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15 years ago I tried to vanish, in an experiment to explore the role of tech in privacy and surveillance. Older and not-wiser, I'm back with a sequel. This time, I replicated myself, and set my AI replicas loose in the world. The podcast is called Shell Game. Ep 1, out now.

This is a must read for every psychologist: There is disturbing absence of theory from developmental psychology research I've noticed the same thing in social psychology Paul Bloom blames the advisors, who "apparently run labs where the only motivation for running studies

Humans modify their environment to grant or prevent others’ access to valuable resources (e.g., using locks). Here we show that chimpanzees can also strategically manipulate their environment to maximize their own and deny a conspecific access to food. rdcu.be/dPtgO

@fernandaedi There are lots of specific things wrong with the funding model we have, but there's a more fundamental insanity to a system that hires academics to do research and doesn't automatically give them funding to do that research

@lksamueltweet Mariya Toneva @ally_mackey Eliot Hazeltine #cogsci2025 will happen in San Francisco July 30–Aug 2 2025, in the capable organizational hands of Azzurra Ruggeri, David Barner, Caren Walker, and Neil Bramley – can't wait!

== Psychology academic life and job market: Collaborative guide == Quick reminder that we have a collaborative guide with lots of helpful links for all that's academic life and job market related: buff.ly/4epPL1K Use, add/edit, and share. Hope you find it useful.

[Please retweet!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary! Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/psya…

Our new preprint on causal judgment! Led by Can Konuk, with Salvador Mascarenhas. We study how causes that feature several variables (`A and B caused E') are represented in the human mind. This one contains some really surprising findings...🧵

🚨 Exciting opportunity🚨 Tenure track position in Social Cognition is now open at Universität Wien: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Tra…

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New podcast dropped! Ever wonder what tech-savvy baboons can teach us about social learning and culture? Dr. Nicolas Claidiere has the answers! buzzsprout.com/2055064/episod…

Animals—from bees to butterflies, porcupines to primates—medicate themselves. They seek out bitter plants, treat wounds, amputate limbs, and eat clay. How do they know what they know? Our latest episode, w/ Jaap de Roode & M. Huffman! Listen: disi.org/animal-heal-...

Fat tissue retains a ‘memory’ of obesity through cellular transcriptional and epigenetic changes that persist after weight loss, which might increase the chance of regaining weight, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/3ZcGG7G

Not every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…

Tracking minds in communication Review by Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Marlene D. Berke (Marlene Berke), & Julian Jara-Ettinger Free access before Feb 5: tinyurl.com/4fhy4am4

📢New paper in PNASNews, led by my amazing student Yihan Qian found that placing two hands at the same height (an EQUAL gesture) mitigates gender stereotypes The University of Chicago UChicago Social Sciences UChicago News pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

Recently in #AI+#Robotics: AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes spectrum.ieee.org/ai-mistakes-sc…

looking for a good textbook on social dev psychology for sophomores & juniors. any leads?