Lucas Castillo
lcastillo.bsky.social
Lucas Castillo
@lcastillo.bsky.social
Psychology PhD Student at Uni Warwick | (he/his) | https://www.lucascastillo.net/
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🚀🚀 Very excited about this new preprint with @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social!

Months ago we released the samplr package on CRAN (helps you use sampling algorithms + cogn. models for human data). Here we explain the theoretical background and show how to use the pkg

osf.io/ax8hm
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Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Computational Mechanisms of Attribute Translations
Attribute translations, a choice architecture intervention technique aiming to promote behavior change by translating decision-relevant information into more comprehensible and meaningful units for la...
www.researchsquare.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Thank you! And thanks @pleonv.bsky.social, Nick Chater, and @asanborn.bsky.social who were an essential part of this paper
@lcastillo.bsky.social for best PhD student paper! 🎉👏
May 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🚀🚀 Very excited about this new preprint with @yunxiao-li.bsky.social and @asanborn.bsky.social!

Months ago we released the samplr package on CRAN (helps you use sampling algorithms + cogn. models for human data). Here we explain the theoretical background and show how to use the pkg

osf.io/ax8hm
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May 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Our lab has a list of papers that use statistical sampling algorithms like MCMC to explain human behaviour. Thanks to @lcastillo.bsky.social, you can select by behaviour or algorithm.

If we've missed any, please let us know!

sampling.warwick.ac....
May 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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April 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Thrilled to share my first post here with something I’m truly proud of; My PhD paper is finally out in @commspsychol.bsky.social. Thanks to amazing @ktsetsos.bsky.social for his wise insights and our reviewers for their constructive comments.
You can read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eguDX
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April 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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🚀 Revised Reviewed Preprint out in eLife 🚀
Excited to announce that my paper on the cognitive mechanisms underlying hunger-driven dietary choice is now available on @elife.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
The Hungry Lens: Hunger Shifts Attention and Attribute Weighting in Dietary Choice
elifesciences.org
March 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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"Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?" is now available in Perspectives on Psychological Science
doi.org/10.1177/1745... (1/4)
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March 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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🚀 New paper out in Psychological Review!

How does learning change across the lifespan? We propose that resource rationality—adapting belief updating to cognitive limitations—can explain age-related differences in learning.

📖 doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

👇 A short thread:
APA PsycNet
doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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🚨 A new preprint is out!

How does utility influence mental simulations of risky events? 🤔🎲

We tested this across 4 experiments & found that most people simulate probabilities accurately, but biases emerge in key conditions!

If you want to learn more, keep reading!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
New Preprint Out! 🚀🚀
Can people generate a random sequence if given enough time?

Keep reading if
- You make cognitive models with randomness in them
- You like to explore the world, be creative, choose well
- You want protection from clever agents exploiting patterns in your behavior.
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February 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to @michaelapawley.bsky.social, a PhD student of the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab @nkytang.bsky.social, on being awarded a UK Data Impact Fellowship from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social! This competitive programme supports 5 early career researchers using UK Data Service resources.
February 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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In our new preprint, my co-authors and I explore how people’s probability judgments sometimes don’t add up the way they should, and how these violations can help us compare different models of how people make these judgments!

osf.io/preprints/ps...
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February 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM