Nudging vs Boosting Listen to my colleague Ralph Hertwig's latest. youtube.com/watch?v=z9r-TJ…

Great coverage by The Verge of our work on how ChatGPT is changing the way we speak. The implications are very broad, with AI being potentailly able to conduct mass manipulation of culture and public opinion. theverge.com/openai/686748/…

Learn more about our Global Summit Plenary Session: Future of Global Psychological Science psychologicalscience.org/conventions/gl… Reminder: Submissions for #APSGlobal are due TODAY. Submit a poster or roundtable session and join us virtually in October! #PsychScience #Psychology

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Experimental Evidence for the Propagation and Preservation of Machine Discoveries in Human Populations arxiv.org/abs/2506.17741 with our team members Levin Brinkmann, Thomas Eisenmann, Ann-Marie Nussberger, Maxime Derex, Sara Bonati, Valerii Chirkov

It is with great pleasure that I share MAXMINDS 2.0, a new Max Planck program to support scholars in danger of displacement by war or natural disasters, and who have limited access to resources and institutional support. If you know affected scholars, please share.

Congratulations to another Center for Humans & Machines member for securing a great position. Onwards and upwards Tobi.

Great coverage by Scientific American of our research on how ChatGPT is influencing the words we use in conversation! Work led by Hiromu Yakura & Levin Brinkmann scientificamerican.com/article/chatgp…

🧠 Is your research still relying on Western participants? 15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by Joe Henrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples. In this paper, published in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that.

We will miss you Tobias Werner and wish you all the best.