I study how animals/people/machines think
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Joined September 2012
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New paper in PNAS! Why do some groups of animals e.g. hares all keep a lookout for predators while others e.g. meerkats have dedicated lookouts? @AnnaSigalou @richardpmann @ChrisKrupenye @dora_biro_ Andrew Bate @morfjoe @AellenMelisande Elizabeth Warren pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
New paper out in the Royal Society Interface! How do people in a crowd choose which way to go? Do they follow the majority or those closest to them? In an experiment we find that in an emergency they tend to follow the majority #collectiveintelligence royalsocietypublishing.org/r…
New paper! Can we use LLMs to model how society will react to climate policy? We think yes, with some caveats nature.com/articles/s44168-0…
New paper in PNAS! A behavioural experiment in 34 labs worldwide finds a "private solution trap": people are less likely to work together (e.g. reducing carbon) when they can solve problems independently (e.g. local climate adaptation) @eugenemalthouse doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2504632…
New paper! How do people choose between local cooperation (with a small group) and global cooperation (with a larger group)? nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
New paper! The English language is evolving to hook our attention.
In Nature Communications Psychology with @thomhills and @WeisiG.
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New paper in Cognition! A Bayesian model of confirmation bias.
Why does confirmation bias exist? Because being 'rational' in a complex world is impossible with our limited cognitive resources. This explains 5 forms of confirmation bias
📢New from @charliepilgrim, Adam Sanborn, @eugenemalthouse, & @thomhills
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“Ten simple rules for working with other people’s code” which REG's own @EChalstrey and @kasra_hosseini helped former Turing PhD @CharliePilgrim to write is now published in PLOS Computational Biology journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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#PLOSCompBio: Ten simple rules for working with other people’s code dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…
New article out with @MrPKent @EChalstrey @kasra_hosseini . "Ten Simple Rules for Working With Other People's Code" journals.plos.org/ploscompbi…
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Extremely pleased to welcome @CharliePilgrim to our lab @EP_UCL. Charlie is the PDRA on the @CultEvolFunding award investigating how interdependence impacts upon local and global cooperation. Welcome Charlie!
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How does aging affect the semantic #networks of individuals? @rui__mata, @thomhills, and I ran a large-scale #similarity rating study involving 2k ratings from each individual, revealing differences in network degree, clustering, and shortest path length. rdcu.be/c1say
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Fascinating how we just burned through the Turing Test & the Lovelace Test (a Turing Test for creativity) in a week, with no doubt that AI can both fool a human & make complicated stories/art as well as the average human. (And at the same time AI is clearly nowhere near sentient)
I'm taking part in the National Data Science and AI Poster competition. If anyone feels like voting then here's a link (I'm number 12 but vote for your favourite) warwick.ac.uk/research/data-…
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Does population size affect cultural complexity? Sally Street, I & @JeremyKendal analysed a large folk tune dataset & showed that popular tunes are more diverse, but converge on moderate levels of complexity. @HSScomms #OpenAccess @CultEvolFunding. doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-0…
