@carstenmurawski.bsky.social
Decision scientist | Professor at University of Melbourne | Director of Centre for Brain, Mind and Markets Interested in how properties of neurocognitive computations and computational constraints affect decision-making https://unimelb.edu.au/cbmm
"Decision Making: Fundamentals and Applications". Our new edited book due to appear in @springernature.com later this year! @carstenmurawski.bsky.social #DecisionScience #DecisionMaking #Psychology #Psychiatry #Neuroscience #Philosophy
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
01.07.2025 18:25 — 👍 534 🔁 228 💬 10 📌 15
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Franziska Knolle.
💡Topic: From Risk to Disorder: Decision-Making Dysfunctions in Psychosis
📅 Date: Thursday, 3 July 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
Why do women experience such significant disadvantages within the financial system, and what can we do about it?
And why isn't academic finance interested in these questions? New research with @carstenmurawski.bsky.social and Nitin Yadav.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/intere...
Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain?
@andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in
@natneuro.nature.com:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Nura Sidarus.
💡Topic: Investigating negative self-attribution and self-evaluation biases in depression
📅 Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/mo8p
Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow:
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
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TODAY!
09.04.2025 23:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Constantin Rothkopf.
💡Topic: Eye Movements As Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty
📅 Date: Thursday, 10 April 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 5pm AEDT
🔗 go.unimelb.edu.au/h2jp
Tonight!
@ulrichettinger.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social @unimelb-cbmm.bsky.social #unimelb
Our next speaker in the Bonn-Melbourne seminar series on decision-making and computational psychiatry is Professor Andrea Reiter.
💡Topic: Social Decision-Making from Adolescence to Adulthood
📅 Date: 27 March 2025
🕖 Time: 9am CEST / 7pm AEDT
🔗 More information: www.unimelb.edu.au/cbmm/about-u...
Book cover of Patriarchy Inc.: What we get wrong about gender equality and why men still win at work by Cordelia Fine
My latest book, Patriarchy Inc., is out now in the UK, published by @atlanticbooks.bsky.social and distributed by @allenandunwin.bsky.social in Australia.
More information at www.cordelia-fine.com/patriarchy-i...
Out now: our new paper entitled "The Relationship Between Schizotypal Personality Traits and Temporal Discounting: The Role of the Date/Delay Effect" in a Schizophrenia Bulletin special issue on Neuroscience of Schizotypy! academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
05.03.2025 07:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical
The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨
tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
There are some exciting talks coming up in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! Please DM if you would like to join. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social
www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...
I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s...
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We totally did not see this coming 🙄
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"It's a lot harder than taking even very demanding coures. What makes it difficult is that research is immersion in the unknown. We just don't know what we're doing. We can't be sure whether we're asking the right questions or doing the right experiment until we get the answer or the result."
26.11.2024 13:32 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
I am pleased to announce the next talk in the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! Please DM if you would like to join. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry @carstenmurawski.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
30.11.2024 11:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Join us online for the Bonn Melbourne Seminar in Decision Making and Computational Psychiatry! DM for login details. #DecisionMaking #ComputationalPsychiatry #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence #CompNeuroSky www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/...
22.11.2024 07:06 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0We are honoured to have you, and thank you for a fabulous talk!
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“[A] model that fits empirical data sets may still fail as a psychological theory, for example, if the model implies properties of cognitive systems that are theoretically implausible or incoherent.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #decisionmaking #subsetchoice #intractable #theory #cogsci
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