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Sometimes it’s wild to think about the complexities of conversation.

We get together with all our information and lived experiences, and we make noises at each other, and (sometimes) leave with different information or different relationships with others.

How expectations affect conversational assessment and memory formation Conversations are complex. During a conversation, individuals must assess what is said, how it is said, as well as whether expectations about the conv…

Very happy to share our most recent paper, in which we propose and describe what we call the sociocognitive model of conversations. We believe it provides a holistic approach to studying the complexities of conversation.

Please check it out, it’s open source!

#Psychology #Conversations #Memory

Always something special about campus in the winter time. If you look close enough, you can see some snow capped mountains.

#Academia #Campus #Psychology

What if there was a superhero who had the superpower of just being really good at conversation? All they’d do was talk to the supervillain and the supervillain would forget all their evil plans.

#Comics #Psychology #Conversation

Who says this can’t be the best Monday of the semester?

Hoping everyone has a great week!

For those who celebrate Thanksgiving, it brings opportunities to catch up with loved ones.

It also means we have to have those dreaded conversations with *that* family member/friend.

What makes those conversations so awkward? Is it content? Is it behavior?

#Psychology #Thanksgiving #Conversation

Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

Excellent piece differentiating AI’s language use and human intelligence from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

AI’s language use is built upon data from the Internet, and repackages this data in the form of relevant (and seemingly interesting) responses. Very different than higher levels of cognition.

Very excited to be joining Bluesky! I’m Andrew and I’m a psychologist studying how we perceive, evaluate, and remember our conversational experiences.

Stoked to be here!

#psychology #language #conversations #memory