felixhermans
PhD Candidate at Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology (LESP), @KU_Leuven | Working on language and stereotypes + social (meta)cognition
- Reposted by felixhermans📢 Conference opportunity: The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) is hosting their 2026 congress in Leuven, Belgium (July 14-18). Registrations and submissions are now open! Learn more: ow.ly/nHEV50Xj9ZE
- Reposted by felixhermans"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence
- Reposted by felixhermansWelcome! This is the official account of the General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology 2026. Here, we'll be sharing all the important updates and information related to the upcoming congress. Feel free to visit our official website for more details: easp2026strasbourg.com
- Reposted by felixhermansIntroducing hMFC: A Bayesian hierarchical model of trial-to-trial fluctuations in decision criterion! Now out in @plos.org Comp Bio. led by Robin Vloeberghs with @anne-urai.bsky.social Scott Linderman Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
- Reposted by felixhermansCommon neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓
- (1/7)📢 New paper by Vera Hoorens, felixhermans.bsky.social, and Susanne Bruckmüller in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social : “Why Boys Cry and Don’t Cry. The Contextual-Statistical (ConStat) Approach to the Perceived Validity of Generics”. A small 🧵and link to the paper below!
- (2/7) Back in 1979, The Cure famously wrote “Boys Don’t Cry” (www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GkV...), yet we all know that “Boys cry”. What makes us feel both sentences are acceptable? And what makes us accept “Mosquitos transmit malaria”, even though only very few mosquitos actually do?
- (3/7) And why does “Canadians are right-handed” sound wrong, even though the vast majority of Canadians are? These sentences are examples of "generics”. What precisely makes them acceptable versus unacceptable has long eluded researchers.
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View full thread(7/7) But definitely check out the full paper for much more on other types of generics and what makes them acceptable: doi.org/10.1016/j.co... Many thanks to Vera Hoorens and Susanne Bruckmüller for allowing me to be a part of this and also to Gijs Dekkers for the lovely illustrations!
- Reposted by felixhermansWe often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)
- Reposted by felixhermansIt was a pleasure introducing PsyNet and its many applications at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology today! Thanks @felixhermans.bsky.social for the invitation and all PsyNet developers, incl. @pmcharrison.bsky.social and @norijacoby.bsky.social for creating such an amazing platform!
- Tremendously grateful to @elinevg.bsky.social for providing an introduction to PsyNet (www.psynet.dev) at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology in KU Leuven today! PsyNet is a new platform uniquely suited to crafting complex experimental designs in an efficient manner!
- Tremendously grateful to @elinevg.bsky.social for providing an introduction to PsyNet (www.psynet.dev) at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology in KU Leuven today! PsyNet is a new platform uniquely suited to crafting complex experimental designs in an efficient manner!
- For people interested in some awesome open access work using PsyNet, see: Gibbs sampling with people (Van Geert & Jacoby, 2024) escholarship.org/uc/item/1pc8... Visual and auditory aesthetic preferences across cultures (Lee et al., 2025) escholarship.org/uc/item/60h1...
- Reposted by felixhermansI had a fantastic time at the Computational Social Cognition Summer School at U of Birmingham! What an amazing resource & opportunity for students. Thanks to organizers @drjocutler.bsky.social Lei Zhang and @thepsychologist.bsky.social & the speakers, instructors, and students!
- Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #CSC2025 www.compsoccog.com
- Reposted by felixhermansWarning: this is *not* fake news! New preprint out w/ S. Kunkle & @kobedesender.bsky.social on how confidence-driven information seeking is suboptimal in the context of fake news 📰🔍🧵 (1/6): osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by felixhermansI had a great time in Birmingham learning and connecting with people about computational social cognition #CSC2025. Thanks Dr. Ili Ma & @alosecaatv.bsky.social for being great group leaders, and thanks to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social and everyone else for a great summer school
- Reposted by felixhermans🧪 ReproducibiliTea Leuven invites you to discuss the future of peer review at our next journal club! 📅 Oct 7, 2025 4PM-5.30PM 📍 VHI 01.64 Dekenstraat 2 Leuven Find out more and register here: tinyurl.com/39yzyw5h #OpenScience #Academia #PublishOrPerish #PayforPublish
- Reposted by felixhermansAmazing kick start to the Birmingham - Leiden #CSC2025 summer school from @drjocutler.bsky.social with her introductory lecture "Introduction to Computational Modelling: Theory"
- Reposted by felixhermans#Day1 #CSC2025 Amazing insights on neural dynamics of good conversation by Prof. Diana Tamir from Princeton Uni. Followed by lectures on effort based discounting modelling.
- Reposted by felixhermans#Day3 #CSC2025 Last day. Fantastic tutorial on bayesian modeling by @lei-zhang.bsky.social. Lectures on basis functions for social decisions @mkwittmann.bsky.social and social learning mechanisms. We presented our group work on empathy RL, thanks to @annesaulin.bsky.social for her mentorship. 🤗
- Reposted by felixhermans#Day2 #CSC2025 keynote on on modelling prejudices in social interactions by @davidamodio.bsky.social followed by a comprehensive tutorial on drifting diffusion modelling. 📊 Day ended with a walking tour of the city ✌️
- Had a great time attending the Birmingham-Leiden Computational Social Cognition Summer School this week! Thanks to everyone who was part of #CSC2025 and especially to @drjocutler.bsky.social & @lei-zhang.bsky.social for leading the organization! 10/10 would recommend! More info on www.compsoccog.com
- Reposted by felixhermansToday's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social #CSC2025 www.compsoccog.com
- Reposted by felixhermansAt the 2025 Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences this week, I received the Best PhD Thesis Award 2025. I am very grateful for this recognition of my research combining theory and experimentation and of my commitment to open and reproducible science! @bapsciences.bsky.social
- Reposted by felixhermansBecome our new colleague at the #kuleuven!↓↓↓ The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences invites applications for a full-time Research Professorship in Experimental Cognitive Psychology within the B&C research unit. #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
- Reposted by felixhermansSince 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com
- Reposted by felixhermans🎉 The 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 for the 𝗕𝗔𝗣𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 is now out! 📅 Join us on 26–27 May 2025 at ULB’s Solbosch Campus for two days of research, keynote talks, and networking. 📄 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺: lnkd.in/drQFCaW5 🎤 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀: lnkd.in/eUt3mDVN 📍 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼: lnkd.in/eRwyTZWj
- Reposted by felixhermans📣In case you're still interesting in joining the Heat & Cognition Manylabs🔥🧠 , we are now running the task tournament. Collaborators can suggest tasks, scales, and items to be included in the project! Deadline to submit is May 11th! More info at: heatandmind.wordpress.com
- 🌐 Had a great time yesterday at the 5th Open Science Day of the @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! #OpenScience #Reproducibility #Transparency #Replicability
- Packed into the schedule were two great keynotes by @evievergauwe.bsky.social and Marc Sabbe, workshops by @leuventea.bsky.social and @elinevg.bsky.social + @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social, and a whole lot more. I also presented about my own experiences with writing a registered report as a PhD student!
- Reposted by felixhermansIt was an honor to be interviewed about my doctoral research by @bdalile.bsky.social for #KarakterCast! This interview happened on the occasion of me receiving the ASL research award for Human Sciences for my PhD work. Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/07Zu...
- Reposted by felixhermans(1/8)📢 New paper from Felix Hermans, Simon Knogler, Gaia Corlazzoli, Maja Friedemann, and Kobe Desender! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Dynamic modulation of confidence based on the metacognitive skills of collaborators! Now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social New work from @felixhermans.bsky.social Simon Gaia @majafr.bsky.social and me! Paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40262423/ Details ↓↓↓
