Bence Bago

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I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.

We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.

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published today in @natclimate.nature.com with @bencebago.bsky.social & @philmuller.bsky.social

We used Llama-3 70B to subtly rewrite climate headlines and make them palatable for skeptics. 2,000 US participants upvoted, downvoted, bookmarked headlines in a reddit-styled experiment. +

13.10.2025 09:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science - Nature Climate Change Climate sceptics tend to avoid climate information, making it even harder to reduce scepticism. This study shows that generative AI can enhance sceptics’ engagement with climate news by tailoring headlines to their existing perspective and shift their beliefs towards the scientific consensus.

Climate skeptics actively engage in information avoidance. We need to bring them to the facts and let the facts do their work:

❝Using generative AI to increase sceptics’ engagement with climate science❞

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

13.10.2025 09:13 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

20.09.2025 09:15 — 👍 92    🔁 77    💬 1    📌 4

The science fiction science method - Nature The ‘science fiction science’ method simulates future technologies and collects quantitative data on the attitudes and behaviours of participants in various future scenarios, with the aim of predictin...

We need data, not guesses, on how future tech may reshape behavior & society. Our new paper with @azimshariff.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social out in @nature.com spells out a framework we call the ❝science fiction science method❞ (sci-fi-sci) +

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

06.08.2025 15:26 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 3

Recognising, Anticipating, and Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research Online behavioural research faces an emerging threat as participants increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) for advice, translation, or task delegation: LLM Pollution. We identify three int...

🚨New paper alert!

"Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research"

Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵

w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social &
Anne-Marie Nussberger

arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390

05.08.2025 08:04 — 👍 38    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 3

🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨

We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

27.06.2025 09:57 — 👍 124    🔁 40    💬 4    📌 8

🐶New preprint🐶
led by Neslihan Karakas

We let participants have an open-ended conversation about meat consumption with ChatGPT-4o to test if this affects their attitudes & beliefs about eating meat.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

28.10.2024 14:31 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

New pre-print with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social !

Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science

Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

19.11.2024 11:19 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

New pre-print with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social !

Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science

Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

19.11.2024 11:19 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0