Gabriel Braun
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Gabriel Braun
@gabrielbraun.bsky.social
Finally arrived on Bluesky.
Neuroscience PhD student at Tel Aviv University. Social neuroscience, trust/belief, misinformation, language and communication. Film enthusiast. 🏳️‍🌈

https://gabrielbrauncog.github.io/
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For my first BlueSky post I want to share this freshly published paper in PNAS @pnas.org!
We show how belief and disbelief shape narrative processing in the brain, not just as opposites of a continuum, but as distinct effects, including a cool truth/belief bias.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
My favourite part of writing is naming studies/proposals after somewhat obscure films, feeling clever until a peer deletes the title without mercy.

This round: 'The Self of Another', inspired by 'The Face of Another'.
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Gabriel Braun
This project wouldn’t have come together without the amazing team -- Tomer Zipori and @louisteitelbaum.bsky.social for the heavy lifting and computational analysis, @lewan.bsky.social for his insight, and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social whose vision made this possible. Truly grateful for this!
New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access 👇Thread! Buckle up

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
October 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Braun
The Timbre of Lies
Ever feel like people who believe the same story are on the same wavelength? Their brains might just be.
October 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
New preprint alert! 🐥
"Continued memory for misinformation, continued trust in the sources that spread it: The effects of language and self-correction".

In my completely unbiased opinion, it’s a very nice and interesting read!

Full paper at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
July 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW preprint!
We study cases with several meanings (e.g., replying “I’m feeling sick” to “Wanna go to the beach?”). How does being truthful in one meaning, but maybe not another, shape perceived commitment to each meaning and overall trust in a speaker?

doi.org/10.31234/osf...
June 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reposted by Gabriel Braun
Shared disbelief and shared belief: Belief and disbelief as drivers of interpersonal neural synchronization during narrative processing @PNAS.org
Shared disbelief and shared belief: Belief and disbelief as drivers of interpersonal neural synchronization during narrative processing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 23, June 2025. SignificanceWe live in what many describe as a post-truth era, where truth is increasingly contested. Despite efforts to mitigate this issue, little is known about the cognitive processes underlying believed/disbelieved information. This fMRI study ...
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June 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Bed-bound with high fever, while now and then having to run to a shelter filled with children. So.... seems like the right time to write and share my second substack post: "How scientific value is too often measured in dollars"

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How scientific value is too often measured in dollars
In this post, I want to touch on something a bit more controversial.
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June 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just me trying to write some words about belief, without having to be too formal and in APA7

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Belief as the cognitive default
Hey there!
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June 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
For my first BlueSky post I want to share this freshly published paper in PNAS @pnas.org!
We show how belief and disbelief shape narrative processing in the brain, not just as opposites of a continuum, but as distinct effects, including a cool truth/belief bias.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM