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🚨New preprint!🚨 People who believe that humans drive moral progress (rather than it being inevitable) are more likely to view their own actions as needed to correct moral setbacks—and they're more likely to donate! w/ Sana Asifriyaz & Tania Lombrozo osf.io/preprints/psya…

This week at CogSci Society! Who is responsible for collective action? We ask this question from computer science, psychology, and philosophy perspectives, with Lio Wong, Tobias Gerstenberg, and Sofia Bonicalzi

Come see us today! Sydney Levine will now be giving our first talk

My paper with Tania Lombrozo, "Building Compressed Causal Models of the World" has just been accepted in Cognitive Psychology. Here is the preprint: philarchive.org/rec/KINBCC, and a brief thread. 1/8

My latest paper is out at Psych Sci❗️ w/ Tania Lombrozo & Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab We built a Bayesian model that captures people's inferences from opinions* in a game-show paradigm. *e.g., if 12 people think 'X' is True, and 2 think 'X' is False, P(X=T) = 81% journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

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Ever found a single explanation for an event alluring (e.g., Aliens! Conspiracy!) but learned a multi-faceted explanation was right? We dive into Princeton University Prof. Tania Lomborzo's work on our preference for simple explanations, even when they're wrong: 👂 schwab.com/learn/story/tr…

💥New Paper💥 Now out with Tania Lombrozo in Cognitive Science! Modrek, A. & Lombrozo, T.(2024) Allow me to explain: Benefits of explaining extend to distal academic performance. Cognitive Science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… #cogsci #cognitivescience CogSci Society Wiley Psychology