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Claudia Civai
@claudiacivai.bsky.social
Social cognitive neuroscientist interested in judgment, decision-making and social norms | Senior lecturer in Psychology and Behavioural Economics @ City, University of London
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We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.

Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️

Please share! 🔃

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Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation
As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...
cimcyc.ugr.es
September 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🔥How do we respond when observing an offender taking money from a victim?
-focus more on the offender
-prefer to punish offenders than compensate victims
-BUT when automatic attention falls on the victim, the punishment preference vanishes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027725001325
May 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Writing a public engagement piece with your new student is a great way to get the PhD started - thanks for all your work on this @lauren-ford.bsky.social Maybe we can pivot your thesis to experimental workplace neurosurgeries ;)
Who else watched Severance and thought it was great? @rachaelelward.bsky.social and I liked it so much we wrote an article for @uk.theconversation.com, thinking about what science might be behind the fictional
Severance procedure. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it!
Severance: the real cognitive neuroscience behind the Apple TV+ show’s ‘severance procedure’
Real ‘split brain’ patients have existed since the 1940s.
theconversation.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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We Europeans (including the UK) have no time to be depressed, to be angry, or to be scared. Too much time has been wasted over the past two years. No more burying one’s head in the sand, no more hoping for the best. Time to step up. For our security, for Ukraine, for our future.
November 6, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Does perceiced scarcity makes us more or less cooperative? Results are not that straightforward! Check out our mini-review where we try to make sense of it, now out OA in Current Opinion in Psychology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why scarcity can both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour: A review and theoretical framework for the complex relationship between scarcity and prosociality
In recent years, scholars from different fields have studied the effects of scarcity on social behaviour, producing mixed findings. This review synthe…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 22, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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There is a scientific fraud epidemic — and we are ignoring the cure

https://on.ft.com/46oNPSI
There is a scientific fraud epidemic — and we are ignoring the cure
Rooting out manipulation should not depend on dedicated amateurs who take personal legal risks for the greater good
on.ft.com
November 22, 2023 at 5:00 AM
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Worth your time:
a post-mortem on the Gino case.

Thank you very much, Zoé Ziani 🙏

www.theorgplumber.com/posts/statem...
A Post Mortem on the Gino Case | The Organizational Plumber
My perspective on the Gino-Ariely scandal, and what we should learn from it.
www.theorgplumber.com
October 23, 2023 at 11:14 PM
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I was shocked to hear that eLife will be replacing Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social as the journal's Editor in Chief for reposting a tweet by the Onion about the loss of lives among Palestinian civilians.
I just sent in my resignation from my membership on eLife's Ethics Committee.
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October 24, 2023 at 3:49 AM
So happy to see this paper finally out - a model that explains the recency effect in choice, supported by both behavioural and fMRI data; thanks to the co-authors and especially Aldo Rustichini, the brain behind this! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #CogScience #BehEcon
Working memory and attention in choice
We study the role of attention and working memory in choices where options are presented sequentially rather than simultaneously. We build a model where a costly attention effort is chosen, which can ...
journals.plos.org
October 12, 2023 at 3:58 PM
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Most academics know that MDPI is not the most reputable publisher but this is particularly grim: a special issue in which 27th of the 28th papers are authored by the two guest editors.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/Biologics_Botanicals
September 22, 2023 at 10:30 PM
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When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?
September 13, 2023 at 6:37 PM
London South Bank Uni Psych grads Silvia Castellano and Andrei-Denis Balog presented their undergrad project at the annual meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience #bacn23. 🧠🧠🎉 Here they are with their cool poster and one proud supervisor Elisa Carrus! #PsychSkySci #neurosykence
September 13, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Hi all, I am a cognitive neuroscience researcher interested in social behaviour, especially decision-making and social norms. I don’t post much but if I do it’s about psych/neuro science and higher education. Would love to post about my cat but he told me not to. #PsychSkySci #neuroscience
September 11, 2023 at 1:48 PM