@arossotto

a psychology research and teaching guy @ McGill. research interest, mild-mannered personal interests

 Montreal
otto.lab.mcgill.ca
Joined March 2013
  • Tweets7.3K
  • Following989
  • Followers1.4K
707Media
being fourth author on a seven author paper
Brendan Fraser Crane@bf_crane8 Oct 2024
A Day in the Life credits, can kind of see why George was ready to quit. Each day a fresh humiliation.
4
781
I'm accepting a graduate student this application cycle (Clinical or Developmental)! Please share with anyone interested in studying the development of cultural risk and resilience processes among minoritized youth and families!
15
147
5
339
36,773
Does learning context bias cognitive effort evaluations? A study with Sophie Desjardins and with Mathieu Roy (among others) suggests that effort evaluation, like everything else, "is all relative" link.springer.com/article/10…

Context effects in cognitive effort evaluation

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review - When given a choice, people will avoid cognitively effortful courses of action because the experience of effort is evaluated as aversive and costly. At the same...

link.springer.com
11
27
2,837
'brace yourselves' I think this is a cool result, happy to have been a part of this
William Jacob Villano, Ph.D.@BillyVillano19 Jun 2024
Replying to @BillyVillano
Massive thanks to my #manateelab team and collaborators for making this work possible: @helleryeahz, @arossotto, @BrittJaso, @NoahKraus8, & Rick Reneau. Read the full paper here: bit.ly/3xzX72F @PsychScience @SageJournals

The Causes and Consequences of Drifting Expectations - William J. Villano, Noah I. Kraus, T. Rick...

Awaiting news of uncertain outcomes is distressing because the news might be disappointing. To prevent such disappointments, people often “brace for the worst,”...

journals.sagepub.com
1
6
1,122
bro there's a heat wave, isn't ad tech supposed to be like, artificially intelligent or something
2
390
haha Research Rants Office
7
582
you said it
5
589
haha why would you call a conference this , like literally pick any other word
4
655
Samuelson ends his Pure Theory of Consumer's Behaviour in a pretty alpha way
2
2
657
ref: doi.org/10.2307/2548836

A Note on the Pure Theory of Consumer's Behaviour | JSTOR

P. A. Samuelson, A Note on the Pure Theory of Consumer's Behaviour, Economica, Vol. 5, No. 17, Feb., 1938

jstor.org
339
Ross Otto retweeted
Neil Renic@NC_Renic24 Apr 2024
American academic conferences: 8:15-10:00: Panel A 10:30-12:15: Panel B 13:45-15:30: Panel C 16:00-17:45: Panel D European academic conferences:
23
510
144
10,426
523,723
the loudspeaker at the picketing area of the ongoing TA strike is playing C.R.E.A.M.....really makes you think
1
543
when do we 'go for it' (cognitively speaking) ? new work by Sean Devine with Mathieu Roy and @UlrikBeierholm finds evidence for Clark Hull's goal-gradient effects in human cognition psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202…
2
14
1
43
5,648
found the worst bagel sandwich in montreal, anyone need details let me know
1
4
970
Ah yes the Norman Mailer approach
4
675
Do we value choice for its intrinsic worth or for the control it offers us over our environment? When choices are decoupled from outcomes, our preference for choice is reduced 📢New from: Sean Devine, @KevCastanheira, @smfleming, & @arossotto sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
1
7
1
21
5,261
Are choices valued intrinsically or for the instrumental control they offer? New research with Sean Divine, @smfleming and @arossotto suggests that decoupling the freedom to choose from the control it offers over your environment reduces preference for choice
Cognition@CognitionJourn14 Feb 2024
Do we value choice for its intrinsic worth or for the control it offers us over our environment? When choices are decoupled from outcomes, our preference for choice is reduced 📢New from: Sean Devine, @KevCastanheira, @smfleming, & @arossotto sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
6
16
2,566
Postdoc job alert! We have an opening in our growing group. The research will focus on neuroimaging of memory and goal-directed decision-making, with 🧠 decoding of representations with MEG (+ RL, mood, and computational psychiatry) @ the exciting @MPC_CompPsych @WCHN_UCL
2
34
3
89
26,129
was it....you , just now ?
7
747
Ross Otto retweeted
CRBLM@theCRBLM3 Nov 2023
Science supports Bob Marley's claim that "one great thing about music" is "when it hits you, you feel no pain" - new work @mcgillu by Mathieu Roy, Darius Valevicius and others is getting lots of attention this week including this @washingtonpost article: washingtonpost.com/nation/20…

In pain? Listening to your favorite music can provide relief, study says.

Researchers at Montreal’s McGill University found in a new study that listening to your favorite music can reduce pain as much as an Advil.

washingtonpost.com
4
7
2
18
4,898
Load more