🚨 New Preprint w. Falk Lieder 🌟Key takeaway: directing people’s attention to the positive effects on those outside of their inner circles boosts charitable contributions significantly. 🚀 osf.io/preprints/psya…

🎉Our abstract got accepted by the European Conference on Positive Psychology 2024: What (Doesn’t) Limit People’s Prosociality in Social Dilemma Situations dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.… (By Patricia Groß @Tao_Burga Erola Pons Glen W Spiteri Maximilian Maier 🔍 Vanessa Cheung Zahra Tahmasebi Falk Lieder)

📘 Excited to share our chapter (Falk Lieder Mike Prentice, PhD) in the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research: #LifeImprovementScience, the scientific pursuit of knowledge that is useful for motivating people to do more good in better ways dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.…

🔴Metacognitive Learning Shapes Moral Decision-Making🔴 by Vanessa Cheung, Maximilian Maier 🔍, Falk Lieder: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.… 🎉Looking forward to presenting this at the International Conference on Thinking (ICT) in Milan, June 2024. (ict2024.com)

Do people tend to care less about morally significant consequences than how much they believe others should care about these situations? We present our findings about "Hypocrisy in Moral Decision-Making" at 2024 #UCLA PURC! dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.…

Metachangemaking: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Research on Cultivating Changemakers dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.… by: Brandon Reynante, John Wilcox , Oliver L Stephenson, Falk Lieder, Chris Lacopo

Are humans selfish? Do they not behave prosocially, even in situations when the outcome would be beneficial both to themselves and society? Helen LIU will present our findings on "Why Aren’t People More Prosocial" this Friday at 2024 #UCLA PURC! dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.…

Playing educational games but not making much learning progress? Our study introduces Brain Points, the optimal gamification rewards that incentivize users to choose learning activities toward balanced skill development. researchgate.net/publication/37… At #UCLA #PURC by Tinn

New preprint with Maximilian Maier 🔍 and Falk Lieder, titled "Large Language Models Amplify Human Biases in Moral Decision-Making." In this paper, LLMs and participants make decisions in realistic moral dilemmas. We found that LLMs exhibited stronger omission bias than participants.

We updated our preprint on moral learning, now titled "Metacognitive Learning from Consequences of Past Choices Shapes Moral Decision-Making," with three new experiments and computational modeling to capture differences in individual learning styles. Vanessa Cheung Falk Lieder

#PostDoc #Opportunity ! Join an international team University of Waterloo Sam Johnson Falk Lieder Thomas Hills Cendri Hutcherson; work on #NLP/#LLM to study how people from diff cultures handle challenging & uncertain situations. Start early 2025. Connect at #ecp21berlin! #AcademicTwitter

New open position for a full-time paid research assistant! Please share with potentially interested recent graduates... Email [email protected] with inquiries or applications (attach a CV and cover letter).

We're excited to invite you to our workshop series on Using Large Language Models in Psychological Research on Fridays from 9:15 to 10:15 am (PST). To register, please complete this form: forms.gle/KAVonkQYPhdQSP…

🚀 Want to pursue a PhD in psychology? The Rational Altruism Lab @ UCLA seeks 1-2 students passionate about decision-making, morality, and improving society through behavioral experiments & computational modeling. Apply by 12/1: ralab.psych.ucla.edu/get-involved/ #PhD #psychology #morality

We updated this preprint (osf.io/preprints/psya…) with a new study investigating sources of this yes-no framing bias and amplified omission bias in LLM moral decision-making. Results suggest that they likely arise from fine-tuning for chatbot applications. Maximilian Maier 🔍 Falk Lieder

New preprint w/ Maximilian Maier 🔍, Harry Coulson & Falk Lieder: Telling people their global income rank (RBN) increased charitable donations. Also explored RBN’s effect on perceived global income distribution + whether asking how much others should donate increased giving (IDT) 🧵…

New preprint w/ Maximilian Maier 🔍, Vanessa Cheung, Fiery Cushman, & Falk Lieder: Disentangling Model-Based and Model-Free Moral Learning doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… Excited to present this work at #CogSci2025!

🎓 Remote Thesis for Undergrad & Master's Students Globally 🌍 1. Pick a project on modeling/improving moral decision-making/learning (with AI) 2. Get mentored by Falk Lieder 3. Do rigorous research 4. Publish ⏳ Apply by Aug 15 2025: ralab.psych.ucla.edu/thesis-opportu…