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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · Jun 6

With Nick Chater, @mmrobinson93.bsky.social‬, Wenjia Joyce Zhao, Jake Spicer, and C. Stella Qian.
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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · Jun 6

We've received funding from the ESRC to investigate if sampling models can explain perceptual and cognitive tasks in the same way.

One of the postdoc positions is advertised: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/D...

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Research Fellow (110542-0525) at University of Warwick

Recruiting now: Research Fellow (110542-0525) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · May 30

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · May 23

Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · May 23

@lcastillo.bsky.social for best PhD student paper! 🎉👏

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Lucas Castillo @lcastillo.bsky.social · May 21

🚀🚀 Very excited about this new preprint with @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social!

Months ago we released the samplr package on CRAN (helps you use sampling algorithms + cogn. models for human data). Here we explain the theoretical background and show how to use the pkg

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · May 16

Our lab has a list of papers that use statistical sampling algorithms like MCMC to explain human behaviour. Thanks to @lcastillo.bsky.social, you can select by behaviour or algorithm.

If we've missed any, please let us know!

sampling.warwick.ac....

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · May 6

A new approach to intertemporal choice.

Delay preference in intertemporal choice: Sooner or later OR faster or slower?

Intertemporal choices are conventionally conceived as decisions about whether to be better off sooner or later. As a reflection of this, most experime…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · Apr 8

Welcome back to Dr. Jake Spicer, who returns to Warwick Psychology to begin his ESRC New Investigator project, "Investigating Sampling Approaches to Decision Making"

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · Mar 27

We are recruiting for two 1-year teaching-focussed positions. We welcome applicants in a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on social psychology for one of the posts.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML866/a...

Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) or Teaching Fellow (110378-0325) - (Two Posts) at University of Warwick

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) or Teaching Fellow (110378-0325) - (Two Posts) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply toda...

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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · Mar 19

New paper with Tong Liu and Arndt Broeder, just accepted in Cognition. We test novel qualitative predictions from sampling-based models of probability estimation in an event ranking task. Results provide evidence for the idea that mental sampling underlies probability judgements.

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Mar 19

Evaluating the Role of Mental Sampling in Probability Judgments: Illogical Rankings Occur in a Predictable Manner: https://osf.io/bfwpe

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Thomas Hills @thomhills.bsky.social · Jan 8

Here's a network lesson on #creativity @yoedkenett.bsky.social and I came up: How to be more creative? Get noisy! Try lots of things. It's the old exploration-exploitation trade-off, and good practice when you don't know what to do. DM for a copy of the paper. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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Warwick Psychology @warwickpsych.bsky.social · Mar 7

⏳Last chance to apply! Don’t miss out.

Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · Jan 15

🎓 4 PhD Fellowships at Warwick Psychology for 25/26 entry
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p...

-3 for exciting projects led by Drs Alex Clarke,
@gambichiara.bsky.social & @mmrobinson93.bsky.social

-1 open to applicants with their own choice of supervisor/
proposal.

Closing date: 16 March 2025 at 23:59

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Joakim Sundh @joakimsundh.bsky.social · Mar 10

Very pleased that the special section I've edited with some colleagues (none of them on Bluesky, unfortunately) on Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise is now published in PPS! Links to all of the articles in the section below.

doi.org/10.1177/1745...

Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise - Joakim Sundh, Philip Millroth, August Collsiöö, Peter Juslin, 2025

In psychological research, noise is often considered a nuisance that obscures rather than contributes information. This simplification overlooks that noise can ...

doi.org

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thanks to the tremendous team of Jian-Qiao Zhu, Jake Spicer, @pleonv.bsky.social, @lcastillo.bsky.social, Johanna Falbén, @yunxiao-li.bsky.social, @aidan-sj-tee.bsky.social, and Nick Chater (4/4)

Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · Mar 4

This noise could be due to the brain approximating probabilistic inference with local sampling.

If so, it could be a feature rather than a bug, as it allows exploration of alternative interpretations of the world. (3/4)

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · Mar 4

It reviews the surprising structure of variability in human behaviour, discussing how much of it could be noise in cognitive computations. (2/4)

Diagram of different causes of noise in behaviour

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · Mar 4

"Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?" is now available in Perspectives on Psychological Science
doi.org/10.1177/1745... (1/4)

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Rasmus Bruckner @rasmusbruckner.bsky.social · Feb 28

🚀 New paper out in Psychological Review!

How does learning change across the lifespan? We propose that resource rationality—adapting belief updating to cognitive limitations—can explain age-related differences in learning.

📖 doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

👇 A short thread:

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Yun-Xiao Li / 李云箫 @yunxiao-li.bsky.social · Feb 20

🚨 A new preprint is out!

How does utility influence mental simulations of risky events? 🤔🎲

We tested this across 4 experiments & found that most people simulate probabilities accurately, but biases emerge in key conditions!

If you want to learn more, keep reading!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Lucas Castillo @lcastillo.bsky.social · Feb 20

New Preprint Out! 🚀🚀
Can people generate a random sequence if given enough time?

Keep reading if
- You make cognitive models with randomness in them
- You like to explore the world, be creative, choose well
- You want protection from clever agents exploiting patterns in your behavior.
osf.io/awg9j

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Adam Sanborn @asanborn.bsky.social · Feb 11

A short intro to MCMC in Cognitive Science in the excellent OECS

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · Jan 20

Markov Chain Monte Carlo by Adam N. Sanborn: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.56eb7cff

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Aidan Tee @aidan-sj-tee.bsky.social · Feb 6

In our new preprint, my co-authors and I explore how people’s probability judgments sometimes don’t add up the way they should, and how these violations can help us compare different models of how people make these judgments!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · Jan 15

🎓 4 PhD Fellowships at Warwick Psychology for 25/26 entry
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p...

-3 for exciting projects led by Drs Alex Clarke,
@gambichiara.bsky.social & @mmrobinson93.bsky.social

-1 open to applicants with their own choice of supervisor/
proposal.

Closing date: 16 March 2025 at 23:59

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