Reposted by Simon CirankaYongling Lin @yongling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New preprint✍️😃🥳. An attenuated 'we' alongside a heightened 'they' in borderline personality disorder. 193
Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New commentary: "Developing Minds Are More Than Biases in the Making" (with Tomás Lejarraga & Ralph Hertwig), responding to Santhanagopalan et al.'s call to study the origins of judgment and decision-making (JDM) in childhood. doi.org/10.1080/1047...doi.orgDeveloping Minds Are More Than Biases in the MakingPublished in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2026) 180
Reposted by Simon CirankaRalf Kurvers @ralfkurvers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Very proud of @kirikuroda.bsky.social for preprinting this study on social influence and information cascades in experienced based decision making. osf.io/preprints/ps... @arc-mpib.bsky.social. Great collab with @simyciri.bsky.social @dirkwulff.bsky.socialosf.ioOSF 1179
Reposted by Simon CirankaCenter for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 08/06/2026🚨 Student Job Alert @mpib-berlin.bsky.social 🚨 Join a Germany–Japan comparative project on war-site tourism and how tour guides co-create collective memory as "memory mediators." Starts Sept 2026. Apply by 30 June. See below for more details👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2369370/2026...mpib-berlin.mpg.deStudent Research Assistant | Center for Adaptive Rationality 087
Reposted by Simon CirankaCharley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 02/03/2026🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏hmc-lab.comPostdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural EvolutionPostdoc position -- Social Learning and Cultural Evolution posted on March 2, 2026 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual... 26365
Reposted by Simon CirankaCenter for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 10/02/2026📣 Applications for the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! ✨Join us in Berlin @arc-mpib.bsky.social June 08–16, 2026, to explore the topic of “Decision Making in the Age of AI”. ✏️ More details + application form (deadline: March 16): www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res... 02724
Reposted by Simon CirankaLisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...c3s-frankfurt.deWho we are - Center for critical computational studies 1310011
Reposted by Simon CirankaAlexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)science.org 59643
Reposted by Simon CirankaLisa Spiering @lspiering.bsky.social · 21/01/2026🎉 My PhD work has just been published in @natcomms.nature.com! How do we learn who caused what - and how much control we had - when outcomes depend on multiple people? We studied how humans do so using a new social learning task, computational modelling and fMRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇 16222
Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 23/12/2025NEW: We show and replicate socioeconomic gradients in heuristics for decision-making under uncertainty, possibly reflecting adaptations varying levels of scarcity and competition for resources 🫰 Shoutout and thanks to @danielnettle.bsky.social & @coraliechevallier.bsky.social ❤️🔥 tinyurl.com/mu7rzz6ksciencedirect.comLow socioeconomic status amplifies the perceived rarity of large rewardsDecision-making relies on heuristics derived from past experiences that likely vary with socioeconomic status. We investigate socioeconomic difference… 02412
Reposted by Simon CirankaDaniel Nettle @danielnettle.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Do people judge what is going to happen in unknown situations differently depending on their socioeconomic position? Yes, if you experience lower socioeconomic position, you think the big rewards are even more unlikely to come your way: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comLow socioeconomic status amplifies the perceived rarity of large rewardsDecision-making relies on heuristics derived from past experiences that likely vary with socioeconomic status. We investigate socioeconomic difference… 095
Reposted by Simon CirankaJuan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025It’s official! The postdoc positions announcement is here 🚀 If you know great candidates interested in attention, memory transformation and EEG, please help spread the word: Project (ReDAS) -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati... Job offer -> cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...cimcyc.ugr.esBridging Fields in Psychology and Neuroscience with Multidisciplinary CollaborationStrengthening collaboration to encourage novel research connections between scientific areas is central to the CIMCYC - María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategy . To encourage this, the CIMCYC has ... 12027
