🚨New #preprint alert! 🚨 Excited (*100) about this new preprint from my brilliant PhD student Juan Vidal-Perez. We characterise important biases in how people learn from potential disinformation using reinforcement learning. Happy to hear comments/thoughts.

הייתי בן היום שנים כשלמדתי שיש אפליקציה של אגף השיקום במשרד הביטחון שנועדה לספק מענה ראשוני למתמודדים עם ptsd. shikum.mod.gov.il/medical/Mental…

Excited to share my first preprint with Amitai Shenhav Shenhav Lab “Fewer Voters Opt Out of Decisions to Reject the Worst Candidate” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 🧵🧵🧵

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Check out my Nature Human Behaviour invited "behind the paper" post that summarizes our recent article on backward prediction in human choice, "Why people predict backward or forward" communities.springernature.com/posts/why-peop… Yale Psychology Bar Ilan University Hebrew University #sciencecomm

Had a great time at MathPsych giving both an RL cognitive modeling workshop session as well as a talk presenting our recent paper showing countetfactual value learning for unchosen options even with no relevant information science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #iccmpsyched

משחק מאד ממכר. מתחילים ממה מביס אבן, וממשיכים הלאה. בינתיים השיא שלי זה 22 whatbeatsrock.com

New #RLC2024 paper Three Dogmas of Reinforcement Learning joint w/ Mark Ho and Anna Harutyunyan! arxiv.org/pdf/2407.10583 We reflect on where our scientific paradigm needs adjustment, and suggest three departures from previous conventions. Curious to hear what folks think! 🧵

New preprint! The first from my postdoc, on work with basvanopheusden Evan Russek and Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab. We use a data set of over two million decisions to show that people employ sophisticated learning algorithms in naturalistic strategic behavior. More in 🧵osf.io/preprints/psya…

A marmoset appears to use a distinct call to address another marmoset. Until now, this ability to label another member of your specie was thought to be present only in humans, dolphins, and elephants. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

לא כותב על מדע בדרך כלל אבל זה מטורף. תמיסה שמורחים על העור הופכת את העור לשקוף ומאפשרת הצצה לאיברים פנימיים. העכבר בתמונה חי, המשחה לא מזיקה ונשטפת במים. בקיצור הוספת מולק' בולעות בתחום האולט' סגול משנות את מקדם השבירה בתחום הנראה. קישור למאמר בתגובה הבאה Matan Arbel-Groissman Rock Mada

Now replicated for Harris-Trump! Once again, if you want to uncover the preferences of undecided voters, you should ask them which candidate they would vote AGAINST rather than which candidate they would vote FOR! Something to think about when poll numbers don't add up to 100..

Publication alert🚨! Happy to share my latest work with Lion Schulz Michael; mastodon: @[email protected] Vaughan Bell Peter Dayan and Joe Barnby, published on Computational Psychiatry cpsyjournal.org/articles/10.53…. TL;DR: theory of mind is a dual edge sward in social situations. 1/3

My first first-author paper with Joey Heffner Gloria Feng Jutta Joormann & Robb Rutledge is now published in PNASNews! 🎉 Human- and ChatGPT-rated language sentiment of brief text responses predicted changes in depression. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Yale Psychology Yale University 🧵(1/n)

Excited to finally share this preprint on bioRxiv! Here we uncover a novel role of amygdala in reinforcement learning (RL), within the framework of arbitration between competing models of the environment: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… (1/n)