🚨 Out now in TICS How can language models help cognitive science? @ruimata.bsky.social & I outline 5 uses: mapping research fields, formalizing theories, cleaning up constructs & measures, predicting behavior across tasks, and capturing environmental variation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Interdisciplinary research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (@mpib-berlin.bsky.social). We study decision making in today’s complex and fast-changing world. Website: https://tinyurl.com/bdfy736y Podcast: unravelingbehavior.org
Good news from LIP colleague @brandmaier.bsky.social!
Meet Ωnyx - our open-source GUI for structural equation models #onyx #sem #latentvariables This is the latest SaaS-style promo video by the incredible Jonathan B. #noai Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaql... Download at onyx-sem.com
🌿 Nature may do more than help us recover from stress. A new review by @johanna-prugger.bsky.social & Simone Kühn @cen-mpib.bsky.social suggests that natural environments can also strengthen attention, mood, and well-being even without prior strain. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2397749/pm-2...
Do you research misinformation? @bojanaveckalov.bsky.social @sandrajgeiger.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @lewan.uk, Matthew Hornsey and I have a new piece out in NHB on lessons learned from climate psychology that can catalyze misinformation research. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Insights from climate psychology for misinformation research
Nature Human Behaviour - Climate change and misinformation are interconnected global crises shaped by tensions between individual, collective and vested interests. Drawing on climate psychology, we...
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📢 LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social is looking for a PhD student for her project "Mapping Early Memory Trajectories Across Species (ATLAS)". careers.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/jobs/8116017...
PhD Position (m/f/d) in Berlin, Germany - Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
At the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, we study how and why people develop differently over the course of their lives, and how physical, societal, and technological aspects of the envir...
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CEN war beim örtlichen Kitafest von FRÖBEL dabei, um die Entwicklungsstudien vorzustellen, die wir mit Babys und Kindern im FUNKi-Lab @mpib-berlin.bsky.social durchführen. Für die Kleinen gab es Spiele und Schminken! Herzlichen Dank an die Familien, die unsere Studien ermöglichen! shorturl.at/trzHN
Kinder & Umwelt: Entwicklung im Kontext
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📑 New paper by @sonjasudimac.bsky.social, Johanna Drewelies, Carolina de Weerth & Simone Kühn 🔎How does spending time in residential natural and urban environments affect stress in mothers and infants? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Environmental #Neuroscience #Nature #MentalHealth
Effects of a walk in a residential natural vs. urban environment on objective and subjective stress indicators in mothers and their infants
Despite growing evidence that being in nature positively influences mood and stress, its effects on children are not well understood. Previous cross-s…
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Ausgezeichnet🎉 Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) @dgps.bsky.social verleiht Ralph Hertwig @arc-mpib.bsky.social die Wilhelm-Wundt-Medaille 2026, ihre höchste wissenschaftliche Auszeichnung.🏅 #BehavioralScience #DecisionMaking #Boosting 🔗 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2388152/2026...
Wilhelm Wundt Medal 2026 awarded to Ralph Hertwig
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Current global evidence on climate-related and nature-based mental health interventions? Partial or lacking, Brandt et al found in this umbrella review. More research is needed, especially in regions most affected by climate impacts and least resourced to address them jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Climate-Related and Nature-Based Interventions for Mental Health
This umbrella review and meta-analysis evaluates associations of climate-related and nature-based mental health interventions with mental health outcomes.
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Stadt vs Land: Was macht glücklicher? Im Podcast "Wissen Weekly" hat Simone Kühn (Direktorin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social) erklärt, dass die eigene Umgebung echte Auswirkungen auf das Gehirn hat. Wie, wieso, und was kann man mit diesem Wissen tun? 🎙️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgWZ...
SO ungesund ist das Stadtleben! | Wissen Weekly
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How do children remember the important things in their lives? In this article, Zoe Ngo @zoengo.bsky.social and Pedro Espinosa‑Villafranca describe their research approach to studying the development of memory processes in childhood.🧠 boldscience.org/how-do-child...
“Memories of real-world experiences are shaped by personal meaning, emotion, a child’s own sense of agency, and social interaction.” Zoe Ngo and Pedro Espinosa-Villafranca ask how children remember experiences. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-do-child...
Very happy to see this out! Our new paper, "Boosting Media Literacy Using Lateral Reading and Online Search Interventions," is now published in Psychological Science.
🚨Next week's talk at ARC Join us for a talk presented by Karl Hauser (Université Grenoble Alpes). 📅 7 July 2:00 PM (Local Time Germany) @mpib-berlin.bsky.social or online See the link for details👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/46162...
ARC Talk: Karl Hauser, Université Grenoble Alpes: True Nudges and True Boosts (and Hybrids): Why does the Distinction Matter?
