Sev Harootonian

@harootonian

Postdoc at NYU studying how and when people trust and defer to AI. PhD from Princeton. Sometimes I teach machines to teach.

sharootonian.github.io

Joined November 2018

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Sev Harootonian
@harootonian
Aug 26
My main PhD paper is finally out in Nature Human Behaviour! The question: what cognitive strategies do people use when they teach, and can we nudge them toward a better one? Work with my PhD mentors @yael_niv, @mark_ho_ and @cocosci_lab. 1/5
Nature Human Behaviour
@NatureHumBehav
Aug 26
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching dlvr.it/TV9ypJ
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Sev Harootonian
@harootonian
May 19, 2025
🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Thrilled to share new research on teaching! Work supervised by @cocosci_lab, @yael_niv, and @mark_ho_. This project asks: When do people teach by mentalizing vs with heuristics? 1/3 osf.io/preprints/osf/…
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Sev Harootonian
@harootonian
Aug 25, 2022
Excited to present our (@Mark_Ho_, @yael_niv , and Nastasia Klevak) new work on optimal advice-giving this Friday at @CogCompNeuro ! tinyurl.com/4x7x7b6k Any advice for presenting at a conference for the first time?
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Sev Harootonian
@harootonian
Feb 23, 2022
Check out our @NRDlab & @ArneEkstrom1 paper on how people integrate noisy internal and external spatial information to compute their heading direction. #PLOSCompBio dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…
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Sev Harootonian
@harootonian
Jul 1, 2021
I'm very pleased to have this work with @ArneEkstrom1 and @NRDlab finally out on preprint. Here's my first Twitter thread. Here we go ⬇️ How do we integrate multiple sources of information (internal vs external) to navigate?
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Combination and competition between path integration and landmark navigation in the estimation of...
Successful navigation requires the ability to compute one’s location and heading from incoming multisensory information. Previous work has shown that this multisensory input comes in two forms:...
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