When do others' opinions shape our beliefs? Do ⭐ ratings guide purchases, ❤️ likes guide shares, and 📊 polls guide votes? Our new review covers 300+ studies (!) across psych, phil, & poli sci w/ Tania Lombrozo Article: go.nature.com/40lJX56 PDF: rdcu.be/d5tor

I was ecstatic to publish my first paper in Cognition. This paper is now preceded by an *inaccurate* AI-generated Q&A. Elsevier, stop this. You know LLMs hallucinate. You know we spend years crafting our papers to be maximally accurate. This is an insult.

🎉Life update🎉 After 6 wonderful years at Psychology@Princeton, I am officially *Dr.* Oktar! Next: Postdoc Meta FAIR studying LLM social cognition w/ Asli Celikyilmaz; then, postdoc Kellogg School studying disagreement w/ Eli Finkel & Nour Kteily! Thanks Tania Lombrozo for the hood :)

🚨 New preprint: "Identifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Risks of AI Thought Partnerships"! 🚨 We propose a framework for understanding unique risks posed by AI thought partners (AITPs)—AI systems that collaborate with humans on complex reasoning tasks, not just simple tool use

🚨Out in PNAS🚨 with CoCoSci MIT & Rebecca Saxe Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire. Our computational cognitive model explains why! Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7 News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu 🧵

My Lab at the University of Edinburgh🇬🇧 has funded PhD positions for this cycle! We study the computational principles of how people learn, reason, and communicate. It's a new lab, and you will be playing a big role in shaping its culture and foundations. Spread the words!

How come LLM agents can carry out remarkable tasks like coding full-stack apps but still fall for poorly crafted pop-up scams? We formalize this using the psychological concept of motivational vigilance. Come to our PragLM spotlight talk (11:15 am 520B) and poster (1:30-2:30 pm

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