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do classic decoy effects take place in real-world shopping decisions?

wine purchase records in a massive grocery dataset says: yes

new work with (former) student Sean Devine, @anyaskatova.bsky.social , James Goulding, and John Harvey

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(sorry for the titular pun)

How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making - npj Science of Learning

npj Science of Learning - How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making

www.nature.com

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Aug 11

'dude that was a huge rip'

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Aug 7

ah you must mean a team of smarties

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 7

OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”

OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’

OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.

nbcnews.to

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Aug 4

new work just out by (now Dr!) Anna Jos in collaboration with
@awestbrook.bsky.social

how do pupil diameter changes track the behavioral expression of flexible versus stable control?

find out NOW in the latest issue of Psychophysiology :

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · Aug 3

bayesians gotta relax with the taking credit for the concept of infering things about the world

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Aug 3

What my kids school assignment (and Bayesian logic) teaches us about Trump's trade deals.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Aug 3

“Je prends une blonde “ is all you need yet oddly they did not teach you that there

Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Jul 10

i'll give you the book the next time i see you and you can suss it out, is this what humanists call a deep read

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Jul 10

Self-pubbed book my dept mailbox today (and everyone’s ) . Are we the sorcerers here ? Hmu if you want my copy

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Jun 23

Noodles Being Asleep finals

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Dan Mirea @danmirea.bsky.social · Jun 11

At #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including:
- amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks
- panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social)
- group brainstorming session!

Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Jun 4

also a review looking more generality at persisitence v flexibility across these two groups (again not sure quality of evidence in any single study!) : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The social transmission of metacontrol policies: Mechanisms underlying the interpersonal transfer of persistence and flexibility

Humans often face binary cognitive-control dilemmas, with the choice between persistence and flexibility being a crucial one. Tackling these dilemmas …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · Jun 4

from what I understand it permeates (at least) down to the response conflict 'level' (e.g. protestants v catholics)

Religion and action control: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not Stop-Signal performance

Previous findings suggest that religion has a specific impact on attentional processes. Here we show that religion also affects action control. Experi…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 29

also putting this on my next UG decision seminar syllabus !

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 29

this tracks, as an armchair conspiracy theorist (but not in any way that touches on political, interpersonal, or professional matters, haha) I would say half the fun of theorizing is being massively, supremely overconfident

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 21

bsky.app/profile/grac...

Grace @gracekind.net · May 20

VEO3

Prompt: “a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)”

The video and audio are generated together.

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 21

I aint clicking that

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 21

Take that , computational psychiatry

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 16

Something something born in the USA

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 15

are you more top-down or [chugs bottle]

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Ross Otto @arossotto.bsky.social · May 12

great connecting with you, whom I trust !

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