No way am I going to put my brain under this shower #TMShower

If you are an active SSM member, you should by now have received a ballot over email inviting you to vote for a new Secretary-Archivist and Treasurer. Also, you are asked to approve a couple of changes in the bylaws. We need to fulfill a quorum so please take 4 minutes to vote!

I was so looking forward to teaching my Thought & Cognition class in person tomorrow, without a camera, for the first time since COVID started. Now students are asking whether I can also stream online as there may be local transport strikes.

Call for proposals and posters for the SPSP Pre-Conference on Motivation Science taking place on February 23rd, 2023 in Atlanta, USA; Submission deadline: November 15th, 2022 easp.eu/news/itm/call_…

Great and immense important challenge for human beings in the 21 century: Today, Baptist Liefooghe and Martijn Mulder presented their project on AI and trust at the Linschoten lecture series Utrecht University.

Again, an interesting and exciting presentation of @seriousharris and @AnnaGerlicher about how people form and persist in irrational fears. Yeah!

YOU are invited (if an academic, APS member or present or retired scientist) to protest the Woke Takeover of Psychology. unsafescience.substack.com/p/invitation-t… "The APS in almost instantly dismissing Fiedler acted in a reprehensible way that is not fitting for a scientific association."

Ruud Custers in rule-based ideomotor action #icps Brussels

Guido Gendolla on effort, cognitive conflict, and action shielding #icps Brussels

Lucas Keller on if-then planning #icps Brussels

Very inspiring symposium on the future of psychology and robotics with talks by Arvid Kappas @RuudHortensius Agnieszka Wykowska and Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten #ICPS2023 #icps23be

Come join our group as PhD student at Utrecht University: PhD position in social cognition and artificial intelligence (0.8 - 1.0 FTE) uu.nl/organisatie/we…

Interview with Josi Driessen during the Dutch conference Law Enforcement and Behavior. Her research examined how regulations and enforcement influence the sense of agency and feelings of responsibility for own actions when one is following rules or orders. bit.ly/3RQubeg

Check out Ruud Custers’ work that is featured in the APA spotlight: Is seeing doing? How observing action outcomes may trigger behavior. apa.org/pubs/highlight… via American Psychological Association

🚨🚨New paper! Finally have my first modeling paper is published in CBB. We show that habit-goal interactions can be modeled using a sequential sampling framework. Even for our complex cognitive model, paramter estimation is in principle possible with simulation-based methods.

Looking to do a PhD? And are you interested in how humans interact with intelligent agents? Join our research team! uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Still a couple of days to apply for this PhD position! Deadline May 5. uu.nl/en/organisatio…

At Society for the Science of Motivation conference in San Francisco starting with an exciting debate about physiological measures in motivation science!

In our final session of the morning, we have a fascinating round table discussion on Goal Systems Theory! Featuring Arie Kruglanski, Ayelet Fishbach, Ruud Custers, and Catalina Kopetz, moderated by Alexandra Freund.

On my way to The Hague to protest against the budget cuts on higher education…