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maartenboksem.bsky.social
Social/cognitive psychologist/neuroscientist interested in communication/decision-making
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Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 239 comments

@lukaslengersdorff.bsky.social & @clauslamm.bsky.social debunk 3 misconceptions about statistical power that could hinder meaningful research discussions. #Stats #ResearchPractices

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I compared 22 identical climate-related posts on Threads vs Bluesky over the last 3 months, and the difference is shocking. Normalized engagement on Threads dropped nearly 2/3 + my following dropped, while Bluesky engagement held steady + following quadrupled. What’s driving this? Read on! 🧵

submitted 52 days ago • 70 comments

Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

submitted 95 days ago • 19 comments

Can #brain measures predict the success of #movies? New research says YES! New paper in the Journal of Marketing Research: ‘Do EEG Metrics Derived from Trailers Predict the Commercial Success of Movies? A Systematic Analysis of Five Independent Datasets’ (doi.org/10.1177/0022...).

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

I guessed Bangladesh to be the country with the highest flood risk just to be reminded that there is a reason the Netherlands are named that way. Source: https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-countries-with-the-highest-flood-risk/

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

submitted 67 days ago • 37 comments

Adding this to my reading pile: "The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior"

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

submitted 96 days ago • 55 comments

Mounting evidence suggests a role for beta rhythms in top-down control, including beta's close relationship with dopamine. Cortical beta oscillations map to shared brain networks modulated by dopamine elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #neuroscience

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

📢 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Boredom! 📢 Boredom signals unsatisfactory interactions with our inner & outer worlds. For HSSComms, @corimartarelli.bsky.social & I are editing a collection exploring it through diverse lenses & methods 🤩 ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... pls share liberally 🙏

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Great paper!

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

My paper is out!! 🎉 "Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin", @Nature Here, we show that dopamine and serotonin signals form a gas-brake system for reward in the mammalian brain THREAD ⬇️ 1/n

submitted 94 days ago • 12 comments

Want to do a PhD on the neuroscience of (consumer) decision making? Come join our team! www.rsm.nl/about-rsm/wo... #neuroscience #vacancy #fmri #eeg #neuroeconomics

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 What motivates people to help others? Are they utilitarian like Mill and Bentham, or do they care about equity and desert, like Aristotle and Locke? We use a Dutch TV show to answer this question! Paper available here: t.co/THSMqeHy7o Thread below 🧵👇 #econtwitter

submitted 169 days ago • 1 comment

🧵1/ Ever wondered what makes for a good conversation? @shannon47burns @DianaTamir @falklab @L_MwilambweT, Lily Tsoi and I used fMRI hyperscanning to answer this question by tracking the dynamics of naturalistic conversations Now out in @NatureComms! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

submitted 172 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 351 days ago • 53 comments

Really, really cool #neuroscience stuff! picower.mit.edu/news/study-r...

submitted 404 days ago • 1 comment