Eric Mandelbaum
CUNY Prof of Philosophy & Psychology, Director of Cognitive Science, other stuff too
- Cancel your meetings and gaze upon the soul of my sweet Jersey www.nj.com/news/2025/12...
- My god, I have found the Jersey grail originaltaylorporkroll.com/recipes/sizz...
- Woman next to me on the subway is reading a newspaper and every page she’s done with she’s just throwing on the floor in front of us like a pile of inky banana peels #printmediaisnotdead
- Published in Nature! 😂
- May have missed a call from Doug Zongker
- Reposted by Eric Mandelbaumthere was some discussion on here recently about the scientific legitimacy of cognitive dissonance research. as someone who has spent years investigating this literature, i wanted to make a thread to explain why pessimism is not justified by careful inspection of the evidence 1/
- There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way But this is not the only one… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Greatest city in the world breaking new records! gothamist.com/news/number-...
- Fantastic researcher, open-minded thinker, dedicated mentor, and one of the absolute nicest people in the field.
- I'm recruiting grad students!! 🎓 The CoDec Lab @ NYU (codec-lab.github.io) is looking for PhD students (Fall 2026) interested in computational approaches to social cognition & problem solving 🧠 Applications through Psych (tinyurl.com/nyucp) are due Dec 1. Reach out with Qs & please repost! 🙏
- Sex dolls: the Evolutionary Psychologist’s electrode
- So good that it's 'Supernormal' which is the normalist. Nothing more normal than drawing upon a publicly available data set of 793 sex dolls
- My friends @foddy.net and @gcuzzillo.bsky.social's game @babystepsgame.bsky.social came out today and it looks amazing. @foddy.net is an artist and philosopher in the truest sense of the words, who just happens to be using video games as his medium at the moment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...
- See also www.ign.com/articles/bab...) "I wasn’t expecting one of my favorite games of 2025 to be about a socially awkward blob in a stained onesie with such poor motor skills that he ragdolls to the ground on the slightest of uneven surfaces, but here we are."--IGN & www.polygon.com/baby-steps-r...
- Reposted by Eric MandelbaumOur entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out. doi.org/10.21428/e27...
- It was so great! Really lucky to have been able to listen and learn from Barbara, Liuba, & Benedek. Some of the most insightful research happening today, from just the absolutely nicest, coolest people.
- Heading for my last day of the ESPP in Warsaw. Amazing to see philosophers and psychologists in one room. It was a privilege to talk about how symbols and compositionality emerge in babies alongside @ljubapi.bsky.social and @benedek.bsky.social 💕 to @ericman.bsky.social for organizing the symposium!
- Bob Clark for mayor
- Bob Clark, VP of marketing for Herr Foods, Inc., said the company was surprised to see it was mentioned in the press. “While we can’t speak to the details of the story,” he said, “we can confirm that our Sour Cream & Onion flavor is money.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/21/w...
- Hard to think of a better gig. So cool for Cornell too
- Excited about this in large part because Raphael is the absolute best
- Happy to share this updated Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on 'Associationist Theories of Thought' with @ericman.bsky.social. Among other things, we included a new major section on reinforcement learning. Many thanks to Eric for bringing me on board! plato.stanford.edu/entries/asso...
- This work is so cool, (and Vlad rules to boot)
- Reposted by Eric MandelbaumA key takeaway from 20+ years of computational RL is: model-free=automatic, model-based=deliberate. My new paper w/ @benedek.bsky.social challenges this view, suggesting that MB algos are more ubiquitous, & automatic processing more sophisticated, than currently thought: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- This is really impressive. Hard to imagine a more painful (or dangerous) rollercoaster than the Cyclone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWi_...
