New paper! Different to my usual schtick concerning cognitive costs. We analysed differences in learning between depressed and healthy students and whether Pavlovian biases differed between them. We found mixed evidence... have a read!
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New letter by @minzlicht.bsky.social and I forthcoming in TiCS on whether neurometabolic costs are necessary to explain cognitive fatigue. While the origins of fatigue may turn out to be metabolic, we argue there isn’t yet sufficient evidence for such theories. osf.io/preprints/ps...

New preprint with @krefeldschwalb.bsky.social. We show that the smarter* people are, the greater the correlation between distinct estimates of their economic preferences.

Forthcoming at JEP: General is some more work from my dissertation. Over three experiments we test a popular model of cognitive effort aversion—the opportunity cost model, first proposed by Kurzban et al. (2013)—and find negligible support for its primary predictions. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Standards are slipping at @UNSW

Weitzman vindicated

Geez it's easy finding a sofa on marketplace when you follow the optimal policy