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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · 6d

A fun new preprint with the 🌟 team. We discuss 7 questions on mind perception we have been thinking and working on in the last years and it also features a picture of a dog! I mean what's more to like?

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 8d

Seven questions on perceiving and understanding other minds: https://osf.io/t8s9k

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 8

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025
🗓️ 20-21 November 2025
📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands
🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jul 22

New blog post: Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/07/easi...

Downloading all files in an OSF project can be a hassle. Not anymore, with Papercheck! Just run:

osf_file_download("6nt4v")

Easily download files from the Open Science Framework with Papercheck

Researchers increasingly use the Open Science Framework (OSF) to share files, such as data and code underlying scientific publications, or ...

daniellakens.blogspot.com

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Jul 17

Why finish projects when I can start three more, work them to 80% complete, and then lose interest and start 3 more?

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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · Jul 14

mmmconflab.ewi.tudelft.nl

Check out this workshop coming up 17th of July in Rotterdam, still looking for participants!

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 14

The roommate Alexa preprint is live! Fantastic work by Aline. In this beast of a paper (3 experiments, mixed methods) we explore how long-term interactions with DVAs impact trust and roles within households. One of the first results of the @erc.europa.eu F-AI-MILY project!

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jun 12

The Impact of Long-term Interactions with a Digital Voice Agent on Trust and Roles Within a Household: https://osf.io/7zgt8

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 14

New preprint with @fabioladiana.bsky.social and Mariska Kret and collaborators reporting on two studies that explore the question if AI can trust us. How do patterns of dishonesty fluctuate across agents and pupil size in Japanese and European samples? Amazing work by @fabioladiana.bsky.social!

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 4

Cross-Cultural Variation in Dishonesty Toward Humans and Artificial Agents Depends on Agent Pupil Size: https://osf.io/8nqsy

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 8

The workshop is supported by the @erc.europa.eu European Research Council (StG, F-AI-MILY, 101117045) and the Dutch Research Council (Open Science Fund, fnirs4all, OSF23.2.018).

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 8

Join us! Registration is now open. Places are limited. Registration closes 14 November 2025. More info: socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl/registration/

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 8

We are accepting abstract submissions for both Poster and Flash Talk presentations. A short abstract (~250 words) can be submitted before 12 September 2025. More info: socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl/submit/ Travel grants available: socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl/travel-grant/

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 8

The workshop is open to participants at all career stages — including students, PhD candidates, and postdocs to present results or ongoing work on a variety of topics concerning social dynamics. For more information, check our website! socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

Social Dynamics 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

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socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 8

The workshop features an exciting and interdisciplinary lineup of researchers, including Emily Cross, Mariska Kret, Suzanne Dikker, Hayley Hung, Paola Pinti, Milica Nikolic, Daina Crafa, Matteo Diano, Nienke van Atteveldt, and Antonia Hamilton.

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 8

Social Dynamics 2025 is a workshop on ‘Individual, dyadic, and group dynamics inside and outside the lab’. The goal of the workshop is to discuss recent insights of the (neuro-) science of individual, dyadic and group dynamics inside and outside the lab (e.g., at schools and at home).

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Jul 8

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025
🗓️ 20-21 November 2025
📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands
🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

Social Dynamics 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment (SoNeAt) Lab @soneatlab.bsky.social · May 25

(Slightly belated) congratulations to our 2025 #SoNeAtLab (@soneatlab.bsky.social) #fNIRS #Hyperscanning Workshop best #presentation #prize #winners 🤩 🎉 🏆!

Poster: Vanessa Nöring @uni-jena.de
Talk: Ann Hogenhuis @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · May 7

I’m enraged by so many things in this piece that I can’t pick and choose, although I may have to try just to vent

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

nymag.com

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Antonia Hamilton @antoniahamilton.bsky.social · Jun 23

new preprint - do you use #fnirs to study cognition? do you want to learn how to design better studies? our primer aims to get you started on using #fnirs for real-world #cognitive #neuroscience

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Sara De Felice @saradefelice.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you are in the process of designing a #fNIRS study to investigate cognition and want a list of dos and don'ts, have a look at our primer. Pre-print available here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

@islalj.bsky.social @chiarabulgarelli.bsky.social @paola182.bsky.social @antoniahamilton.bsky.social

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · May 27

🌟First conference visit with the lab team 🌟Last week, we attended the 2024 ESCAN conference. My 🧠 is still buzzing of all the great science and scientists and seeing my dear colleagues and friends.

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Apr 10

New @psyarxivbot.bsky.social preprint on a fun and timely topic, lead by two very talented #ECR, Zsuzsa and Aline, and collaboration with @reinevanderwal.bsky.social: Revealing Attentional Biases in Conspiracy Theory Believers osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Apr 2

Last week we visited the University Museum Utrecht, umu.nl/for-english-..., to discuss potential activities for families related to our ongoing work on the impact of AI on family dynamics. So much fun, and really looking forward to these activities in the summer.

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Ruud Hortensius @ruudhortensius.bsky.social · Apr 2

Selecting an emoji for AI, reflecting people's perception (and discussion) of AI pretty accurately.

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · Mar 13

Checking google scholar for recent articles with the phrase "certainly, here is a":

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