Luke McEllin
lukemcellin.bsky.social
Luke McEllin
@lukemcellin.bsky.social
Investigating the who, what, where, when, why and how of action and decision coordination.
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Snap up this opportunity that’s too good to miss—and no, I’m not talking about reading this paper! The speed with which an actor reaches for a foraging stimulus signals its value to observers, who use this to guide their own foraging behaviour.
May 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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A learning and memory account of impression formation and updating

Perspective by David M. Amodio (@davidamodio.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/3YTubx3
PDF: rdcu.be/ejREM

#psychology #psychscisky
April 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Snap up this opportunity that’s too good to miss—and no, I’m not talking about reading this paper! The speed with which an actor reaches for a foraging stimulus signals its value to observers, who use this to guide their own foraging behaviour.
April 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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1/ Our new paper in which we looked at subjective and objective performance when teleoperating a semi-autonomous robot.

Together with Ilkay Ari, Davide De Tommaso &
Agnieszka Wykowska

ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...
November 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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My paper proposing that we develop self-representation in a series of discontinuous developmental steps, based on ideas from Bayes and Susan Carey is out in Front in Hum Neurosci

"How to grow a self: development of self-representation in the Bayesian brain"

www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...
November 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Whoever recruits Denis Tatone will be doing themselves a huge favour!
Last but not least... I am on the job market since last summer and it hasn't been exactly a lucky ride. 😟 If anyone knows of positions for academics with an aptitude for interdisciplinary and evoutionarily grounded approaches to social cognition, do let me know! 🐒♥️ (15/15)
April 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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First bsky post and new paper alert! 🚨

Late to sharing this, but here's a short review of a decade of work with Gergely Csibra on how infants represent giving, and why it matters (for event cognition and the origins of the relational mind).

Thread below! 🧵👇

http://t.ly/S6cLw

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April 27, 2024 at 1:58 PM
New paper out in @psychscience.bsky.social

We find that the synchrony between individual responses in a public goods game influence observers estimates of cooperation. Paper and thread below.

doi.org/10.1177/0956...
Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game - Luke McEllin, Natalie Sebanz,...
Benefiting from a cooperative interaction requires people to estimate how cooperatively other members of a group will act so that they can calibrate their own b...
doi.org
January 29, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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"As we move into 2024, time for some shameless self-promotion. Check out our paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science:

""Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination""

Paper: http://tinyurl.com/v39xtx5s
Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/ahrgs/

🧵👇"
January 9, 2024 at 2:40 PM
The way someone moves when implementing a cooperative action carries useful signals that may inform an economic interaction.

Action planning and execution cues influence economic partner choice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 16, 2023 at 9:36 AM
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"We show that Guinea baboons (Papio papio) can use direct reciprocity and partner choice to develop and maintain high levels of cooperation in a prosocial choice task."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 28, 2023 at 8:24 PM
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This is a gently reminder that you still have 10 days (until November 17) to register for the Wisdom of the Crowd: Crowd Analysis Project (woccap.com). Submit a Wisdom of the Crowd aggregation mechanism, then we'll test it. Spread the word.
How do we need to combine individual predictions to maximize prediction accuracy, i.e., Wisdom of the Crowd? We invite YOU to propose an aggregation mechanism that will compete with other research teams' suggestions in a number of prediction tasks. Interested? Read more: woccap.com Please repost!
November 8, 2023 at 2:10 PM
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Depersonalization affects self-prioritization of bodily, but not abstract self-related information

Our new study out in Journal of Experimental Psychology

Together with Anna Ciaunica , @lukemcellin.bsky.social & @hohwy.bsky.social

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
October 25, 2023 at 8:21 PM