A new paper, to appear in Dev Psych. Why do kids as old as 5 or 6 count parts of things as though they were whole objects? We argue that this is pragmatic failure due to kids' inability to access alternative descriptions like "piece of fork". osf.io/preprints/ps...

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It's the most 👏👏 wonderful time 👏👏 of the year 👏👏 (that is, getting to blow the minds of a few people who don't yet know how unhinged Australian daylight savings is)

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New paper out today! 🎶 How can we capture the situated and functional nature of emotional experiences with music? We introduce MEEM — Measure of Emotional Episodes with Music: a new 35-item, modular instrument covering 5 types of emotional episodes. With @kirtsconnor.bsky.social & Suvi Saarikallio

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early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here

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How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/)

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