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🚨 Now out in PNAS In decision research, "talk is cheap." We show it isn't. Using LLMs to analyze participants' free-text explanations of their choices, we find verbal reports are a rich, scalable window into how people actually decide. 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Led by Kamil Fulawka
📣 New research center on the horizon! The Center will study how midlife autonomic changes may contribute to #neurodegenerative disease risk, focusing on the locus coeruleus, #Alzheimer’s biomarkers, and emotion–cognition interactions. Interested? CAAN-Job openings 👇 www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/career
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Sharing our latest endeavour here. How reproducible is your paper? @philipjakobbln.bsky.social and I built rigor.me to ease the burden of computational reproducibility. If you provide a paper, data and code, we execute it and tell you what works (and what fails). Beta is available now: rigor.me
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AUTOMATING COMPUTATIONAL REPRODUCIBILITY My colleague @philipjakobbln.bsky.social and I are currently engaged in a research project where we reproduce scientific results en masse. To that end, we built rigor.me, a platform for automatically reproducing papers using agents 🧵
New preprint led by @lucasmolleman.bsky.social investigates social information use across the human lifespan. Testing >40,000 participants aged 6-80 in museums in Berlin and Japan. psyarxiv.com/hec96
That's a wrap on the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (@mpib-berlin.bsky.social). Eight days of ECRs from around the world thinking about rationality, cognition, and decision-making. 1/🧵👇
🚨 New preprint Do LLMs have stable dispositions measurable using instruments designed for humans? Led by @jelenameyer.bsky.social, our new preprint shows that LLM responses are driven by response bias, rendering their psychological profiles method artifacts. @dgarcia.eu @arc-mpib.bsky.social
Great to see familiar faces at @ohbmofficial.bsky.social this year. 😁If you want to become part of our program and have questions, come and see us! 😍👋🧠
Happen to be at OHBM in Bordeaux this year? We are also here and would love to chat with you… especially if you are interested in our international graduate program in Germany. Come and say Hello! 🥂🍀💥🧠 #passionforscience #maxplanckschools
🚨Student Job Alert @mpib-berlin.bsky.social 🚨 We're hiring TWO student RAs on climate risk & adaptation: one computational, one qualitative. Both start Sept 2026. Check below for details👇 1. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2373015/2026... 2. www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2373048/2026...
Bei #Quarks: Neue Wege! Wie machen wir den Wald fit für die Zukunft? Mit dabei: Direktorin Simone Kühn und Sonja Sudimac @sonjasudimac.bsky.social @cen-mpib.bsky.social, die zeigen, wie Stadt‑ und Naturumwelten unser Gehirn beeinflussen. 🌳🧠 www.ardmediathek.de/video/quarks...
Quarks: Neue Wege! Wie machen wir den Wald fit für die Zukunft? - hier anschauen
Der Wald ist längst mehr als nur ein Ort der Ruhe. Er soll Freizeitoase sein und Rohstofflieferant, Klimaretter und Lebensraum für zahllose Tier- und Pflanzenarten; doch Klimawandel, Trockenheit und S...
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🚨 Reminder 🚨 🕛Today, 12:00–13:15 CEST/SAST (UTC+2) 💻Online via Zoom Exciting panel on a highly relevant topic! 🌍🧠 How does climate change affect our mind? Our Director Simone Kühn @cen-mpib.bsky.social is part of the discussion #ClimateChange #MentalHealth #Leopoldina
🧠 How does climate change affect the mind? 🌍 The Virtual Panel “From Planetary Change to Psychological Impact: Understanding and Responding to the Mental Health Effects of Climate Change” opens the discussion on this emerging field by bringing together perspectives from South Africa and Germany.
🚨 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...
Student Research Assistant | Center for Adaptive Rationality
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Paper involving LIP colleague @mjdahl.bsky.social out now!
Transition dynamics of external and internal attention across on-task and off-task states Perspective by Sam Verschooren, Martin J. Dahl, Mariam Aly & Matthias Mittner go.nature.com/43avM3v #cogpsy #psychscisky
An interesting piece by former LIP colleague @zoengo.bsky.social and PhD student Pedro Espinosa-Villafranca out now in BOLD: boldscience.org/how-do-child...
How do children remember experiences?
Children’s memory growth is shaped by foundational cognitive abilities and the environment
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🌞 The Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality @mpib-berlin.bsky.social returns next week. At its core, we ask: how do minds make good decisions under genuine uncertainty by drawing on an adaptive toolbox of simple heuristics tuned to their environment? www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
New paper by LIP colleague @brandmaier.bsky.social out now!
Cohen’s d is one of the most widely used ways to communicate mean differences across studies. But what, exactly, is it telling us? A perspective on detectability of effects -- just out in PARE: openpublishing.library.umass.edu/pare/article... #openaccess
👉 An exciting PhD position is available at the MPI for Human Development to work with LIP colleague @sarahdpower.bsky.social on the WildBrain project. See www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2366555/2026.... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
PhD Position | Center for Lifespan Psychology
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