Reposted by Simon CirankaMélusine Boon-Falleur @boonfalleur.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Happy to share our latest study published in PNAS. Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgWaiting time during admission procedures increases social inequalities in higher education | PNASMany domains in life require people to wait to access better outcomes, such as waiting in line to access prized tickets for a show, waiting to obta... 14420
Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 21/11/2025🥳!!NEW PREPRINT!!🥳 We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence. osf.io/preprints/ps... I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social. 1217
Reposted by Simon CirankaCharley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Just 1 week to apply! 4 year @erc.europa.eu funded PhD position working in an interdisciplinary team to study #culturalEvolution as a process of reuse, recombination, and creative re-engineering of past solutions. Details 👉 hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... 🙏Please share! 03321
Reposted by Simon CirankaCharley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Fully-funded 4-year #PhD in Cultural Evolution! Join my @erc.europa.eu project exploring how compression & compositionality drive cultural innovation: hmc-lab.com/ERCPhDCultur... Apply by Nov 12! Maybe of interest to folks from #COSMOS2025 or @eslr.bsky.social? Please feel free to share! 🙏hmc-lab.comERC funded PhD position on Cultural EvolutionERC funded PhD position on Cultural Evolution posted on October 16, 2025 We are currently seeking a highly motivated individual for a ful... 16562
Reposted by Simon CirankaJan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Help us strengthen trust in climate scientists in the US! Join our megastudy 👇 21612
Reposted by Simon CirankaLondon Judgement and Decision Making seminar series @ljdm.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Hello everyone! Along with our first post here on Bluesky, we look forward to the new academic year, hosting our first #LJDM2025 session next week with Dr Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social. For more info and to keep updated, check our website! 083
Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 29/09/2025😍 Our latest is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com. 🤩 We show with Bayesian modelling and experimental manipulation of uncertainty that developmental differences in social influence depend on differences in the internal uncertainty people have about their choice doi.org/10.1038/s442...doi.orgInternal uncertainty impacts social information use in risky choice across adolescence - Communications PsychologyAdolescents’ choices are influenced by others. A social risky choice experiment and Bayesian modelling reveal that age differences in internal uncertainty, being unsure how to choose, relate to differences in susceptibility to social influence. 25021
Reposted by Simon CirankaMarco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · 07/08/2025 📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021). 36355
Reposted by Simon CirankaLennart Wittkuhn @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Very glad to finally share our paper on replay and successor representation learning! ✨ 1264
Reposted by Simon CirankaTobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 24/07/2025We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...devcompsy.org 02525
Reposted by Simon CirankaKiri Kuroda @kirikuroda.bsky.social · 16/07/2025"Individual differences in speed–accuracy trade-off influence social decision-making in dyads" 🚨Our paper has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi.org/10.1098/rspb... w/ Alan Tump @alantump.bsky.social, Ralf Kurvers @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org 1/ 🧵👇 33712
Reposted by Simon CirankaCharley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The deadline has been extended until July 16th! 👉 PhDs: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc....hmc-lab.comThree PhD positions -- ERC ProjectThree PhD positions -- ERC Project posted on June 10, 2025 We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals to fill three PhD positi... 02713
Reposted by Simon CirankaBjörn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/06/2025💥New postdoc position! 💥 Join us to explore how people learn from each other—and how that drives cultural evolution. Run experiments, build computational models & collaborate across Europe w. @lucasmolleman.bsky.social 📍 Stockholm More info: shorturl.at/CY4wkshorturl.atPostdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolutionDo you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified 23245
Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025🤩IT'S A PREPRINT 😍 Adolescents' social sensitivity isn't a bad thing—it's adaptive! In our new study, led by amazing Andrea Gradassi @connectedmindslab.bsky.social, we show that teens learned to copy successful peers faster than adults in a new multiplayer exploration task. osf.io/preprints/os... 32711
