Brendan Barrett

bjjbarrett.bsky.social

07 October 2026 23:04

Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Alison Gopnik

alisongopnik.bsky.social

06 October 2026 14:42

I am number 58, where do genuinely new concepts come from? (Central question for AI) on this fascinating list www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

tal boger

talboger.bsky.social

29 September 2026 23:04

We often say that humans struggle to produce random sequences… but what if that's not the whole story? In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @samiyousif.bsky.social & I show that context matters (a lot!). When playing strategic games, humans can produce near-random behavior osf.io/preprints/ps...

Dorsa Amir

dorsaamir.bsky.social

29 September 2026 23:04

Are people bad randomizers in general, or only in some contexts? In our new paper, now in press at Cognition, we found that 'socializing' randomization — in this case by pitting people against each other in a live game of Battleship — dramatically improved randomization behavior 👇🏼

Tobias Gerstenberg

tobigerstenberg.bsky.social

23 September 2026 23:47

I'm so grateful for the continued support from my lab, and for everyone who helped along the way, now as an associate professor with tenure at Stanford 🧑‍🏫🥂🌲