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Benjamin Katz
Benjamin Katz
@DrBenKatz
I JUST CAME ACROSS THE MOST ADORABLE PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH I HAVE EVER SEEN AND HAD TO MAKE A THREAD ABOUT IT HAVE AN AMAZING WEEKEND!!!!

Every intro to cognitive psychology course has at least one chapter where we ask how people know that dogs are dogs - after all, they look so different from each other.

This research one-ups our question and asks: HOW DO DOGS KNOW THAT OTHER DOGS ARE DOGS??


First, let's meet our subjects in Figure 1 of this article. LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY ALL ARE! THEY ARE ALL SUCH GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS AND CUSCO IS ABSOLUTELY SERVING!!


Next, let's see how they were trained to identify other dogs. They would sit and see pictures of one dog and one not-dog. If they poked the dog picture, they got a treat. LOOK AT BAHIA CHOOSING CORRECTLY BECAUSE BAHIA IS VERY GOOD AND VERY SMART!!!


AND BY THE WAY, IT SEEMS THAT THE PICTURES OF THE DOGS AND NON-DOGS WERE SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR HIGH LEVELS OF CUTENESS AND HUGGABILITY!!!

(except for the cat.)
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Benjamin Katz
Benjamin Katz
@DrBenKatz
Hello!
I'm finishing up my dissertation now and am on the US post-doc market in clinical psychology so I'd appreciate any leads.

My interests are reinforcement sensitivity, depression/anxiety, and LGBTQ+ mental health.

Shameless thread of recent accomplishments below:

First of all, feel free to visit my website at https://t.co/DK3AaqgRJ4 for my CV and online lectures and articles. Here are twitter threads about some of them from this past year

Here's a meta-analysis on bipolar disorder and reinforcement sensitivity


Here's a meta-analysis on depression, anxiety, and reinforcement sensitivity


Here's a new tool for implicitly measuring
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