New work by former undergraduate student Ziqi Fu, in collaboration with @annaweinberg.bsky.social , finds that impulsive people don't make riskier choices, but they sure make risky choices faster! Just out in Affective Science link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Off the Cuff: Self-Reported Positive Urgency Predicts Rapid Choices During Risky Decision-Making - Affective Science

Impulsivity is a multifaceted personality trait reflecting a tendency to act on immediate urges, often linked to maladaptive real-world behaviors. One facet of impulsivity, Positive Urgency—the tenden...

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This year, we had the privilege of celebrating 478 graduates who worked tirelessly to reach this milestone: 6 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2 Master of Science (MSc) 66 Bachelor of Science (BSc) 31 Bachelor of Arts & Science (BA & Sc.) 373 Bachelor of Arts (BA) Congratulations, Class of 2026!

adobe, helping us advance , as a species, every day

Join me tomorrow (May 20th) for a live event in #Montreal hosted by @mcgill-hg.bsky.social to mark the release of my brand-new book. My book, Beyond Inheritance, reveals how our DNA changes throughout our lives — and what that means for our health. Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Happening tomorrow 🗓️ (May 20th) at McGill University, in collaboration with Paragraphe Bookstore: I will be giving a talk about the past, present and future of somatic mutation research. The live… |...

Happening tomorrow 🗓️ (May 20th) at McGill University, in collaboration with Paragraphe Bookstore: I will be giving a talk about the past, present and future of somatic mutation research. The live ev...

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I’d like to thank the academy

i can't believe nobody told me about this title in 2011

People tend to be OK with unfair resource distributions when they stand to gain at another's expense. Can we teach people--via observational learning--to punish advantageous inequity? Collaboration with Shen Zhang, @orielf.bsky.social, and Seb Hétu, out today: elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Advantageous and disadvantageous inequality aversion can be taught through learning of others’ preferences

Like disadvantageous inequity aversion, advantageous inequity aversion can be learned by observing another’s fairness preferences.

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if you are starting a sentence expressing disbelief with the interjection 'Bro' in a work email context what is the preferred punctuation? Bro: ... Bro, ... or Bro;...

one time our exalted premier walked past me and a colleague speaking loudly in english (as i do) and grinned like a cheshire cat at us

That feeling when a pedant says they are being pedantic in that moment

Is “neuroscience” the more rigorous-sounding stand-in term for “doing psychology”

New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS: Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? (or why does it hurt to think) never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience

Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?

A widespread observation is that people avoid mentally effortful courses of action, and much recent work examining cognitive effort has explained subjective effort evaluation – and, consequently, pref...

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Tenure -Track Position (Open Rank), Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology

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do classic decoy effects take place in real-world shopping decisions? wine purchase records in a massive grocery dataset says: yes new work with (former) student Sean Devine, @anyaskatova.bsky.social , James Goulding, and John Harvey www.nature.com/articles/s41... (sorry for the titular pun)

How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making - npj Science of Learning

npj Science of Learning - How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making

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ah you must mean a team of smarties

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OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

new work just out by (now Dr!) Anna Jos in collaboration with @awestbrook.bsky.social how do pupil diameter changes track the behavioral expression of flexible versus stable control? find out NOW in the latest issue of Psychophysiology : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

bayesians gotta relax with the taking credit for the concept of infering things about the world

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last yr.

What my kids school assignment (and Bayesian logic) teaches us about Trump's trade deals. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Self-pubbed book my dept mailbox today (and everyone’s ) . Are we the sorcerers here ? Hmu if you want my copy

At #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including: - amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks - panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social) - group brainstorming session! Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild

Take that , computational psychiatry

ashamedly i've never tried this (from Kahneman's 1973 'Attention and Effort')

social psychology in the wild: it's surprising, in may cases, which (canadian) people here take firm stances about (not) visiting the states, similarly as it was hard to predict, during you-know-what, who was going to become lockdown restriction enthusiasts (versus lockdown loosey goosies).

🧠💡 NEW PAPER ALERT 💡🧠 Together w/ Isabelle Jacques, @katieinsel.bsky.social, @arossotto.bsky.social, & Leah Somerville, the 1st project from my PhD is now out in JEP:G! How do children, adolescents, & adults decide when to think hard? Our study examines learning the value of cognitive effort.

🚨 Workshop alert 🚨 If you're interested in RL and real-world data, come to our workshop @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social! Including cool talks, a panel debate, and a group brainstorming activity. sites.google.com/view/rlinthe...

I love making a significant scientific discovery and running blindly through the crowded halls of my early twentieth century university with a bundle of loose papers in my outstretched arms

Exciting news - early bird registration is now open for #RLDM2025! 🔗 Register now: forms.gle/QZS1GkZhYGRF... Register now to save €100 on your ticket. Early bird prices are only available until 1st April.

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Experimental evidence that exerting effort increases meaning

Efficiency demands that we work smarter and not harder, but is this better for our wellbeing? Here, we ask if exerting effort on a task can increase f…

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Michael Inzlicht@minzlicht.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper! Now in press at Cognition: Experimental evidence that exerting effort increases meaning Check out @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social's new paper. This was a real effort...and boy was it meaningful (especially now that it was accepted!). Check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🤖 Meet Our Incredible Speakers! 🧠 We’re thrilled to announce the invited speakers for RLDM 2025: ✨ Iain Couzin ✨ Andreas Krause ✨ Alison Adcock ... and many more (see pictures)! 📅 Don’t miss their insights on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making 🎟️ Register now: rldm.org/call-for-abs...

Happy 50th anniversary to Blood on the Tracks.