Excited to share a paper we (me, Raphael Gerraty, John Morrison, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte) have been working on for years. We tackle the problem of probabilistic representations in neuroscience. 1/13
arxiv.org/abs/2404.08101

In light of Daniel Kahneman's passing last week, I decided to release a special bonus episode of Opinion Science (a podcast) featuring our (as-yet unreleased) full conversation with him. He talks about the early days of his work on heuristics & prospect theory

Listen: link.chtbl.com/OpinionScience…

📣Now hiring! I'm looking to recruit a full-time Postdoctoral Associate to join the Mind & Culture Lab at Duke University. The ideal candidate has a PhD in Psychology or Anthropology & is interested in cross-cultural work. Apply here! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27429

It's impossible to imagine what the Behavioral Decision Making field (and my life) would be like without Danny Kahneman. Danny, of course, was a legend, whose work and spirit inspired almost all of my research. RIP Daniel Kahneman.

The CATS lab is hiring! We are looking for a lab manager to start in September. This is a full-time, in-person position at Northwestern University's Evanston campus. This is an ideal position to get experience for PhD programs. Come join us!

Apply here: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cz…

Check out this coverage of our preprint (osf.io/preprints/psya…) led by the great David Levari with Cameron Martel Gordon Pennycook Rahul Bhui David G. Rand!

See our other wp for relevant context as to why the spillover effects of misinfo may be complex: osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/2

What is a 'mechanism' in neuroscience? nature.com/articles/s4158…

✨Episode5️⃣: The Future.

Exploring the future of B.E., we talked to 3 young researchers who are pushing the field further.

▶️Ridiculous-Podcast.com

DanielKahneman, Linnea Gandhi, Supreet Kaur, & Rahul Bhui

Thank you all for tuning in!🩷

#TTWWR #behavioraleconomics #economics

✨Episode5️⃣: The Future.

Thank you to all the amazing guests in this episode!! ⭐DanielKahneman, Linnea Gandhi, Supreet Kaur, & Rahul Bhui

▶️Ridiculous-Podcast.com

#TTWWR #behavioraleconomics #humanbehavior #podcastcollab #psychology #economics #humanbehavior #behavioralscience

Already started listening to this exciting new podcast series on behavioral econ! (And thanks to Opinion Science (a podcast) and Behavioral Grooves Podcast for a fun interview!)

Out now! A 5-part podcast series on a radical idea in social science that weathered waves of criticism & became hugely influential

'They Thought We Were Ridiculous: The Unlikely Story of Behavioral Economics,' co-produced w/ Behavioral Grooves Podcast

Listen now: opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/they-t…

'They Thought We Were Ridiculous: The Unlikely Story of Behavioral Economics' - NOW LIVE! ▶️Ridiculous-Podcast.com

✨Episode 1️⃣: Beyond Anomalies -
Linda Babcock Richard H Thaler Colin Camerer Liam Delaney Stephen Roll & George Loewenstein

#TTWWR #nowavailable #listennow

This was a fun one - support for green infrastructure projects can be increased by using text-to-image models to visualize their impacts. And the effects were largest for groups less likely to support the policy beforehand!

Check out our new paper in NatureSustainability led by Rachit Dubey w/ matt hardy and Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab!

🤖💻AI-generated visuals of car-free US cities help improve support for sustainable policies🚵🌳
rdcu.be/dzqjm
+ v nice News & Views piece: nature.com/articles/s4189…

🚨WP🚨
We test 9 online samples and find clear tradeoffs between attentiveness and representativeness - which sample is best depends on research q and priorities. For social/political qs I rec Bovitz/Lucid, for complex designs I rec Cloud/Prolific. osf.io/preprints/psya…

'They Thought We Were Ridiculous' - Launching Feb. 26th! #TTWWR

Kurt Nelson, PhD Tim Houlihan Opinion Science (a podcast)

Ridiculous-Podcast.com

#newpodcast #comingsoon #newpodcast alert #newpodcast series #psychology #economics #behavioraleconomics #humanbehavior #behavioralscience

Finally! I've been working with Behavioral Grooves Podcast on a podcast mini-series on the story and ideas of 'behavioral economics' for a long time.

We're releasing all 5 episodes in 2 weeks. You can get it on the usual Opinion Science (a podcast) feed.

Trailer + more info: ridiculous-podcast.com

What governs the temporal variability of cognition? Grateful to see our work now published in Nature Human Behaviour with Daniel Reznik Rahul Bhui, Hanna Hillman and Sam Gershman. Read all about it: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Dynamic computational phenotyping of human cognition nature.com/articles/s4156… - cool new stuff from Roey Schurr Sam Gershman et al.

New working paper: 'Blatantly false news increases belief in news that is merely implausible'
osf.io/preprints/psya…

There's growing concern that AI like GPT-4 is making it easy to create sudden 'cascades' of fake news online. But what impact could those cascades have? (1/9)