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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Our new research paper is out in NHB, which we apparently coauthored with acclaimed actor Ryan Reynolds. Critics are calling it his best work since Deadpool.

Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Aug 11

In this article, Maier et al. show that metacognitive learning from consequences can shape moral decision-making. @maxmaier.bsky.social @vancityreynolds.bsky.social @vanessachg.bsky.social
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Learning from outcomes shapes reliance on moral rules versus cost–benefit reasoning - Nature Human Behaviour

Maier et al. show that metacognitive learning from consequences can shape moral decision-making.

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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · Jul 31

For all those at #CogSci2025, @glenspiteri.bsky.social will be presenting this work at 14:15 PDT (22:15 BST for those online and UK based)!

“Communicating Global Income Rank Increases Charitable Donations”

Session: ‘Talks 8: Social Cognition’

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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · May 7

New preprint w/ @glenspiteri.bsky.social , @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder: Telling people their global income rank (RBN) increased charitable donations. Also explored RBN’s effect on perceived global income distribution + whether asking how much others should donate increased giving (IDT)

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Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · Jul 26

Why are instrumental variable regressions so underutilized in psychology? @academic-chatter.bsky.social @causalinference.bsky.social

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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · Jun 24

Out in Cognitive Psychology, led by @maxmaier.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new lottery task with choices that matter across trials; the risky option has a chance of going extinct, which ends the study. We derive optimal policies and develop a strategy-classification model.

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Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · Jun 20

Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Vanessa Cheung @vanessachg.bsky.social · Dec 11

We updated our preprint on moral decision-making in LLMs (osf.io/preprints/ps...) with a new study investigating sources of the yes-no framing bias and amplified omission bias. Results show that they likely arise from fine-tuning for chatbot applications. (w/ @maxmaier.bsky.social and Falk Lieder)

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Harry D. Coulson @harrydcoulson.bsky.social · May 7

New preprint w/ @glenspiteri.bsky.social , @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder: Telling people their global income rank (RBN) increased charitable donations. Also explored RBN’s effect on perceived global income distribution + whether asking how much others should donate increased giving (IDT)

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · Mar 13

FRIDAY - MARCH 14, 2025

Pi-day (3.14)

Pi has a few more digits than that. But 3.14 can get you far. Wanna get your geek on? Celebrate at 1 am and 59min 26sec. That gets you 3.14 1:59:26, Pi's first seven decimal places.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 22

Does it work? The research says YES. Humour helps!

Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · Dec 1

Colleagues and I recently wrote a paper on the “FUN” part of pro-environmental communication messages (c.f. F-EAST framework from Sunstein).

See below:

www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15...

Humor Helps: An Experimental Analysis of Pro-Environmental Social Media Communication

Communication-based interventions are popular among both governmental and non-governmental organizations in many environmental domains. Yet, studies on the role of humor in social media communication ...

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Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · Dec 1

I really want to get to know more about the field, but every time I do so, I come across this paper and I dial back my interest. What was once the achilles heel of psychology, might be the achilles heel of neuroscience. Would you have any evidence for the contrary?

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Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Low-powered studies lead to overestimates of effect size and low reproducibility of results. In this Analysis article, Munafò and colleagues show that the average statistical power of studies in the n...

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Glen Spiteri @glenspiteri.bsky.social · Dec 1

Colleagues and I recently wrote a paper on the “FUN” part of pro-environmental communication messages (c.f. F-EAST framework from Sunstein).

See below:

www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15...

Humor Helps: An Experimental Analysis of Pro-Environmental Social Media Communication

Communication-based interventions are popular among both governmental and non-governmental organizations in many environmental domains. Yet, studies on the role of humor in social media communication ...

www.mdpi.com

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · Nov 28

You don't need to be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to see why Bluesky is the place to be.

But welcome scientists, thank you for joining us! 👋

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Global Priorities Institute @gpioxford.bsky.social · Nov 29

We’re excited to announce our new research agendas – for philosophy, economics and psychology – have now been published! You can read them here: globalprioritiesinstitute.org/research-age...

Research agenda - Global Priorities Institute

The central focus of GPI is what we call ‘global priorities research’: research into issues that arise in response to the question, ‘What should we do with a given amount of limited resources if our a...

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