Using AI helps people get higher grades and get their work done faster, but they learn less & suffer on actual exams I saw this in my own large Intro Psych class: -the exam average is 85% -after AI, it shot up to 95% -after I made the final in person it went to 68% www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

📢 Our paper is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We know that symptoms of OCD fluctuate substantially. But what are the exact conditions that precede symptom escalations? We found evidence for metacognitive processes being a key antecedent. 1/

Drops in confidence precede symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder - Nature Communications

To devise effective interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is crucial to understand antecedents to symptom emergence. Here, the authors show evidence for self- and decision making underco...

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New preprint from the lab. We think we have a solution (two, actually) to a long-standing problem in the field of response inhibition. Using two different mathematical approaches, we think we can identify long-hypothesized inhibitory 'trigger failure' trials. More in🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Two types of response inhibition failures in humans

Response inhibition is a key control function that allows humans to perform safe, goal-directed behaviors. The dominant behavioral-computational model holds that response inhibition fails when the inh...

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Yet another (popular) article on human/LM reasoning that (as usual) I'm deeply disappointed to see casually presupposes that humans do something called "reasoning" that's implied to be linking together steps that logically follow without any qualification, then proceeds to be dismissive 1/

💡What makes some ideas spring to mind while others we have to reach for? We built an #NLP #fMRI #MachineLearning framework to find out. New study from our lab, led by @kaixiangzhuang.bsky.social out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧵 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CognitiveNeuroscience #Fudan #ISTBI

How can we collectively contain the threat of dishonest delegation to AI? Our paper "Whistleblowers can contain the unethical externalities of human–AI delegation" is out in PNAS, with @nckobis.bsky.social , Andrew Samuel, and @jfbonnefon.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out this new work from @ranimo.bsky.social and colleagues, who used reinforcement learning to study the cognitive biases that affect us when forming beliefs based on non-credible information. elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Disinformation elicits learning biases

Learning from potential disinformation introduces specific cognitive biases, causing individuals to systematically deviate from an idealized Bayesian updating strategy.

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In a new paper out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, @gordpennycook.bsky.social and I argue the classic view that System 2 spontaneously corrects System 1 is flawed. We provide evidence that S2 is instead triggered by conflict between competing S1 intuitions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Very creative use of comp modeling on an important question, with rich data! 🙌

Jonas Dora@jonasdora.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm really excited to share a new preprint! Lab studies have consistently shown that stress and negative emotions make people drink alcohol, but studies of daily life (EMA) keep failing to find it. What does that mean for the shared theoretical prediction both designs test? osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hier soir, j’ai eu la chance de participer à @pintofscience.fr pour parler des biais de raisonnement, ainsi que des modèles qui permettent de mieux comprendre quand nous avons tendance à délibérer un peu plus (ou pas) 😮‍💨

Very nice piece on our recent paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social by @carlhendrick.substack.com 🙌 carlhendrick.substack.com/p/rethinking...

Rethinking Fast and Slow

New evidence suggests the standard dual process story undersells intuition

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Are you thinking in vain? New paper with @zoepurcell.bsky.social, @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social, @wimdeneys.bsky.social & @kobedesender.bsky.social 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘪𝘯: 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... A 🧵

Are you "thinking in vain"? 🫵 Take this (very short) test and see for yourself: jeremie-beucler.github.io/thinking_in_... 🔗 Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Jérémie Beucler@jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you thinking in vain? New paper with @zoepurcell.bsky.social, @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social, @wimdeneys.bsky.social & @kobedesender.bsky.social 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘪𝘯: 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... A 🧵

Are you thinking in vain? New paper with @zoepurcell.bsky.social, @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social, @wimdeneys.bsky.social & @kobedesender.bsky.social 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘪𝘯: 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... A 🧵

Thrilled to share that our new paper is now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social: "Who knows what? Bayesian Competence Inference guides Knowledge Attribution and Information Search," with @oliviermorin.bsky.social , @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & @tadegquillien.bsky.social! Link: tinyurl.com/ykyhxcc6

🧑‍💻 New paper at #chi2026 w @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social Are you worried about how social media algorithms affect people’s beliefs? We are, so we tested engagement-based ranking algorithms against alternatives in a pre-reg’d collaborative filtering experiment... 🧵

Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty: @meganakpeters.bsky.social @marcelomattar.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social Apply now here: www.bambschool.org

BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior

Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.

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💡 Our new #preprint is available online! How do people adapt their decisions when priorities change? In our new study, we examine how the way people represent value shapes their ability to adjust in multi-goal environments. 🔗 OSF link: doi.org/10.31234/osf... It's a thread 🧵

Calling all scientists: Support your Iranian colleagues www.nature.com/articles/d41...

After 20 years as psychology's golden child, ego depletion collapsed. Now it's back...with a catch. The secret? Make people work for 30-40 minutes instead of 5. In other words, we finally discovered fatigue. New post on the redemption tour.

Congratulations, You've Discovered Fatigue

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

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🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...

🔺 New preprint 🔺 Why does poverty increase time discounting? With W. Frankenhuis and @danielnettle.bsky.social, we argue that current models do not account for discounting in *persistent* poverty, and show that a desperation threshold can! A quick 🧵

Rationality (especially its analytic component) is consistently associated with both earnings and wage gaps across 101 occupations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our paper with @zoepurcell.bsky.social , @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social and @wimdeneys.bsky.social on using LLMs to estimate belief strength in reasoning is out in Behavior Research Methods. If you're interested in reasoning biases & LLMs as measurement tools, check it out: rdcu.be/eZXGK (free pdf)

🎉 Our paper is out in Communications Psychology: a perspective on behavioural public policies & the psychology of poverty. Core idea: poverty can shift psychology, so the same intervention won’t work the same for everyone. Thread 🧵

Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :). www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

1/13 New paper with @wimdeneys.bsky.social accepted at @cognitionjournal.bsky.social 🥳 Is creativity intuitive? 👩‍🎨 A 🧵👇

🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨 Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache Illustration: Ana Yael. 1/n

Self-control—the ability to ignore short-term temptations in favour of long-term goals—leads to better health, career success, financial security, but does it lead to wellbeing? New research suggests it’s the other way around, writes @ewdolan: buff.ly/u7HGaMz