
Ori Friedman
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https://sites.google.com/view/uwaterloocclab 15-11-2011 02:49:01
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Thinking outside the ballot box ‘Opinion’ by Thomas Costello, Leor Zmigrod, & Arber Tasimi Tom Costello Leor Zmigrod Arber Tasimi Free access until June 8: authors.elsevier.com/a/1gxbv4sIRvPM…


Now online at SPPS: "An adversarial collaboration on dirty money" with Ori Friedman. Across 9 experiments, we find that people’s aversion to dirty money stems from concerns about both moral taint and endorsing the way in which dirty money was acquired. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19…



People can use the placement of objects to infer communicative goals Elsevier Psychology 📢New from: Michael Lopez-Brau & Julian Jara-Ettinger sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In January, Dr. Yoel Inbar (Yoel Inbar) interviewed for but did not receive a job offer from UCLA’s Psychology Department. This case was not handled properly. See my take in the attached blog. Please retweet (re-X?) if this concerns you. matthewlieberman.substack.com/p/a-political-…

So, I have started a Substack. Please take a look and consider signing up (thanks to Christina Starmans, Azim Shariff, and Erik Hoel for their encouragement.) open.substack.com/pub/paulbloom/…


Young children deny that unusual events are possible but why? Ori Friedman, B. Goulding, & I find that teaching children to consider causal mechanisms or empirical precedents increases their acceptance of unusual events but with limited (or no) transfer. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-26…



Ownership, critical for cooperation and morality, is assumed to be universal, maybe innate. We tested this hypothesis in Papuan children, replicating studies of Ori Friedman, originally conducted with Canadian children. Pascal Boyer UMich Concept Lab srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

New paper in Cognition with Claudia Sehl and Stephanie Denison. Children aged 4-7 overlook how sunk costs bias actions but nonetheless anticipate how they affect emotions. Free version: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn….

Fantastic write-up by Daniel Pfaff of a recent #psynomPBR paper on counterfactual closeness (doi.org/10.3758/s13423…); work with Tiffany Doan and Stephanie Denison.

A poll version of a recent question from Experimental Philosophy : Do you think there is a crisis looming in the field of infant cognition?

Tons of fun to work on this project with Xiuyuan Flora Zhang 张修远 and Julian Jara-Ettinger -- the findings surprised me.

Learn about our recent research at #CogSci2024 CogSci Society! 🚲🌷🌇🇳🇱 (Also, check out our new proceedings paper on children predicting the sunk cost bias 📄 escholarship.org/content/qt0qx7…) Ori Friedman UWaterloo Psychology


New paper in Cognitive Psychology with Stephanie Denison & Ori Friedman! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


Our new paper is out in PB&R Psychonomic Society with Stephanie Denison & Ori Friedman “Not just social networks: How people infer relations from mutual connections” 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.375… 🧵👇 (1/8)

