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Nitzan Shahar

@shaharnitzan.bsky.social
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I am a clinical psychologist and leading a lab at Tel-Aviv University working on computational modeling for ADHD and OCD. www.shahar-lab.com

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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fantastic work by @idoba.bsky.social showing humans can't stop learning automatically, even when it leads to losses. Now out ar @natcomms.nature.com !!
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Paul Sharp @paulbsharp.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🚨 Our lab's first paper is published! The claim: anxiety distorts not just what looks threatening, but the task models people use to plan. 🧵 This tiny study provides preliminary support that world model variation is critical to explaining anxiety.
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We should keep stats assessments handwritten. But we should also encourage LLM use when teaching. The idea that LLMs prevent learning is too conservative and narrow. It's more about how you use them. LLMs can foster active and critical thinking. Instead of banning their use, we need to design them.
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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"no matter how you check, it turns out that under certain conditions modern children and educated adults believe that magical powers operate not only in the domain of the imagination but also in the domain of everyday reality"
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Magical thinking: atavism of evolution or a fundamental component of the mind?
Based on a review of empirical evidence, this paper seeks to determine whether belief in magic among contemporary individuals constitutes an ‘evolutio…
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New (free) workshop by the Paul Meehl Graduate School on agent-based modeling: paulmeehlschool.github.io/2026-04-24-a... The workshop will be exclusively in-person on May 27, 2026, in Eindhoven. Register before May 18th!
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New workshop announced: Theoretical Agent-Based Models | Paul Meehl Graduate School
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the workshop, “Theoretical Agent-Based Models”. In this session, Matteo...
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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is the first computational account of "enhanced rationality" in autism (see our TICS from 2021: www.cell.com/trends/cogni..., allowing us to show that the difference lies specifically in reduced learning from irrelevant information, whereas learning from relevant info was equal between groups.
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Enhanced rationality in autism spectrum disorder
Challenges in social cognition and communication are core characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but in some domains, individuals with ASD may display typical abilities and even outperform...
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Liron Rozenkrantz @lironrozenkrantz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This wonderful collaboration, led by @idoba.bsky.social and co-supervised by me and @shaharnitzan.bsky.social, is now published in Translational Psychiatry (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). We find that autistic individuals show more accurate and less biased credit assignment during an RL paradigm.
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Autism-associated learning patterns show reduced credit assignment to outcome-irrelevant features - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Autism-associated learning patterns show reduced credit assignment to outcome-irrelevant features
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Check out our new work, led by the fantastic Ido Ben-Artzi! Individuals with ASD show less outcome-irrelevant learning and are more accurate in following task instructions than their non-ASD peers. @idoba.bsky.social
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It was a pleasure to present at the AI Week at TLV. We presented a systematic review by Gili Katabi looking at more than 200 papers examining ADHD classification using neuroimaging. It seems like the field is getting much better at it, now nearing perfect classification!
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I’m teaching an MA state course in psychology & neuroscience, Bayesian stats flavored. Tempted to add some history on the side. Who would you say are the must-include figures in stat history? #stats
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
New preprint, showing that human value learning has an automatic aspect! Congrats @idoba.bsky.social for a fantastic, in-depth and rigorous work 🏆
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 05/09/2025
Check out our shiny app for Bayesian power analysis of interoceptive psychophysics!
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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
🚨 Job Alert 🚨 Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab is hiring! We are looking for postdocs in CBT, neuroimaging, developmental psychology, and a lab manager. We offer: brand new MRI, great coffee, wonderful place w nature Interested? Email me! Details: devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/ #neuroscience
Tuebingen - view from officeBaden-Wuertemberg - almostgreat coffeeSiemens Prisma MRI
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
In our papers we always plot the posterior and report median, 89%CI and probability of direction. A nice reviewer said "you should really use 95%CI". How would you reply? Would you make the change? Here's the whole thing discourse.mc-stan.org/t/help-in-re... #stats @rmcelreath.bsky.social
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Help in reply to reviewer regarding CI
Hi Everyone, A question on how to handle reviewers when reporting CI. We are doing RL and in our papers when reporting results I always try to put a figure with the whole posterior. We also tend to ...
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
In our papers we always plot the whole posterior and report median, 89%CI and probability of direction. A reviewer said "you should really use 95%CI". How would you reply? Would you make the change? Here's the whole thing discourse.mc-stan.org/t/help-in-re... #stats @rmcelreath.bsky.social
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Krista Byers-Heinlein @kbyers.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
New preprint with an exciting and unexpected result! The ADHD vocabulary size advantage: Monolingual and bilingual young adults with ADHD have larger vocabularies than controls. Co-authored PhD student extrodinaire Melanie Brouillard (seriously, it was all her idea). osf.io/h2fcj/
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The ADHD vocabulary size advantage: Monolingual and bilingual young adults with ADHD have larger voc...
Individuals with ADHD and bilinguals have each widely been considered vulnerable to vocabulary deficits compared to their peers. However, the interaction of ADHD and bilingualism in affecting vocabula...
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Nora Turoman @noraplethora.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
#workingmemory #cogpsych #devpsych #PsySciSky Please be mindful of what language your post is set to. It might not be the same as the language you write in, and it can mean that your post might not be seen by people whose apps are only set to see posts in given languages.
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
All mighty #stats Do you know of any convenient way to stimulate hierarchical regression data in R? I want students to be able to define population parameters (including cor for group level), factors, sample size, the linear equation, and get some synthetic data.
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Nitzan Shahar @shaharnitzan.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
First post! Our lab just posted a new preprint, where we found that positive attitudes towards adhd, are associated with adhd symptoms. We thought this will be a negative corr - more symptoms will get you to think adhd is actually not that great... but...
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