Experimental studies keep giving us more and more evidence against the theory that people have two concepts of causation (dependence vs. production) This is a nice window into how recent work in cognitive science of causal judgment is going beyond previous approaches A thread
The psychology of causation is messy. So messy, that many have given up on a unified explanation in favor of Frankenstein-esque mashups of our best theories. We can't definitively say this was a mistake, but our ongoing work shows that dependence concepts get us further than once thought
stuck analyzing weird-looking data from standard psychological scales? check out my tutorial on modeling slider scale data with the ordered Beta distribution! dibsmethodsmeetings.github.io/ordered-beta/
In psychology, we often find ourselves running experiments or surveys in which participants are asked to respond on a numerical scale. For example, weāre probably all familiar with pain scales like th...
"The university has an obligation to interrogate the proposition that a world in which AI is widely used is desirable or inevitable. We donāt need to cheer for a vision of tomorrow in which scientists feel comfortable with not personally reading the articles ā¦ā uniavisen.dk/en/cut-the-a...
Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis, get rid of poverty, and unleash the full potential of human creativity?
I'm happy to share that my main dissertation project on confidence in causal judgments (w/Paul Henne, John Pearson, and @felipedebrigard.bsky.socialpsycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... thread below ā¬ļø
excited to see some cool cognitive science at #CogSci2024 in Rotterdam! if youāre going & want to hang, reach out and letās connect!
Penn State's Empathy & Moral Psychology (EMP) Lab, which I direct, has an exciting opportunity for a part-time research assistant working to assist on empathy & morality research, and helping me coordinate events for the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...
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āØWe are organising an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/tm-workshop/ Registration is open! (spaces are limited) š§µ1/n
Theoretical Modeling Workshop
Giving a talk today at IMPS on building bridges between psychometrics island & psychology mainland; slides here (osf.io/jbzg9/osf.io/mqsrc
