Ross Otto
a psychology research and teaching guy at McGill
research interest, mild-mannered personal interests
otto.lab.mcgill.ca
- People tend to be OK with unfair resource distributions when they stand to gain at another's expense. Can we teach people--via observational learning--to punish advantageous inequity? Collaboration with Shen Zhang, @orielf.bsky.social, and Seb Hétu, out today: elifesciences.org/articles/102...
- if you are starting a sentence expressing disbelief with the interjection 'Bro' in a work email context what is the preferred punctuation? Bro: ... Bro, ... or Bro;...
- one time our exalted premier walked past me and a colleague speaking loudly in english (as i do) and grinned like a cheshire cat at us
- That feeling when a pedant says they are being pedantic in that moment
- Is “neuroscience” the more rigorous-sounding stand-in term for “doing psychology”
- New pontification piece with @awestbrook.bsky.social and Jean Daunizeau, just out in TICS: Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly? (or why does it hurt to think) never written a review paper before in my life, that was a new and unusual experience
- are you a clinical researcher? join our warm and supportive department (open rank!) mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...
- do classic decoy effects take place in real-world shopping decisions? wine purchase records in a massive grocery dataset says: yes new work with (former) student Sean Devine, @anyaskatova.bsky.social , James Goulding, and John Harvey www.nature.com/articles/s41... (sorry for the titular pun)
- ah you must mean a team of smarties
- new work just out by (now Dr!) Anna Jos in collaboration with @awestbrook.bsky.social how do pupil diameter changes track the behavioral expression of flexible versus stable control? find out NOW in the latest issue of Psychophysiology : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Self-pubbed book my dept mailbox today (and everyone’s ) . Are we the sorcerers here ? Hmu if you want my copy
- Reposted by Ross OttoAt #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including: - amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks - panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social) - group brainstorming session! Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild
- Take that , computational psychiatry
- ashamedly i've never tried this (from Kahneman's 1973 'Attention and Effort')
- social psychology in the wild: it's surprising, in may cases, which (canadian) people here take firm stances about (not) visiting the states, similarly as it was hard to predict, during you-know-what, who was going to become lockdown restriction enthusiasts (versus lockdown loosey goosies).
