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Are you a fan of Payam Piray's Linear RL model but not of MATLAB? I coded a barebones version of it in Python! github.com/ArminBaz/Linea…

Young minds can be savvy educators. 🧒📚 New work from Minds in Development reveals that 7-year-olds, but not 5-year-olds, adjust their teaching based on who's learning, giving simpler info to infants and more complex info to adults. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.1…

AI is no laughing matter--or is it? A new study from Drew Gorenz and Norbert Schwarz finds ChatGPT 3.5's humor competes with, or even exceeds, humans, from casual quips to satirical headlines. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

I had fun (despite the rain!) visiting USC Gould Law and USC Psychology to talk about manspreading. Thanks for hosting! Norbert Schwarz Daphna Oyserman 👏

Congratulations to Anthony G Vaccaro for winning the SAS Best Dissertation in Affective Science Award!! #AffectScience2024

📢 Job Alert! 📢 The USC Psychology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Brain & Cognitive Sciences with a focus on computational language research. Join us at the forefront of AI-driven language & cognition research. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angele…

New research for subjective NLP tasks, where diverse perspectives matter (but often completely ignored)! Our framework minimizes annotation costs while maximizing performance. Paper & dataset (Moral Foundations Subjective corpus) below

In new research from Laura Fenton and Dr. S. Duke Han, brain changes linked to Alzheimer's disease predict increased vulnerability to financial scams among older adults: dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/a…

Why do we feel mixed emotions? In a new opinion piece, Anthony G Vaccaro explains how neuroscience is uncovering the brain processes behind our simultaneous good and bad feelings—challenging traditional views on emotions. usnews.com/opinion/articl…

Congratulations to Norbert Schwarz on receiving the 2025 APS Mentor Award!

Really exciting work on how the brain makes social cause inference! It was a blessing to work with Ali et al on this project!

Congratulations to Santiago Morales on receiving the 2024 ISDP Kucharski Young Investigator Award!

It took a while, but this paper with Nathaniel Daw is now published in Nature Communications. Reviewers had many good comments, so lots of new stuff here, especially on the computational mechanisms of how people dissociate volatility from stochasticity: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited to share tools for estimating EEG data quality metrics! We hope this will encourage the estimation and reporting of psychometrics & data quality in dev neuro. It’s fully integrated with HAPPE and compatible with other pipelines (eg, MADE). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new preprint on the historical psychology of prejudice is out!

🚨New paper! "Behavioral & Neural Evidence for Difficulty Recognizing Masked Emotional Faces." Thanks to my incredible co-authors Anthony G Vaccaro, phil newsome, Lizzie Aviv, Gabriel León, Dr. Berzenski & Darby Saxbe. Excited to share this multisite study:bit.ly/48RvXT5😷[1/9]

Even at 2 years old, toddlers are social learners who know when they need help. A new study from Minds in Development, led by Alexandra Raport, shows that toddlers are more likely to ask for help when faced with new challenges, and they know to seek knowledgeable helpers. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Could vulnerability to financial scams be an early sign of Alzheimer’s? New research from Laura Fenton and Dr. S. Duke Han highlights how difficulties in spotting scams may predict cognitive decline in aging adults, offering a window for early intervention. theconversation.com/vulnerability-…

Social rejection hurts, but it also offers information we can learn from. Our latest work links the brain’s ‘social rejection’ network to learning, giving a computational account of neural responses to social rejection. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Congratulations to Santiago Morales on receiving the USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Faculty Award! The award honors excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service to the community. Read more about the recipients here: dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/r…