Very interesting research paper that shows that using AI with programming can significantly reduce mastery over topics. Perhaps unsurprising, but the lack of significant speed gains in this exercise are remarkable
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We also find that the preference for epistemic (roll first, guess after) uncertainty is stable even among participants who had never seen dice, suggesting that the preference is not specific to this particular cultural artifact. 🎲
Importantly, although past work has suggested that adults prefer the opposite (guessing first), we find no reversal of this trend with age. This suggests that adults' uncertainty preferences may be more dependent on context than previously believed.
In our new paper Hadi Mohamadpour, @janengelmann.bsky.social, Helen Elizabeth Davis, Justine Krieger, Bettina Grø Sorensen, @jeremykoster.bsky.social, Soomaayeh Heysieattalab, @dorsaamir.bsky.social & I show that kids in three diverse cultures prefer to guess after a die is thrown.
If you could win a prize by guessing the number on a die 🎲 hidden under a cup, would you want to guess before the die was rolled, or after?
The odds of winning are the same in both, but they can feel different. 🧵
Screenshotted title and abstract from this paper: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251331658
From fancy cars 🚗 to luxury vacations 🏖️, people often show off how they spend their money.
In new work with @joshackman.bsky.social, we find that how this flashy behavior is perceived depends on WHAT purchases are being shown off.
🧵on conspicuous consumption, experiences, and status signals (1/7)
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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