David Levari

🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango (letstango.org), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months doi.org/10.1038/s41562…

🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆 There are two open positions: 1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition. 2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety. sites.google.com/corp/site/sydn…

On Wednesday, May 20, Dr. Steven Sloman’s book, “The Cost of Conviction: How Our Deepest Values Lead Us Astray,” came out, published by the MIT Press, providing insight into fields of decision science. copsy.brown.edu/news/2025-05-2…

Have you heard of left-digit bias? It’s our tendency to focus on the left-most digit of numbers, and it helps explain why a product on sale for $9.99 feels like a bargain compared to a product on sale for $10. Learn more on #Choiceology with @Devin_G_Pope! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cen…

Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here psychologicalscience.org/publications/o…

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the all-new 6th edition. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

The Emotion Health and Psychophysiology lab at Yale University is hiring a lab manager. Applicants should have a BA/BS in psychology or related field. Please send CV/resume and cover letter to [email protected]

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Apply in link below...

🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025!🚨📣 Please retweet/share widely, and spread the word to interested candidates! Application review begins April 30 Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)

Congrats to my first PhD student Dr @flora_xy_zhang!!!!! Make sure to follow her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition!

Watch this video. Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants remembered one, but it wasn’t there. Why? In a new paper in press @CognitionJourn, @stricklandbrent and I ask what causes event completion. osf.io/preprints/psya…

The Red Queen believed "6 impossible things before breakfast." What about *inconceivable* things? For your breakfast read, check out the new preprint: "Shades of Zero: Distinguishing Impossibility from Inconceivability" (by @_jennhu, Sosa, & me) arxiv.org/pdf/2502.20469

How do we think about our future learning curves for a new skill? 💭 Check out our new paper on people's intuitions about skill acquisition @julia_a_leonard @smickdougle

✨New preprint✨How does repeated exposure to transgressions online shape moral judgment? Results show two competing processes: 💠We get desensitized = ⬇️ wrong 💠Transgression seems more infamous =⬆️wrong Relative strength of each may predict outrage to viral transgressions

🌵Out now! Using an RL task that manipulates people's beliefs about agency, we show that exposure to & severity of early-life adversity is associated with lower learning rates & agency beliefs. w/ the brillant @thephelpslab , Kate McLaughlin, & Bryan Dong learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/1/a…

We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @LogicEmotionLab! Please submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20420/res…

LAB MANAGER/RESEARCH TECH POSITION Interested in the social lives of teens? Adolescent wellbeing? Join us as we gear up to launch our new study! More info below:

Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting. Led by amazing @Reut_Shachnai srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

For decades, developmental psychologists have observed that optimism declines with age. Why does this seemingly positive behavior diminish over time? In our Nature Reviews Psych article, Jessica Sommerville and I offer an integrated theory. nature.com/articles/s4415…

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