Lab of researchers working on goals, habits and personal autonomy at Utrecht University

Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joined November 2019
Still a couple of days to apply for this PhD position! Deadline May 5. uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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Join our lab for an exciting PhD project investigating AI from a Social Cognition perspective with Henk Aarts, Ruud Custers, and Baptist Liefooghe uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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New research on the effect of social presence on trust in AI from the @LabGoal with @henk_aart ! More cooperation with AI when someone is around! nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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Superb review on the role of chemical signaling in humans. Smell plays a critical role in mother-infant interactions, mate choice, romantic relationship functioning & in communication of affective states: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Zeg het voort: op 11 juni organiseren we de #triathlon voor #kinderen in #Utrecht. Inschrijven doe je hier: kindertriathlonleidscherijn.…
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Job alert! We are seeking three candidates for three interrelated PhD projects on moral responsibility for sustainability uu.nl/organisatie/werken-bij…
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For anyone who is interested in applying AI methods to behavior change, we are organizing a workshop on this topic at Persuasive2023 on April 19: sites.google.com/view/pt2023… Only an abstract is needed for participanting and presenting. Deadline: April 5.
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New paper wih Leendert van Maanen on the different levels at which human cognition and AI can be integrated: frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? Laurent Perrinet asked about the timing but processing it not sequential in the brain. His figure is below: neuromatch.social/@laurentpe… I'll follow up in a thread.
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I am the Symposium “Beyond the Climate Imperative”, in Utrecht. Now on the program a great talk by @Johan_Schot on new ways of transforming collective action by new policy principles.
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Interesting symposium @UniUtrecht on the role of joint action and #empathy in changing human behavior into more sustainable habits. 🙏 like and retweet
Still open for registration: Symposium Invitation Beyond the Climate Imperative: Governing the sustainability transition by promoting joint action November 10, 2022; 1-5 PM, Utrecht Act fast, full is full.
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New paper out! On the effects of the smelly molecule hexanal in human-robot interaction, or better, lack thereof. A #thread #HRI #smell #science #collaboration [interesting picture] 1/13
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The large data set gave us great insights about how handwashing and physical distancing behaviors were regulated. Both habit and intention were important, but the habit only weakened the intention-behavior link for physical distancing in the later phases of the study.
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We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor (tenured) specializing in the areas of text mining, natural language processing (NLP), or active learning for text data. academictransfer.com/en/3122…
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Martijn Mulder & I are looking for a motivated PhD student for a cool 4-year project at @UniUtrecht, starting in the fall: “Cognitive modelling of trust in Human-AI cooperation”. DM me if interested and spread the good word! The link will be posted soon…
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How can embodied cognitive approaches aid the development of socially aware AI? Find out more in the upcoming online talk of the Embodied AI initiative👇
On 25th May, we welcome Prof. Stefan Kopp for his talk 'Towards socially aware cognitive systems'. We're looking forward to it! 🤖 For more information and the registration form, see: uu.nl/en/events/embodied-ai-… #embodiedagents #socialrobots #virtualhumans #nonverbalbehaviors
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In case you missed it: WONDERFUL NEWS: come and works with us @UniUtrecht: 3 assistant prof positions in social, health and/or organizational psychology. We look forward to your application. Apply before May 15. academictransfer.com/nl/3116…… 🙏like and retweet
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