Zoe Purcell 🕵🏻♀️
@zoepurcell.bsky.social
Postdoc working on human reasoning and the human-AI interaction at LaPsyDÉ, l'Université Paris-Cité 🇦🇺🏳️🌈
https://zoepurcell.org/
https://zoepurcell.org/
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🚨 New preprint: Using Large Language Models to Estimate Belief Strength in Reasoning 🚨
When asked: "There are 995 politicians and 5 nurses. Person 'L' is kind. Is Person 'L' more likely to be a politician or a nurse?", most people will answer "nurse", neglecting the base-rate info.
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🚨 New preprint: Using Large Language Models to Estimate Belief Strength in Reasoning 🚨
When asked: "There are 995 politicians and 5 nurses. Person 'L' is kind. Is Person 'L' more likely to be a politician or a nurse?", most people will answer "nurse", neglecting the base-rate info.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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🚨 New preprint: Using Large Language Models to Estimate Belief Strength in Reasoning 🚨
When asked: "There are 995 politicians and 5 nurses. Person 'L' is kind. Is Person 'L' more likely to be a politician or a nurse?", most people will answer "nurse", neglecting the base-rate info.
A 🧵👇
🚨 New preprint: Using Large Language Models to Estimate Belief Strength in Reasoning 🚨
When asked: "There are 995 politicians and 5 nurses. Person 'L' is kind. Is Person 'L' more likely to be a politician or a nurse?", most people will answer "nurse", neglecting the base-rate info.
A 🧵👇
Great week at the CSBBCS/EPS conference! Speaking alongside two of my academic heroes and mentors was such an honour and a really special moment for me! Huge thanks to CSBBCS and Aimee Surprenant for the invitation and opportunity, and all those who attended our symposium 🙏 @exppsychsoc.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Great week at the CSBBCS/EPS conference! Speaking alongside two of my academic heroes and mentors was such an honour and a really special moment for me! Huge thanks to CSBBCS and Aimee Surprenant for the invitation and opportunity, and all those who attended our symposium 🙏 @exppsychsoc.bsky.social
Do AI builders hold different values from AI users?
We show that AI builders and men are more utilitarian and less supportive of pro-diversity outputs, highlighting ongoing concerns about workforce diversity and whose values are shaping AI.
tinyurl.com/AIcognit
We show that AI builders and men are more utilitarian and less supportive of pro-diversity outputs, highlighting ongoing concerns about workforce diversity and whose values are shaping AI.
tinyurl.com/AIcognit
June 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Do AI builders hold different values from AI users?
We show that AI builders and men are more utilitarian and less supportive of pro-diversity outputs, highlighting ongoing concerns about workforce diversity and whose values are shaping AI.
tinyurl.com/AIcognit
We show that AI builders and men are more utilitarian and less supportive of pro-diversity outputs, highlighting ongoing concerns about workforce diversity and whose values are shaping AI.
tinyurl.com/AIcognit
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New preprint: “Folk Thinking, Fast and Slow: Intuitive Preference for Deliberation in Humans and Machines”
Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation.
tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)
Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation.
tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)
February 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
New preprint: “Folk Thinking, Fast and Slow: Intuitive Preference for Deliberation in Humans and Machines”
Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation.
tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)
Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation.
tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)
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Come hear about moral psychology and AI at 11am today at #SPSP2025!
@awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger
@awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger
Looking forward to our session tomorrow at #SPSP2025 at the intersection of AI and moral psychology. Be there Saturday at 11am in the Four Seasons Ballroom!
February 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Come hear about moral psychology and AI at 11am today at #SPSP2025!
@awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger
@awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger
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New pre-print with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social !
Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science
Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science
Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
November 19, 2024 at 11:19 AM
New pre-print with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social !
Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science
Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Using Generative AI to Increase Skeptics’ Engagement with Climate Science
Available at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣
We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds.
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds.
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Postdoctoral Researcher (2011) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk
October 21, 2024 at 10:22 AM
📣🧠📣 I’m hiring !! 📣🧠📣
We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds.
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
We’re looking for a postdoc to join The Uncertainty Lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social You’ll lead fMRI work on a new project studying how communication with others alters private metacognition of our own minds.
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
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Let's give this a try ;-) go.bsky.app/TBS14hQ
October 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Let's give this a try ;-) go.bsky.app/TBS14hQ
📢Our paper on AI-mediated communication (out now!) shows that:
1) People expect others to use AI tools more than themselves
2) People are more accepting of open than secret AI use (at least, explicitly)
bit.ly/zpurc
👥 w/ Mengchen Dong, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Nils Kobis, & Maurice Jakesch.
1) People expect others to use AI tools more than themselves
2) People are more accepting of open than secret AI use (at least, explicitly)
bit.ly/zpurc
👥 w/ Mengchen Dong, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Nils Kobis, & Maurice Jakesch.
September 6, 2024 at 6:14 PM
📢Our paper on AI-mediated communication (out now!) shows that:
1) People expect others to use AI tools more than themselves
2) People are more accepting of open than secret AI use (at least, explicitly)
bit.ly/zpurc
👥 w/ Mengchen Dong, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Nils Kobis, & Maurice Jakesch.
1) People expect others to use AI tools more than themselves
2) People are more accepting of open than secret AI use (at least, explicitly)
bit.ly/zpurc
👥 w/ Mengchen Dong, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Nils Kobis, & Maurice Jakesch.
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Today at IMBES my favourite talk was by @zoepurcell.bsky.social unpicking the relationships between partisan identity, prior beliefs, and reasoning. Partisan identity doesn’t make reasoning less accurate, but it does make the experience of reasoning subjectively more difficult. #academicsky
July 10, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Today at IMBES my favourite talk was by @zoepurcell.bsky.social unpicking the relationships between partisan identity, prior beliefs, and reasoning. Partisan identity doesn’t make reasoning less accurate, but it does make the experience of reasoning subjectively more difficult. #academicsky
Was thrilled to present our work at #ICT2024! I was overwhelmed by the support for this new angle and am now riding a new wave of motivation for this project -- thank you all✨ @wimdeneys.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social
June 13, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Was thrilled to present our work at #ICT2024! I was overwhelmed by the support for this new angle and am now riding a new wave of motivation for this project -- thank you all✨ @wimdeneys.bsky.social @kobedesender.bsky.social