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{tinytable} 0.4.0 for #RStats is out! 🚀 This 📦 converts dataframes to html, tex, docx, typ, or md tables. Super simple, ultra flexible, 0-dependency, and the website hosts a billion tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/ 0.4.0 is a big release. Please install and try it out!

Check out this exciting new postdoc opportunity w/ Romy Frömer's amazing lab at the Univ of Birmingham (ACCB Lab), to work on a collaborative U.S. National Science Foundation CRCNS grant along with our lab at Berkeley and Sebastian Gluth's lab at the Univ of Hamburg (@GenPsychLab)!✨ edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🚨New in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 Will misinfo warning labels backfire for ppl who distrust fact-checkers? No! Labels reduce belief in & sharing of false news even for those highly distrusting of fact-checkers - warning labels are a key tool for platforms! rdcu.be/dSHtF

Today, I’m excited to share with you all the fruit of our effort at OpenAI to create AI models capable of truly general reasoning: OpenAI's new o1 model series! (aka 🍓) Let me explain 🧵 1/

🚨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 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/

announcing vegapunk: our plug + go interface for online research involving interactions between AI models and human subjects. It’s like having a hyper-knowledgeable (research) confederate for your experiments and surveys. vegapunk.shop

I was on NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas tonight talking about our work (David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Gordon Pennycook) on countering conspiracies with AI. Thanks for such a thoughtful interview, Hallie Jackson. Check it out! Here’s the paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Many of us measure altruism and selfishness in dollars and cents. If you want to know how selfless someone is—the logic goes—add up how much money they give to strangers or charity. New work w/ M.J. Crockett complicates this picture: osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵

1/ New paper nature! Discrepancy between human expectations of task difficulty and LLM errors harms reliability. In 2022, Ilya Sutskever Ilya Sutskever predicted: "perhaps over time that discrepancy will diminish" (youtu.be/W-F7chPE9nU, min 61-64). We show this is *not* the case!

🚨Out in Nature!🚨 Many (eg Trump JimJordan Elon Musk) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias Is this accurate? We test empirically - and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo nature.com/articles/s4158…

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab at Brown! Please apply if you're interested in judgment and decision-making, social+cognitive psych, or using games/experiments/computational models to understand human behavior. Apps due Dec 1! More info: davidlevari.com

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🚨New in JEP:G APA Journals🚨 Why do ppl preferentially reciprocate follows by co-partisans online? In a Twitter field exp & survey we find: -Both content *and* social prefs drive co-party tie-making -Distinct roles for in-party pref & out-party dispref dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge000…

📚🚨 I posted 11 new chapters of my upcoming book! Model to Meaning: How to Interpret Statistical Results with #marginaleffects for #RStats and Python. These are early drafts and I really need your feedback! Errors, content requests, improvements, etc. marginaleffects.com

Now online! People are increasingly bored in our digital age. w/Michael Inzlicht doi.org/10.1038/s44271…

.Gordon Pennycook et al. found that while psychological inoculation helps detecting misinformation at scale globally, it may not be effective unless it is combined with accuracy reminders. @STWorg David G. Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Adam Berinsky Hause Lin nature.com/articles/s4156…

"On the role of analytic thinking in religious belief change: Evidence from over 50,000 participants in 16 countries" ✍️Michael N Stagnaro & Gordon Pennycook Key finding: Reflection is associated with belief change independent of the direction of change. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵

New paper! Now in press at Cognition: "Experimental evidence that exerting effort increases meaning" Check out Aidan Campbell's new paper. This was a real effort...and boy was it meaningful (especially now that it was accepted!). Check out the preprint here:

New WP! The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/