Clara E. Haeffner

I am elated to share that I will be joining Yale's Clinical Psychology PhD program this fall, under @shirleybwang.bsky.social's mentorship! I am so grateful for the opportunity to continue working with the wonderful team at the CCS Lab, and to everyone in my corner who helped make this happen! 😊

@xphilosopher.bsky.social and I tried to study what beliefs do (or at least, what people think they do).

Across hundreds of participant generated beliefs and first/third party ratings, we found they express identity and/or represent facts, in the pattern described in this post.

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Computational characterization of metacognitive ability in subjective decision-making Metacognition is the process of reflecting on and controlling one's own thoughts and behaviors. Metacognitive ability is often measured through modeling the relationship between confidence reports and...

Preprint alert 🚨! Excited to share our new work on metacognition in value-based decision-making. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/.... We ask whether it is possible to derive a computational measure of metacognitive ability for economic preference choices.

New preprint alert🚨

We often rely on 0-10 scales to assess suicide urges in EMA and clinical settings. But we rarely ask a surprisingly important question:

What do these numbers mean?

In our new paper, we examine what these ratings mean and how consistently people use them.

More info ⬇️

New preprint alert! (1/5)🌟

I’m thrilled to share the preprint of my first first-authored PhD paper! We test whether shared reinforcement functions help explain why adolescents who engage in one self-destructive behavior often engage in others.

Summary⬇
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Computational Psychiatry Conference New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)

🔥🔥SAVE THE DATE!!🔥🔥

Join us at Yale for the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference July 14-16, 2026 www.cpconf.org

@xiaosigu.bsky.social @yiplab.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social @alpowers7.bsky.social

See you in New Haven!

This year, we're organizing travel and caregiver awards to help make CCN 2025 more accessible for those who might otherwise find it difficult to attend. If this kind of support would make a difference for you—or someone you know—we’d love for you to apply or pass the word along 🙌

I am also extremely grateful for my mentors at NIH (thank you @silvialogu.bsky.social !), UW-Madison, colleagues, and friends who have provided invaluable support during this process.

I’m beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Yale this fall with support from the NSF GRFP! I feel deeply grateful to be joining this community and to work with @robbrutledge.bsky.social and the Rutledge lab!

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Recruitment of postbacs & postdocs in the NIH IRP has resumed. I have no additional info beyond what is publicly stated on the website. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI) have rapidly become a significant part of everyday life, with over a quarter of American adults using them multiple times per week. While these tools o...

I am SO excited to share my latest #preprint with
@robbrutledge.bsky.social, Chongyu Qin, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Martin Chadwick, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, and others from DeepMind:
"Increasing happiness through conversations with artificial intelligence"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02091

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I’m at SAS! Come check out my poster during tomorrow’s session if you want to hear about my undergrad thesis work!