Wouter Kool
@wouterkool.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at WUSTL. PI of the Control and Decision Making Lab.
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We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
January 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
The dictionary feels like I'm just here for the
January 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The dictionary feels like I'm just here for the
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Great opportunity for PhD applicants this year!
December 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Great opportunity for PhD applicants this year!
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Interested in mind wandering, aging, and individual differences? Check out our new preprint! A fun collab with @cathyzhang.bsky.social Maddie Valdez, @wouterkool.bsky.social and Julie Bugg
Are the correlates of mind wandering consistent across younger and older adults?: https://osf.io/jvyr6
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Interested in mind wandering, aging, and individual differences? Check out our new preprint! A fun collab with @cathyzhang.bsky.social Maddie Valdez, @wouterkool.bsky.social and Julie Bugg
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Are the correlates of mind wandering consistent across younger and older adults?: https://osf.io/jvyr6
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Are the correlates of mind wandering consistent across younger and older adults?: https://osf.io/jvyr6
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Thrilled that my poster on our new preprint won 2nd place at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (@sjdm-tweets.bsky.social) conference!
Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Thrilled that my poster on our new preprint won 2nd place at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (@sjdm-tweets.bsky.social) conference!
Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
So proud of my grad student @ltreiman.bsky.social on winning 2nd place in the Best Poster Award at SJDM @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social 🎉! In a preprint of this work, she demonstrates how sequential comparisons and choice-induced preferences reveal two distinct pathways to the decoy effect.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So proud of my grad student @ltreiman.bsky.social on winning 2nd place in the Best Poster Award at SJDM @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social 🎉! In a preprint of this work, she demonstrates how sequential comparisons and choice-induced preferences reveal two distinct pathways to the decoy effect.
Check out @theazalabak.bsky.social's cool new paper on model-based planning during foraging. She's applying for grad school this season, so keep your eyes out!
How do people decide whether to stay with a good thing or leave in search of something better? In her new paper, @theazalabak.bsky.social explores how model-based planning guides foraging decisions in structured environments.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Model-based planning in structured foraging environments
In order to maximize reward, humans need to balance engaging with currently available sources of reward and searching for better ones. Optimal foragin…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Check out @theazalabak.bsky.social's cool new paper on model-based planning during foraging. She's applying for grad school this season, so keep your eyes out!
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🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚀 We are hiring! 🚀
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
🔍 Join us as a Postdoctoral Researcher (fully-funded) at the Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI in Munich.
Two more posters from my group at Psychonomics and SJDM. This evening, @duyguyucel.bsky.social will present some brand new work on multidimensional reinforcement learning, and tomorrow morning @ltreiman.bsky.social will present her work on choice-induced preference in the decoy effect.
November 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Two more posters from my group at Psychonomics and SJDM. This evening, @duyguyucel.bsky.social will present some brand new work on multidimensional reinforcement learning, and tomorrow morning @ltreiman.bsky.social will present her work on choice-induced preference in the decoy effect.
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Excited to welcome #psynom25 to Denver later this week! A couple travel tips ⛰️🌇
1) It's high altitude and dry here, DRINK WATER, take it easy your first day in!
2) From the airport, save $/emissions by taking the light rail 🚈 to Union Station, then rideshare/25min walk to the Sheraton hotel 1/
1) It's high altitude and dry here, DRINK WATER, take it easy your first day in!
2) From the airport, save $/emissions by taking the light rail 🚈 to Union Station, then rideshare/25min walk to the Sheraton hotel 1/
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Excited to welcome #psynom25 to Denver later this week! A couple travel tips ⛰️🌇
1) It's high altitude and dry here, DRINK WATER, take it easy your first day in!
2) From the airport, save $/emissions by taking the light rail 🚈 to Union Station, then rideshare/25min walk to the Sheraton hotel 1/
1) It's high altitude and dry here, DRINK WATER, take it easy your first day in!
2) From the airport, save $/emissions by taking the light rail 🚈 to Union Station, then rideshare/25min walk to the Sheraton hotel 1/
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I'm excited to co-chair an #SfN2025 nanosymposium with the esteemed @neuronush.bsky.social on intracranial and behavioral readouts of neuromodulation for psychiatric symptoms!
