✨New preprint✨How does repeated exposure to transgressions online shape moral judgment? Results show two competing processes: 💠We get desensitized = ⬇️ wrong 💠Transgression seems more infamous =⬆️wrong Relative strength of each may predict outrage to viral transgressions

🌵Out now! Using an RL task that manipulates people's beliefs about agency, we show that exposure to & severity of early-life adversity is associated with lower learning rates & agency beliefs. w/ the brillant Phelps Lab , Kate McLaughlin, & Bryan Dong learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/1/a…

How do we think about our future learning curves for a new skill? 💭 Check out our new paper on people's intuitions about skill acquisition julia_a_leonard Sam McDougle

The Red Queen believed "6 impossible things before breakfast." What about *inconceivable* things? For your breakfast read, check out the new preprint: "Shades of Zero: Distinguishing Impossibility from Inconceivability" (by Jennifer Hu, Sosa, & me) arxiv.org/pdf/2502.20469

Watch this video. Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants remembered one, but it wasn’t there. Why? In a new paper in press Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Congrats to my first PhD student Dr Xiuyuan Flora Zhang 张修远!!!!! Make sure to follow her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition!

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Apply in link below...

🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025!🚨📣 Please retweet/share widely, and spread the word to interested candidates! Application review begins April 30 Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)

The Emotion Health and Psychophysiology lab at Yale University is hiring a lab manager. Applicants should have a BA/BS in psychology or related field. Please send CV/resume and cover letter to [email protected]

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the all-new 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here psychologicalscience.org/publications/o…

Have you heard of left-digit bias? It’s our tendency to focus on the left-most digit of numbers, and it helps explain why a product on sale for $9.99 feels like a bargain compared to a product on sale for $10. Learn more on #Choiceology with Devin Pope! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cen…

On Wednesday, May 20, Dr. Steven Sloman’s book, “The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray,” came out, published by the MIT Press, providing insight into fields of decision science. copsy.brown.edu/news/2025-05-2…

🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆 There are two open positions: 1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition. 2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety. sites.google.com/corp/site/sydn…

🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango (letstango.org), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months doi.org/10.1038/s41562…

Excited to announce a new version of my app, designed to teach the relationships between causality and regression, and also how to decide which regression to run based on the researcher's beliefs about the plausible causal structures. benrottman.github.io/Causality_and_…

📢JOB POSTING: Senior Director for the Center for Enlightened Disagreement (CED).📢 Nour Kteily and I are seeking a strategic leader to help us build the Center (see ensuing post for information about CED). Target salary range: $125,000-$155,000. 1/2 careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/EM…

I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDxNewEngland last Fall! The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so. I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote. youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg1r…

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939 #AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

Recruiting PhD students! Join my new lab Dartmouth 🌲 Psychology! Looking for students who want to decode the science of conversation together. We'll study conversational dynamics, impression formation, and face-to-face interaction. Due Dec 1st bit.ly/4mSutgM