Ross Otto
@arossotto.bsky.social
a psychology research and teaching guy at McGill
research interest, mild-mannered personal interests
otto.lab.mcgill.ca
research interest, mild-mannered personal interests
otto.lab.mcgill.ca
i learn something every day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish...
Turkish crescent - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
i learn something every day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish...
haha my take home message was the opposite, don't just do something because you can
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
haha my take home message was the opposite, don't just do something because you can
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... nice piece nonetheless by @benjaminriley.bsky.social !
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... nice piece nonetheless by @benjaminriley.bsky.social !
do you live here now bro
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
do you live here now bro
you better turn this around in a week
September 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
you better turn this around in a week
now give it an IAT
September 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
now give it an IAT
'dude that was a huge rip'
August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
'dude that was a huge rip'
“Je prends une blonde “ is all you need yet oddly they did not teach you that there
August 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Je prends une blonde “ is all you need yet oddly they did not teach you that there
i'll give you the book the next time i see you and you can suss it out, is this what humanists call a deep read
July 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
i'll give you the book the next time i see you and you can suss it out, is this what humanists call a deep read
Noodles Being Asleep finals
June 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Noodles Being Asleep finals
also a review looking more generality at persisitence v flexibility across these two groups (again not sure quality of evidence in any single study!) : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The social transmission of metacontrol policies: Mechanisms underlying the interpersonal transfer of persistence and flexibility
Humans often face binary cognitive-control dilemmas, with the choice between persistence and flexibility being a crucial one. Tackling these dilemmas …
www.sciencedirect.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
also a review looking more generality at persisitence v flexibility across these two groups (again not sure quality of evidence in any single study!) : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
from what I understand it permeates (at least) down to the response conflict 'level' (e.g. protestants v catholics)
Religion and action control: Faith-specific modulation of the Simon effect but not Stop-Signal performance
Previous findings suggest that religion has a specific impact on attentional processes. Here we show that religion also affects action control. Experi…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
from what I understand it permeates (at least) down to the response conflict 'level' (e.g. protestants v catholics)
also putting this on my next UG decision seminar syllabus !
May 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
also putting this on my next UG decision seminar syllabus !
this tracks, as an armchair conspiracy theorist (but not in any way that touches on political, interpersonal, or professional matters, haha) I would say half the fun of theorizing is being massively, supremely overconfident
May 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
this tracks, as an armchair conspiracy theorist (but not in any way that touches on political, interpersonal, or professional matters, haha) I would say half the fun of theorizing is being massively, supremely overconfident