Reposted by Simon CirankaCharley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025🚀Join our team @tuda.bsky.social ! 🚀 I'm looking for 3 PhDs & 1 Postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu project “C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” to study learning across individuals, teams, and cultural timescales 👉 PhD: hmc-lab.com/ERC_PhDs.html 👉 Postdoc: hmc-lab.com/ERC_Postdoc.... 28052
Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Are you in Oxford / London this week? Paris beginning of next? Let’s catch up! You can also see what my latest work is about without catching up :) 000
Reposted by Simon CirankaDr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Romanticisation of mental health problems in adolescence: what's the deal with that? 🌟 NEW PREPRINT by Awa Ndour and me 🌟 (Romanticise = to portray something as more desirable or positive than it really is) Brief summary below (🧵) osf.io/preprints/os... #PsychSciSky #DevPsychSky #ClinPsychSky 32110
Reposted by Simon CirankaAnna Thoma @annaithoma.bsky.social · 10/04/20251/n 🆕📄: How do children learn to adapt to different environments when making repeated choices? And what do cognitive immaturity and probability matching have to do with it? Our new article explores how kids & adults differ in probability learning across statistical task structures: mpib.berlin/R3RFypsycnet.apa.orgAPA PsycNet 11911
Reposted by Simon CirankaRuben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/03/2025Want to make nice graphs with me, starting this summer? I am hiring for two PhD positions at the University of Witten/Herdecke. 59473
Reposted by Simon CirankaJan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41... 613746
Simon Ciranka @simyciri.bsky.social · 04/03/2025If you are curios about risk taking and wonder whats up with adolescents, i had a conversation with Sofia on our podcast serios about it. Big thanks to @anasofiamorais.bsky.social, I really enjoyed our conversation! I am sure the rest of you will, too go check it out! :) 053
Reposted by Simon CirankaAlexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025What is driving social foraging dynamics in the wild? In a new pre-print, we investigate decision-making mechanisms in large groups of Finnish ice-fishers competing for resources: osf.io/preprints/ps... Big thanks to drone pilot Félicie Dhellemmes. 1/n youtu.be/I_RH2diXcAkyoutu.be 24321
Reposted by Simon CirankaDominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English) 28591
Reposted by Simon CirankaCenter for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 19/12/2024🚨Job alert (in German) We're seeking a student assistant for developmental studies on deliberate ignorance @arc-mpib.bsky.social, @mpib-berlin.bsky.social! Please see the link for details (deadline: January 17). We look forward to receiving your application! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/1952948/stud...mpib-berlin.mpg.deStudentische Forschungsassistent*in | Center for Adaptive Rationality 044
Reposted by Simon CirankaFriederike Stock @fstock.bsky.social · 17/12/2024People in 26 countries prefer more control over their online environment In a conjoint study (N = 11,868), we explored preferences for regulating online environments by examining binary choices between different regulation scenarios. Preprint:https://osf.io/preprints/osf/haqu9 44823
Reposted by Simon CirankaAnna Thoma @annaithoma.bsky.social · 09/12/2024🥁 Exciting news: Our new article on repeated risky choices is out now! How do children and adults make repeated choices when they learn about probabilities from description (i.e., graphical representation)? Not as expected! 👀 Full text: mpib.berlin/PUMtN 1/nmpib.berlinDo children match described probabilities? The sampling hypothesis applied to repeated risky choiceOne way in which children can learn about probabilities of different outcomes before making a decision is from description, for instance, by observing… 1279
Reposted by Simon CirankaTobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 23/09/2024🚨My Tübingen lab has 2 new job openings🚨: Neuroimaging postdoc on real-time fMRI to uncover the role of neural noise on behaviour: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u... Computational modelling postdoc, co-supervised w Peter Dayan: large datasets & mental health: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...devcompsy.org 01010
Reposted by Simon CirankaDirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 14/09/2024🚨 Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD and Postdoc to join @arc-mpib.bsky.social and work with me on using LLMs to improve the generalizability in the behavioral and social sciences. The positions are fully funded for three years. Apply by October 13! Thank you for sharing! 056
Reposted by Simon CirankaJuan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · 18/12/2023New paper with @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social, investigating WM through small eye movements. We found that, even during attempted fixation, gaze patterns not only reflect memory content but also capture its dynamic evolution over time. Available on Nature Human Behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... 02718