I understand that giving attention to fringe extremist ideologies can accelerate their normalisation. But it makes sense to pay attention to them -- I'd prefer I and others are introduced to these ideologies via respectable vs. shady outlets (that do not evaluate the negative connotations)...

The Mystery of the Political Assassin Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.

I saw many replies to this post, rationalising/justifying political violence on the left. So, I just want to put this out there: political violence makes our society unsafe, unstable, and rarely results in intended outcomes. The New Yorker made a good case against political violence recently.

Attentional guidance and priority maps | 4 | Attention and Cognition | A central characteristic of our perceptual system is its limited capacity. At any given moment, only a small subset of the information encoded by our senses

Read the article here: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... (write to us for a copy!)

For instance, are all the factors that influence attention (relevance, salience, experience) follow a flat organization or a hierarchy? Do these factors influence at the same stage or different stages? How do priority maps evolve over time? How do spatial and temporal attention contribute?

Very proud that our chapter on "attentional guidance and the priority map" (@toledanodaniel7.bsky.social & Dominique) is out! Many of us use the concept of priority map to explain why something was attended over another (92k hits!). We argued that this concept is too abstract & under-defined.

Since this is back…
Unfortunately, academic inflation and toxic productivity culture has all but done away with this. The effects of this on science advancement will be seen for generations. Slowing down and thinking deeply is essential to solve complex problems and it’s undervalued at every level

Types of psych paper: 1) my honours student needed a publication; 2) I have this enormous dataset that I don't know what to do with but isn't it cool? 3) people on MTurk can sometimes learn things; 4) children are like weird adults; 5) my model does the same thing as previous models but is Bayesian; 6) people make silly decisions; 7) I found random noise in my data and made up a big theory to address it; 8) my research doesn't need math but if I have equations people will think I'm smart; 9) my model doesn't explain things but has nice fits, see? 10) things get weird as soon as you have people in groups; 11) all of cogsci is like undergrads at my university; 12) humans, what the heck?!?

This is going around again! Clearly it's time to resurrect this which I made for twitter back when it was less evil.

Types of Psych Papers

[Note: it is slightly more cynical (for humour value) than I actually am]