Lingyu Meng
@lingyumeng.bsky.social
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Great piece in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social on why AI won't solve the loneliness epidemic:
"presenting AI as a scalable solution to the loneliness epidemic risks overlooking the structural and societal roots of the problem and may allow us to abdicate our responsibility as a society."
"presenting AI as a scalable solution to the loneliness epidemic risks overlooking the structural and societal roots of the problem and may allow us to abdicate our responsibility as a society."
Can AI really help solve the loneliness epidemic?
Advances in artificial intelligence offer an enticing solution to a global problem: perhaps interacting with large language models (LLMs) can help all…
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October 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Great piece in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social on why AI won't solve the loneliness epidemic:
"presenting AI as a scalable solution to the loneliness epidemic risks overlooking the structural and societal roots of the problem and may allow us to abdicate our responsibility as a society."
"presenting AI as a scalable solution to the loneliness epidemic risks overlooking the structural and societal roots of the problem and may allow us to abdicate our responsibility as a society."
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Our new research finds that people are willing to cheat if it benefits their group — even when they gain nothing themselves.
"the risk of dishonesty in organizations is not limited to selfish acts...employees might bend rules to benefit their team or in-group members."
www.nhh.no/en/nhh-bulle...
"the risk of dishonesty in organizations is not limited to selfish acts...employees might bend rules to benefit their team or in-group members."
www.nhh.no/en/nhh-bulle...
We lie for those who are like us
Three experiments with more than 5,000 participants show that people are willing to cheat if it benefits their group — even when they gain nothing themselves.
www.nhh.no
September 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Our new research finds that people are willing to cheat if it benefits their group — even when they gain nothing themselves.
"the risk of dishonesty in organizations is not limited to selfish acts...employees might bend rules to benefit their team or in-group members."
www.nhh.no/en/nhh-bulle...
"the risk of dishonesty in organizations is not limited to selfish acts...employees might bend rules to benefit their team or in-group members."
www.nhh.no/en/nhh-bulle...
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Study: Modeling impact of misinformation during epidemic via @nature.com
"...result in an additional 14% of the population becoming infected—nearly 47 million Americans..."
Price tag of vaccine misinformation = $143B
"...an alarming bound on the harm of exposure to online vaccine misinformation."
"...result in an additional 14% of the population becoming infected—nearly 47 million Americans..."
Price tag of vaccine misinformation = $143B
"...an alarming bound on the harm of exposure to online vaccine misinformation."
April 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Study: Modeling impact of misinformation during epidemic via @nature.com
"...result in an additional 14% of the population becoming infected—nearly 47 million Americans..."
Price tag of vaccine misinformation = $143B
"...an alarming bound on the harm of exposure to online vaccine misinformation."
"...result in an additional 14% of the population becoming infected—nearly 47 million Americans..."
Price tag of vaccine misinformation = $143B
"...an alarming bound on the harm of exposure to online vaccine misinformation."
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Reinforcement Learning and Active Inference are two frameworks used in computational psychiatry, but these are rarely directly compared empirically. In this new article, we aimed to compare these in a more systematic manner by fitting each to multiple datasets: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A Systematic Empirical Comparison of Active Inference and Reinforcement Learning Models in Accounting for Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Active Inference (AInf) are related computational frameworks for modeling learning and choice under uncertainty. However, differ
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March 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Reinforcement Learning and Active Inference are two frameworks used in computational psychiatry, but these are rarely directly compared empirically. In this new article, we aimed to compare these in a more systematic manner by fitting each to multiple datasets: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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It’s out! Our article in Nature Human Behavior led by Yin Wang on the conceptual structure of human relationships across cultures and time. This work is breathtaking nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures - Nature Human Behaviour
Cheng et al. explore the universality and cultural variability in how people understand human relationships, revealing a five-dimensional framework for relationship concepts across both modern and anc...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It’s out! Our article in Nature Human Behavior led by Yin Wang on the conceptual structure of human relationships across cultures and time. This work is breathtaking nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Using Natural Language Processing in Behavioral Science
We put together a "How-To-Guide" and offer a short summary: jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/using-natu...
We put together a "How-To-Guide" and offer a short summary: jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/using-natu...
Using Natural Language Processing in Behavioral Science: A How-To-Guide
As NLP becomes a popular analysis technique, it is important to use it wisely. We offer a How-to-Guide from our new paper.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Using Natural Language Processing in Behavioral Science
We put together a "How-To-Guide" and offer a short summary: jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/using-natu...
We put together a "How-To-Guide" and offer a short summary: jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/using-natu...
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New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
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March 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements.
delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...
delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...
March 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Dissertation by Dr Rachel Los not only includes acknowledgements, but also .. anti-acknowledgements.
delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...
delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a...