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Oxford Self-Modelling Group Meetings
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Group Members:

* Matan Mazor (center of group gravity)
* Zoe Carla Cremer (Dphil student with Chris Summerfield)
* Noam Sarna (PhD student with Reuven Dar)
* Nicole George (MSc student with Matan)
* Maya Schipper (MSc student with Matan)
* Perrine Porte (visiting PhD student from Grenoble)
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# 2024
- 22/02: Selves as POMDPs (no notes taken)
reading: Paul, L. A., Ullman, T., De Freitas, J., & Tenenbaum, J. (2023). Reverse-engineering the self.
- [07/03: Wishful thinking and Bayesianism
](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/OSMG20240307) reading: Melnikoff, D. E., & Strohminger, N. (2024). Bayesianism and wishful thinking are compatible. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-10.
- [09/05: Dennett's self](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/OSMG20240509)  
reading: Dennett, D. C. (2014). The self as a center of narrative gravity. In Self and consciousness (pp. 103-115). Psychology Press.
- [16/05: Self-signalling](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/OSMG20240516)  
reading: Bodner, R., & Prelec, D. (2003). Self-signaling and diagnostic utility in everyday decision making. *The psychology of economic decisions*, 1(105), 26. 
- [23/05: Pretend-insight (Zoe)](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/OSMG20240523)  
presented: Zoe. ([slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kYviKYKmAueWsHP_F_HJZj51tId8h9IC_9pTQbkIBQY/edit?usp=sharing))
- [30/05: Conditional reasoning in perception (Maya)](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/OSMG20240530)   ([slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1THhdYa9b7PvgIBA-aVoG-wzv9y3x0ifM/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107154418804529940910&rtpof=true&sd=true))
reading: Geiger, S. M., & Oberauer, K. (2010). Towards a reconciliation of mental model theory and probabilistic theories of conditionals. Cognition and conditionals: Probability and logic in human thinking, 289-307.
- [06/06: Privileged knowledge and the perception of competence (Nicole)](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/OSMG20240606) ([slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1THhdYa9b7PvgIBA-aVoG-wzv9y3x0ifM/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=107154418804529940910&rtpof=true&sd=true))
reading: Kryven, M., Ullman, T. D., Cowan, W., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2021). Plans or outcomes: How do we attribute intelligence to others?. Cognitive Science, 45(9), e13041
- [17/10: Causal theories of the self](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/OSMG20241017) 
reading: Nisbett, R. E., & Wilson, T. D. (1977). Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological review, 84(3), 231.
- [24/10: Ambiguity drives hindsight bias](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/OSMG20241024/edit)
reading: Dorst, K (2024). Only Fools Avoid Hindsight Bias + Ambiguity Drives Hindsight Bias
- [31/10, 7/11: Hyperbolic discounting and recursive self-control](https://hackmd.io/@tanzor/osmg20241031/edit)
reading: Ainslie, G. (2009). Recursive self-prediction in self-control and its failure. In Preference change: Approaches from philosophy, economics and psychology
