Recent searches
Search options
Administered by:
#behavioralscience
Are we still primitive? The science behind human power struggles | https://www.byteseu.com/754823/ #BehavioralScience #EvolutionaryPsychology #HumanDominance #Science #SocialInequality #SurvivalInstincts
#science
#academia
#learning
#Ecology
#BehavioralScience
#Nature
Question are there any cognitive computational pedagogy specialists,scientists, teachers out there I have a few questions?
I’m trying to research and do an analysis on learning and behavior, and break it down computationally with diversity models of out groups in group mixing within organisms starting out with humans and or other organisms life forms.
Please and thank you,
Boost for reaching out please!
Brain inflammation affects behavior differently in males and females, study finds https://www.psypost.org/brain-inflammation-affects-behavior-differently-in-males-and-females-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BrainHealth #Inflammation #BehavioralScience #Neuroscience #Hippocampus
A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that #genes associated with repairing mismatched #DNA are critical in eliciting damages to #neurons that are most vulnerable in #Huntington's disease and triggering downstream #pathologies and motor impairment, shedding light on disease mechanisms
#Medical #Neuroscience #Genetics #Psychiatry #BehavioralScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/02/med02112501.html
Nudge Theory 101:
How to influence behavior and improve business outcomes with smart nudges:
Read here @hackernoon
https://hackernoon.com/nudge-theory-best-practices-for-business-with-examples
U.S. adults with mental illness are 9% less likely to vaccinate.
Vaccination Rewards combats this gap with 200+ incentives. No mandates, no politics—just science-backed rewards. 
https://vaccinationrewards.org/
Boosting decision-making skills: A new review article from researchers at the MPI for Human Development highlights the untapped potential of behavioral science for public policy
#Boosting #DecisionMaking #BehavioralScience
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/21/boosting-decision-making-skills
Neuroscientists uncover how the brain maps behavioral sequences https://www.psypost.org/neuroscientists-uncover-how-the-brain-maps-behavioral-sequences/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Neuroscience #BrainResearch #CognitiveScience #BehavioralScience #NeuralConnections
"If cynicism were a pill, its warning label would list depression, heart disease, and isolation. In other words, it’d be a poison. So why do so many of us swallow it?" #cynicism #skepticism #psychology #sociology #behavioralscience
https://behavioralscientist.org/instead-of-being-cynical-try-becoming-skeptical/
Four experiments reveal that people who experience #unfairness from #AI, compared to humans, are less likely to act prosocially towards others. This "AI-induced indifference" could reshape human-to-human interactions. #BehavioralScience #Ethics #FutureOfWork
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027724002233
In study after study, most people fail to realize how generous, trustworthy, and open‐minded others really are. The average person underestimates the average person.
#BehavioralScience #Psychology #Cynicism
https://behavioralscientist.org/instead-of-being-cynical-try-becoming-skeptical/?mc_cid=0fb1c281c0
This one goes out to all of you working in #psychology #sociology #economics and all other #SocialSciences and #BehavioralScience
In-person event in Rotterdam (NL): Submit your #researchpaper or #preprint with #code and get it checked by your peers!
More info: https://codecheck.org.uk/nl-workshop3/
Sorry for all the hashtags, but that's how it works on Mastodon :)
Organized by
@danielagawehns
Heyo! Been a while. Here's a paper I wrote at SIPA — how to tackle mis- & dis-information.
Below are the concluding remarks as a teaser to get you to open the full paper. Cheers!
I believe that a policy suite that includes 1) improved knowledge of the problem and preventative measures via media literacy, 2) training in critical thinking and awareness, through social and emotional learning (SEL), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and other cognitive health and mindfulness programs, 3) a heightened motivation to combat the mis/disinformation issue, using effective storytelling and creative incentives, and 4) presenting a clear path to a fact-based media ecosystem—such as a public-private digital media mission—not only hold great promise to reducing mis/disinformation today, but could prepare future generations for a host of future challenges, including the next era of information disorder.
https://travs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/tatman-travis_inaf-u6906_big-paper_final.pdf
#Misinformation #Disinformation, #MediaLiteracy #BehavioralScience
#malcolmGladwell has another book, I guess trying to rescue his much-nitpicked #TippingPoint.
