Bill Levine
@whlevine.bsky.social
cognitive psychologist, weather nerd, hockey fan, etc. (he/him)
My lab is recruiting PhD students for fall 2026. Please reach out if interested!
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My lab is recruiting PhD students for fall 2026. Please reach out if interested!
For those not yet done grading, maybe this will help a bit: www.reddit.com/r/Professors...
December 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
For those not yet done grading, maybe this will help a bit: www.reddit.com/r/Professors...
Fantastic: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
December 10, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Fantastic: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
TIL a new word from the latest issue of the Journal of Pragmatics. The paper is focused on understanding the complex linguistic perspective-taking that people engage in when playing multiplayer combat video games.
November 29, 2024 at 3:41 PM
TIL a new word from the latest issue of the Journal of Pragmatics. The paper is focused on understanding the complex linguistic perspective-taking that people engage in when playing multiplayer combat video games.
Reminiscent of ...
November 23, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Reminiscent of ...
Suspiciously precise warning at the MoMA
November 23, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Suspiciously precise warning at the MoMA
A lovely computational linguistics study of professional and amateur poetry by Justine Kao and Dan Jurafsky from about 10 years ago seems relevant here. The whole paper is online at nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/kaojura...
November 17, 2024 at 2:07 PM
A lovely computational linguistics study of professional and amateur poetry by Justine Kao and Dan Jurafsky from about 10 years ago seems relevant here. The whole paper is online at nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/kaojura...
From a paper on (in part) the role of incongruity in humor by Hillson & Martin (1994, Motivation and Emotion). RIP to both comedy giants mentioned in this snippet.
September 26, 2024 at 7:34 PM
From a paper on (in part) the role of incongruity in humor by Hillson & Martin (1994, Motivation and Emotion). RIP to both comedy giants mentioned in this snippet.
Kudos to the captioner of Netflix's Into the Fire true-crime documentary for capturing some paralinguistic detail.
September 22, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Kudos to the captioner of Netflix's Into the Fire true-crime documentary for capturing some paralinguistic detail.
Great moments in psychology research: From a paper by Perham & Currie (2014, Applied Cognitive Psychology) that reported on the effects of different kinds of music on reading comprehension.
September 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Great moments in psychology research: From a paper by Perham & Currie (2014, Applied Cognitive Psychology) that reported on the effects of different kinds of music on reading comprehension.