BA (U of Kansas) -> PhD (U of Florida) | Social cognition, Polarization, Bayesian modeling | Mathematically modeling verbal theories | Website: https://t.co/ZVknrR9hPbhttps://bsky.app/profile/aalaukik.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/aalaukik.bsky.social/post/3msoxsbabes23Late announcement (busy summer...) but I'm delighted to share that I've joined Dr. Nicholas Coles (@nicholascoles.bsky.social) as a postdoc at UF🎉 Looking forward to spending this year modeling and answering pressing questions in big-team science, politics, and collective intelligences!10 Aug 2026 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:ceqb5u4prvb7j2u7pucz5az5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msoxsbabes23https://bsky.app/profile/aalaukik.bsky.social/post/3mrwax5dwik2f🚨New preprint🚨: Attitude measures like the IAT reveal biased behavior — but the levels across which bias operates are varied. Our new preprint borrows formal modeling approaches from perceptual science to find out where age-valence interactions happen in perceptual processing🧵31 Jul 2026 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:ceqb5u4prvb7j2u7pucz5az5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwax5dwik2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/aalaukik.bsky.social/post/3mrvk7hcyws2nShoutout to my bud Saurabh for this work! Really cool stuff if you're interested in how LLMs monitor reality [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:ceqb5u4prvb7j2u7pucz5az5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrvk7hcyws2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/aalaukik.bsky.social/post/3meng7liwg22p(Mic check 1-2-3) I'm on the job market🚨 I’m a social psychologist building computational models to study social cognition, attitudes, polarization, and how people update beliefs. Evidence accumulation models, Hierarchical Bayes, Agent-based models, NLP, etc. Interested in formal theorizing!12 Feb 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:ceqb5u4prvb7j2u7pucz5az5/app.bsky.feed.post/3meng7liwg22phttps://bsky.app/profile/aalaukik.bsky.social/post/3m3olnvdyv22wOut now in Social Cognition! We present the "Tug-of-War" (computational) model of attitude associations. It posits a specific mechanism behind behavior on implicit cognition tasks (IAT here; working to implement it to other tasks). We believe it enhances theory and psychometrics🙌 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Oct 2025 05:23 +0000at://did:plc:ceqb5u4prvb7j2u7pucz5az5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3olnvdyv22whttps://bsky.app/profile/aalaukik.bsky.social/post/3m3dtmi2hlk2l📢Check out our project on some structural reasons why widespread economic issues don't result in coherent and effective collective action to address these issues. Amazing work led by @egarciaferres.bsky.social ! [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Oct 2025 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:ceqb5u4prvb7j2u7pucz5az5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3dtmi2hlk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/aalaukik.bsky.social/post/3l35lj5g65o27First first-author paper submitted; preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5j3sx😌 We (@colinsmithpsych.bsky.social and @peterkvam.bsky.social ) give a tutorial on a mathematical model of attitudes associations, the Tug-of-war model (TOW), as applied to IAT data (N > 10,000). TOW quantifies associations as (1/13)02 Sep 2024 05:40 +0000at://did:plc:ceqb5u4prvb7j2u7pucz5az5/app.bsky.feed.post/3l35lj5g65o27