Yoav Kessler
yoavkessler.bsky.social
Yoav Kessler
@yoavkessler.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, and head of Statistics and Data Analysis Program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Cognitive psychologist. Interested in working memory, cognitive control, group cognition, and much more.
My lab is recruiting a PhD student or Postdoc to join an exciting BSF project on working memory and prediction. Please RT, spread the word, and DM to apply
October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Here's a question in probability that seems simple, however I can't figure out how to answer properly. Help, please....

A and B are simple events.
P(AUB)=1,
0<P(A∩B)< P(A),
and 0<P(A∩B)< P(B).

True/False: P(A)>P(A|B)

And ideas?
December 23, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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🚨🎉Submissions are now open for #WMS2024🎉🚨

You'll find the submission link on our home-page: www.wmsymposium.org
Working Memory Symposium
We will return this summer for WMS 2024! July 9-12, 2024 Submissions are OPEN from May 1 - June 1 Submit an abstract
www.wmsymposium.org
May 1, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Very excited to share a new textbook I am working on (led by Louis Teitelbaum). It's called Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language, and it covers text analysis and social media research w/ example code in R ds4psych.com #css #rstats
Data Science for Psychology: Natural Language
ds4psych.com
April 15, 2024 at 12:44 PM
New paper alert! In a new study led by Shalva Kvitelashvili we developed a novel task to investigate how people voluntarily use their visual working memory. Spoiler: we tend to underutilize our memory capacity. Check it out! rdcu.be/dDKmq
April 5, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Hoping this is useful to some PhD students and PI's 🤓
Comment: Coping with common PhD challenges by making the implicit explicit by @evievergauwe.bsky.social: go.nature.com/41UEbX4 rdcu.be/dvFLK
January 12, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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🚨New #WorkingMemory PhD position!🚨
Come work with me at the University of Sheffield starting October 2024! All the details at the link, very happy to answer any informal questions, and can put you in touch with former mentees of mine 😄
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 15, 2023 at 1:30 PM
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PhD in #workingmemory alert!
🚨New #WorkingMemory PhD position!🚨
Come work with me at the University of Sheffield starting October 2024! All the details at the link, very happy to answer any informal questions, and can put you in touch with former mentees of mine 😄
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 16, 2023 at 10:01 AM
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A letter to Social Psychologists, regarding the war, by (the vast majority of) Israeli social psychologists.

We would appreciate it if you can read and share.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#SocialPsyc #PsychSciSky
A Letter to Social Psychologists
Dear friends of the Social Psychology community, On the morning of October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a vicious attack on Israeli civilians. Hamas terrorists killed entire families, savagely raped women,...
docs.google.com
October 29, 2023 at 12:55 PM
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🚨Open PhD position🚨: I am looking for a PhD candidate for next year. The topic would be related to visual attention and working memory, using models, behavior and EEG. Reach out here or to bwyble@gmail.com if you're interested.
October 10, 2023 at 4:26 PM
In these terrible times, I urge professional societies in psychology to speak up clearly for Israel and to condemn the atrocities committed by Hamas. Your voices matter. Silence is not an option.
#StandWithIsrael
#HamasisISIS
October 10, 2023 at 4:46 PM
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I, like many of us right now, am at a lost for words.

Michael Peer managed to explain the current situation eloquently in the post below. Please share.
October 9, 2023 at 5:16 AM
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New paper!   People often do not remember information they just searched for (link.springer.com/article/10.3...).
 
Subjects were asked to draw the contents of their memory immediately after searching for a target in a natural scene  Thread!
October 2, 2023 at 5:52 PM
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Excited to share this short & sweet article I wrote with
@samhforbes.bsky.social!

Teaching coding inclusively: if this, then what? doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The title perhaps says it all; we show through arguments and examples what women experience in programming class and what to do to remedy it.
September 29, 2023 at 6:06 AM