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Do women feel some emotions more strongly than men? Out today in Affective Science, I argue that claims like this make a notoriously subtle mistake. What is it? And what does it have to do with an astigmatic painter and thyroid medicine? A short thread... link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Really cool paper by Pajot et al. showing that a Language of Thought for arithmetic predicts the frequencies of numbers in natural language.

François Chollet Josh Tenenbaum's dissertation hit me like a truck 25 years ago, because learning concepts from three examples was not really on the table for ML, at the time. My brain is still not the same.

Basically, removing spell check and grammar check from people's phones would do wonders for my psyche. Let the idiot masses raw dog the written word. I want to go back to disregarding people's opinions based on whether they know the difference between your and you're.

Oh... oh dear.

So excited our paper is now out in Cognition! Huge thanks to our editor and reviewers 🧠 Their thoughtful suggestions inspired Experiments 3 & 4, including a striking inverse correlation between idleness judgments and speed-up predictions

This research advances a mechanistic reward learning account of social learning strategies. Through experiments & simulations, it shows how people learn to learn from others, dynamically shaping the processes involved in cultural evolution. David Schultner nature.com/articles/s4156…

Who should have a voice in a just society? 🗳️ Our new JEP:G paper finds that young children and adults believe voting should be for everyone—not just the elite or the most capable. But being morally bad is seen as a fair reason to lose this right. doi.org/10.1037/xge000…

To our surprise, even without any algorithm, curation or filters, the three core dysfunctions emerged: 1️⃣ Echo chambers 2️⃣ Elite concentration of attention 3️⃣ A "social media prism" amplifying extreme voices

1/8 New (and first) paper accepted at JEP:LMC 🎉 Ever fallen for this type of questions: "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?" Most say "Two," forgetting it was Noah, and not Moses, who took the animals on the Ark. But what’s really going on here?🧵

1/12 Finally out! 🎉 This project took a village to audit, analyze, and edit. It began with a simple worry: is Solomon’s paradox (psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only…) too trivial? Doesn’t everyone know that stepping back (#selfdistancing) & getting outsider #advice helps us choose wiser?

Is it possible to manipulate a high-level visual property while holding ~all low-level visual properties constant? “No!”, you say. Allow tal boger to show you otherwise! Now in press Current Biology 🐇🐘