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Associate Professor @TelAvivUni // School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience
Jun 5 5 tweets 2 min read
The special issue of American Psychologist on antisemitism (a flagship APA journal) is out.
I think some of its editors quit due to the an American Psychologist special issue on "decolonial and liberation psychologies" that contained vitriolic rhetoric against so-called "Zionist psychologies".
Three papers reports several interesting findings that should inform public discussions on the relation between Antizionism and Antisemitism.Image First, Moon, @michael_barlev, and Neuberg show that Liberals don't dislike people who hate Jews (specifically), to the extent that they justify their anti-jewish sentiments as a response to Israel's behavior.
In this situation they become as tolerant of prejudice just as the most extreme right-wing participant.Image
Apr 14 4 tweets 2 min read
Appropriate time to post about our new paper in press (American Psychologist), examining antisemitism in LLMs. Across three different models (GPT, DeepSeek, Mistral) we that the latent representation of Jews in LLMs echoes the old "puppet master" trope. 1/nImage
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Using a sort of free-association method on LLMs, we sought to probe something like the cultural sub-conscious embedded in the model. We concretized this by asking which fictional characters are similar to the Jewish and non-Jewish attribute vector. Image
Oct 28, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
I've always wanted an immediate ceasefire in every round of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in the last 20 years. However, like almost the entirety of the Israeli left, we think that a ceasefire is not an option. If you are interested, here's why: 1. There is no way to curtail Hamas without military action. This idea, wherein gradual cooperation with Hamas may be built using diplomacy or withdrawals, was simply proved wrong.