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felixhermans.bsky.social
@felixhermans.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology (LESP), @KU_Leuven | Working on language and stereotypes + social (meta)cognition
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📢 Conference opportunity: The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) is hosting their 2026 congress in Leuven, Belgium (July 14-18). Registrations and submissions are now open!

Learn more: ow.ly/nHEV50Xj9ZE
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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kobedesender.bsky.social
"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com
w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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easp2026.bsky.social
Welcome!
This is the official account of the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology 2026.
Here, we'll be sharing all the important updates and information related to the upcoming congress.
Feel free to visit our official website for more details: easp2026strasbourg.com
Get ready to present your research, engage with cutting-edge research in the field, connect with the social psychology community, find new collaborators, expand your network, and much more!
easp2026strasbourg.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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kobedesender.bsky.social
Introducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio.
led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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kobedesender.bsky.social
Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o.

Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
felixhermans.bsky.social
(1/7)📢 New paper by Vera Hoorens, felixhermans.bsky.social, and Susanne Bruckmüller in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social : “Why Boys Cry and Don’t Cry. The Contextual-Statistical (ConStat) Approach to the Perceived Validity of Generics”. A small 🧵and link to the paper below!
September 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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xrg.bsky.social
We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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elinevg.bsky.social
It was a pleasure introducing PsyNet and its many applications at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology today! Thanks @felixhermans.bsky.social for the invitation and all PsyNet developers, incl. @pmcharrison.bsky.social and @norijacoby.bsky.social for creating such an amazing platform!
felixhermans.bsky.social felixhermans.bsky.social @felixhermans.bsky.social · Sep 10
Tremendously grateful to @elinevg.bsky.social for providing an introduction to PsyNet (www.psynet.dev) at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology in KU Leuven today!

PsyNet is a new platform uniquely suited to crafting complex experimental designs in an efficient manner!
September 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
felixhermans.bsky.social
Tremendously grateful to @elinevg.bsky.social for providing an introduction to PsyNet (www.psynet.dev) at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology in KU Leuven today!

PsyNet is a new platform uniquely suited to crafting complex experimental designs in an efficient manner!
September 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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davidamodio.bsky.social
I had a fantastic time at the Computational Social Cognition Summer School at U of Birmingham!

What an amazing resource & opportunity for students.

Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
drjocutler.bsky.social Jo Cutler @drjocutler.bsky.social · Sep 2
Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

#CSC2025
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September 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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helenevanmarcke.bsky.social
Warning: this is *not* fake news! New preprint out w/ S. Kunkle & @kobedesender.bsky.social on how confidence-driven information seeking is suboptimal in the context of fake news 📰🔍🧵 (1/6):
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September 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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acetylercholine.bsky.social
I had a great time in Birmingham learning and connecting with people about computational social cognition #CSC2025. Thanks Dr. Ili Ma & @alosecaatv.bsky.social for being great group leaders, and thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social and everyone else for a great summer school
September 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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leuventea.bsky.social
🧪 ReproducibiliTea Leuven invites you to discuss the future of peer review at our next journal club!
📅 Oct 7, 2025 4PM-5.30PM
📍 VHI 01.64 Dekenstraat 2 Leuven

Find out more and register here: tinyurl.com/39yzyw5h

#OpenScience #Academia #PublishOrPerish #PayforPublish
September 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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sdnl.bsky.social
Amazing kick start to the Birmingham - Leiden #CSC2025 summer school from @drjocutler.bsky.social with her introductory lecture "Introduction to Computational Modelling: Theory"
September 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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krai13.bsky.social
#Day1 #CSC2025
Amazing insights on neural dynamics of good conversation by Prof. Diana Tamir from Princeton Uni. Followed by lectures on effort based discounting modelling.
September 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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krai13.bsky.social
#Day3 #CSC2025 Last day. Fantastic tutorial on bayesian modeling by @lei-zhang.bsky.social. Lectures on basis functions for social decisions @mkwittmann.bsky.social and social learning mechanisms. We presented our group work on empathy RL, thanks to @annesaulin.bsky.social for her mentorship. 🤗
September 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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krai13.bsky.social
#Day2 #CSC2025 keynote on on modelling prejudices in social interactions by @davidamodio.bsky.social followed by a comprehensive tutorial on drifting diffusion modelling. 📊
Day ended with a walking tour of the city ✌️
September 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
felixhermans.bsky.social
Had a great time attending the Birmingham-Leiden Computational Social Cognition Summer School this week! Thanks to everyone who was part of #CSC2025 and especially to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social for leading the organization! 10/10 would recommend! More info on www.compsoccog.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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drjocutler.bsky.social
Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

#CSC2025
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CSC 2025
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September 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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elinevg.bsky.social
At the 2025 Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences this week, I received the Best PhD Thesis Award 2025. I am very grateful for this recognition of my research combining theory and experimentation and of my commitment to open and reproducible science!

@bapsciences.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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kobedesender.bsky.social
Become our new colleague at the #kuleuven!↓↓↓
The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences invites applications for a full-time Research Professorship in Experimental Cognitive Psychology within the B&C research unit.
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
May 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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danielgilbert.bsky.social
Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com
Cover of the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition 2025
May 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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bapsciences.bsky.social
🎉 The 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 for the 𝗕𝗔𝗣𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 is now out!
📅 Join us on 26–27 May 2025 at ULB’s Solbosch Campus for two days of research, keynote talks, and networking.
📄 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺: lnkd.in/drQFCaW5
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📍 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼: lnkd.in/eRwyTZWj
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May 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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kimdoell.bsky.social
📣In case you're still interesting in joining the Heat & Cognition Manylabs🔥🧠 , we are now running the task tournament. Collaborators can suggest tasks, scales, and items to be included in the project! Deadline to submit is May 11th! More info at: heatandmind.wordpress.com
The Heat and Cognition Project: The Collective Cost of Extreme Heat
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May 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
felixhermans.bsky.social
🌐 Had a great time yesterday at the 5th Open Science Day of the @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social!

#OpenScience #Reproducibility #Transparency #Replicability
May 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM