Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science
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If you aren't calling things by their name — this is a combination of phrenology, physiognomy and astrology — you're not a journalist, you're just the megaphone of power.
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If you aren't calling things by their name — this is a combination of phrenology, physiognomy and astrology — you're not a journalist, you're just the megaphone of power.
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...and you (and anybody familiar with racism) can predict what it is: they wanted to show Black people have less interconnected neurons or something just as bonkers. No different to more modern neurosexism in illogical form. meson.press/books/neural...
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[A]ll science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. (Marx, 1894, p. 592) doi.org/10.1007/s421...
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On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. doi.org/10.1007/s421...
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[A]ll science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. (Marx, 1894, p. 592) doi.org/10.1007/s421...
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There's been a kind of grim side conversation about Turing due to the recorded means of his death, a poisoned apple (and obvious links to the myth of the princess Snow White).
There's been a kind of grim side conversation about Turing due to the recorded means of his death, a poisoned apple (and obvious links to the myth of the princess Snow White).
I am a scientist, I don’t use products that generate text (“suggestions”) for me, like Grammerly, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. and I think none of these products should be anywhere near academic writing. It is not as hard as you want to make it seem. We can write our own texts.
I am a scientist, I don’t use products that generate text (“suggestions”) for me, like Grammerly, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. and I think none of these products should be anywhere near academic writing. It is not as hard as you want to make it seem. We can write our own texts.
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I would refuse to review or edit any paper that was not 100% written by its authors (i.e., the people who have authorial responsibility for the creation of a papers content).
I would refuse to review or edit any paper that was not 100% written by its authors (i.e., the people who have authorial responsibility for the creation of a papers content).
Inleidende lezingen door de organisatoren (Dorian Accoe, Dries Josten, Seppe Segers, Gertrudis Van de Vijver, Clemence Van Ginneken en mezelf). Mijn deel gaat over hedendaagse eugenetica en connecties met racistische pseudowetenschap.
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I would refuse to review or edit any paper that was not 100% written by its authors (i.e., the people who have authorial responsibility for the creation of a papers content).
I would refuse to review or edit any paper that was not 100% written by its authors (i.e., the people who have authorial responsibility for the creation of a papers content).
One favorite from her motivated reasoning work: "There are two curious omissions in this study which purports to show the influence of attitudes on subjects’ reasoning: the authors neglected to determine the attitudes of their subjects and failed to study how they reasoned."
But also very true, still today in 2026!
… Yes looking at you behaviorist-LLM enthusiasts in cognitive science 👀
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Screenshot from:
📖 Henle, M. (1976). Why study the history of psychology? nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
One favorite from her motivated reasoning work: "There are two curious omissions in this study which purports to show the influence of attitudes on subjects’ reasoning: the authors neglected to determine the attitudes of their subjects and failed to study how they reasoned."
I have never seen anything like this in my entire career. After *5 iterations* correcting errors introduced by their "copy-editors" in the proofs, I bet it’s a case of AI slop. The html version of the paper is still broken (the PDF is ok).
I have never seen anything like this in my entire career. After *5 iterations* correcting errors introduced by their "copy-editors" in the proofs, I bet it’s a case of AI slop. The html version of the paper is still broken (the PDF is ok).
But also very true, still today in 2026!
… Yes looking at you behaviorist-LLM enthusiasts in cognitive science 👀
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Screenshot from:
📖 Henle, M. (1976). Why study the history of psychology? nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
But also very true, still today in 2026!
… Yes looking at you behaviorist-LLM enthusiasts in cognitive science 👀
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Screenshot from:
📖 Henle, M. (1976). Why study the history of psychology? nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“microscopes (…) did, in my opinion, the world more injury than benefit; for this art has intoxicated so many men’s brains, and wholly employed their thoughts (…) about phenomena, or the exterior figures of objects, as all better arts and studies are laid aside” — M. Cavendish (1666)
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Cavendish, Margaret (1666). Observations upon Experimental Philosophy.
(Edited by Eileen O'Neill, in 2012: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...).
Will be compiling some quotes and thoughts over time. Pin📍or bookmark this thread if you want to follow along.
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Cavendish, Margaret (1666). Observations upon Experimental Philosophy.
(Edited by Eileen O'Neill, in 2012: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...).
Will be compiling some quotes and thoughts over time. Pin📍or bookmark this thread if you want to follow along.
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“A whole may know its parts; and an infinite a finite; but no particular part can know its whole, nor one finite part, that which is infinite” — Margaret Cavendish (1666)
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“A whole may know its parts; and an infinite a finite; but no particular part can know its whole, nor one finite part, that which is infinite” — Margaret Cavendish (1666)
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“Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).”
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“Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
“microscopes (…) did, in my opinion, the world more injury than benefit; for this art has intoxicated so many men’s brains, and wholly employed their thoughts (…) about phenomena, or the exterior figures of objects, as all better arts and studies are laid aside” — M. Cavendish (1666)
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Cavendish, Margaret (1666). Observations upon Experimental Philosophy.
(Edited by Eileen O'Neill, in 2012: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...).
Will be compiling some quotes and thoughts over time. Pin📍or bookmark this thread if you want to follow along.
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Cavendish, Margaret (1666). Observations upon Experimental Philosophy.
(Edited by Eileen O'Neill, in 2012: www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...).
Will be compiling some quotes and thoughts over time. Pin📍or bookmark this thread if you want to follow along.
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as I said before: AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a ouija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
The chatbot still produces sexualized images —
even when told the subjects don’t consent.
even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation.
even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse.
www.reuters.com/business/des...
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You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.