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Simon Ciranka

Max Planck Institute for Human DevelopmentORCID 0000-0002-2067-9781Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Approach:simulation· 1

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintSep 25, 2026

A self without a "we": Individuals with Borderline personality disorder show signatures of disrupted social basis functions

Marco K. Wittmann, Yongling Lin, Simon Ciranka…·Andrea M. F. Reiter

The paper examines decision-making patterns in individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and finds they show reduced self-centered behavior and an unbalanced representation of social structure.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.21.752665

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NeuroscienceNature Human BehaviourPeer-reviewedJan 31, 2022

Asymmetric learning facilitates human inference of transitive relations

Simon Ciranka, Juan Linde Domingo, Ivan Padezhki…·Bernhard Spitzer

The paper shows that asymmetric learning, where beliefs about winners or losers are updated selectively, improves transitive inference in humans and aligns with cognitive distortions observed in psychophysics and behavioral economics.

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