I will be recruiting 💫two PhD students💫 for my new lab! (computational learning & memory applied to individual & interactive behavior, rouhanilab.com). Feel free to e-mail if interested and catch me at SfN! (poster 06 at 1 PM on Wed 10/09)

In 2 digital field experiments, we found that unfollowing hyperpartisan influencers on Twitter: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24%—with effects persisting for 6 months! -Increased satisfaction with Twitter -Led people to share higher-quality news doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

So excited to share that this was published in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 It's time to build AI thought partners that learn & think *with* people rather than *instead of* people. 🧠🤝🤖 We lay out what that means, why it matters, and how it can be done! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Excited to announce Centaur -- the first foundation model of human cognition. Centaur can predict and simulate human behavior in any experiment expressible in natural language. You can readily download the model from Hugging Face and test it yourself: huggingface.co/marcelbinz/Lla…

I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at Cornell Tech! If you are interested in topics relating to machine learning fairness, algorithmic bias, or evaluation, apply and mention my name in your application: infosci.cornell.edu/phd/admissions Also, go vote!

I'm excited to share with you all that my paper on A Positive Empathy Intervention to Improve Well-being on Instagram with Michael Inzlicht and Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello has been accepted for publication at Emotion!🥳 We tested a brief intervention to increase positive #empathy and improve 1/3 📷

Whoa. This looks like an amazing project. Scholars at UMichigan have recently collected a massive dataset of over 1.1M podcast transcripts that is largely comprehensive of all English language podcasts. Using this data, they conduct an investigation into the content,

We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in Nature Reviews Psychology We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Free link: nature.com/articles/s4415… Led by Stefan Feuerriegel

I am excited to announce that we are launching a new CENTER FOR CONFLICT & COOPERATION at NYU (New York University) with Dr. Anni Sternisko See our vision and research team here: centerconflictcooperation.com Please spread the word or reach out!

Excited to share that our paper is now out in PNASNews! 🎉 Check it out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Code and data: github.com/baixuechunzi/l… Big shoutout to my amazing coauthors Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Ilia Sucholutsky Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab!

We’re thrilled to celebrate Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 for co-authoring the Best Paper at Society for Affective Science (Nencheva et al., 2024) and Dan Mirea for winning the Diversity Award! Beyond these achievements, our lab members gave fantastic talks: Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 Razia Sahi Dan Mirea Claire Whiting

I am SO excited to share my latest #preprint with collaborators Robb Rutledge, zeb kurth-nelson, Martin Chadwick, summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind: "Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence" arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091 A short 🧵 1/7

Incredibly proud!!!

Are you interested in hierarchical dimensionality analysis? Here's our new "Taxonomic Graph Analysis" used to model the IPIP-NEO Personality Hierarchy. The project is led by Andrew Samo and Alexander Christensen, with the collaboration of Luis Garrido, Paco Abad, Sam McAbee, and

Huge congratulations to Chantal Chantal Valdivia-Moreno for receiving an NSF Honorable Mention and to Dan Mirea for being awarded a Procter Fellowship from the Graduate School earlier this month! We’re so proud of their achievements!

AI companions aren’t science fiction anymore 🤖💬❤️ Thousands are turning to AI chatbots for emotional connection – finding comfort, sharing secrets, and even falling in love. But as AI companionship grows, the line between real and artificial relationships blurs. 📰 “Can A.I.

Almost exactly one year after starting my lab (!), I'm thrilled to share our first preprint! 🥳 Leily Behbehani Shari Hamm (she/her) Grace Hart (she/her) We propose future directions for mathematical, computational, & digital methods to advancing suicide research. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…