Ori Friedman
@orifriedman.bsky.social
Reposted by Ori Friedman
New article w/ M Pabla & @orifriedman.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
When children claim an unexpected event is impossible they also claim it's never happened, even for immoral events, suggesting their judgments reflect beliefs about what could happen & not merely what should.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
When children claim an unexpected event is impossible they also claim it's never happened, even for immoral events, suggesting their judgments reflect beliefs about what could happen & not merely what should.
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New article w/ M Pabla & @orifriedman.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
When children claim an unexpected event is impossible they also claim it's never happened, even for immoral events, suggesting their judgments reflect beliefs about what could happen & not merely what should.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
When children claim an unexpected event is impossible they also claim it's never happened, even for immoral events, suggesting their judgments reflect beliefs about what could happen & not merely what should.
Reposted by Ori Friedman
New research from University of Waterloo psychologists (Megan Barlow, Tiffany Doan, Ori Friedman @orifriedman.bsky.social, and Stephanie Denison) sheds light on why people often probability match rather than maximize when making decisions. see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Probability matching and statistical naïveté | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core
Probability matching and statistical naïveté - Volume 20
www.cambridge.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New research from University of Waterloo psychologists (Megan Barlow, Tiffany Doan, Ori Friedman @orifriedman.bsky.social, and Stephanie Denison) sheds light on why people often probability match rather than maximize when making decisions. see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New pub with Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, & Regan Christensen
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories
Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...
www.tandfonline.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New pub with Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, & Regan Christensen
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cognition Updates now posting on LinkedIn
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July 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Cognition Updates now posting on LinkedIn
Reposted by Ori Friedman
📢 We’re now on LinkedIn! 💼
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July 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
📢 We’re now on LinkedIn! 💼
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Reposted by Ori Friedman
⭐️ From Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman:
Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
Intentionality judgments can depend on probability raising—people are more likely to see a desired outcome as intentional if the agent who produced it…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
⭐️ From Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman:
Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
Reposted by Ori Friedman
Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying
📣Recent work from Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman
📣Recent work from Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman
Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying
People often find simple explanations more satisfying than complex ones. Across seven preregistered experiments, we provide evidence that this simplic…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying
📣Recent work from Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman
📣Recent work from Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman
Reposted by Ori Friedman
Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...) is coming out Nov. 14!
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.
November 2, 2023 at 3:56 PM
Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...) is coming out Nov. 14!
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.