Toby Pilditch
Toby is a Research Associate in Experimental Psychology at UCL. He currently works in the domains of evidential, probabilistic, and causal reasoning, as well as belief updating and cognitive biases. Toby works on applying Bayesian networks to improve reasoning in the domain of Intelligence Analysis for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), in the Bayesian ARgumentation via Delphi (BARD) project team.
He also maintains an active interest in building psychologically informed Agent-Based Models, exploring the intersection of cognitive science and dynamic, complex systems. Toby is an associate member of the Complex Human-Environmental Systems Simulation Laboratory (CoHESSyS) at Oxford University.
Recent publications
- Targeting Your Preferences: Modelling Micro-Targeting for an Increasingly Diverse Electorate External link JASSS-THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION, 24 (1) DOI: 10.18564/jasss.4452
- Strategies for selecting and evaluating information External link Cognitive Psychology, 123 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101332
- The rational continued influence of misinformation External link COGNITION, 205 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104453
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