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Help with meta-analysis! (Link below) We (@IMC_Lab) are doing a meta-analysis on abnormal inflation, where people are more inclined to agree that abnormal factors are causes, and abnormal selection, where people are more likely to select abnormal factors as causes.
Chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects on @biorxivpreprint #absence #zero #numbersense #representingabsence #nothingness https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.20.427266v1 @so_evolutionary @GCsibra
“If you come forward with something that is not connected to the current reality, people don’t know what to do with it. What many academics do is to spend the next 5-10 yrs putting the connections in place to make what’s being proposed a natural extension of what existed before.” https://twitter.com/ceptional/status/1349442403158036481
Founder of Moderna explains that it's fortunate they weren't in academia - they would have had a tough time publishing their discoveries, due to skepticism by journal editors and reviewers. https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/noubar-afeyan/
when one is deep into a fine grained debate on the *accuracy* of a facial recognition system in recognizing, say, India vs Nepalese faces, they have already lost the ground — they proceed from the fallacious premise that race/ethnicity can be read off of faces.
Super excited that this work with @SarinArunima, @justin_w_martin, and @fierycushman is now out in Cognition! https://twitter.com/SarinArunima/status/1349461621408559107
People often respond to bad behaviour by punishing the perpetrator. But what makes punishments effective? Find out in our new paper, forthcoming in Cognition!! 🥳🎉 Work with @Mark_Ho_ @justin_w_martin @fierycushman URL: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cJsC2Hx2jEGG Highlights👇🏽 1/n
Behavioral science Research Assistant position in Marketing department at @ChicagoBooth, with @abbysussman and @OlegUrminsky. https://forms.gle/ozQusEsuNhCbN71RA
Our paper 'Large Image Datasets: A Pyrrhic Win for Computer Vision?' is now live in the WACV 2021 proceedings! 🎉🥳 cc. @vinayprabhu https://conferences.computer.org/wacvpub/#!/toc/0
New year, new paper! So excited to share the latest work from myself, Elliott Johnson, @jprabhakar85 & @sghetti1 - Memory-related hippocampal activation during sleep and temporal memory in toddlers https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929320301572?via%3Dihub
New WP “Reasoning about climate change” w @DG_Rand @GordPennycook https://psyarxiv.com/vcpkb We test causal effect of reasoning on evidence assessment ➤No evidence reasoning increases direct effect of partisanship (PMR) ➤ Instead it increases coherence w prior factual beliefs 1/
The end of 2020 brings us to the end of the tenures of both Executive Editors, @RickPCooper and @CogsciWayne. Please join me, the Board, and members throughout @cogsci_soc in thanking them for their dedication and service to Cognitive Science. Kevin Gluck, CSS Chair