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Esther Boissin
@boissinesther.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow at Cornell. Interested in thinking and reasoning.
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Happy to share that my first paper is out in Thinking & Reasoning! 📄📢
With Aikaterini Voudouri, @boissinesther.bsky.social & @wimdeneys.bsky.social we show that deliberate reasoning helps not just to correct but also to justify intuitive judgments.

🔗Full paper: shorturl.at/JTeTi
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August 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Conspiracies emerge in the wake of high-profile events, but you can’t debunk them with evidence because little yet exists. Does this mean LLMs can’t debunk conspiracies during ongoing events? No!

We show they can in a new working paper.

PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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👀 Just out in Thinking & Reasoning with @boissinesther.bsky.social @mts-raoelison.bsky.social @wimdeneys.bsky.social

Curious how intuitive reasoning develops through adolescence?

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KFH5K...

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July 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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🚨Check out our new paper with @boissinesther.bsky.social, Alexandra Delmas & @wimdeneys.bsky.social in Acta Psych!

📹 We show that video debiasing training can boost reasoning accuracy - not just deliberation, but intuition too!

🔓 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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June 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Recent research shows that AI can durably reduce belief in conspiracies. But does this work b/c the AI is good at producing evidence, or b/c ppl really trust AI?

In a new working paper, we show that the effect persists even if the person thinks they're talking to a human: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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May 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Who benefits (or doesn't) from debiasing training? We find that intuitive-analytic thinking dispositions, and not cognitive ability, predict training effectiveness.

New paper from: boissinesther.bsky.social & gordonpennycook.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Want to challenge your biases and boost your logical reasoning? 🚀
Check out this fantastic website by my amazing colleagues @wimdeneys.bsky.social and @ninafraniatte.bsky.social.
Dive into engaging videos that make logical reasoning accessible to everyone.

Available in English and French.
🧠 Cogitum: Train your logical reasoning!

As part of our research, @wimdeneys.bsky.social and I developed video-based training to boost sound reasoning 🎥 And we need your help to test it!

Try it anonymously (& share it!) in French or English here: cogitum-site.powerappsportals.com/homePage
December 13, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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2. @wimdeneys.bsky.social's lab had a bunch of posters about how reflective thinking

- can be fast ("intuitive")
- becomes automatic (fast)
- is preferred by humans *and* chatbots

@lauracharbit.bsky.social
@nicolasbeauvais.bsky.social
@boissinesther.bsky.social
www.researchgate.net/profile/Matt...
November 25, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 7:02 PM
❗New paper out with Mathilde Josserand, @wimdeneys.bsky.social and Serge Caparos in Cognition.

🖇️ wdeneys.org/data/Preprin...

In this paper, we tried to debias the reasoning of the Himba of Namibia, a non-'Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic' society in Africa. (1/4)
December 3, 2023 at 12:07 AM
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Want to boost the impact of debias training? Just repeat it! Forthcoming Learning and Instruction paper with Nina Franiatte, @boissinesther.bsky.social et al. shorturl.at/krZ14 (1/3)
October 18, 2023 at 9:11 AM