Benjamin Pitt
@benjaminpitt.bsky.social
Cognitive diversity, development, & dynamics. https://cognitiveconstructionlab.com/
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Do people remember where things are relative to their body (e.g. my left side) or relative to the environment (the North/uphill side)? The answer is both at once, according to my new paper now out in Psychological Science! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Do people remember where things are relative to their body (e.g. my left side) or relative to the environment (the North/uphill side)? The answer is both at once, according to my new paper now out in Psychological Science! 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the faculty at @umassamherst.bsky.social next year as an assistant professor in Psychological & Brain Sciences! 🥳
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October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be joining the faculty at @umassamherst.bsky.social next year as an assistant professor in Psychological & Brain Sciences! 🥳
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We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!
We have a postdoc position available in my lab at UC Berkeley, 2 years+, flexible start date, research focus is social reasoning and cultural evolution from a computational perspective. Deadline = November 29th. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04639
Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - The Computational Cognitive Science Laboratory -Psychology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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December 13, 2024 at 1:14 AM
We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!
Reposted by Benjamin Pitt
Our new paper, on the evolution of institutions, is out in PNAS!
How can institutions promote cooperation when they themselves rely on cooperation? Check out JB's awesome thread!
Very proud of this paper with @jliep.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social!
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
How can institutions promote cooperation when they themselves rely on cooperation? Check out JB's awesome thread!
Very proud of this paper with @jliep.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social!
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Do we cooperate because of institutions, or do institutions exist because we cooperate?
In this @pnas.org paper led by @jliep.bsky.social, with @lfitouchi.bsky.social & N. Baumard, we develop a mathematical model that answers this question.
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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In this @pnas.org paper led by @jliep.bsky.social, with @lfitouchi.bsky.social & N. Baumard, we develop a mathematical model that answers this question.
👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 16, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Our new paper, on the evolution of institutions, is out in PNAS!
How can institutions promote cooperation when they themselves rely on cooperation? Check out JB's awesome thread!
Very proud of this paper with @jliep.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social!
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
How can institutions promote cooperation when they themselves rely on cooperation? Check out JB's awesome thread!
Very proud of this paper with @jliep.bsky.social, N. Baumard, @jbaptistandre.bsky.social!
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Disadvantageous inequity aversion (IA), a negative response to receiving less than
others, is a key building block of the human sense of fairness. While some theorize
that IA is shared by species acro...
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November 27, 2024 at 4:39 PM
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.