Paper led by @unc's Ben Rogers (about to start a job at Boston College), and included Mike Christian Emily Kubin jonah berger Curtis Puryear and many other amazing folks not on Twitter. HJ fig by KevinCreative.com Full text, author list, and scale: bit.ly/3H8umuC

I am hiring a post-doc! Come work with me at CIMeC CIMeC UniTrento in Italy to figure out the neural mechanisms of predictions for action execution. I am looking for expertise in brain imaging, ideally MEG or EEG. Please RT!

Provo a ritornare con il sempre opinionatissimo “cinque link a settimana” Sostenitori: fate massima pubblicità! albertoacerbi.substack.com/p/i-link-della…

Jim Fan As Max Tegmark said, the 3 things AI researchers knew would not be done in the future because it was obviously dangerous, were: 1) Don’t teach it about humans so it can’t manipulate us, (YouTube recommender algos etc.) 2) Don’t let it access all human knowledge (connect it to

Congrats to Claudio Brozzoli, who yesterday brilliantly obtained his HDR! Excellent talk and discussion: action and peripersonal space; language and embodied cognition; language and tool use evolution; brain plasticity. with Gilly Forrester pf. ferrari f. de vignemont e. macaluso

👏Congratulazione a Giulia Andrighetto, dirigente di ricerca ISTC_CNR e coordinatrice del LABSS_CNR, che ha ricevuto un Advanced Grant dal Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS), con il progetto "NORMS@RISK: dynamics of social norms under collective risk” 👉cnr.it/it/news/12157

Finally out: evolutionary model of ownership psychology: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… Interaction of competitive acquisition + cooperation → ownership intuitions, norms, institutions. For free proofs: pascalboyer.net/articles/2022B…

On language, social interaction, and abstract concepts. I have to thank a lot of people ... for collaborations, discussions, insights. cambridge.org/core/books/fre…

New paper out with Joseph Stubbersfield "Large language models show human-like content biases in transmission chain experiments" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Last week we had our workshop on social norms and behavioral change in the climate crisis in Villa San Michele on the beautiful island of Capri organized with @vrienseva.

Last, but not least, annaborghi and luca tummolini talks at the #CogSci2024 symposium on the flexibility of abstract words organized by Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi

Still few days to register at the next AISC conference in Rome to discuss about Hybrid Minds and the future of cognitive science. In the meantime check the program and our line up of invited speakers: aisc2024.istc.cnr.it/speakers-and-p…

I had a fantastic time speaking today at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies in Rome; and on the 19th I’ll be giving a keynote to the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences entitled – “Discovering Cognitive Structure using Large-Scale Social Data and

Are you an experimental psychologist interested in the sense of ownership and looking for a post-doc? Then the following job post is your perfect match! Apply and join our fellow’s luca tummolini research team for an exciting project! Info ⤵️bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegn…

🎆As NYE approaches is time to take stock, and we did it with a new paper reassessing the Words As social Tools (WAT) proposal🎆 Take a look at it: doi.org/10.1016/j.plre…

Amiche e amici di Roma, questo venerdì sarò alla libreria Tomo a presentare Tecnopanico!

Happy to share a new Perspective exploring the role of social interaction in the representation and grounding of abstract concepts. With Anna Borghi and Claudia Mazzuca (she/her). Check it here: rdcu.be/elbbT

I have been wondering about the peculiar motivational force of social norms for a long time. Here is our latest stab at mapping the territory combining Carol Dweck’s theory of psychological needs and the computational approach to intrinsic motivations. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…