idea of conditional error control: *If* there is an effect large enough to matter, we are likely to detect it.
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Carme Isern-Mas @isernmas.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New publication!✨ When are psychiatric patients considered less credible? When compared to non-patients, particularly by people who do not view epistemic injustice as a serious moral problem. w/ @ivarr.bsky.social 🔓 rdcu.be/e2zqU
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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🚨 Deadline extension 🚨 BEHAVIORAL CLONES WORKSHOP Imitating humans is a powerful route to machine behavior and an emerging lens on human cognition and social simulation. 🗓 Fri, 20 May 2026 📍 Following Machine+Behavior @ Max Planck Berlin 🗣️ Invited talks: Danica Dillion, Raja Marjieh, Marcel Binz
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Izabela Skoczeń @izaskoczen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New paper in Law and Philosophy, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... special thank you to @xphilosopher.bsky.social for super helpful comments on drafts! A 🧵 1/6
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Comparing registrations to published papers is essential to research integrity - and almost no one does it routinely because it's slow, messy, and time-demanding. RegCheck was built to help make this process easier. Today, we launch RegCheck V2. 🧵 regcheck.app
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RegCheck
RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 19/01/2026
Beautiful business research people: The Leibniz Information Centre for Economics has created an accessible introduction to Open Science that you can download in both English and German here: expedition-open-science.org You can even order the German print version for free!
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Open-Science-Land
In the Planning section, clearly structured landscapes dominate the picture: vast research plains where hypotheses are formed, well-mapped paths of methodology and transparent data sources that need to be carefully developed.
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 07/01/2026
Now available as a preprint: this paper about judging people (morally) for ...feeling emotions (!)👇 www.researchgate.net/publication/... Follow @isernmas.bsky.social, @joannad-c.bsky.social, and Ivar Hannikainen (www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivar...) for more.
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(PDF) We Morally Judge Others for Their Feelings
PDF | Based on everyday expressions like “you shouldn’t be jealous”, in discussions in the ethics of emotion, philosophers often assume that people... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
To celebrate the launch of the xphi-journal and kick-off our talk series, we are happy to invite everyone to this talk by Edouard Machery. ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6780355881...
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neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
going through my bluesky followers/following list since becoming a section editor 👀
Oprah Winfrey in a red blazer with arms outstretched in an enthusiastic pose from her show. Top text: 'YOU GET A REVIEW INVITE, YOU GET A REVIEW INVITE'. Bottom text: 'EVERYBODY GETS A REVIEW INVITE'. Meme format parodying Oprah's famous 'You get a car' scene, here in the context of review invitations.
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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Please share!
The journal "Experimental
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Laura Botzet @laura-j-botzet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
If you’re into beautiful graphs and rigorous science, check out Ruben’s new position at Uni Witten/Herdecke. I’ve worked with him for over a decade, and it’s been an inspiring, supportive collaboration throughout.
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ivar @ivarr.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📢 Se ofertan 29 contratos predoctorales concedidos a @universidadgranada.bsky.social, uno de ellos para trabajar con nosotrxs en el proyecto PID2024 sobre inferencias de estados mentales en el dominio moral! ⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25 🔗 investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...
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Convocatoria de contratos predoctorales 2025 | Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia
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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Looking for a funded Ph.D. in #CogSci in an interdisciplinary, research-first program? Apply to CEU! cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students! #PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych
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Applications Are Now Open for Academic Year 2026-2027 | Department of Cognitive Science
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Judith Tonhauser @judithtonhauser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
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Experimental Philosophy Journal @xphijournal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi We will soon also be found under xphi.eu. Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
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Experimental Philosophy
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Jan Lause @janlause.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science? Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)
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Tobias Werner @tfwerner.com · 03/11/2025
📣 New paper! "Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence" with @normann.bsky.social, Nina Rulié, & @ostypa.bsky.social We study what happens when humans delegate to a collusive algorithm, and AI pricing adoption becomes a strategic choice! arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.27636
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Delegate Pricing Decisions to an Algorithm? Experimental Evidence
We analyze the delegation of pricing by participants, representing firms, to a collusive, self-learning algorithm in a repeated Bertrand experiment. In the baseline treatment, participants set prices ...
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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.
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bakl @baklavabaddie.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
gegenvorschlag : einfach alles wurst nennen
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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🚨 New article 🚨 Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap. Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3... R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...
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