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Ben Prystawski

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Cognitive science PhD student at Stanford, studying iterated learning and reasoning.
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This is joint work with my fantastic collaborators @kushinm.bsky.social, @danielwurgaft.bsky.social @linasnasvytis.bsky.social, Michael Y. Li, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social. You can read the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.26460 9/

auto-psych: Automating the science of mind using agent-driven theory discovery and experimentation arxiv.org
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  • Auto-psych uses nested loops: an inner loop generates probabilistic cognitive models, an outer loop designs and runs online human experiments.
  • In three independent human experiments, the system's discovered theories fit the data better than theories drawn from the scientific literature.
  • The benchmark task was a classic cognitive psychology problem about how people perceive randomness in coin flip sequences.
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New preprint! AI agents have shown impressive scientific automation capabilities. Can we apply them to psychology research, *including* human data collection? We introduce auto-psych, a framework that proposes cognitive models and uses them to design and run human experiments. 1/

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