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ISCON @iscon.bsky.social · 12d

ISCON now seeking nominations for the 2024 Best Social Cognition Paper Award!

This award recognizes an outstanding article (theoretical or empirical) in the field of social cognition. Papers eligible if published in 2024.

More info here: www.socialcognition.net/best-paper-a...

Best Paper Award | Home

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Thomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 15d

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939

#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

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Monica Ellwood-Lowe @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social · 23d

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States

The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

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Katie Hoemann @katiehoemann.bsky.social · Aug 31

Want to do a PhD with me and the Emotions in Context Lab? We’re looking for new grad students to join us next fall! Check out the lab website to learn what we’re working on now and in the near future: www.emotionsincontextlab.com/join/

Join – EMIC

www.emotionsincontextlab.com

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Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 New paper alert! (slightly belated)

We (with @joshcjackson.bsky.social) suggest that complex technologies, as they need several (often many) people to use them, require innovations that distribute cognition to help regulate cognitive load and coordinate.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Complex technology requires cultural innovations for distributing cognition

Over the last decade, new research has shown how human collectives can develop technologies that no single individual could discover on their own. How…

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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · Aug 30

As wildfires burn at home in 🇵🇹 and here in CA, we have a new paper that finds: exposure to fires doesn’t necessarily predict greater support for climate change mitigation. But people closest to the 2021-2022 fires do prioritize personal adaptive action. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paying attention and paying the costs: wildfires in the American West - Climatic Change

Preliminary estimates suggest that the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires could be the costliest disaster in U.S. history to date when accounting for both direct and indirect losses. As personal exper...

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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · Aug 26

Stanford GSB is hiring a behavioral research coordinator! Fantastic option for a pre-doc.

In addition to the faculty and students, the lab director Nick Hall has been there since I was running my grad school expts- he's great, and super knowledgeable.

careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...

Research Coordinator in Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, United States

Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford's Graduate School of Business (GSB) has built a global reputation based on its immersive and innovative....

careersearch.stanford.edu

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Mark Ho @markkho.bsky.social · Aug 4

Job announcement 📢

@shawnrhoadsphd.bsky.social and I are looking for a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction!

Interested? If you’ll be at #rlc2025 (or I missed you at #cogsci2025) feel free to reach out with any questions!

apply.interfolio.com/165809

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David Melnikoff @d-melnikoff.bsky.social · Aug 3

Very cool. But also: “I Am!” Is hilarious.

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Amit Goldenberg @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social · Aug 1

🔖 NEW PAPER ALERT 🔖 Out in PNAS – we used equation discovery algorithms to improve models of human reinforcement learning.

Led by the wonderful Kyle Lafollette with an amazing team Yanni Yuval @roeyschurr.bsky.social and @d-melnikoff.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our *new paper* explores how flexibility in social categories like gender and race can undermine unfair norms. If we can't read an identity, we can't use it to underpin discrimination. We show even a little confusion can be powerful, and advocate identity play
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26062/

Fairness and Signaling in Bargaining Games - PhilSci-Archive

philsci-archive.pitt.edu

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Amitai Shenhav @ashenhav.bsky.social · Jul 25

📣 Heads-up that our amazing dept (Berkeley Psych) is anticipating hiring *two* TT Asst Profs this Fall, under the themes of (1) Social & Personality Psychology, and (2) Biological Basis of Behavior.

Official job ads coming soon...

Send qs for (1) to Iris Mauss/Serena Chen, (2) to Linda Wilbrecht

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!

Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology

actcompthink.org

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share!

osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

Research Associate

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · Jun 25

I have noticed that many cool people are starting labs at Ohio State right now. I've decided to follow their lead.

Soon, my lab will be moving to Ohio State as well.

You can learn more about our recent and upcoming work here: www.cogdevlab.org

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · Jun 24

Incredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!

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Fred Callaway @fredcallaway.bsky.social · Jul 14

Centaur's performance may be largely driven by learning a good model of behavioral auto-regression—independent of the task. An important lesson for cognitive modelers: higher likelihood ≠ better account of behavior.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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David Melnikoff @d-melnikoff.bsky.social · Jul 3

Here are some! (1) banaji.sites.fas.harvard.edu/research/pub... (2) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... (3) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (4) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (5) www.cell.com/trends/cogni... (6) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jan Engelmann @janengelmann.bsky.social · Jun 19

Check out our new TICS paper on disagreement and metacognition! We argue that disagreement drives metacognitive development by expanding children's consideration sets.
With Antonia Langenhoff, Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social and Mahesh Srinivasan
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disagreement drives metacognitive development

Metacognition improves significantly over childhood, but the mechanisms underlying this development are poorly understood. We first review recent rese…

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Jul 2

🎈 Out now: 🎈

"The capacity limits of moving objects in the imagination"

(by Balaban & me)

of interest to people thinking about the imagination, intuitive physics, mental simulation, capacity limits, and more

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

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David Melnikoff @d-melnikoff.bsky.social · Jun 30

Though provoking post as usual! But there’s overwhelming evidence now that implicit biases aren’t associations and aren’t difficult to control. Few people in the field, if any, hold those views anymore. Happy to send some papers if you’re interested!

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · Jun 27

This was a fun paper to write (published 5 years ago now). Here's a non-paywalled preprint version. osf.io/preprints/me...

For way more on the subject, see the whole-ass book I wrote. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · Jun 28

Short new piece on aphantasia just out in TiCS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Key idea: aphantasia often involves a lack of *visual-object* imagery (explaining subjective reports & objective correlates) but selectively spared *spatial* imagery (explaining preserved task performance).

Spared spatial imagery solves the puzzle of aphantasia

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David Melnikoff @d-melnikoff.bsky.social · Jun 21

A key takeaway from 20+ years of computational RL is: model-free=automatic, model-based=deliberate. My new paper w/ @benedek.bsky.social challenges this view, suggesting that MB algos are more ubiquitous, & automatic processing more sophisticated, than currently thought: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Model-based algorithms shape automatic evaluative processing | PNAS

Computational theories of reinforcement learning suggest that two families of algorithm—model-based and model-free—tightly map onto the classic dis...

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Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social · Jun 6

🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆

There are two open positions:

1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition.
2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety.

sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...

Sydney Levine - Open Positions

Summer Research Position I am seeking a part-time or full-time researcher for the summer (starting asap) to bring a project to completion. The project asks the question: do people around the world u...

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