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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin)
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Interdisciplinary research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (@mpib-berlin.bsky.social). We study decision making in today’s complex and fast-changing world.

Website: https://tinyurl.com/bdfy736y
Podcast: unravelingbehavior.org
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🍎 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...
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The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology

🌎 Online
📅 18.11. 3pm CET

Lindsay McCunn @viuniversity.bsky.social
Both disciplines seek to understand the human condition. How can the connection be strengthened?

➡️ Join us online! shorturl.at/AbkjX

#Neuroskyence
CEN Colloquium: Lindsay McCunn, The rise and future of environmental neuroscience in environmental psychology
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November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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🚨 Inviting collaborators! 🚨

We’re launching PsychLing-101 — an open, community-driven initiative to gather psycholinguistic datasets for cross-dataset analyses and the development of psycholinguistic foundation models.

👉 To contribute or propose a dataset, go to:
🔗 github.com/Data-X01/Psy...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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🚨New paper🚨

What makes a room visually appealing? Kira Pohlmann @mpib-berlin.bsky.social led a study asking people to decorate a virtual living room. Most chose angular furniture over curved, challenging the idea that people naturally prefer softer and rounder shapes

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interactive room design as a tool for understanding form and style preferences - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Interactive room design as a tool for understanding form and style preferences
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November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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🚨 New preprint - Advancing Cognitive Science with LLMs

Excited to share this new preprint together with Rui Mata. We review how 🤖 LLMs can help address long-standing problems in cognitive science, highlighting opportunities and pitfalls.

🔗 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.00206
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Direktorin Simone Kühne @mpib-berlin.bsky.social ist auch am 13.11. dabei, und wird ein Impulsvortrag um 11.15 Uhr zum Thema 'Ins Grüne? Wie Natur-Erleben Gehirn und Verhalten beeinflussen' halten.

⌚Anmelden für das virtuelle Symposium hier: www.leopoldina.org/veranstaltun...
October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Congratulations to Iyad Rahwan (@iyadrahwan.bsky.social), recipient of the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025, recognizing groundbreaking research in complex systems and data science! 🌍🤖

More info @isi.it:

www.isi.it/press-releas...
October 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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🚨 The Power of Wellbeing
🚨 Epigenetic Studies in Twins

We are thrilled to be co-hosting epigenetics researchers Dr Jenny van Dongen and Dr Meike Bartels at the
@mpib-berlin.bsky.social next week. Join us live or online on 4.11. for their fascinating talks.

➡️ shorturl.at/z3v2s
➡️ shorturl.at/p9dW1
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🚨 New preprint 🚨

Are reinforcement learning models complete accounts of decisions from experience if they ignore explicit memory?

In this new preprint, we show that people indeed form robust explicit memory representations that flexibly guide later decisions.

🔗 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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The IMPRS LIFE is looking to fill up to three PhD positions.

If you’re interested in working at @arc-mpib.bsky.social with me on topics related to social and collective decision making, and aging, please reach out. Deadline Nov 30: www.imprs-life.mpg.de/11840/how-to...
How to Apply
www.imprs-life.mpg.de
October 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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🚨 New publication: How to improve conceptual clarity in psychological science?

Thrilled to see this article with @ruimata.bsky.social out. We discuss how LLMs can be leveraged to map, clarify, and generate psychological measures and constructs.

Open access article: doi.org/10.1177/0963...
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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We cordially invite you to join the talk “The Power of Wellbeing” by Prof. Meike Bartels

📅 4 Nov, 11 AM CET @mpib-berlin.bsky.social

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43420...
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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We cordially invite you to join the talk “Epigenetic Studies in Twins” by Dr. Jenny van Dongen

📅 4 Nov, 1 PM CET @mpib-berlin.bsky.social

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/events/43422...
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Illustrators call is out! Anyone who knows illustrators in Leipzig area! Tell them! All the info on this website: lauramayer.space/Science-Stre...
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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🚨 New preprint and online tool 🚨

Thrilled to share new work, mapping the 🗺️ landscape of behavioral reinforcement learning using an 🤖 LLM-powered bibliometric approach.

We built an online tool so you can explore the landscape yourself.

Online tool: mpib.berlin/vFVqU
Preprint: osf.io/6c2va_v1
October 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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🚨 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
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October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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🚀 Applications for the 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘) @imprs-life.bsky.social are now open!

Join an interdisciplinary PhD program exploring how humans develop across the lifespan.

🔗 Apply now: www.imprs-life.mpg.de/life-program...
October 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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🚨 New preprint 🚨

Analyzing the academic trajectories of 78,216 psychology researchers, we demonstrate a persistent gender attrition gap, with women psychologists dropping out of academia at consistently higher rates than men psychologists.

Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.13273
October 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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🚨 Doctoral positions 🚨

The IMPRS LIFE is looking to fill up to three PhD positions.

If you’re interested in working at @arc-mpib.bsky.social with me on topics related to large language models, semantic networks, and aging, please reach out!

Apply by Nov 30: www.imprs-life.mpg.de/11840/how-to...
October 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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
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October 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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😍 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.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🚨 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
🚨Student Research Assistant Wanted (Deadline: October 31)

We are seeking a Bachelor/Master student research assistant to assist our ongoing research in all phases of the scientific process @mpib-berlin.bsky.social.

See the link below for more details!👇
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2170830/2025...
Student Research Assistant | Center for Adaptive Rationality
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
October 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Wie sinnvoll sind schärfere Social-Media-Beschränkungen?

Darüber diskutieren u.a. Ralph Hertwig @arc-mpib.bsky.social HEUTE in Berlin. Er hat das aktuelle Diskussionspapier 𝗦𝗼𝘇𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗽𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗵𝗲𝗶𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 @leopoldina.org mitverfasst.
Social Media erst ab 16: Schutz oder Nachteil?
Darüber diskutieren am 1. Oktober Katharina Günther-Wünsch @senbjf.bsky.social, Lilo Kranich, Stephan Düll und Prof. Dr. Ralph Hertwig @mpib-berlin.bsky.social. In Kooperation mit @rbb24.de Inforadio.

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October 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM