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Judy Kim @joodykeem.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Come be my colleague! The Psychology Department at American University is looking for an Assistant Professor in Cog or Social (or both), for 2027. I've had a great first year, and I'm on the search committee -- happy to field questions! Please RT american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

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Assistant Professor of Cognitive or Social Psychology

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 22/01/2026

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

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Part 1: How do LLMs work?

YouTube video by Andrew Perfors

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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @jaeminhwang.bsky.social, David Sobel (@candmlab.bsky.social), and @jessicas.bsky.social! Most studies of infants’ fairness expectations focus on resource distribution, but in everyday life, we engage in many different kinds of resource exchanges.

Figure shows the methods used in the paper's experiments. In the left column are the methods for Exp 1 (Collection) and in the right are the methods for Exp 2 (Distribution). In each video, three women sit at a table. One sits in the middle, serving as a collector/distributor, and two sit in the foreground with plates. During familiarization trials, resources were collected from or distributed to their plates with an occluder on the screen hiding the outcomes. During test trials, the same videos were played but with the outcomes shown such that infants either viewed an equal collection/distribution or an unequal collection/distribution.

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Maria Ryskina @mryskina.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Interested in language models, brains, and concepts? Check out our COLM 2025 🔦 Spotlight paper! (And if you’re at COLM, come hear about it on Tuesday – sessions Spotlight 2 & Poster 2)!

Paper title: Language models align with brain regions that represent concepts across modalities.
Authors: Maria Ryskina, Greta Tuckute, Alexander Fung, Ashley Malkin, Evelina Fedorenko.
Affiliations: Maria is affiliated with the Vector Institute for AI, but the work was done at MIT. All other authors are affiliated with MIT.
Email address: maria.ryskina@vectorinstitute.ai.

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Bonan Zhao (赵博囡) @bonan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle! We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate. It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations. Spread the words!

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Manikya Alister @manikyaalister.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

We know that a consensus of opinions is persuasive, but how reliable is this effect across people and types of consensus, and are there any kinds of claims where people care less about what other people think? This is what we tested in our new(ish) paper in @psychscience.bsky.social

Screenshot of the article "How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims"

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Kartik Chandra @kartikchandra.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thanks to a rogue Partiful RSVP form at #cogsci2025, I seem to have collected an unexpectedly large dataset (N=197) of whether cognitive scientists think the mind is composed of innate, domain-specialized modules…

A bar chart showing frequencies of answers to the question "Is the mind composed of innate, domain-specialized modules?" with N=197. The most prominent bars are no response (~60), yes (~30) and yo (~30). The rest of the entries are funny, e.g. "I hope so."

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Rebekah Gelpí @rebekahgelpi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Good morning #cogsci2025! Join me at Salon 3 today at 14:15 PDT if you're interested in learning how resource-rational models can help us to capture when and why people become polarized.

CogSci 2025 talk by Rebekah Gelpí: "Resource-rational belief revision can amplify or mitigate polarization"

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