📢University of Edinburgh is hiring a permanent differential psychology (senior) lecturer (assistant/associate professor). Personality and intelligence researchers, please consider applying. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… ed.ac.uk/ppls/psychology

New paper (simulation + field data) concludes that the DK effect is unlikely to ever be shown as an unambiguously meaningful psychological phenomenon affecting an appreciable portion of the population. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Newly published paper proposes definitions of AI and AGI aligned with our understanding of human intelligence; concludes there is more evidence for artificial expertise than AI. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Longitudinal study in school-aged children suggests there is more evidence for IQ influencing Need for Cognition, rather than the other way around. Notably, Gc and Gq demonstrated the largest effects (not Gf). srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

“Our results indicate that amplitudes of the ERP components measured in #executivefunction tasks almost exclusively represent variance related to general processes rather than executive function-specific variance”—-EFs still a mystery

Will #AI mean the death of higher education, or is it a brave new dawn for learning? Join us at #UWA on July 30th for an innovative public event that will delve into the ethical complexities of artificial intelligence in higher education. Registration tinyurl.com/AIHypothetical

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New paper! Based on the performance of 591 LLMs on 12 tasks, we found: 1) A positive manifold (mean r = .73) 2) An Artificial General Ability (AGA) factor explaining 66% of test variance. 3) Parameters correlate positively with AGA (r ≈ .6) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Abstract Submissions are open for this years' ACPID conference! Visit acpid.org/call-for-paper/ to submit your abstract! #ACPID2024

Anonymous surveys suggest 50-70% of researchers use AI tools; but across 568 Elsevier journal articles, I found only ≈ 3.5% acknowledged AI use. I discuss possible causes and consequences of the AI attribution gap in my recent paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kCeHaSXM6OZg

Our study on the inter-association between face processing abilities, intelligence, and trait-autism has finally been published! Gilles Gignac UWA Person Perception UWA Psychological Science journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17… #research #intelligence #autism #faces #facerecognition

Small sample (N=88), but FSIQ (WAIS-IV) r ≈ .40 with everyday computer use (e.g., use Google Maps to find route, identify name of painting). By comparison, computer exposure r ≈ .23. IQ matters more than screen time?sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Major science fraud alert. When this paper first came out, I thought Daron Acemoglu and David Autor might be formally advising the author, PhD student Aiden Toner-Rodgers. But now I think the student didn't have a formal advisor at all? techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/mit…

Why test an LLM with 10,000 questions when 60 will do? Our new paper shows psychometrically optimized benchmarks can be short—with no meaningful loss of information. Enables multiple forms (less overfitting) and human–AI comparisons. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Smarter people score lower on moral foundations. Because they’re immoral? Unlikely. More likely: they ask questions and are open to nuance. Not “loyalty above all,” but “it depends — let me reason through it.” New study by Timothy Bates Is NFC a mediator?sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Artificial intelligence grew out of computer science with very little input from the research on human intelligence. But now with A.I. becoming increasingly capable of mimicking human responses, the two fields are starting to collaborate more. Gilles Gignac and David Ilić