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Sander Van de Cruys
@sandervdc.bsky.social
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Like most psychologists, I like people, in theory.
My pages: sandervandecruys.be
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sandervdc.bsky.social
New post on the seductions of AI conversations: Cold humans and warm machines
www.thereisnoreward.com/p/cold-human...
February 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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edwardvessel.bsky.social
A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics! A small start, but I’m sure it will grow. I will add more folks as I find them. Ping me with your additions. #neuroaesthetics #empiricalaesthetics

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November 15, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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devezer.bsky.social
Intriguing post. I don't agree with everything Munger says, nor want to discuss specific points that seem to be of personal nature. But some of his observations about #metasci are on point, such as the distinction btw wanting to persuade colleagues vs imposing how everyone needs to do science. >
Do Something Else
Lakens and the Second Reformation
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September 23, 2024 at 10:20 PM
sandervdc.bsky.social
@stephengadsby.bsky.social and I wrote this new piece, discussing the role of 'aha' experiences in propagating belief in conspiracy theories.
psyche.co/ideas/the-su...
The surprising role of deep thinking in conspiracy theories | Psyche Ideas
People who endorse and spread outlandish theories aren’t gullible, they’re drawn to the intoxicating lure of discovery
psyche.co
September 12, 2024 at 5:49 PM
sandervdc.bsky.social
New piece on our deepest motivations: open.substack.com/pub/thereisn...
One motive to rule them all?
On status vs power as first movers
open.substack.com
May 29, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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joberv.bsky.social
Prefaces of books I probably will never write.

Installment B: Being Bo(h)rn

Best phrase: "Two brother’s wonder at the straight lines thought by somebody with a back so crooked."

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Being Bo(h)rn
Preface B
open.substack.com
May 27, 2024 at 7:18 AM
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joberv.bsky.social
Prefaces of books I probably will not write.

Installment A: an autistic history of philosophy.

Best phrase: “They clearly never met me with my mother”.

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An Autistic History of Philosophy
Preface A
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May 12, 2024 at 10:24 AM
sandervdc.bsky.social
👀Out now: A new open access publication in Phil. Trans. B with Jacopo Frascaroli and Karl Friston. We examine why we are grasped by art, and we end up exploring the essential tension in living beings between order and change. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Check out the special issue!
December 19, 2023 at 5:01 PM
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jaanaru.bsky.social
Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable?

Great question, asked in this beautiful new paper

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Is Predictive Coding Falsifiable?
Predictive-coding has justifiably become a highly influential theory in Neuroscience. However, the possibility of its unfalsifiability has been raised…
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September 25, 2023 at 2:08 PM
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attackerman.bsky.social
It’s so hard not to screenshot all of Doppleganger by Naomi Klein but this point is so crucial.
I can’t type out this entire page but Klein is making the critical point that liberalism, as an ideology of capitalism, is the thinnest guardrail against fascism because its atomized exaltation of the individual is bound to fail the faithful when they encounter structural exploitations, deprivations and repressions that undergird capitalism. It really is socialism or barbarism
October 22, 2023 at 2:11 PM
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soerenkrach.bsky.social
"Perhaps it is time for funding bodies to rethink their application processes."

Interesting commentary on how ChatGPT is entering the grant-application system.

#rethinkfunding

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken
The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding. The fact that artificial intelli...
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October 15, 2023 at 8:48 AM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
As Karl Weick explained, “how do I know what I think, until I see what I say?” And in writing, this is where we’re finally forced to make hard decisions about structure and to articulate concrete relationships between ideas. We may lose that when AI fills in those thoughts for us.
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Oct 6
This from Rebecca Solnit is my biggest fear about AI. Writing teaches me about myself, and I can't imagine handing that over to a machine whose only incentive is monetizing every aspect of my life. But many people will make that bargain, sacrificing their own self-awareness in the process.
Are there certain parts of the writing process that you can't really imagine AI replicating? Or can you just talk a little bit about the kind of labor that goes into writing the work that you do? I'm a writer because I want to write. I don't want a machine to do it for me. I'm a writer because the process of writing is creative in what I do with language, but also in how I understand the subject. I often feel that I don't think hard enough about things until I have to write about them. Often my understanding changes in the process of writing. That's exciting for me. That's my own development, which, ideally, is somehow also something I can share with the readers. I'm engaging in thinking, and what is the point of handing the job of thinking itself over, of understanding something more deeply, seeing the pattern that underlies? Why would I want to give up that profound experience?
October 7, 2023 at 12:51 AM
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jaanaru.bsky.social
Insight is not some 'special' process studied only on the fringes of experimental psychology. Having an "Aha!" leaves a mark on the person's mental world and thus has real consequences for behavior. Great paper!
October 2, 2023 at 4:22 PM
sandervdc.bsky.social
Thrilled to say that our new paper, ‘Insight in the conspiracist’s mind’, is finally out in Personality and Social Psychology Review.

With stellar co-authors @joberv.bsky.social @stephengadsby.bsky.social David Gijbels Karolien Poels

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Insight in the Conspiracist’s Mind - Sander Van de Cruys, Jo Bervoets, Stephen Gadsby, David Gijbe...
Academic Abstract The motto of the conspiracist, “Do your own research,” may seem ludicrous to scientists. Indeed, it is often dismissed as a mere rhetorical de...
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October 2, 2023 at 3:23 PM
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biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social
Body Maps of Uncertainty and Surprise in Musical Chord Progression and its individual differences in Depression and Body Perception Sensitivity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556777v1
Body Maps of Uncertainty and Surprise in Musical Chord Progression and its individual differences in Depression and Body Perception Sensitivity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556777v1
Music has profoundly shaped the human experience across diverse cultures and generations, yet the me
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September 9, 2023 at 5:17 PM