Let me tell you why I think this might be the most important paper on social preferences of the decade (after Krupka and Weber, 2013). A major question in behavioral economics is: how can we explain people’s behavior through a utility function? This question is challenging,

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, Chaz Firestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Understanding learning through uncertainty and bias nature.com/articles/s4427…

1/5 New research at PNASNews w/Richard Ramsey @richramseyphd.bsky.social ! People allocate more money to a person that demonstrates individual sameness vs difference even after a coin flip – questioning group-based discrimination theories. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Accepted Experimental Psychology - @exppsychjournal.bsky.so Research w Michal M. Stefanczyk challenges assumptions about moral decision-making under fatigue. Study with 303 athletees and firefighters shows moral judgments remain stable despite physical exhaustion. #MoralPsychology #DecisionMaking

How mood-related physiological states bias economic decisions nature.com/articles/s4427…

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Interested in measuring individual differences in altruism/prosocial behavior? Paige Amormino has developed a new, brief assessment that (in my view) is much better than self-report measures or existing economic games. It's called The Social Discounting Short-Form (SDT-SF)

Honestly, I think our new paper has serious implications for experimental econ 22–27% failed comprehension in the Dictator and Ultimatum games In the Trust Game and Public Goods Game, that number hit 70% and 52% These are foundational tools of exp econ doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo… 🧵

Overt visual attention modulates decision-related signals in ventral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

🔥New paper out: we found evidence of an "offender bias". In two eye-tracking and three behavioral experiments, we examined how third parties respond when observing a perpetrator taking money from a victim. We found several results, including: 1) People direct more visual

An Expert Guide to Planning Experimental Tasks For Evidence-Accumulation Modeling journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

Moral makes us humans, but how morality is made in the brain? New Turku PET Centre preprint with Paulo Boggio worked this out biorxiv.org/content/10.110…👇

🎨 Excited to release diffuseR - an R implementation of the diffusers library! ✨ txt2img and img2img generation 🚀 No Python dependencies 📦 SDXL & SD2.1 models. More coming soon! What will you create? #RStats #AI

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Choosing Versus Rejecting: The Effect of Decision Mode on Subsequent Preferential Choices onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bd…

Excited to share our new preprint! 🚨 Does human learning have an automatic aspect? Is it possible that we learn things that are counterproductive and only lead to reduced gains? We asked participants to choose cards to win rewards. Some cards had higher chances of winning than

Upcoming in JPSP Psychologists study morality by having people respond to hypothetical "trolley dilemmas". We confronted people with a real-life version. Not with runaway trolleys, but with people hooked up to electroshock machines: "Do you want to save two people from pain by