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Wim De Neys
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Psychological scientist @ CNRS & University of Paris
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jeremiebeucler.bsky.social
10/10

Huge thanks to my great co-authors @zoepurcell.bsky.social , @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social and @wimdeneys.bsky.social, and to my lab @lapsyde.bsky.social.

Stay tuned for the computational modeling part! 🤓

You can access the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise.
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Humans and LLMs rate deliberation as superior to intuition on complex reasoning tasks - Communications Psychology
People and LLMs evaluate deliberative reasoning more favorably than intuitive thinking—even when both yield accurate results. This preference appears to be intuitive itself and has implications for how we assess others’ and AI advise.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Paper is now published: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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jorgeapenas.bsky.social
📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr

Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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jfbonnefon.bsky.social
It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...
September 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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nicolasbeauvais.bsky.social
Happy to share that my first paper is out in Thinking & Reasoning! 📄📢
With Aikaterini Voudouri, @boissinesther.bsky.social & @wimdeneys.bsky.social we show that deliberate reasoning helps not just to correct but also to justify intuitive judgments.

🔗Full paper: shorturl.at/JTeTi
Quick thread below!
August 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Moses, fast and slow ! @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social interesting evidence for sound intuiting (and reflection). My take home: Don't use semantic illusions as a pure test of cognitive reflection.
jeremiebeucler.bsky.social Jérémie Beucler @jeremiebeucler.bsky.social · Aug 6
1/8

New (and first) paper accepted at JEP:LMC 🎉

Ever fallen for this type of questions: "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?" Most say "Two," forgetting it was Noah, and not Moses, who took the animals on the Ark. But what’s really going on here? 🧵
When asked “How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?”, most people answer “Two”, failing to notice that it was Noah, and not Moses, who took the animals in the Ark. “Fast-and-slow” dual process accounts of such semantic illusions posit that incorrect responders are not sensitive to their error and that overcoming the illusion requires deliberate correction of an intuitive erroneous answer. We present three experiments that force us to revise this dual process view. We used a two-response paradigm in which participants had to give their first, initial answer under cognitive load and time pressure. Next, participants could take all the time they wanted to deliberate and select a final answer. This enabled us to identify the intuitively generated response that preceded the final response given after deliberation. Results show that participants do not necessarily need to deliberate to avoid the illusion and that incorrect respondents consistently display error sensitivity (as reflected in decreased confidence), even when deliberation is minimized. Both reasoning performance and error sensitivity in the initial, intuitive stage tended to be driven by the semantic relatedness between the anomalous word (e.g., “Moses”) and the undistorted word (e.g., “Noah”). We show how this leads to a revised model where the response to semantic illusions depends on the interplay of both incorrect and correct intuitions.
August 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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"Defining deliberation for dual-process models of reasoning" is now published. Free online access to the published Nat Rev Psy version: rdcu.be/erM5T
June 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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ninafraniatte.bsky.social
🚨Check out our new paper with @boissinesther.bsky.social, Alexandra Delmas & @wimdeneys.bsky.social in Acta Psych!

📹 We show that video debiasing training can boost reasoning accuracy - not just deliberation, but intuition too!

🔓 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quick summary👇
June 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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New forthcoming perspective paper in Nature Reviews Psychology: “Defining System 2 deliberation for dual-process models” preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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May 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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flaviamancini.bsky.social
How to push back against the rise of endless administrative burden in academia?
On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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March 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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New preprint: “Folk Thinking, Fast and Slow: Intuitive Preference for Deliberation in Humans and Machines”

Pop culture often praises intuition (“Blink”, Steve Jobs). But do we really trust it? Across 13 studies, we find a strong intuitive preference for deliberation.

tinyurl.com/8r54dmyn (1/6)
February 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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nicolasbeauvais.bsky.social
Short blog post about our work with Matthieu Raoelison & @wimdeneys.bsky.social for the Tango Horizon European project! 🧠🤖
👉 tango-horizon.eu/2025/01/16/h...
How insights about human reasoning can help us design better AI systems | tango-horizon.eu
TANGO BLOGPOST The rise of everyday AI Artificial intelligence (AI) is seamlessly integrated into our daily lives—from the algorithms that find the best rou ...
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January 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris!
The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year.

🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2025
💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
January 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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📣 I'm #hiring a 3-year #postdoc!
- Live anywhere in the United States!
- Improve #decisionMaking and #wellbeing with #quantitative #cogSci.

Share the application URL here and elsewhere.👇

geisinger.wd5.mywork...

Letters can be sent to me with "R-69755" in the subject line.
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December 9, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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boissinesther.bsky.social
Want to challenge your biases and boost your logical reasoning? 🚀
Check out this fantastic website by my amazing colleagues @wimdeneys.bsky.social and @ninafraniatte.bsky.social.
Dive into engaging videos that make logical reasoning accessible to everyone.

Available in English and French.
ninafraniatte.bsky.social Nina Franiatte @ninafraniatte.bsky.social · Dec 12
🧠 Cogitum: Train your logical reasoning!

As part of our research, @wimdeneys.bsky.social and I developed video-based training to boost sound reasoning 🎥 And we need your help to test it!

Try it anonymously (& share it!) in French or English here: cogitum-site.powerappsportals.com/homePage
December 13, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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ninafraniatte.bsky.social
🧠 Cogitum: Train your logical reasoning!

As part of our research, @wimdeneys.bsky.social and I developed video-based training to boost sound reasoning 🎥 And we need your help to test it!

Try it anonymously (& share it!) in French or English here: cogitum-site.powerappsportals.com/homePage
December 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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byrdnick.com
I’m sharing talks and posters from this weekend’s @SJDM-tweets.bsky.social conference.

First, a talk about the #jobMarket — by the way, I’m hiring a 3-year #postdoc researcher who does quantitative #decisionScience and can #workFromHome in the U.S.: geisinger.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/GeisingerExt...
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November 23, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Yes, we've got the iconic background photo thing down.
November 23, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Let's give this a try ;-) go.bsky.app/TBS14hQ
October 18, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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dgrand.bsky.social
🚨Out in Science!🚨
Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%!
-Lasts over 2mo
-Works on entrenched beliefs
-Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
September 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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tedmccoy.bsky.social
universities: we bought all new software to do the same thing you already do now with ease. It completely sucks and cost us 13 million dollars.
July 13, 2024 at 5:39 PM
wimdeneys.bsky.social
New paper with Katerina Voudouri and Michal Bialek showing that when people face risky decisions, they can intuitively determine which choices have better expected value and avoid loss aversion without careful deliberation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Fast & slow decisions under risk: Intuition rather than deliberation drives advantageous choices
Would you take a gamble with a 10% chance to gain $100 and a 90% chance to lose $10? Even though this gamble has a positive expected value, most peopl…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 21, 2024 at 6:42 AM
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"Adieu Bias!": New paper with Nina Franiatte
et al. in which we replicated previous intuitive debiasing findings in la douce France.

Thanks openAI for the awesome title suggestion ;-)
April 22, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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briannosek.bsky.social
Oh my.

Danny was an inspiration to a generation of social-behavioral scientists and transformed our understanding of decision-making.

I can no longer answer the question "who is the most important living psychologist?" with any confidence.

www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90
He found that people rely on shortcuts that often lead them to make wrongheaded decisions that go against their own best interest.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 27, 2024 at 3:13 PM