Eric Mandelbaum

Experimental Philosophy@xphilosopher.bsky.social

There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way But this is not the only one… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comDebunking “When Prophecy Fails”In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....

Mark Ho@markkho.bsky.social

I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏

Barbara Pomiechowska@bpomie.bsky.social

Heading for my last day of the ESPP in Warsaw. Amazing to see philosophers and psychologists in one room. It was a privilege to talk about how symbols and compositionality emerge in babies alongside @ljubapi.bsky.social and @benedek.bsky.social 💕 to @ericman.bsky.social for organizing the symposium!

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc

Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press. “While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...

thecity.nycThe Chips Fall as Rivals Fry the MayorThe jokes and jabs are flying as Eric Adams’ closest aides was slapped with new criminal charges the day after another of his longtime allies offered a reporter cash inside a potato chip bag.

David Rand@dgrand.bsky.social

Apply for funding to work with me and Gord at Cornell!

Raphaël Millière@raphaelmilliere.com

Happy to share this updated Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on 'Associationist Theories of Thought' with @ericman.bsky.social. Among other things, we included a new major section on reinforcement learning. Many thanks to Eric for bringing me on board! plato.stanford.edu/entries/asso...

Vlad Chituc@vladchituc.bsky.social

Do women feel some emotions more strongly than men do? Out today in Affective Science, I argue that claims like this make a notoriously subtle mistake. What is it? And what does it have to do with an astigmatic painter and thyroid medicine? A short thread... (1/14)

link.springer.comThe El Greco Fallacy, this Time with Feeling: How (not) to Measure Group Differences in Emotional Intensity - Affective ScienceWe all get angry. And some of us get angrier than others. But are such differences systematic across groups? Affective scientists often make claims about group differences in emotional intensity by co...

Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸@kristinandrews.bsky.social

I’m moving from York to take up a Professorship at the CUNY Grad Center this fall! Graduate student training has been a focus these past years and I’m excited to help mentor next gen philosophy of animal minds in NYC!

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social

The transcript of the faculty meeting that cost Katrina Armstrong her job leaked because nobody at Columbia was able to configure Zoom to prevent transcription. freebeacon.com/campus/what-...

Tobias Gerstenberg@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social

It's my honor to announce the 2025 winner of the Stanton Prize given out by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (drum roll 🥁): Shannon Spaulding 🏆 Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June. www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

1. From morning EST to evening PST, I receive an email roughly once every three minutes. Overnight the pace slows, but not all that much. If I did nothing but read email and reply 12 hours a day I could probably keep up. A once-wonderful productivity technology is killing any hope of productivity.

Stanislas Dehaene@standehaene.bsky.social

New preprint from the lab: the geometric regularity effect in quadrilaterals, which we documented in the visual modality with @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social, is also present in the tactile modality in congenitally blind participants— hence likely arising from an amodal Language-of-Thought.

Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social

We should at a minimum do what Nature does, in which the referee comments and author responses are published along with the paper. Allows the paper itself to be an authoritative artifact while lifting the curtain on the debate that led its creation. (quoting @dholtz.bsky.social ) 4/