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New preprint: “Folk Thinking, Fast and Slow: Intuitive Preference for Deliberation in Humans and Machines” Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation. tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)

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Short blog post about our work with Matthieu Raoelison & @wimdeneys.bsky.social for the Tango Horizon European project! 🧠🤖 👉 tango-horizon.eu/2025/01/16/h...

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📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. 🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2025 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...

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📣 I'm #hiring a 3-year #postdoc! - Live anywhere in the United States! - Improve #decisionMaking and #wellbeing with #quantitative #cogSci. Share the application URL here and elsewhere.👇 geisinger.wd5.mywork... Letters can be sent to me with "R-69755" in the subject line.

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Want to challenge your biases and boost your logical reasoning? 🚀 Check out this fantastic website by my amazing colleagues @wimdeneys.bsky.social and @ninafraniatte.bsky.social. Dive into engaging videos that make logical reasoning accessible to everyone. Available in English and French.

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🧠 Cogitum: Train your logical reasoning! As part of our research, @wimdeneys.bsky.social and I developed video-based training to boost sound reasoning 🎥 And we need your help to test it! Try it anonymously (& share it!) in French or English here: cogitum-site.powerappsportals.com/homePage

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I’m sharing talks and posters from this weekend’s @SJDM-tweets.bsky.social conference. First, a talk about the #jobMarket — by the way, I’m hiring a 3-year #postdoc researcher who does quantitative #decisionScience and can #workFromHome in the U.S.: geisinger.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/GeisingerExt... …

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Yes, we've got the iconic background photo thing down.

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Let's give this a try ;-) go.bsky.app/TBS14hQ

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🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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universities: we bought all new software to do the same thing you already do now with ease. It completely sucks and cost us 13 million dollars.

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New paper with Katerina Voudouri and Michal Bialek showing that when people face risky decisions, they can intuitively determine which choices have better expected value and avoid loss aversion without careful deliberation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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"Adieu Bias!": New paper with Nina Franiatte et al. in which we replicated previous intuitive debiasing findings in la douce France. Thanks openAI for the awesome title suggestion ;-)

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Oh my. Danny was an inspiration to a generation of social-behavioral scientists and transformed our understanding of decision-making. I can no longer answer the question "who is the most important living psychologist?" with any confidence. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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Dr. Kahneman’s research debunked the notion of “homo economicus,” the “economic man” who was considered a rational being who acts out of self-interest. Instead, people rely on intellectual shortcuts that often go against their own best interest. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

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🚨WP🚨 We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Are people intuitive Bayesians? More so when experiencing than when merely reading statistics. So can poor wording explain part of this difference? Yup. When wording was improved, people were 10x more likely to accept the Bayesian answer to textbook probability tests! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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🚨New WP🚨 Field experiments with 33 million FB users & 75k Twitter users: Ads prompting users to think about accuracy reduce misinformation sharing! Accuracy prompts offer platforms a content-neutral approach that is scalable and preservers user autonomy osf.io/preprints/ps...

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We are opening two tenure-track positions (please repost!) Human Evolutionary Social Science Computational Social Science Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France! Deadline Jan 31st www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

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A 10-minute intervention can debias the reasoning in a base-rate task of a non-WEIRD sample, research by @boissinesther.bsky.social et al finds, suggesting bias in non-WEIRD individuals is largely a matter of performance, rather than competence: buff.ly/486B4gU via @wimdeneys.bsky.social

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❗New paper out with Mathilde Josserand, @wimdeneys.bsky.social and Serge Caparos in Cognition. 🖇️ wdeneys.org/data/Preprin... In this paper, we tried to debias the reasoning of the Himba of Namibia, a non-'Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic' society in Africa. (1/4)

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New Cognition paper "Debiasing thinking among non-WEIRD reasoners" with @boissinesther.bsky.social et al.

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who did this

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Our perspective paper "Machine Culture" is out in Nature Human Behavior. Free access version: rdcu.be/drzoS

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!!Conference on Social Dilemmas!! in Leiden July 2-5 2024. Call for Abstracts is open. Keynotes are announced. Good weather ordered. Reposting appreciated! More information on: socialdilemma.com/icsd2024/

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A short explanation can help many biased reasoners correctly complete classic reasoning tasks. And the others? Just repeat—research by Nina Franiatte et al finds with further training almost all participants benefit, up to two months later: buff.ly/46WB2aH via @wimdeneys.bsky.social

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📣 The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse seeks applications for POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS and VISITING FELLOWS. More information and application links can be found at iast.fr/apply 🚨 Application deadline: November 15, 2023 🚨

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Want to boost the impact of debias training? Just repeat it! Forthcoming Learning and Instruction paper with Nina Franiatte, @boissinesther.bsky.social et al. shorturl.at/krZ14 (1/3)

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I'll be recruiting a PhD student in the next cycle - please pass this along to anyone who might interested in joining my lab at Cornell! Open-ended, but interest in topics relating to intuition/reason, metacognition, overconfidence, misinformation, or beliefs is a bonus!

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I'm looking for a postdoc. Working on debiasing with a focus on language. Located in Wrocław, but largely remotely is also an option. Pay's better than prof, enough to make a living in pl. Please repost hr.uwr.edu.pl/en/assistant...

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