Francesco Di Ciò
@fdi55.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate in the social neuroscience lab (ICN, UCL).|| Interested in social cognition, hyperscanning and group behaviour.
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🚨 Excited to end the year with a new preprint w/ Wenning Deng (not on bsky) and Dean Mobbs @fearbrain.bsky.social 🎉 🎉
"Blame and Compromise During Risky Dyadic Foraging" osf.io/preprints/ps...
Feedback is very welcome! Thread: 🧵 1/n
"Blame and Compromise During Risky Dyadic Foraging" osf.io/preprints/ps...
Feedback is very welcome! Thread: 🧵 1/n
December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🚨 Excited to end the year with a new preprint w/ Wenning Deng (not on bsky) and Dean Mobbs @fearbrain.bsky.social 🎉 🎉
"Blame and Compromise During Risky Dyadic Foraging" osf.io/preprints/ps...
Feedback is very welcome! Thread: 🧵 1/n
"Blame and Compromise During Risky Dyadic Foraging" osf.io/preprints/ps...
Feedback is very welcome! Thread: 🧵 1/n
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New paper for #neurips2025!
AI models adjust millions of internal settings to get better at a task. But how are these adjustments determined? For decades, we've mostly figured this out through trial & error.
We took a different approach...🧵 (1/6)
🔗 openreview.net/forum?id=oMi...
AI models adjust millions of internal settings to get better at a task. But how are these adjustments determined? For decades, we've mostly figured this out through trial & error.
We took a different approach...🧵 (1/6)
🔗 openreview.net/forum?id=oMi...
December 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
New paper for #neurips2025!
AI models adjust millions of internal settings to get better at a task. But how are these adjustments determined? For decades, we've mostly figured this out through trial & error.
We took a different approach...🧵 (1/6)
🔗 openreview.net/forum?id=oMi...
AI models adjust millions of internal settings to get better at a task. But how are these adjustments determined? For decades, we've mostly figured this out through trial & error.
We took a different approach...🧵 (1/6)
🔗 openreview.net/forum?id=oMi...
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🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.”
Yeah. 🫢
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Yeah. 🫢
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Serotonergic-dependent awareness is required for trace conditioning in honeybees
Entomology; Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience; Cognitive
neuroscience
www.cell.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🧪 Friends of all backgrounds: please enjoy this new paper whose findings “reveal that bees engage higher-order cognitive mechanisms under temporal uncertainty, suggesting that core features of awareness may be evolutionarily conserved across distant taxa.”
Yeah. 🫢
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Yeah. 🫢
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hecheng Jin, Ting Xu, et al:
Is Pearson’s correlation coefficient enough for functional connectivity in fMRI?
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Is Pearson’s correlation coefficient enough for functional connectivity in fMRI?
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
December 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hecheng Jin, Ting Xu, et al:
Is Pearson’s correlation coefficient enough for functional connectivity in fMRI?
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Is Pearson’s correlation coefficient enough for functional connectivity in fMRI?
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Speech decoding on the basis of single words has so far been limited to intracranial recordings. Scientists demonstrated the feasibility of non-invasive language decoding using EEG and MEG, finding that more training data consistently increases model performance
#neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
#neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
Towards decoding individual words from non-invasive brain recordings - Nature Communications
While deep learning has enabled the decoding of language from intracranial brain recordings, achieving this with non-invasive recordings remains an open challenge. Here the authors introduce a deep le...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Speech decoding on the basis of single words has so far been limited to intracranial recordings. Scientists demonstrated the feasibility of non-invasive language decoding using EEG and MEG, finding that more training data consistently increases model performance
#neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
#neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroAI
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New paper out in Phil Trans with Angel Jimenez, Keith Jensen and Lei Chang
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
Abstract. Cumulative cultural evolution, where populations accumulate ever-improving knowledge, technologies and social customs, is arguably a unique featu
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
New paper out in Phil Trans with Angel Jimenez, Keith Jensen and Lei Chang
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
From information free-riding to information sharing: how have humans solved the cooperative dilemma at the heart of cumulative cultural evolution?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
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My very first paper is finally out in @pnas.org, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Patrick Haggard! Interoception, exteroception, the self and more, it's got it all.
Also it should go open access at some point
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Also it should go open access at some point
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding | PNAS
Internal bodily signals, notably the heartbeat, influence our perception of the external
world—but the nature of this influence remains unclear. Di...
www.pnas.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
My very first paper is finally out in @pnas.org, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Patrick Haggard! Interoception, exteroception, the self and more, it's got it all.
Also it should go open access at some point
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Also it should go open access at some point
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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This is now out in Cerebral Cortex.
Open Access: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
@antoniahamilton.bsky.social @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social Uzair Hakim @paola182.bsky.social Danny Thompkings @fdi55.bsky.social
Open Access: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
@antoniahamilton.bsky.social @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social Uzair Hakim @paola182.bsky.social Danny Thompkings @fdi55.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is now out in Cerebral Cortex.
