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Kiri Kuroda
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Postdoc @arc-mpib.bsky.social, @mpib-berlin.bsky.social Interested in human social/group decision-making. Also working as a social media team at ARC. kirikuroda.com/en
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Kiri Kuroda @kirikuroda.bsky.social · Jul 16
"Individual differences in speed–accuracy trade-off influence social decision-making in dyads"

🚨Our paper has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

w/ Alan Tump @alantump.bsky.social, Ralf Kurvers @ralfkurvers.bsky.social

@royalsocietypublishing.org

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Abstract: Speed–accuracy trade-offs are a fundamental aspect of decision-making, requiring individuals to balance collecting more information against making faster decisions. Although speed–accuracy trade-offs have been studied at the individual level, their role in human decision-making in social settings remains poorly understood—even though faster, and possibly more error-prone, decisions often have more social influence than slower decisions. We examined how individual differences in speed–accuracy trade-off preferences shape decision-making in pairs, using an interactive online experiment and drift–diffusion modelling. Participants first performed a perceptual task alone, allowing us to estimate their individual drift rates and decision thresholds, the key cognitive determinants of speed–accuracy trade-off preferences. They then performed the task in pairs, sharing decisions in real-time. Pair accuracy depended on the faster (and thus more error-prone) member, and not on the slower (but more accurate) member. Social decisions were not worse than individual ones because faster members increased their thresholds in the social condition and became more accurate, while slower members incorporated less social information. These findings show that individuals adjusted their social information use to the speed–accuracy trade-off preferences of their partners, highlighting the importance of such individual differences for understanding social behaviour.
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
annaithoma.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint: What does the research landscape of behavioral reinforcement learning look like 🌍?

We developed an LLM-powered bibliometric analysis to characterize article clusters, investigate their connections, and examine the distribution of topics across the landscape.

osf.io/6c2va_v1
OSF
osf.io
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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dominikdeffner.bsky.social
Which processes underlie collective intelligence in naturalistic human groups?

In new work led by Valerii Chirkov, we show that payoff selectivity is key in transforming a group of individuals into an intelligent collective 🤝🧠

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7n...

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
First-Person Perspective of the Voluntary Payoff-Sharing (VP) Condition
YouTube video by Valerii Chirkov
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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simyciri.bsky.social
😍 Our latest is out now in @commspsychol.nature.com. 🤩 We show with Bayesian modelling and experimental manipulation of uncertainty that developmental differences in social influence depend on differences in the internal uncertainty people have about their choice
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Internal uncertainty impacts social information use in risky choice across adolescence - Communications Psychology
Adolescents’ choices are influenced by others. A social risky choice experiment and Bayesian modelling reveal that age differences in internal uncertainty, being unsure how to choose, relate to differences in susceptibility to social influence.
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
imprs-life.bsky.social
Important new work by LIFE fellow @lkerbl.bsky.social, Zoe Rahwan, Ralph Hertwig, & @simyciri.bsky.social of @arc-mpib.bsky.social out now!
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
More than incurious: the development of deliberate ignorance
In an information-rich world the ability to choose not to know is an important cognitive tool. But what are the developmental origins of deliberate ignorance? We identify a selection of cognitive capa...
www.cell.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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dirkwulff.bsky.social
🚨 New article 🚨

Excited to share this article, presenting a full tutorial on mouse tracking and other movement tracking techniques in psychological research, with examples from our R package mousetrap.

Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.3...
R package: pascalkieslich.github.io/mousetrap/in...
October 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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arc-mpib.bsky.social
🍎 Do we really make 200 food decisions a day? In our latest podcast, Almudena Claassen @mpib-berlin.bsky.social reveals why that catchy number is flawed—and what really matters when studying eating habits. It's not about "magic numbers", but about context.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuDO...
September 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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aeschbach.bsky.social
New semantic network paper in @plosone.org with @ruimata.bsky.social at @unibas.ch and @dirkwulff.bsky.social at @arc-mpib.bsky.social!

We ran large-scale simulations to test how well common behavioral tasks measure a person's semantic network.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Measuring individual semantic networks: A simulation study
Accurately capturing individual differences in semantic networks is fundamental to advancing our mechanistic understanding of semantic memory. Past empirical attempts to construct individual-level sem...
doi.org
August 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
eloplop.bsky.social
New research out!🚨

In our new paper, we discuss how generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT can mediate confirmation bias in health information seeking.
As people turn to these tools for health-related queries, new risks emerge.
🧵👇
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
NYAS Publications
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications, such as ChatGPT, are transforming how individuals access health information, offering conversational and highly personalized interactions. Whi...
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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arc-mpib.bsky.social
🚨We are seeking a student assistant to support web programming @mpib-berlin.bsky.social (Deadline: August 15)

There are also opportunities to work with eye tracking, EEG, VR, 3D printing, and scientific computing.

