We're hiring a PhD student at the Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, @unibas.ch! How do people and societies make sense of technologies and their risks? Details and link to apply in the job posting, review of applications begins on 24 June 2026. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

Universität Basel: Doctoral Position at the Center for Cognitive and Decision Sciences

The Faculty of Psychology is one of seven faculties of the oldest university in Switzerland. With our core focus Society & Choice and Health & Interventions, we are successful both nationally and inte...

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🇩🇪 SWOW-DE preprint and data available After more than a decade, the German free-association norms are now available for over 6,000 words based on 22,026 participants. Congratulations to @aeschbach.bsky.social Rui Mata, Kaidi Lõo & Dirk Wulff! Data + preprint: smallworldofwords.org/en/project/r...

New semantic network paper in @plosone.org with @ruimata.bsky.social at @unibas.ch and @dirkwulff.bsky.social at @arc-mpib.bsky.social! We ran large-scale simulations to test how well common behavioral tasks measure a person's semantic network. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Measuring individual semantic networks: A simulation study

Accurately capturing individual differences in semantic networks is fundamental to advancing our mechanistic understanding of semantic memory. Past empirical attempts to construct individual-level sem...

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🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! 🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World". ✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

Summer Institute

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Our tutorial on mapping mental representations with free associations and the associatoR R package was published this week in @jcgntn.bsky.social! With @ruimata.bsky.social at @unibas.ch and @dirkwulff.bsky.social lff.bsky.social at @arc-mpib.bsky.social. Read open access: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

Journal of Cognition@jcgntn.bsky.social · 2y ago

New content: Aeschbach, S., Mata, R., & Wulff, D. U. (2025). Mapping Mental Representations With Free Associations: A Tutorial Using the R Package associatoR. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 3, pp. 1–20.DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky

Preprint: Individual-level semantic networks are a critical ingredient for building realistic cognitive models. In our simulation, @ruimata.bsky.social, @dirkwulff.bsky.social, and I show when measurements of individual semantic networks are accurate and when they are not. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2410.18326

Wie sieht dein mentales Lexikon aus? Mit unserem Wortassoziationsspiel möchten wir herausfinden, wie Wörter im #Gedächtnis angeordnet sind. Nimm teil! smallworldofwords.org/de #CitizenScience #Sprache

Small World of Words

Play a word association game and contribute to science.

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There's been lots of speculation about potential societal impacts of LLMs 🌍 In a new Nature Human Behaviour (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) article, I and 27 researchers argue that we should be thinking about those impacts through the lens of collective intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How large language models can reshape collective intelligence - Nature Human Behaviour

Collective intelligence is the basis for group success and is frequently supported by information technology. Burton et al. argue that large language models are transforming information access and tra...

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Junge Menschen sind häufiger Single und zufriedener damit: mehr Infos in dem neuesten Artikel von Tita Gonzalez Avilés. de.in-mind.org/blog/post/da...

Unsere Wortassoziationsstudie zeigt nun die Häufigkeit der eigenen Assoziationen an. Zudem werden die häufigsten Assoziationen aller Teilnehmer:innen angezeigt. 5 Minuten teilnehmen und eigene Assoziationen vergleichen: smallworldofwords.org/de

I am happy to share a preprint of a tutorial with @ruimata.bsky.social and @dirkwulff.bsky.social on analyzing free associations using our new R package associatoR! Have a look... 📄 at the preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 💻 at the R package: github.com/samuelae/ass...