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    The crowd is self-aware
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37 (1): 81-82. 2014.
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    Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences
    with Abdullah Almaatouq, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark E. Whiting, James Evans, and Duncan J. Watts
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47. 2024.
    The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the experiment's specific conditions. According to this view, which Alan Newell once characterized as “playing twenty questions with nature,” theory is advanced one experiment at a time, and the integration of disparate findings is assumed to happen via the scientific publishing process. In this article, we argue that the process o…Read more
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    What the Baldwin Effect affects depends on the nature of plasticity
    with Thomas J. H. Morgan and Thomas L. Griffiths
    Cognition 197 (C): 104165. 2020.
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    Replies to commentaries on beyond playing 20 questions with nature
    with Abdullah Almaatouq, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark E. Whiting, James Evans, and Duncan J. Watts
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47. 2024.
    Commentaries on the target article offer diverse perspectives on integrative experiment design. Our responses engage three themes: (1) Disputes of our characterization of the problem, (2) skepticism toward our proposed solution, and (3) endorsement of the solution, with accompanying discussions of its implementation in existing work and its potential for other domains. Collectively, the commentaries enhance our confidence in the promise and viability of integrative experiment design, while highl…Read more
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    Drawing from conflicts observed in online communities, I extend Pietraszewski's theory to accommodate phenomena dependent on the intersubjectivity of groups, where representations of group membership diverge. Doing so requires enriching representations to include other agents and their beliefs in a process of recursive mentalizing.