Bio

1. the computational mechanisms underpinning effortful choice;
2. studying real-world decisions through the use of big consumer data.

Recent Media

Psychology Today. Images of Thin Models May Be Distorting Our Sense of Reality. [Article].
 
PsyPost.org. New research suggests a basic cognitive mechanism underlies the normalization of thin female bodies.[Post].
 
Under the Cortex. Underweight and Overexposed: How Women’s Perceptions of Thinness Are Distorted. [Podcast].

Under Review

Devine, S., Vassena, E., & Otto, A. R. (2022). More than a Feeling: Physiological Measures of Affect Index the Integration of Effort Costs and Rewards During Effortful Decision-Making. Psychological Science. Preprint. [Data + Code].
 
Devine, S., Otto, A. R., Uanhoro, J. O., & Flake, J. K. Approaches for Quantifying the ICC in Multilevel Logistic Models: A Didactic Demonstration. Multivariate Behavioral Research. Preprint. [Code].

2022

Otto, A.R, Devine, S., Bornstein, A.M., Louie, K (2022). Context-dependent choice and evaluation in real-world consumer behavior. Scientific Reports, 12, 17744. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22416-5. [Data + Code].
 
Devine, S., Neumann, C., Levari, D., Eppinger, B. (2022). Human Ageing is Associated with More Rigid Concept Spaces. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02197-8. [Data + Code].
 
Devine, S., Germaine, N., Elrich, S., & Eppinger, B. Changes in The Prevalence Of Thin Bodies Biases Young Women's Judgements about Body Size. (2022). Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221082941 https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221082941. [Data + Code].
 
Devine, S. & Otto, A.R. (2022). Information about task progress modulates cognitive demand avoidance. Cognition (255). 105107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105107. [Data + Code].

2021

Devine, S., Neumann, C., Otto, A.R., Bolenz, F., Reiter, A., Eppinger, B. (2021). Seizing the opportunity: Lifespan differences in the effects of the opportunity cost of time on cognitive control, Cognition (216). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104863. [Data].
 
Ruel, A., Devine, S., & Eppinger, B. (2021). Resource-rational approach to meta-control problems across the lifespan. Wiley Interdisciplinary Review of Cognitive Science, e1556. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1556.

2020

Devine, S., Bautista Perpinya, M., Delrue, V., Gaillard, S., Jorna, T. F. K., Meer, M. van der, Millett, L., Pozzebon, C., Visser, J. (2020). Science Fails. Let’s Publish. Journal of Trial and Error, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.36850/ed1.

Recorded Talks

Context-dependent choice and evaluation in real-world consumer behavior. Presented at MathPsych2021. July 5 2021. [Youtube].
 
Prevalence-Induced Concept Change in Older Adults. Presented at CogSci2020. August 1st 2020. [Youtube].

Organized Workshops

(March, 2022) Introduction to Bayesian statistics for Psychologists. Presented to students from Concordia University.
 
(October, 2021) Introduction to Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Psychological Models. Presented to students from Concordia University, McGill University, and TU Dresden.
 
(June-July 2021) Multilevel Modeling: Basic and Advanced Topics. Presented to students from Concordia University, McGill University, and TU Dresden.
 
(April 2020) Programming Experiments Online Using jsPsych. Presented to Concordia University and TU Dresden Cognition Labs.
 
(April 2020) Python for Psychologists. Presented to Concordia University students.
 
(October 2019) Designing Psychological Experiments Using PsychoPy. Presented to Concordia University Students.

Editorial Activity

• Read the first issue.
• Read the introductory editorial piece.

Fun facts

• I have a cat named Neil who I love very much, pictured at the top of the page, visible to the eye, but apparently not the poorly optimized model.
• I once told the same joke, every day, for 365 days, in a row, on the internet.

If you are reading this, you are very clever. Check out this song I like right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAJygma83A
 
Song last updated: 2022-09-01