IDK if he's a net positive force in the world or not. As a #psychologist I've occasionally looked up the original #research he cites. He tends to portray findings in black-and-white terms, like "People do X in Y situation!" when, most often, I've found the research best supports something like "In some studies 12% of people did X in Y situation despite previous #models predicting it should only be 7%" or "The mean of the P group was 0.3 standard deviations higher than the mean of the Q group".
I see many of his grand arguments as built more or less on a house of cards. Or rather, built on a house of semi-firm jell-o that he treats as if it were solid bricks.
I'm not knocking (most of) the #behavioralScience he cites; Hell, I'm a behavioral scientist and I think this meta-field has a ton to offer. I just think it's important to keep #EffectSize and #PracticalSignificance built into any more complex theories or models that rely on the relevant research instead of assuming that #StatisticalSignificance means "Everything at 100%". I'm sure there's some concise way to say this.
Overall, I think he plays fast and loose with a lot of scientific facts, stacking them up as if they were all Absolutely Yes when they're actually Kinda Maybe or Probably Sort Of and I don't think the weight of the stack can be borne by the accumulated uncertainty and partial applicability indicated by the component research.
So I take everything he says with huge grains of salt and sometimes grimaces, even though I think sometimes he identifies really interesting perspectives or trends.
But is it overall good to have someone presenting behavioral research, heavily oversimplified to fit the author's pet theory? It gets behavioral science in the public eye. It helps many people with no connection to behavioral science understand the potential usefulness and perhaps scale of the fields. It also sets everyone--especially behavioral scientists--up for a fall. It's only a matter of time after each of his books before people who understand the research far better than he does show up to try to set the record straight, and then what has happened to public confidence in behavioral science?
Meh.
Super excited to finally reveal the Missing Majority Dashboard!
For too long, behavioral science has drawn its insights from a narrow pool, leaving out voices from the Global South. This project, developed with my colleague @psforscher shines light on this critical gap and helps us track representation in key journals. The goal? To ensure a more inclusive, globally relevant science. View the dashboard:
The more I've learned about #psychology the less seriously I take the "big idea" solutions for #economy and #government like unregulated #capitalism, #libertarianism, #communism, and #socialism.
They seem to have conceptions of human behavior that are somewhere between "deeply inadequate" and "fucking stupid."
And don't anyone ever respond to this with the words "freud" or "psychodynamic."
It feels to me that all of these Big Systems go like this:
1. This would solve all of our problems
2. Kill everyone in the way, destroy every system blocking this
3. "If everyone would just ____"
4. Utopia
I want an economic/government system hammered out that truly, at its core, incorporates the past century of #BehavioralScience. I want to see a system that fundamentally, radically deals with knowledge about "human nature" including
1. Cognitive dissonance
2. About 20 serious cognitive biases
3. Group identity, striving for ingroup status, etc.
4. Fundamental irrationality of human cognition (not just "OMG it's irrational," but actually dealing with the specifics; closely related to #2, above)
5. Self-serving bias (like in #2, but this one seems to merit its own bullet point, as it's related to how individuals can be Fausted into doing antisocial things)
6. The "power" of extremely self-serving people (e.g., psychopaths) to hamstring fair and transparent processes
7. A bunch of group dynamics stuff from sociology and political science and anthropology that I don't really know about
If your utopian system has anything in its user manual like "Then all good people will..." it's going to be a disaster. Give me something with a reasonable chance of non-disaster. Give me something based on what we actually know about human nature, not someone's armchair fantasy.
There are many reasons why drive-thru must be banned entirely (including impact on traffic, greenhouse gas emissions caused by idling automobiles, pedestrian safety issues around fast-food restaurants, hostile and high-stress work environment for employees, etc., etc.), this is another important reason: drive-thrus are basically a big psy-op.
Does fidgeting really help you focus? According to science, it depends.
From @popsci: "Both children and adults diagnosed with ADHD who engage in more intrinsic movements (measured with devices placed on the wrists and ankles) during a task perform better, based on two separate studies involving dozens of participants."
Women who have a false positive screening #mammogram are less likely to return for more screening. Whether they consider it a waste of time or are fearful the next time will be a true positive, we should use #BehavioralScience and #design to do better! https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M24-0123
