Michał Pieniak

@mpieniak.bsky.social

Assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology, Uni of Wrocław | Studying human sense of smell

Our new paper on olfactory plasticity has just been published in Cortex 🧵 Some people with a healthy sense of smell are unable to perceive a few selected odors, a phenomenon known as specific anosmia. We checked if people can gain some perception of these smells via training.

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Can babies tell good from evil? With 1000+ babies, we tried replicating classic moral psychology finding that infants prefer helpful characters. But... babies chose randomly between helper/hinderer puppets:/ Props to KelseyLucca, Francis Yuen & @jkileyhamlin.bsky.social for leading the project!

ManyBabies@manybabies.org · 2y ago

🚨Publication Alert!🚨 The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date. doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Excited to share that starting December, I’ll be switching my role at the Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, to an assistant professor. Looking forward to this new chapter!

Institute of Psychology building University of Wroclaw main building