NANO048: "Human Intracranial Recordings: Cognitive and Clinical Science"
Wed. Nov. 19 from 8-10am (🙃)
Room 23A
NANO048: "Human Intracranial Recordings: Cognitive and Clinical Science"
Wed. Nov. 19 from 8-10am (🙃)
Room 23A
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'm excited to co-chair an #SfN2025 nanosymposium with the esteemed @neuronush.bsky.social on intracranial and behavioral readouts of neuromodulation for psychiatric symptoms!
NANO048: "Human Intracranial Recordings: Cognitive and Clinical Science"
Wed. Nov. 19 from 8-10am (🙃)
Room 23A
NANO048: "Human Intracranial Recordings: Cognitive and Clinical Science"
Wed. Nov. 19 from 8-10am (🙃)
Room 23A
If you are at #SfN25, be sure to check out @davideghez.bsky.social's latest work on using EEG to decode the regulation of multidimensional control tomorrow morning. We're dropping the preprint tomorrow as well!
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
If you are at #SfN25, be sure to check out @davideghez.bsky.social's latest work on using EEG to decode the regulation of multidimensional control tomorrow morning. We're dropping the preprint tomorrow as well!
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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood
www.cbs.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
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Beyond thrilled to share that I've been selected as the winner of the 2025 Dean's Award for Graduate Research Excellence! So grateful to my incredible mentors, Julie Bugg, Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social, and Todd Braver, who made this possible.
More here!
artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/gr...
More here!
artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/gr...
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Beyond thrilled to share that I've been selected as the winner of the 2025 Dean's Award for Graduate Research Excellence! So grateful to my incredible mentors, Julie Bugg, Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social, and Todd Braver, who made this possible.
More here!
artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/gr...
More here!
artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/gr...
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We’re hiring!
@sucholutsky.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell
Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁
postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/175495
RA: apply.interfolio.com/175497
@sucholutsky.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell
Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁
postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/175495
RA: apply.interfolio.com/175497
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October 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We’re hiring!
@sucholutsky.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell
Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁
postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/175495
RA: apply.interfolio.com/175497
@sucholutsky.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell
Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁
postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/175495
RA: apply.interfolio.com/175497
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Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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August 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence.
ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...
ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...
Postdoc Fellows
The CTCN funds a cohort of outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations. Application deadline August 1st, 20…
ctcn.wustl.edu
July 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU is recruiting postdoctoral fellows. The Center offers a unique opportunity to craft a transdisciplinary research program with an unusual degree of independence.
ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...
ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...
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Come see our VSS presentations!
May 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Come see our VSS presentations!
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Despite the world being on fire, I can't help but be thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth in Fall '26. I'll be recruiting grad students this upcoming cycle—get in touch if you're interested!
May 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Despite the world being on fire, I can't help but be thrilled to announce that I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Dartmouth in Fall '26. I'll be recruiting grad students this upcoming cycle—get in touch if you're interested!
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Check out our new study by @atabk.bsky.social! He tweaked a word list memory task to have hidden rules at encoding, which shifted and created “event boundaries.” People recalled pre-boundary words more, and post-boundary words less. Other fun bits in the paper include a reinforcement learning model!
This study examines how events structured recall, which was impaired for items after event boundaries. A reinforcement learning model showed that decision certainty predicts recall success.
@atabk.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social @zreagh.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@atabk.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social @zreagh.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Free recall is shaped by inference and scaffolded by event structure - Communications Psychology
This study examines how event boundaries affect recall of items in a decision-making task. Events structured recall, which was impaired for items after boundaries. A reinforcement learning model showe...
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Check out our new study by @atabk.bsky.social! He tweaked a word list memory task to have hidden rules at encoding, which shifted and created “event boundaries.” People recalled pre-boundary words more, and post-boundary words less. Other fun bits in the paper include a reinforcement learning model!
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Model-based planning in structured foraging environments: https://osf.io/8z3qv
April 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Model-based planning in structured foraging environments: https://osf.io/8z3qv
Reposted by Wouter Kool
This study examines how events structured recall, which was impaired for items after event boundaries. A reinforcement learning model showed that decision certainty predicts recall success.
@atabk.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social @zreagh.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@atabk.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social @zreagh.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Free recall is shaped by inference and scaffolded by event structure - Communications Psychology
This study examines how event boundaries affect recall of items in a decision-making task. Events structured recall, which was impaired for items after boundaries. A reinforcement learning model showe...
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This study examines how events structured recall, which was impaired for items after event boundaries. A reinforcement learning model showed that decision certainty predicts recall success.
@atabk.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social @zreagh.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@atabk.bsky.social @wouterkool.bsky.social @zreagh.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...