Emily Schulz

Dados Biográficos

ID136846
NOMEEmily Schulz
PRENOMESEmily
SOBRENOMESchulz
ASSINATURASCHULZ E
AFILIAÇÕESMax Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
ORCID0000-0003-3088-0371
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS32
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES38
TOTAL COMO AUTOR32
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2009
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H4

  • Human resource management in times of crisis

    Open AccessLaxmikant Manroop, Huimiao Zheng et al.ARTICLEOrganizational Dynamics2025

  • Playing repeated games with large language models

    Open AccessElif Akata, Lion Schulz et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025Referências: 46

    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in applications where they interact with humans and other agents. We propose to use behavioural game theory to study LLMs' cooperation and coordination behaviour. Here we let different LLMs play finitely repeated 2 × 2 games with each other, with human-like strategies, and actual human players. Our results show that LLMs perform particularly well at self-interested games such as the iterated Pris…

  • Task imprinting

    Open AccessMirko Thalmann, Theo A J Schäfer et al.ARTICLECognitive Psychology2024

    Research from several areas suggests that mental representations adapt to the specific tasks we carry out in our environment. In this study, we propose a mechanism of adaptive representational change, task imprinting. Thereby, we introduce a computational model, which portrays task imprinting as an adaptation to specific task goals via selective storage of helpful representations in long-term memory. We test the main qualitative prediction of the…

  • Relating objective complexity, subjective complexity, and beauty in binary pixel patterns

    Surabhi S Nath, Franziska Brändle et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Aesthetics…2024

    The complexity of images critically influences our assessment of their beauty. However, studies relating assessments of complexity and beauty to potential objective measures are hampered by the use of hand-crafted stimuli which are hard to reproduce and manipulate. To tackle this, we developed a systematic method for generating 2D black-and-white pixel patterns using cellular automata and collected ratings of complexity and beauty from 80 partici…

  • Using games to understand the mind

    Open AccessKelsey Allen, Franziska Brändle et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024Citada por: 4Referências: 65

  • Using cognitive psychology to understand GPT-3

    Open AccessMarcel Binz, Emily Schulz et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2023

    We study GPT-3, a recent large language model, using tools from cognitive psychology. More specifically, we assess GPT-3’s decision-making, information search, deliberation, and causal reasoning abilities on a battery of canonical experiments from the literature. We find that much of GPT-3’s behavior is impressive: It solves vignette-based tasks similarly or better than human subjects, is able to make decent decisions from descriptions, outperfor…

  • The scaling of mental computation in a sorting task

    Open AccessSusanne Haridi, Charley M Wu et al.ARTICLECognition2023

  • A longitudinal study of social, religious, and spiritual capital and physical and emotional functioning in a national sample of African–Americans

    Open AccessE M Clark, Lijing Ma et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2023Referências: 52

    The present study builds on prior research by examining the moderating relationships between different types of capital on physical functioning, emotional functioning, and depressive symptoms using a 2.5‐year longitudinal design with a national sample of African–American adults. Results indicated a significant T1 social capital × T1 religious capital interaction such that among low T1 religious capital participants, those with high T1 social capi…

  • Developmental changes in exploration resemble stochastic optimization

    Open AccessAnna P Giron, Simon Ciranka et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023Citada por: 1Referências: 75

    Human development is often described as a 'cooling off' process, analogous to stochastic optimization algorithms that implement a gradual reduction in randomness over time. Yet there is ambiguity in how to interpret this analogy, due to a lack of concrete empirical comparisons. Using data from n = 281 participants ages 5 to 55, we show that cooling off does not only apply to the single dimension of randomness. Rather, human development resembles …

  • Empowerment contributes to exploration behaviour in a creative video game

    Open AccessFranziska Brändle, Lena J Stocks et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023Citada por: 1Referências: 28

  • Multi-task reinforcement learning in humans

    Open AccessMomchil S Tomov, Emily Schulz et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2021Referências: 32

  • Marital Status and Depressive Symptoms in African Americans

    Open AccessBeverly Rosa Williams, Randi M Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2021Citada por: 4Referências: 75

    We examined the gendered role of social and religious resources in the association between marital status and depressive symptoms among a national probability sample of predominantly midlife and older African American adults ( N = 800). Greater levels of depressive symptoms were found for unmarried compared to married. A significant three-way interaction between marital status, gender, and resource variable was found only for religious social sup…

  • Communicating Compositional Patterns

    Open AccessEmily Schulz, Eric Schulz et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2020