Open Access: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
@antoniahamilton.bsky.social @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social Uzair Hakim @paola182.bsky.social Danny Thompkings @fdi55.bsky.social
Open Access: academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
@antoniahamilton.bsky.social @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social Uzair Hakim @paola182.bsky.social Danny Thompkings @fdi55.bsky.social
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In 2021 we reported that live learning outperformed recorded learning. In a new preregistered analysis, my first senior-author paper led by Stan de Visser (pre-print), we find that this benefit does not increase with interactivity. The potential to interact may be enough to boost learning. A thread:
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
In 2021 we reported that live learning outperformed recorded learning. In a new preregistered analysis, my first senior-author paper led by Stan de Visser (pre-print), we find that this benefit does not increase with interactivity. The potential to interact may be enough to boost learning. A thread:
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New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
OSF
osf.io
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New preprint alert!
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
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🥳!!NEW PREPRINT!!🥳
We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.
We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🥳!!NEW PREPRINT!!🥳
We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.
We show that the tendency to compress complex social information into priors about social structures becomes more pronounced during adolescence.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am soooooo excited to share this work, together with @mkwittmann.bsky.social and @yongling.bsky.social.
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Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories.
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
Discrete and systematic communication in a continuous signal-meaning space
Abstract. Human spoken language uses a continuous stream of acoustic signals to communicate about continuous features of the world, by using discrete forms
academic.oup.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Human speech is continuous, and many meaning spaces (like color) are continuous too. Yet we use discrete words like “blue” and “green” that carve these spaces into categories.
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
In our new paper, we ask: How do people turn continuous spaces into structured, word-like systems for communication? (1/8)
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Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The James Webb Telescope May Have Seen the First Stars in the Universe
Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)
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Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination — a Perspective by Edoardo Chidichimo, Andrea I. Luppi, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Victoria Leong, Guillaume Dumas, Andrés Canales-Johnson & Richard A. I. Bethlehem
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Methodological shortcomings have constrained studies describing the complex dynamics of interpersonal coordination, which is essential to human sociality. In this Perspective, Chidichimo et al. advanc...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination — a Perspective by Edoardo Chidichimo, Andrea I. Luppi, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Victoria Leong, Guillaume Dumas, Andrés Canales-Johnson & Richard A. I. Bethlehem
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I found this article super-interesting: Why more social interactions lead to more polarization in societies | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I found this article super-interesting: Why more social interactions lead to more polarization in societies | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Combo of two papers on partial information rate decomposition now out!
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
Mini thread below 👇
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
Mini thread below 👇
Partial Information Rate Decomposition
Partial information decomposition (PID) is a principled and flexible method to unveil complex high-order interactions in multiunit network systems. Though being defined exclusively for random variable...
journals.aps.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Combo of two papers on partial information rate decomposition now out!
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
Mini thread below 👇
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...
Mini thread below 👇
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📢New preprint:
𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗘𝗚 (1/𝗳) 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 #𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺
medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @mrgbcn.bsky.social, @mireiatorralba.bsky.social, and Claudia Alvarez Martin
🎵🎙️Listen to a notebookLM overview of this paper in simple words:
lenamatyjek.com/wp-content/u...
#EEG #Neuroscience
𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗘𝗚 (1/𝗳) 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 #𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺
medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @mrgbcn.bsky.social, @mireiatorralba.bsky.social, and Claudia Alvarez Martin
🎵🎙️Listen to a notebookLM overview of this paper in simple words:
lenamatyjek.com/wp-content/u...
#EEG #Neuroscience
lenamatyjek.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📢New preprint:
𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗘𝗚 (1/𝗳) 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 #𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺
medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @mrgbcn.bsky.social, @mireiatorralba.bsky.social, and Claudia Alvarez Martin
🎵🎙️Listen to a notebookLM overview of this paper in simple words:
lenamatyjek.com/wp-content/u...
#EEG #Neuroscience
𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗘𝗚 (1/𝗳) 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 #𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺
medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
w/ @mrgbcn.bsky.social, @mireiatorralba.bsky.social, and Claudia Alvarez Martin
🎵🎙️Listen to a notebookLM overview of this paper in simple words:
lenamatyjek.com/wp-content/u...
#EEG #Neuroscience
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Fundamental features of social environments determine rate of social affiliation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Fundamental features of social environments determine rate of social affiliation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
🧵👇
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
🧵👇
Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI
The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...
go.illinois.edu
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization?
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
🧵👇
@rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print):
go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky
🧵👇
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Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?
Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)
Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)
Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?
Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)
Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)
Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Reposted by Francesco Di Ciò
Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
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🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press,
that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...
www.pnas.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling
People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...
www.biorxiv.org
October 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Francesco Di Ciò
📢 New (economics) preprint 📢
(with Jiaxin Yu)
Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
(with Jiaxin Yu)
Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📢 New (economics) preprint 📢
(with Jiaxin Yu)
Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
(with Jiaxin Yu)
Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....