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...
- 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! 😂
- 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
- 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...
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- 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.
- Bob Clark for mayor
- Hard to think of a better gig. So cool for Cornell too
- Excited about this in large part because Raphael is the absolute best
- 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_...
