Veronica Boyce
@vboyce.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist and psycholinguist. Currently doing a PhD at Stanford.
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We tried very hard to study language and communication during strategic games like prisoner's dilemma. Veronica Boyce did many experiments chasing what could have been an interesting result but in the end wasn't very strong. Now she's written a nice postmortem: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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July 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
We tried very hard to study language and communication during strategic games like prisoner's dilemma. Veronica Boyce did many experiments chasing what could have been an interesting result but in the end wasn't very strong. Now she's written a nice postmortem: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
July 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
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How can we combine the process-level insight that think-aloud studies give us with the large scale that modern online experiments permit? In our new CogSci paper, we show that speech-to-text models and LLMs enable us to scale up the think-aloud method to large experiments!
Excited to share a new CogSci paper co-led with @benpry.bsky.social!
Once a cornerstone for studying human reasoning, the think-aloud method declined in popularity as manual coding limited its scale. We introduce a method to automate analysis of verbal reports and scale think-aloud studies. (1/8)🧵
Once a cornerstone for studying human reasoning, the think-aloud method declined in popularity as manual coding limited its scale. We introduce a method to automate analysis of verbal reports and scale think-aloud studies. (1/8)🧵
June 25, 2025 at 5:32 AM
How can we combine the process-level insight that think-aloud studies give us with the large scale that modern online experiments permit? In our new CogSci paper, we show that speech-to-text models and LLMs enable us to scale up the think-aloud method to large experiments!
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Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience.
It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.
If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.
If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
I Have Written You A Book On Forensic Metascience
Use it to cause trouble
open.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience.
It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.
If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day.
If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all.
open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
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Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
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careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
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careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
February 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
and
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
and
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
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I will be at NeurIPS starting tomorrow! Would love to chat about interpretability, linguistics, language structure, meaning in LLMs. Reach out!
Aaaand if you love Vancouver, apply to do a PhD at UBC! Fun research in a lovely place! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...
Aaaand if you love Vancouver, apply to do a PhD at UBC! Fun research in a lovely place! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...
December 10, 2024 at 10:13 PM
I will be at NeurIPS starting tomorrow! Would love to chat about interpretability, linguistics, language structure, meaning in LLMs. Reach out!
Aaaand if you love Vancouver, apply to do a PhD at UBC! Fun research in a lovely place! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...
Aaaand if you love Vancouver, apply to do a PhD at UBC! Fun research in a lovely place! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...
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Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵
bsky.app/profile/laur...
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The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
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December 3, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵
bsky.app/profile/laur...
bsky.app/profile/laur...
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Thanks to the wonderful leadership of @vboyce.bsky.social, this is now published at doi.org/10.1525/coll...!
Thankful for the great introduction to graduate school and open science from @mcxfrank.bsky.social.
Thankful for the great introduction to graduate school and open science from @mcxfrank.bsky.social.
November 20, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Thanks to the wonderful leadership of @vboyce.bsky.social, this is now published at doi.org/10.1525/coll...!
Thankful for the great introduction to graduate school and open science from @mcxfrank.bsky.social.
Thankful for the great introduction to graduate school and open science from @mcxfrank.bsky.social.
Work with Isabel! She's a lovely person who does really cool cognitively and linguistically informed NLP work.
Do you want to understand how language models work, and how they can change language science? I'm recruiting PhD students at UBC Linguistics! The research will be fun, and Vancouver is lovely. So much cool NLP happening at UBC across both Ling and CS! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...
November 19, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Work with Isabel! She's a lovely person who does really cool cognitively and linguistically informed NLP work.
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Do you like building great tools for behavioral measurement? We are seeking a Research Scientist to act as the tasks lead and engineering manager for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE: levante-network.org.
October 21, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Do you like building great tools for behavioral measurement? We are seeking a Research Scientist to act as the tasks lead and engineering manager for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE: levante-network.org.
This was my first time leading a "medium" team science project. It's been a great journey from early convos with Mike about "could some of the failed replications be rescued", to supervising the actual projects, to interpreting the results. I'm grateful to all my co-authors for their hard work.
If you try to replicate a finding so you can build on it, but your study fails, what should you do? Should you follow up and try to "rescue" the failed rep, or should you move on? Boyce et al. tried to answer this question; in our sample, 5 of 17 rescue projects succeeded.
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October 18, 2024 at 4:21 PM
This was my first time leading a "medium" team science project. It's been a great journey from early convos with Mike about "could some of the failed replications be rescued", to supervising the actual projects, to interpreting the results. I'm grateful to all my co-authors for their hard work.
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When a replication fails, researchers have to decide whether to make another attempt or move on. How should we think about this decision? Here's a new paper trying to answer this question, led by Veronica Boyce and featuring student authors from my class!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 6, 2024 at 7:23 PM
When a replication fails, researchers have to decide whether to make another attempt or move on. How should we think about this decision? Here's a new paper trying to answer this question, led by Veronica Boyce and featuring student authors from my class!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...