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Celia Heyes

@celiaheyes.bsky.social

Theoretical psychologist studying the evolution of human cognition. All Souls College, University of Oxford https://users.ox.ac.uk/~ascch/

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Björn Lindström@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · last yr.

💥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/CY4wk

Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution

Do 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

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · last yr.

Online Now: Disagreement drives metacognitive development

Disagreement drives metacognitive development

Metacognition improves significantly over childhood, but the mechanisms underlying this development are poorly understood. We first review recent research demonstrating that disagreement prompts competent responses by young children across several metacognitive domains (confidence monitoring, information search, and source monitoring). We then propose a mechanistic model of how disagreement facilitates metacognition. We localize one main source of children’s metacognitive limitations in their still-developing capacities to reason about alternative possibilities, which manifest in an overly narrow focus on one hypothesis. Disagreement increases the child’s likelihood of representing alternative hypotheses, thereby promoting improved metacognitive reasoning. The broader proposal is that, through repeated experiences of disagreement, children become better at representing alternative possibilities even when reasoning on their own, leading to metacognitive development.

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Fredrik Jansson@fredrikjansson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new paper suggests that transmissible sender characteristics, such as the ability to persuade people and communicate effectively, might play a more significant role in cultural evolution than how we learn and from whom.

Cultural traits operating in senders are driving forces of cultural evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

We introduce a mathematical model of cultural evolution to study cultural traits that shape how individuals exchange information. Current theory focuses on traits that influence the reception of information (receiver traits), such as evaluating whether ...

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M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · last yr.

I am absolutely thrilled to be a fellow at the IAS next year and participant in the theme seminar on Digital (In)Equality! I'll be thinking & writing about how illusions of 'human-like' AI clarify human potential.

Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last yr.

The 2025-2026 Members of the Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Science. I look forward to thinking with and learning from this extraordinary group of scholars next year, when I will also convene a special collaborative theme seminar on Digital (In)Equality. www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/dig...

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · last yr.

Recorded at a much calmer time... thanks to Wendy Hasenkamp at Mind & Life for this conversation, and to the many brilliant friends & colleagues who inspired the ideas in here... podcast.mindandlife.org/molly-crocke...

Molly Crockett – Changing the World is a Group Project

In this episode, Wendy speaks with psychologist and cognitive scientist Molly Crockett. Molly is a leader in studying moral cognition, with an emphasis on ethics, knowledge, and power in the digital a...

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Celia Heyes@celiaheyes.bsky.social · last yr.

Darwin Day in Iran, 12-14 Feb, with big names in evolutionary psychology - e.g. Pinker, Nesse, Dunbar, Daly. Also Mike Tomasello & me. Attendance free online. Link in poster. Click the 'Globe' button for English and login as a guest. Full programme below. Tehran time = GMT+3.5 hours.

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Phil Corlett@philcorlett.bsky.social · 2y ago

New from us: People with delusions sometimes feel that the world is unreal. Here, we explain this in terms of prediction errors, with Kamin blocking behavioral and computational data from patients, psychics, and controls www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...

Delusional Unreality and Predictive Processing

Phenomenological psychopathologists have recently highlighted how people with delusions experience multiple realities (delusional and non-delusional) and have suggested this double bookkeeping cannot be explained via predictive processing. Here, we present data from Kamin blocking and extinction learning that show how predictive processing might, in principle, explain a pervasive sense of dual reality.

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Adam Sharp@adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2y ago

A list of the number of chromosomes of ten different organisms… Fruit fly = 8 Housefly = 12 Snail = 24 Frog = 26 American badger = 32 Red fox = 34 Cat = 38 Dolphin = 44 Human = 46 Pineapple = 50 * I, for one, welcome our future pineapple overlords