See the link for more details!👇
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2110361/2025...
Studentische Hilfskraft im Bereich Web-Programmierung | Forschungsbereich Adaptive Rationalität
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
July 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
kirikuroda.bsky.social
"Individual differences in speed–accuracy trade-off influence social decision-making in dyads"

🚨Our paper has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

w/ Alan Tump @alantump.bsky.social, Ralf Kurvers @ralfkurvers.bsky.social

@royalsocietypublishing.org

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Abstract: Speed–accuracy trade-offs are a fundamental aspect of decision-making, requiring individuals to balance collecting more information against making faster decisions. Although speed–accuracy trade-offs have been studied at the individual level, their role in human decision-making in social settings remains poorly understood—even though faster, and possibly more error-prone, decisions often have more social influence than slower decisions. We examined how individual differences in speed–accuracy trade-off preferences shape decision-making in pairs, using an interactive online experiment and drift–diffusion modelling. Participants first performed a perceptual task alone, allowing us to estimate their individual drift rates and decision thresholds, the key cognitive determinants of speed–accuracy trade-off preferences. They then performed the task in pairs, sharing decisions in real-time. Pair accuracy depended on the faster (and thus more error-prone) member, and not on the slower (but more accurate) member. Social decisions were not worse than individual ones because faster members increased their thresholds in the social condition and became more accurate, while slower members incorporated less social information. These findings show that individuals adjusted their social information use to the speed–accuracy trade-off preferences of their partners, highlighting the importance of such individual differences for understanding social behaviour.
July 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
anasofiamorais.bsky.social
We've wrapped the first run of Unraveling Behavior! 🎙️ Now planning next steps—your feedback helps shape the future + funding.
👉 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆: survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/25...
July 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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simyciri.bsky.social
🤩IT'S A PREPRINT 😍
Adolescents' social sensitivity isn't a bad thing—it's adaptive! In our new study, led by amazing Andrea Gradassi @connectedmindslab.bsky.social, we show that teens learned to copy successful peers faster than adults in a new multiplayer exploration task.
osf.io/preprints/os...
June 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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anasofiamorais.bsky.social
Nudging has shaped behavioral policy for years—but what are its downsides? In our latest episode, 𝐑𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐠 makes the case for shifting from nudging to 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠—an alternative behavioral science approach that fosters people’s agency, self-control, and decision-making skills. tinyurl.com/3yvfwxc8
May 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
annaithoma.bsky.social
1/n 🆕📄: How do children learn to adapt to different environments when making repeated choices? And what do cognitive immaturity and probability matching have to do with it? Our new article explores how kids & adults differ in probability learning across statistical task structures: mpib.berlin/R3RFy
APA PsycNet
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April 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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lorenzspreen.bsky.social
Very happy supervisor with the publication of Pietro Nickl's article on global trends in online headlines:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of online news headlines - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The evolution of online news headlines
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
arc-mpib.bsky.social
🚨New paper: Chimpanzees explore just like us! 🐵🔍

Lou Haux @mpib-berlin.bsky.social shows that chimpanzees adapt their exploration strategies to changes in the environment—exploring more in unstable conditions. Now out in Nature Communications @naturecomms.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Chimpanzees adapt their exploration to key properties of the environment - Nature Communications
Exploration helps reduce uncertainty in daily life, but the evolutionary roots of adaptive exploration are unclear. Here, the authors show that chimpanzees, like humans, tailor their exploration depen...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
anasofiamorais.bsky.social
New episode of 𝐔𝐧𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫 is live!🎙️

In this episode, I'm joined by @simyciri.bsky.social as we dive into why teens engage in risky behaviors—not out of recklessness, but due to a complex mix of developmental, social, and environmental factors.

tinyurl.com/bdcn2b4r
How Brains, Peers, and Environments Fuel Risky Behaviors in Teens
tinyurl.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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arc-mpib.bsky.social
Just over one week left to apply for this year's Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality!

Applications close midnight (Berlin time) next Sunday, March 9, 2025, so don't delay if you want to take part in an unforgettable experience this summer in Berlin!

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
Summer Institute
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
February 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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arc-mpib.bsky.social
In case you missed our previous post:

We're back!! 🥳

Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open!

Join us in Berlin from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World".

Details in the link below👇
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
Summer Institute
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
February 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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arc-mpib.bsky.social
🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open!

🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World".

✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!!

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
Summer Institute
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
February 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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mpib-berlin.bsky.social
🔍 Big decisions, uncertain futures—how do we choose? Our latest podcast episode dives into transformative life decisions with Shahar Hechtlinger and @anasofiamorais.bsky.social — both from @arc-mpib.bsky.social. Listen now! 🎧 #DecisionMaking
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/1956201/unra...
The Psychology of Life's Most Important Decisions
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
January 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
stefanherzog.bsky.social
🌟🧠💪📝
#BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science

New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology.
PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025

For more: scienceofboosting.org

@arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social

@annualreviews.bsky.social
#policy #behavioralscience

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The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads: Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches. List with summary points: 1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. 2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects. 3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy. 4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes. 5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires. 6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments. 7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches. 8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.
January 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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arc-mpib.bsky.social
🎙️ New Episode!

ARC's Shahar Hechtlinger talks about transformative life decisions—becoming a parent, changing careers, or moving abroad. This episode gives you simple strategies and real-life examples to navigate the decisions.

#Podcast #UnravBehavior

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKEK...
Shahar Hechtlinger: The Psychology of Life's Most Important Decisions
YouTube video by Unraveling Behavior
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
fstock.bsky.social
People in 26 countries prefer more control over their online environment



In a conjoint study (N = 11,868), we explored preferences for regulating online environments by examining binary choices between different regulation scenarios.

Preprint:https://osf.io/preprints/osf/haqu9
December 17, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Reposted by Kiri Kuroda
annaithoma.bsky.social
🥁 Exciting news: Our new article on repeated risky choices is out now! How do children and adults make repeated choices when they learn about probabilities from description (i.e., graphical representation)? Not as expected! 👀
Full text: mpib.berlin/PUMtN
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Do children match described probabilities? The sampling hypothesis applied to repeated risky choice
One way in which children can learn about probabilities of different outcomes before making a decision is from description, for instance, by observing…
mpib.berlin
December 9, 2024 at 2:13 PM