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📷We are hiring !📷 We are looking to fill a 2-year #PostDoc! If you are interested in field #experiments, #decision-making, #trust, #motivation, and digital #health behavior, please apply and share! 📷Deadline: Feb 12, 2025 Details: …ersitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Teaching-and-R…

The German Cognitive Science Society is organizing a PhD symposium in Tuebingen in April. If you are a PhD student in the vicinity, you should definetely register (by February 28th) -- it will be fun! cogsciprag.github.io/context-in-cog…

Do LLMs think? Excited to share our updated preprint critically discussing two "Justaic" stances claiming that LLMs lack cognition because they are "just" next-token predictors or "just" machines. Led by Zak Hussain and with Rui Mata. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Excited to share the materials for our course on open LLMs for science of science research Zak Hussain and I offered at the recent meeting of European Network for the Science of Science at Universität München. github.com/zak-Hussain/LL…

How can we reduce conceptual clutter in the psychological sciences? Rui Mata and I propose a solution based on a fine-tuned 🤖 LLM (bit.ly/mpnet-pers) and test it for 🎭 personality psychology. The paper is finally out in Nature Human Behaviour: go.nature.com/4bEaaja

This study by Dirk Wulff et al. uses language models to create semantic embeddings of psychometric items and scales, aiding in predicting empirical relations and clarifying psychological taxonomies. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Two PhDs with me on offer, focusing on language, information, well-being, and the attention economy. Deadline 14 April. Project-Linked Studentships: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

🚀 Excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a course on "Large Language Models - Tune and Train Your Own Models" MethodsNET in Vienna from July 14-18 🤖💡 If you’re interested in adjusting LLMs for your tasks, this is for you. Can’t wait for an exciting week.

New comment in NHB by Farid Anvari, me and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links.

We are looking for two PhD students at our institute in Munich. Both postions are open-topic, so anything between cognitive science and machine learning is possible. More information: hcai-munich.com/PhDHCAI.pdf Feel free to share broadly!

🚨Job Alert (Deadline: Apr. 30)🚨 We're seeking a Student Research Assistant to support the ongoing research in all phases of the scientific process. See the link for more details! Dirk Wulff, Max Planck Institute for Human Development mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2016979/2025-0…

How to improve conceptual clarity in psychology? Excited to share a new preprint with Rui Mata, discussing approaches based on large language models as possible solutions. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Agreed. The behavioral and social sciences should rely more on open LLMs: doi.org/10.31219/osf.i…

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Excited to share this work with Dorothée Bentz, in which we map the landscape of contamination OCD triggers and analyze individual differences in trigger importance and relatedness. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

🚨 Postdoc position in India 🚨 Work with Kavitha Ranganathan and me to explore the potential of LLMs for improving risk communication. The position (Senior Research Fellow) includes a research stay and affiliation with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 How to improve risk communication? In this new piece, spearheaded by Kevin Tiede, we argue that traditional risk communication often fails to convey experiential dimensions of risk, and that experiential simulations can fill this gap. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Happy to have concluded another iteration of our 5-day open LLMs course, together with Zak Hussain. If you are interested in LLMs for behavioral and social sciences, check out our... Tutorial: doi.org/10.3758/s13428… Open materials: github.com/zak-Hussain/LL…

"KI ist hier ein mächtiges Werkzeug, um wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu schärfen und die Psychologie als Disziplin weiterzuentwickeln", sagt Dirk Wulff Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) 👉 Jetzt lesen, wie #KI die #Psychologie umkrempelt: mpib-berlin.mpg.de/meldungen/inte…

Excited to see our Centaur project out in nature. TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.

🚨 New publication 🚨 Excited to see this published in Findings of #ACL2025, led by Zak Hussain. We critically evaluate claims that #LLMs are "just next token predictors" or "just machines" and call for a more measured discussion on LLM cognition. aclanthology.org/2025.findings-…