Congratulations to the legend, FULL PROFESSOR WITH TENURE AT HARVARD Mina Cikara 👑⭐!!! Always in awe of your brilliance and generosity. Forever lucky to have been mentored by you!

People are less kind than they used to be—a pervasive notion that we‘ve all encountered and maybe even entertained. Check out this thought-provoking research on how it might arise despite being wrong!

i have been mulling whether/how to say something this since the press releases started coming out 4 days ago, but feel i need to say something now. i am deeply disappointed in how the media has covered recent findings in consciousness science. 🧵👇

Excited to be at #POLMETH40 today sharing results from a lab-in-the-field study 👇 tl;dr: Omnibus studies can have lots of "interference" between modules, and analyzing it can be cool/generative. Thanks to Busara Center and @mitgovlab for support on this project.

Promising step towards parsimony in computational models of behavior—so cool!

We're coming up on graduate school application season and our department is committed to helping folks--esp URM researchers-- navigate this process! If you're applying to PhD or research assistant jobs this fall please consider PPREP! Short app due 9/22: bit.ly/3L2WZMW

Another rigorous set of studies documenting surprising introspectability of mental processes, here regarding value-based choice (see psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi… regarding implicit attitudes).

New publication in PNASNews on the social transmission of empathy! Humans learn and unlearn #empathy when observing empathic reactions of others, based on #observational prediction errors. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New 📄: Two people w/ identical priors can draw opposite conclusions from the same data simply because they want to. Though seemingly at odds w/ Bayesian theories of the mind, such wishful thinking may actually emerge from fully Bayesian computations. nature.com/articles/s4156…

We have two open postdoc positions in the lab! Check out the links below for details. Postdoc in neuroscience of reward learning: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen… Postdoc in physiology of learning and decision making: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen… Please retweet!

💥 Our paper on social learning of prejudice (with @B_Lindstroem, Mina Cikara, and David Amodio) is now OUT in Science Advances!!! 🥳science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Have a look at the 🧵🔽 for an explainer, but also check out the full paper for brand new data & more context

Love this piece! When trying to explain what we (aim to) do, all that matters is subjective value. That is, how relevant states make us feel. In agreement with this, I like to think of our imperfect affective measures as windows into subjective value. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Ryan Carlson (@carlsonrw) is interested in motivation, introspection, and morality. His job market paper is “Quantifying Accuracy and Bias in Motive Introspection.”. 📝 drive.google.com/open?id=1NASMb… 🌐 carlsonr.com

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… 🧵

I’m recruiting PhD students to join the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle! Join us to work at the intersection of computational cognitive science and AI with a broad focus on social intelligence. (Please reshare!)

🚨 Full-Time Pre-Doc Positions in Zurich Looking for full-time pre-docs (start date b/w June and October '25) to work with me on questions in behavioral economics, using experiments, speech data and AI methods! Link below, deadline rolling tinyurl.com/predoc-graeber Econ RA Listings