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Our paper is now live in BMC Psychiatry!
We suggest using mental navigation as a novel framework for understanding the process of psychotherapy and the transformative changes it brings about.
What a pleasure working with @jaaanaru @TulverK!
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1/2 In our new Lancet Psychiatry paper on the brain disease model for addiction, we discuss
-its weak empirical support
-its downplaying of psychosocial causes & maintenance factors
-issues with the definition of 'brain disease'
-numerous ways forward
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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It's out! You can now access The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI: cambridge.org/core/books/the…
20 #openaccess chapters covering topics on AI, ethics, philosophy, legal domains & sectoral applications.
Huge thanks to all the authors who made this possible!
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Communications Biology
The human reward system encodes the subjective value of ideas during creative thinking
nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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The neural basis of the insight memory advantage
Opinion by Maxi Becker (@MaxiB45064349) & Roberto Cabeza (@RobertoECabeza)
Free access before March 28: tinyurl.com/c2ewzda9
Nick Kabrel retweeted
The bigger the conflict, the deeper the insight💡 🌩️
We propose a new theory of mental breakthroughs bridging insights from problem-solving, psychotherapy, psychedelics, and meditation.
out now in @CognitionJourn
led by @TulverK
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ka-O…
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More evidence of LLM homogeneity on creativity tasks. Even across different LLM models/families, their outputs are more similar to each other than human responses are, lacking semantic diversity. @yoed_kenett
arxiv.org/abs/2501.19361
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This study models stuck spontaneous thought as navigating a multidimensional semantic space with strong attractors. Analyzing word-association data yields clusters that reveal 4 thinking patterns across 3 samples.
@MigoMarta @phkragel @jesscooperphd
nature.com/articles/s44271-0…
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Five years in the making: our meta-analysis of 10 fMRI datasets across Asia, Europe & N America (N=2,433). We find creative ability emerges from dynamic switching between default and executive brain networks, with optimal creativity at a "sweet spot." nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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What's the difference between artificial and human creativity?
In this new paper, I also discuss how AI may negatively affect the internal processes of human creativity, such as the development of skills, creative authenticity, and the diversity of ideas
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Changing our behaviour isn't easy–and changing the behaviour of others is even harder.
Here is a great analysis of 19 behavioural principles we proposed that are rooted in decades of research.
What works and what doesn't when it comes to changing behavior: bps.org.uk/psychologist/how-…
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We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in @NatRevPsych
We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility
Free link: nature.com/articles/s44159-0…
Led by @stfeuerriegel
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Meta-analysis (n=52 studies, 195 effect sizes) confirms the incubation effect: taking breaks away from a problem leads to more creative solutions (d=0.39)
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Memory updating and the structure of event representations
Review Christopher N. Wahlheim (@CWahlheim) & Jeffrey M. Zacks, tinyurl.com/p8vjee58
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Social expectations in depression
Review by Lukas Kirchner, Tobias Kube, Max Berg, Anna-Lena Eckert, Benjamin Straube, Dominik Endres & Winfried Rief
Web: go.nature.com/41kXLO1
PDF: rdcu.be/d2yHr
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Using a round-robin design, this study replicated the “self-recapitulation effect” (where neural representations of the self are similar to those in close others’ brains) and revealed how self-esteem modulates this effect.
nature.com/articles/s44271-0…
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Me and @DrKlintwall have been working on an app that will allow participants to interactively build networks of perceived causal relations.
I’ve put together a demo website, that I’m soft-launching while we continue to pilot the app
pecan-tool.rpsychologist.com
🧵👇
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New preprint by @xuyangwen1 et al.
Among other things, we provide evidence that mental time traveling relies on complementary allocentric and egocentric representations of time, in the hippocampus and parietal cortex, respectively. Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Wanted to congratulate @CarterMGoldman on his new paper (doi.org/10.1177/135910532412…) in J of Health Psychology. Here he shows how one's level of emotional awareness amplifies the emotional/health impact of social support in newly diagnosed cancer patients. Important stuff!
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Slow down and be critical before using early warning signals in psychopathology
Perspective by Marieke A. Helmich, Marieke J. Schreuder, Laura F. Bringmann, Harriëtte Riese, Evelien Snippe & Arnout C. Smit
🚨FREE🚨to access until October 25!
go.nature.com/3Yj9ZVn
