PI at the cog-sci dept at the university of Haifa. Social-cognitive-computational psychology, and sometimes neuroscience.
www.socialdecisionlab.net
Uri Hertz
New preprint led by @lucasmolleman.bsky.social investigates social information use across the human lifespan. Testing >40,000 participants aged 6-80 in museums in Berlin and Japan. psyarxiv.com/hec96
Happy to share the early-access version of our new paper " Active conflict and national identity shape intergroup bias among Arabic and Hebrew speakers in Israel" led by Fady Khoury. Fady was interested in the way first and second language shape social decisions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientific Reports - Active conflict and national identity shape intergroup bias among Arabic and Hebrew speakers in Israel
Children's prosocial and selfish rule-breaking following an implicit quid pro quo
🚨Recent work by Leon Li and Sebastian Grueneisen
Uri Hertz
Ralf Kurvers
I'm staying at my friend's house. Will my friend expect to stay at my house, next time?
What if I said, I'm staying at my parent's friend's house. Will my parent's friend expect to stay at my house next time?
How relationships change expectations: see🧵on new paper by @aliciamchen.bsky.social
🚨Preprint alert🚨 Research on discourse incoherence (e.g., in psychosis) usually focuses on patients' language, but what happens to people who interact with misaligned partners? Using a novel approach, we show evidence for reciprocity in semantic misalignment. 🧵👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...
First an epidemic of anxiety, and now an epidemic of infertility: "Overall, the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44."
New article out in @natcomms.nature.com
Reference-point dependent reinforcement learning in humans and rats
By Lachlan Ferguson, Magda Soukupova (co-first), Seb Bouret, me and Shauna Parkes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
doi.org
New preprint from the lab! Here, @yongling.bsky.social shows that people prioritise self / ingroup-related information to guide their decisions - irrespective of their autistic traits.
🌵🏜️🌵 Out now in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @rbhui.bsky.social!
If your advisor sends you an unclear email, do you interpret it as good or bad? 😏😱
In a new paper, we show how people make inferences about this type of ambiguous feedback during learning.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
New episode!! 🎙️🎉
A conversation w/ @vivek123.bsky.social about Man the Hunter.
The idea that male hunting propelled our evolution is old and contested. Yet it endures, especially in the popular imagination. Is it merely a "paleofantasy," or is there more to it?
Listen: disi.org/is-man-the-h...
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Rebecca Saxe
We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…
New paper with @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social "Expectations of reciprocal generosity are specific to equal relationships," in @openmindjournal.bsky.social. Thread below!
Article: doi.org/10.1162/opmi...
MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/would-y...
People generally only engage in reciprocal generosity with others of equal or unknown status, MIT researchers experimentally demonstrated. During repeated interactions between people of different soci...
😀Excited to share the new preprint!!!🥳
We show preserved self–other integration in social decision-making among individuals with elevated autistic traits (N = 1,621), highlighting the importance of large samples to validate null effects.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Autistic people can find social interactions difficult to navigate, traditionally attributed to difficulties in taking others' perspectives. However, we have a limited understanding of how autistic pe...
