Ross Otto

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OK

you better turn this around in a week

now give it an IAT

'in this house...'

How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making - npj Science of Learning npj Science of Learning - How decoy options ferment choice biases in real-world consumer decision-making

do classic decoy effects take place in real-world shopping decisions?

wine purchase records in a massive grocery dataset says: yes

new work with (former) student Sean Devine, @anyaskatova.bsky.social , James Goulding, and John Harvey

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

(sorry for the titular pun)

'dude that was a huge rip'

ah you must mean a team of smarties

new work just out by (now Dr!) Anna Jos in collaboration with
@awestbrook.bsky.social

how do pupil diameter changes track the behavioral expression of flexible versus stable control?

find out NOW in the latest issue of Psychophysiology :

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

bayesians gotta relax with the taking credit for the concept of infering things about the world

“Je prends une blonde “ is all you need yet oddly they did not teach you that there

i'll give you the book the next time i see you and you can suss it out, is this what humanists call a deep read

Self-pubbed book my dept mailbox today (and everyone’s ) . Are we the sorcerers here ? Hmu if you want my copy

Noodles Being Asleep finals

At #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including:
- amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks
- panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social)
- group brainstorming session!

Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild

The social transmission of metacontrol policies: Mechanisms underlying the interpersonal transfer of persistence and flexibility Humans often face binary cognitive-control dilemmas, with the choice between persistence and flexibility being a crucial one. Tackling these dilemmas …

also a review looking more generality at persisitence v flexibility across these two groups (again not sure quality of evidence in any single study!) : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Religion and action control: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not Stop-Signal performance Previous findings suggest that religion has a specific impact on attentional processes. Here we show that religion also affects action control. Experi…

from what I understand it permeates (at least) down to the response conflict 'level' (e.g. protestants v catholics)

also putting this on my next UG decision seminar syllabus !

this tracks, as an armchair conspiracy theorist (but not in any way that touches on political, interpersonal, or professional matters, haha) I would say half the fun of theorizing is being massively, supremely overconfident

bsky.app/profile/grac...

I aint clicking that

Take that , computational psychiatry

Something something born in the USA

are you more top-down or [chugs bottle]

great connecting with you, whom I trust !

ashamedly i've never tried this (from Kahneman's 1973 'Attention and Effort')

“My treaty “

we're working on this exact hand-waving theory paper right now, sit tight!

social psychology in the wild: it's surprising, in may cases, which (canadian) people here take firm stances about (not) visiting the states, similarly as it was hard to predict, during you-know-what, who was going to become lockdown restriction enthusiasts (versus lockdown loosey goosies).

“A knock-out result “