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The Behavioral Lab at the UCLA Anderson School of Management is looking to hire its next Lab Manager! Applications will be reviewed starting April 30th.

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Second @natehaines.bsky.social
Start with Likelihood-Free Methods for Cognitive Science:
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
Then, more contemporary stuff (amortized inference). This is a good review
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Practically speaking tho, I would just check @bayesflow.org .

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

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Nice to see more work converging on this. Check out our work on the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms:
bsky.app/profile/oleg...

🚨NEW PREPRINT (w/ Fleming Peck & Hongjing Lu)

"Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networks"

We are constantly predicting what will happen next. Yet the same cue can lead to different predictions depending on context.

How might this work...? 🧵1/8

How do people search for information to make efficient decisions?

Our new theory, now out in Psychological Review, suggests that an efficient search rule is (at the core of) the answer. And eye-tracking data support our theory.

Check out here (it's open access): psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

8 days left to submit to the Human x AI Finance conference!
- 🏆 $1,000 prize for the best paper.
- ✈️ The top 4 papers will be invited for presentation at the Fink Center Conference on Financial Markets at UCLA Anderson School of Management (travel and lodging included).
🔗 humanxaifinance.org

8 days left to submit to the Human x AI Finance conference!
- 🏆 $1,000 prize for the best paper.
- ✈️ The top 4 papers will be invited for presentation at the Fink Center Conference on Financial Markets at UCLA Anderson School of Management (travel and lodging included).
🔗 humanxaifinance.org

Worth a look if you're running online studies. Happy to be a part of this, great work led by Grace. Check out Oleg's thread; feedback welcome!

Book cover. A silhouette of a person's head filled with colorful geometric shapes—perhaps symbolizing cognitive resources or deployment thereof. The style is attractive and modern, if generic. text: The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources Falk Lieder, Frederick Callaway, Thomas L. Griffithts

I'm excited to announce that I had my first (co-authored) book published today! "The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources" with Falk Lieder and Tom Griffiths (@cocoscilab.bsky.social ). You can read it for free! (see thread)

🚨City announcement🚨
LA — science is coming back to the land of lights, labs, and big ideas 🌴🔬🍻
See you May 18–20, 2026 for #Pint26!
👉 pintofscience.us/team/Los%20A...

;) join us!

Decomposing Economic Choices with Drift-Diffusion Models Many decisions arise from a dynamic process of information accumulation and comparison. Thus, to fully understand decision-making, we must decompose the choice process into its parts. Here, we review ...

Chapter 📖 "Decomposing Economic Choices with Drift-Diffusion Models" with @krajbichlab.bsky.social and Xiaozhi (Taro) Yang is out in, "Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions" edited by @dvsmith.bsky.social, @thepsychologist.bsky.social, @dfareri.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/yey56tup

One initial line of defense could be to require transparency statements regarding how instruments have been vetted to combat malicious users, based on best practices (like a STAR editor check). In a recent workshop, we aimed to create such a compendium (see @andreaaaaa.bsky.social for access)!

Agreed. Team has been working to create a system for data validation for online research based on the collective effort from our workshop at SJDM this year. Stay tuned!
kiante-fernandez.github.io/sjdm-data-va...

Why do some things stick in memory while others fade?
Next Tue, Dec 9, Alan Castel (UCLA) will be presenting in
@motcogmeet.bsky.social online talk series on “Memory Selectivity in Younger and Older Adults: A Value-Directed Remembering Approach.” 1/

Join us! (link below)

There's hope! This is an adversarial game, researchers will need to continuously innovate to stay ahead

@kiante.bsky.social @andreaaaaa.bsky.social & @jbogard.bsky.social ran an excellent workshop at #SJDM2025 to help folks get started

Materials here:
kiante-fernandez.github.io/sjdm-data-va...

New paper in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social, where we show how attention impacts political choices. With an eye-tracking study, we find that people's votes aren't set in stone - they take longer to vote on divisive issues and can be swayed by gaze manipulations. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Thanks again to the Society for Judgment and Decision Making for helping continue the discussion on creating a system for data validation in the age of accessible bots in online research. Looking forward to continuing the conversation with the community!
@sjdm-tweets.bsky.social

Some general principles about how AI agents perform on online tasks.

The activities tab from the URL in the post.

A discussion activity slide.

How can we identify or block #AI #survey respondents?

@andreaaaaa.bsky.social, Kianté Fernandez, @jbogard.bsky.social, and Craig Fox demoed examples, facilitated discussion, and tested our live suggestions.

See their Modern Threats to Online Surveys: kiante-fernandez.github.io/sjdm-data-va...

Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others Nature Communications - When learning to make choices that simultaneously affect the self and others, asymmetric encoding of information guides future social behaviors across mutually beneficial,...

📢 Thrilled to share our paper is out now in @natcomms.nature.com

Shared computations underlie how we acquire actions that are mutually beneficial, instrumentally harmful (benefits self at the expense of others), altruistic (benefit others at the expense of self), or mutually costly

🧵 rdcu.be/eL8mZ

Excited to share our new paper out in PNAS: “Neural predictors of hidden, persistent psychological states at work.” Full paper at bit.ly/47oaGRR

We brought portable fNIRS into the field to predict the subjective work-related “lenses” of business leaders. Check out the thread below for more! 1/8

We’re hiring!

@sucholutsky.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell

Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁

postdoc: apply.interfolio.com/175495

RA: apply.interfolio.com/175497

Shoutout to @bshev.bsky.social for presenting his amazing research titled "Distinct food attribute representations emerge across binge-type eating disorders" at the 2025 Society for Neuroeconomics meeting this past weekend! 🧠💡 #SNE2025
@lauraaberner.bsky.social @kiante.bsky.social

Neural coding of choice and outcome are modulated by uncertainty in orbitofrontal but not secondary motor cortex - Nature Communications Neural mechanisms underlying flexible learning and decision-making are not fully understood. Using single-cell calcium imaging, authors here found that neurons in orbitofrontal and secondary motor cortex exhibit complementary roles in reward learning, with neurons in the former exerting a sustained role in conditions of uncertainty.

🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@socforneuroecon.bsky.social

That’s a wrap for #SNE2025! Grateful for the chance to share some of our recent work as a spotlight this year and thankful to the society for supporting me as one of this year’s travel award winners along with @gloriawfeng.bsky.social, @jaehyungwoo.bsky.social, Laura Globig, and Minho Hwang)!

Probability weighting arises from boundary repulsions of cognitive noise www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09....

Announcing our FALL Schedule! Please like and share!
@kendraseaman.bsky.social @colleencfrank.bsky.social @sebastianshorn.bsky.social @kimberlychiew.bsky.social @zitamayer.bsky.social @srndna.bsky.social

Simulations are no longer just “nice to have.” They’re reshaping how we do statistics.

Care to learn more? Check out our paper arxiv.org/abs/2503.24011, accepted for publication in the upcoming theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A.