Bertalan Polner
@bertalanpolner.bsky.social
Individual differences in learning and decision-making in relation to mental health and resilience in daily life. Assistant Prof @Institute of Psychology, ELTE, Budapest HU & Visiting researcher @Donders Institute, Nijmegen NL
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New ESM study out in J Pers! 👀 We show that disorganized schizotypy specifically predicts both psychotic- and stress-reactivity in response to social, economic, and health-related stressors - thanks a lot Levente Rónai, Flóra Hann, and Szabolcs Kéri onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
todoist! You may use it as a simple to-do-list but you can also go wild and create projects, tasks, subtasks, set priorities, dates, etc. I guess that you get basic collaboration functionality with the free version, and would have to pay for the more advanced features
January 5, 2026 at 3:21 PM
todoist! You may use it as a simple to-do-list but you can also go wild and create projects, tasks, subtasks, set priorities, dates, etc. I guess that you get basic collaboration functionality with the free version, and would have to pay for the more advanced features
I really like this one www.networksciencebook.com the first few chapters seem to have what you're looking for
Network Science by Albert-László Barabási
The power of network science, the beauty of network visualization.
www.networksciencebook.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:49 AM
I really like this one www.networksciencebook.com the first few chapters seem to have what you're looking for
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A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Friends in Budapest, check out these great talks next week :)
Really looking forward to a visit to Budapest next week, to give a couple talks. If you're around, come along and say hi! 😊 (Thanks to @mvargam.bsky.social for the invitation!)
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Friends in Budapest, check out these great talks next week :)
Amazing, thanks so much!
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Amazing, thanks so much!
and @florahann.bsky.social is here too!
September 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
and @florahann.bsky.social is here too!
What a wonderful book indeed!
September 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
What a wonderful book indeed!
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Machinery of Misbelief
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
Machinery of Misbelief
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
www.psychiatrymargins.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Machinery of Misbelief
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age
My review of Joe Pierre’s ( @psychunseen.bsky.social ) book “False” (OUP, 2025)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/machinery-...
Fascinating! Congrats, Tamás!
July 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Fascinating! Congrats, Tamás!
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Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
Number 52 it is ;)
May 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Number 52 it is ;)
What a great pleasure to be back in Leuven and hear about amazing research at the #saa2025 ! If you are interested in Pavlovian biases vs. regulating mood with fun activities and rumination under stress, please come by our poster this afternoon - w/ Hanneke den Ouden and @leventeronai.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
What a great pleasure to be back in Leuven and hear about amazing research at the #saa2025 ! If you are interested in Pavlovian biases vs. regulating mood with fun activities and rumination under stress, please come by our poster this afternoon - w/ Hanneke den Ouden and @leventeronai.bsky.social
@leventeronai.bsky.social made it to bsky in the meantime !
May 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
@leventeronai.bsky.social made it to bsky in the meantime !
New ESM study out in J Pers! 👀 We show that disorganized schizotypy specifically predicts both psychotic- and stress-reactivity in response to social, economic, and health-related stressors - thanks a lot Levente Rónai, Flóra Hann, and Szabolcs Kéri onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New ESM study out in J Pers! 👀 We show that disorganized schizotypy specifically predicts both psychotic- and stress-reactivity in response to social, economic, and health-related stressors - thanks a lot Levente Rónai, Flóra Hann, and Szabolcs Kéri onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I can totally second that! This is such an interesting and relevant study, congratulations. We were trying to wrap our head around this issue for a measure of stressor exposure in an esm study and arrived at quite similar conclusions. Great to see this written up so neatly!
April 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I can totally second that! This is such an interesting and relevant study, congratulations. We were trying to wrap our head around this issue for a measure of stressor exposure in an esm study and arrived at quite similar conclusions. Great to see this written up so neatly!
Wow, congratulations!
March 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Wow, congratulations!
I see, thanks a lot for the response!
February 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I see, thanks a lot for the response!
What is reflected in the cross-sectional correlation? How does it relate to associations at the level of stable individual differences vs. correlations within individuals over time? It really depends! And it's hard to know without intensive longitudinal data.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What is reflected in the cross-sectional correlation? How does it relate to associations at the level of stable individual differences vs. correlations within individuals over time? It really depends! And it's hard to know without intensive longitudinal data.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Looks fascinating! Quick question (without having thoroughly read the paper): how does this align with the optimism bias literature?
February 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Looks fascinating! Quick question (without having thoroughly read the paper): how does this align with the optimism bias literature?
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Very happy that this preprint (I'm 2nd author & taking over for the bluesky-less Vanessa Scholz) is finally out!
In a large online sample, we investigated how Pavlovian/motivational biases are associated with psychiatric symptom dimensions (as first defined by Claire Gillan)..
osf.io/preprints/ps...
In a large online sample, we investigated how Pavlovian/motivational biases are associated with psychiatric symptom dimensions (as first defined by Claire Gillan)..
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io
February 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Very happy that this preprint (I'm 2nd author & taking over for the bluesky-less Vanessa Scholz) is finally out!
In a large online sample, we investigated how Pavlovian/motivational biases are associated with psychiatric symptom dimensions (as first defined by Claire Gillan)..
osf.io/preprints/ps...
In a large online sample, we investigated how Pavlovian/motivational biases are associated with psychiatric symptom dimensions (as first defined by Claire Gillan)..
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Fascinating!!! The link does not seem to work for me though and could not find your preprint with google (scholar) neither
February 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Fascinating!!! The link does not seem to work for me though and could not find your preprint with google (scholar) neither
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The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)
PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
January 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)