Julie and I met her first week of college, and she’s devoted herself to civics and public service every single day I’ve known her. Couldn’t be prouder of you, darling — or happier for our country.

Our department has an open rank, tenure-track position in psych and law (broadly construed). Please share with anyone you think might be interested (or, apply if you’re the interested one!): academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26396

.Chuck Schumer just FILED CLOTURE on the nomination of Julia Kobick to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts

A common view in behavioral science is that people cannot introspect directly on the mental processes underlying their choices. Here, in a new preprint, we provide evidence that they can.

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Work with Ryan Carlson , hedy, and M.J. Crockett

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In case folks are looking for me, I’m also Jennifer Richeson on Bluesky.

Our article, 'Identifying Resource-Rational Heuristics For Risky Choice' just got accepted in Psychological Review thanks to the hard work of Fred Callaway & Paul Krueger, who did most of the work, and Tom Griffiths, who co-supervised the project with me. doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.…

We're hiring!:
The Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), located on the main MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty at the assistant professor level or higher.

Can all moral judgements, including moralizations of purity, be reduced to reciprocal cooperation?

Our target article in Behav. Brain. Sci., with comments & reply, is out!

It took so much effort to articulate that response; but so proud of that BBS debate now.
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I'm looking for summer interns with a strong computational background who are interested in working at the intersection of cognitive science and AI on the topic of moral judgment. Apply by 11/6. boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstit…

This is my last tweet. The more I learn about Musk’s projects the less I want to associate with any of them.
DCD

Yale has a new search for a prof in cognitive science of language

This is a very unusual job, and it’s worth saying a little more about it

Here's one way to join the fun:
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This is an open rank and open area search for those skilled in quantitative methods. Come join me in New Haven!

Within minutes over there, I had a feed full of science, and not even one single unsolicited update on Elon Musk's most recent accomplishments.

I tried out this other new site everyone has been talking about (I'm Fiery Cushman) and I have to say it's looking pretty good.

I'm pleased to announce that our work on optimal metacognitive control of memory recall has been published in Psych Review!
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…

Exciting news!! After 4 years, I'm so thrilled to share a preprint of our paper on building a formal mathematical and computational model of suicide.

This is the hardest I've ever worked on a paper, and it's some of the work I'm most proud of to date!

psyarxiv.com/b29cs/

Zero-sum thinking and why it matters for policy. A fascinating piece by John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times covering our work on zero-sum thinking.

Thomas Icard has put out a wonderful monograph on resource rationality:
philarchive.org/archive/ICARRT
It's philosophically and mathematically deep, engaging with ideas and empirical data from psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and economics.