Toby Mintz
Toby Mintz
@tobymintz.bsky.social
Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, Director of the Undergraduate Cognitive Science Program, Univ. of Southern California @USC. Language and cognition.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/tobenmintz/
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My lab at USC is recruiting!
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
September 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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APS's journal AMPPS has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review. @dsbarra.bsky.social 

AMPPS Accepts First Manuscript From Innovative Peer Review System
The APS journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science has accepted its first manuscript through a collaboration with a nonprofit that offers decentralized, community-driven peer review.
www.psychologicalscience.org
August 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This literally fell out of the sky onto our driveway this morning, presumably brought in on a plume of smoke from the Eaton Canyon fire to the east. I'm accustomed to finding ash on the car from area fires, but this was startling, as well as very sad.
January 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Great psychologist turned philosopher Mariel Goddu and I wrote this Nature review of the development of human causal learning, 20 years worth of comparative, developmental, philosophical and computational work. Empowerment included. Free to read at this link. nature.com/articles/s44...
The development of human causal learning and reasoning
Nature Reviews Psychology - Humans have a unique capacity for objective and general causal understanding. In this Review, Goddu and Gopnik describe the development of causal learning and reasoning...
nature.com
April 29, 2024 at 12:36 AM