Jake Embrey

This implies you're not flying first class. Peasant

*well, our estimates of participants’ cognitive ability. Here’s the preprint. We demonstrate the general effect and also interrogate potential reasons this relationship exists + consequences for theorists and practitioner. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint with @krefeldschwalb.bsky.social. We show that the smarter* people are, the greater the correlation between distinct estimates of their economic preferences.

OK, Ackman is obviously the world’s biggest bozo, but I fail to see how saying you inherited good genes is “eugenics”. Are these people saying that genes don’t impact behaviour, or that you don’t inherit genes from your parents?

Trader Joe's is sold out of cheese curds. Fair enough to call 911, right?

@rcarl.bsky.social !

If you’re a sicko, you can always import Computer Modern font. Me, I just use comic sans and wordart.

Overleaf is great. It only takes 2-3x as long as the same task in Word or docs, but you feel much smarter once you eventually debug it.

Anything north of the bridge is Queensland to me.

Information is a measure of uncertainty reduced.

That's not an especially difficult or complex idea, but for the pros who cover him, it still seems to be too much. "He talked, but watch out because there is no information value in what he said" still eludes them. See below. Via @dceiver.bsky.social

@jakeembrey.bsky.social nice shoutout in the final keynote of Prof Ben Newell. Conference due to end, what a blast! @expsyanz.bsky.social

Happy Bloomsday Joyceans!

Quite obvious the author is joking

Big Five debunked

Wouldn’t mind seeing someone have a proper crack at the aphantasia literature too.

Such mixed feelings when the kids grow up and leave home 🥹 #TACO
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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):

Not that they represent the views of the meta science crowd, but there’s a prominent figure whose posts err on the win taking side.

bluesky isn’t exactly the Supreme Court . It’s pretty obvious what the intentions and consequences of this EO will be and I think good faith interpretations are a waste of breath.

Why even bother with a good faith reading of this?

The EO has to be interpreted in light of the (decades long) Republican attack on science.

This has nothing to do with improving science. They're using legitImate criticism from within science to (ironically) decrease the credibility of science. They then have no obligation to listen to scientists.

A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making Recent research from economics, psychology, cognitive science, computer science, and marketing is increasingly interested in the idea that people face cognitive costs when making decisions. Reviewing and synthesizing this research, we develop a framework of cognitive costs that organizes concepts along a temporal dimension and maps out when costs occur in the decision-making process and how they impact decisions. Our unifying framework broadens the scope of research on cognitive costs to a wider timeline of cognitive processing. We identify implications and recommendations emerging from our framework for intervening on behavior to tackle some of the most pressing issues of our day, from improving health and saving decisions to mitigating the consequences of climate change.

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A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making Recent research from economics, psychology, cognitive science, computer science, and marketing is increasingly interested in the idea that people face cognitive costs when making decisions. Reviewing ...

New paper in TiCS out now.

A big interdisciplinary effort on how cognitive costs arise and affect different stages of the decision-making process.

I've reduced the entry-costs by sharing the paper in your feed!

Effort paradox redux: Rethinking how effort shapes social behavior Effort is a fundamental paradox in human behavior: while organisms typically avoid it as costly and aversive, effort is also valued and actively pursu…

🚨New paper alert! 🚨

I've been fascinated by this contradiction for years: we hate exerting effort, yet we value things more when they're difficult to achieve. Is the effort paradox real, illusory, or adaptive? Have a read!

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Boston is such an academic city that Stroop tasks are part of the public transportation system

Not using the pro version here is quite the strawman. I'm far from an AI booster—I use LLMs a handful of times per week—but the "AI sucks at everything" angle really flies in the face of reality. Tasks LLMs were useless at 2 years ago are now easily accomplished by even the simplest models.

Labor landslide win inducing some serious homesickness

Landslide win for Albanese and Labor as Dutton loses seat Fighting back tears as he addresses supporters, Anthony Albanese flashes his often displayed Medicare card and vows to get back to work tomorrow.

ok when he said "the best nation on earth" i did felt that

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Will go for Bill Callahan alone... devastated I missed him last week.

i love to get up to speed on a new corner of psychology. i love to read verbatim the same opening paragraph 15 times in a row