    How do people perceive and communicate structure? We investigate this question by letting participants play a communication game, where one player describes a pattern, and another player redraws it based on the description alone. We use this paradigm to compare two models of pattern description, one compositional (complex structures built out of simpler ones) and one noncompositional. We find that compositional patterns are communicated more effe…

  • Meaning in Life Predicts Decreased Depressive Symptoms and Increased Positive Affect over Time but Does not Buffer Stress Effects in a National Sample of African-Americans

    Open AccessCrystal L Park, Cheryl L Knott et al.ARTICLEJournal of Happiness Studies2020

  • Finding structure in multi-armed bandits

    Open AccessEmily Schulz, Eric Schulz et al.ARTICLECognitive Psychology2020

  • Author Correction

    Open AccessCharley M Wu, Emily Schulz et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2020

  • Explaining the Relationship Between Personality and Health in a National Sample of African Americans

    Open AccessE M Clark, Randi M Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2019Citada por: 2Referências: 82

    Though associations between personality and health have been previously observed, less is known about why such relationships exist. The present study examines whether social support mediated the relationship between personality traits and health among African Americans. We hypothesized that social support would help explain the relationship between each of the five-factor model traits and physical functioning. Data were collected from a national …

  • Generalization guides human exploration in vast decision spaces

    Open AccessCharley M Wu, Emily Schulz et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2018Citada por: 6Referências: 44

  • Personality, Social Capital, and Depressive Symptomatology Among African Americans

    Open AccessE M Clark, Randi M Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2018Citada por: 3Referências: 54

    The present study examined the relationship between social capital and depressive symptoms and the moderating role of the Big Five personality constructs in a national sample of African American adults. Data were collected from a national probability sample of 803 African American men and women using a telephone survey including measures of the Big Five personality traits, social capital, and depressive symptomatology. Most interestingly, there w…

  • The relationship between religious beliefs and behaviours and changes in Spiritual Health Locus of Control over time in a national sample of African-Americans

    E M Clark, Jin Huang et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2017

    Using data from a sample of African Americans, the present study examined the role of religious beliefs and behaviors in predicting changes in spiritual health locus of control (SHLOC), or beliefs about the role that God plays in a person's health. A national sample of African American adults was recruited using a telephone survey and re-contacted 2.5 years later. Overall, results indicated that both higher religious beliefs and behaviors predict…

  • Which Personality Traits Moderate the Relationship Between Religious Capital and Depressive Symptomology in a National Sample of African Americans

    Open AccessE M Clark, Cheryl L Holt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Psychology2017Citada por: 2Referências: 54

    The present study examined the relationship between religious capital and depressive symptoms and the moderating role of the Big Five personality constructs in a national sample of African American adults. Data were collected from a national probability sample of 803 African American men and women using a telephone survey including measures of the Big Five personality traits, religious capital, and depressive symptomology. Most interestingly, the…

  • Characterizing Change in Religious and Spiritual Identity Among a National Sample of African American Adults

    Beverly Rosa Williams, Cheryl L Holt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion, Spirituality…2015

    We explore changes in self-reported religious/spiritual identity in 313 African American adults over an average period of 2.5 years. Changes in religious and spiritual identity were reported by half of the participants and were associated with age, education, and income. The least stability was observed among respondents identifying as religious/not spiritual at baseline but shifting to religious and spiritual at follow-up. This trend was signifi…

  • Social Integration and Health Insurance Status Among African American Men and Women

    Beverly Rosa Williams, Min Qi Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Women & Aging2015

    Using 2010 national data, we investigate the relationship between social integration and health insurance for African American adults. During the previous year 21.6% of men and 19.8% of women lacked continuous health insurance. The effect of marital status, income, and employment on insurance coverage differed by age and gender. Additionally, frequency of church attendance was positively associated with continuous health insurance for women aged …

  • Social support as a mediator of religious involvement and physical and emotional functioning in a national sample of African-Americans

    Cheryl L Holt, Emily Schulz et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2014

    Researchers propose social support as one of the factors that may explain the positive relationship often observed between religious involvement and health outcomes. African-Americans are a population that tends to have higher than average levels of religious involvement and are also disproportionately impacted by most health conditions. The present study sought to determine whether social support mediates the role of religious involvement in phy…

  • The Religion–Health Connection Among African Americans

    Open AccessCheryl L Holt, E M Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…2014Citada por: 7Referências: 7

    Researchers have expressed growing interest in factors that may explain the relationship between religious involvement and health‐related outcomes. Faith‐based organizations are a significant institution in African American communities, both serving religious/spiritual needs and providing an important source of social capital. These communities often suffer a disproportionate burden of health conditions as well. The present study examined the rol…