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"[Labour’s pro-Corbyn and pro-Starmer factions] now show levels of mutual enmity that are slightly worse than between Leavers and Remainers" 🚨📊 NEW: David Young on the findings of his recent research on polarisation between factions within parties. ukandeu.ac.uk/labours-factio…

The times (in behavioural sciences) they are a-changin'. Recent contributions in cognitive science and economics show a renewed interest in going beyond 'biases' and viewing the sometimes puzzling features of human cognition as solutions to the complex problems we face.

How do we move 'trust' from being a rhetorical flourish into a political strategy? That's the theme of a new report I've written for the Social Market Foundation, with an introuction from the great Pat McFadden smf.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

We need to teach people to be critical not just of the news, but also of their minds. Our new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General finds: - people were more likely to believe and share politically aligned news over news that was actually true, even when the

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(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049412/…

Sharing this feels vulnerable but meaningful. 💛 In this piece for nature, I reflect on having 3 children during my PhD - why I’d do it all over again, but also why academia shouldn’t make it this hard for parents to thrive.🍼🎓Academic Mom, PhD 🔗nature.com/articles/d4158…

🚨New in Nature Computational Science Nature Computational Science! 🚨 Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans? (co-lead by Tiancheng Hu, together with Steve Rathje, Nigel Collier, Sander van der Linden, and Jon Roozenbeek) 1/ nature.com/articles/s4358…

Happy new year to everyone! Looking back at 2024, here are the papers that I published at LSE Psychological & Behavioural Science with colleagues from a wide range of institutions, including Cambridge University , University of Oxford , King's College London , and more.

5) With David Young and Lee de-Wit we show that polarisation can emerge given different assumptions about the dependencies of sources. This shows that polarisation can occur rationally. Link: escholarship.org/uc/item/19x670…

🥳 My first publication ever in Personality and Individual Differences, with Edgar Dubourg and Hugo Mercier. Insight can arise from a wide range of experiences, from making groundbreaking discoveries to reading a whodunit. Are some people more interested in this feeling?

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 📷 1/7

New WP! The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/

Last year, we published a paper showing that AI models can "debunk" conspiracy theories via personalized conversations. That paper raised a major question: WHY are the human<>AI convos so effective? In a new working paper, we have some answers. Co-authors: Gordon Pennycook

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🚨New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🚨 Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on? @Jayvanbavel and I review the “psychology of virality,” or the psychological and structural factors that shape information spread online and offline. Thread 🧵(1/n)

While out-group animosity often goes viral on social media, this new paper by Malia Marks, Yara Kyrychenko 🇺🇦, Johan Gärdebo & Jon Roozenbeek finds that in-group solidarity drives engagement after political crises: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Interesting illustration of how

Reading a 400-word text can make British attitudes towards EU immigration more positive by 20 percentage points. New paper out today in Scientific Reports. Many thanks to my co-authors Lee de-Wit, James Ackland, Alan Renwick and David Young. rdcu.be/eFOFm

An authoritarianism-compatible text changes British attitudes towards EU immigration, from Tessa Buchanan, David Young, James Ackland, Alan Renwick, and Lee de-Wit go.nature.com/4pBFQw7

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! Thread 🧵