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Introducing authenticity checks: Ensure genuine human responses in the age of AI

Online behavioral experiments rely on the assumption that participants are human. Advances in large language models (LLMs) challenge this assumption, but previous demonstrations have largely focused o...

New research in communication finds that college students who are lonely tend to choose media likely to make them feel worse while those who are depressed or anxious tend to choose media that might im...

Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. I study decision-making and biases in perception and visual working memory, with occasional forays into higher level de...

Many decisions require maintaining beliefs across multiple levels of representation, from sampling and integrating information to forming action plans. To elucidate these processes and reveal the neur...

How do people preserve mental continuity when tasks are interrupted? One established pathway runs through the hippocampus, which stores snapshots of our mental context for later reinstatement. We prop...

Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.

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Flow is an experience that occurs when an individual is completely absorbed in a task, balanced by both high task challenge and individual ability at the task. Traditionally, flow has been thought to ...

Podcast Episode · Choiceology with Katy Milkman · S18 Trailer · 2m

A new study in communication scoured the book buying histories and ratings of more than 35,000 Amazon shoppers and found that while some buy books that are similar to others they have enjoyed, people ...