Maximilian Maier
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School | Decision-making, applied statistics, & meta-analysis | Open science | Previously @EP_UCL, @ResMaPsychology
- I was just trying to download some replication files from Management Science and came across this highly unusual policy! This seems very problematic as it would allow the journal to reject any work scrutinising the paper completely at their discretion, without possibility of submitting elsewhere.
- Reposted by Maximilian MaierToday's HotFresh recommended paper is: Maier, M., Harris, A. J. L., Kellen, D., & Singmann, H. (2025). Decision making under extinction risk. Cognitive Psychology, 159. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
- Reposted by Maximilian MaierI am recruiting (Canadian🇨🇦) graduate students at York University for Fall 2026 in Social and Personality Psychology! If you are interested in misinformation, political polarization, and/or computational social science, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
- Reposted by Maximilian MaierExciting #rstats news for Bayesian model comparison: bridgesampling is finally ready to support cmdstanr, see screenshot. Help us by installing the development version of bridgesampling and letting us know if it works for your model(s): pak::pkg_install("quentingronau/bridgesampling#44")
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Our new research paper is out in NHB, which we apparently coauthored with acclaimed actor Ryan Reynolds. Critics are calling it his best work since Deadpool. - Reposted by Maximilian MaierFor all those at #CogSci2025, @glenspiteri.bsky.social will be presenting this work at 14:15 PDT (22:15 BST for those online and UK based)! “Communicating Global Income Rank Increases Charitable Donations” Session: ‘Talks 8: Social Cognition’ @cogscisociety.bsky.social
- New preprint w/ @glenspiteri.bsky.social , @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder: Telling people their global income rank (RBN) increased charitable donations. Also explored RBN’s effect on perceived global income distribution + whether asking how much others should donate increased giving (IDT) 🧵…
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- Happy to share that I passed my viva yesterday without corrections and will start as Assistant Professor at Warwick Business School on 1st of August - I look forward to the next chapter at Warwick and to building new collaborations with the exceptional colleagues there!
- Reposted by Maximilian MaierOut in Cognitive Psychology, led by @maxmaier.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A new lottery task with choices that matter across trials; the risky option has a chance of going extinct, which ends the study. We derive optimal policies and develop a strategy-classification model.
- New preprint "Decision Making Under Extinction Risk" with Adam Harris, David Kellen, and @singmann.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Maximilian MaierExcited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Maximilian MaierNew preprint w/ @glenspiteri.bsky.social , @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder: Telling people their global income rank (RBN) increased charitable donations. Also explored RBN’s effect on perceived global income distribution + whether asking how much others should donate increased giving (IDT) 🧵…
- Reposted by Maximilian MaierNew paper with Tong Liu and Arndt Broeder, just accepted in Cognition. We test novel qualitative predictions from sampling-based models of probability estimation in an event ranking task. Results provide evidence for the idea that mental sampling underlies probability judgements.
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- Reposted by Maximilian MaierDave Lagnado is looking for a post doc to work on causal inference! The BR-UK team is doing some very cool stuff, so if you're currently looking for a job, check this out: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Maximilian MaierFriends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...
- New preprint "Decision Making Under Extinction Risk" with Adam Harris, David Kellen, and @singmann.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- People often need to make decisions that involve risks with irrecoverable losses. To study these types of decisions, we developed a new task in which participants lose their (entire) bonus pay when drawing an extinction option.
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- Reposted by Maximilian Maier(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...
