Ori Friedman
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Ori Friedman
@orifriedman.bsky.social
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New article w/ M Pabla & @orifriedman.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When children claim an unexpected event is impossible they also claim it's never happened, even for immoral events, suggesting their judgments reflect beliefs about what could happen & not merely what should.
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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New research from University of Waterloo psychologists (Megan Barlow, Tiffany Doan, Ori Friedman @orifriedman.bsky.social, and Stephanie Denison) sheds light on why people often probability match rather than maximize when making decisions. see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Probability matching and statistical naïveté | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core
Probability matching and statistical naïveté - Volume 20
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October 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New pub with Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, & Regan Christensen

Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories
Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...
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August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cognition Updates now posting on LinkedIn
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July 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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⭐️ From Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman:

Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
Intentionality judgments can depend on probability raising—people are more likely to see a desired outcome as intentional if the agent who produced it…
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June 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying

📣Recent work from Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman
Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying
People often find simple explanations more satisfying than complex ones. Across seven preregistered experiments, we provide evidence that this simplic…
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October 29, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...) is coming out Nov. 14!
 
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.
November 2, 2023 at 3:56 PM