It was such a pleasure to be interviewed by Kesi Mahendran, Prof• for this special edition of The Psychologist:

Never gets old (for me, at least)! 😍 Poles Apart in Waterstones Horsham this afternoon Ali Goldsworthy Alex Chesterfield

My name is Kristin Song.

On January 31, 2018, my son Ethan was shot in the head in his best friend's house. The father/gun owner stored 3 handguns and ammunition in a shoebox. Ethan's friend had been accessing the guns for over 6 months.

At the hospital, the ER doctor slid…

🚨 Our new paper: we know that GPT-4 generates better ideas than most people, but the ideas are kind of similar & variance matters

But it turns out that better prompting can generate pools of good ideas that are almost as diverse as from a group of humans papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Great to be working with the first nine members of our Advisors Network: Adam Hawksbee Alex Chesterfield Alexander Jan Nina Chihambakwe-McKenzie
Ian Mulheirn Jennifer Bradley Katharine Purser Mark Hilton and Nikos Adamidis.

🚨Preprint🚨
Measuring affective polarization is straightforward in a two-party system. But imagine doing this in a system with 8, 10, or even 19 parties (yes, they exist!).

We discuss how one can most effectively capture AP in such a context: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

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A conference I started almost 30 years ago is coming to downtown Chicago in June. Danny Kahneman keynote! Help create the program by submitting a well-curated session or your best new paper. Great time to visit the city and connect with new people! chicagobooth.edu/research/roman…

Great interdisciplinary #HouseholdFinance conference- 10/10 recommend submitting your papers!

*Calling all personal finance geeks* I encourage you to come to the Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making! This is the world’s foremost conference on this topic - we also go hiking! Abstract submission deadline is Dec 29th.

colorado.edu/business/cente…

NEW📢 CONSENSUS REPORT from the American Psychological Association on the Psychology of #Misinformation !

For the last year, w/an amazing team we reviewed the best available evidence on 3 key questions;

▶️Why are people susceptible?
▶️How does it spread?
▶️What can we do about it?

🧵apa.org/pubs/reports/m…

Finally some good news about replication in behavioral science. This paper is a major contribution to the field:

“High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable”

nature.com/articles/s4156…

Pre-PhD, I was lucky enough to be in the right place, at the right time doing behaviorally-informed research informing 🇬🇧 policymaking in a great team (inc. Paul Adams Stefan Hunt Alex Chesterfield) at the Financial Conduct Authority. Read about it! link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

I am an assistant professor at Columbia Business School. I am a father, a husband, an uncle, and a son. I am a forty-year-old man, and last week I found myself crying in front of a group of complete strangers.

You would never guess from today’s protests that - only a week ago - more Jews were murdered than on any day since the Holocaust.

Or that a great many brutally abducted Israelis, of all ages, still languish in captivity.

What is the matter with us?

We said ‘never again.’ The UK was a safe haven. Now, after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary.

This new paper from researchers at polarizationlab finds that anonymous cross-party online conversations can reduce political polarization in the U.S. #politicalpolarization #civilconversations

nature.com/articles/s4156…

NEW VIDEO: youtu.be/sRmJILI1rmc

Top Behavioral Scientist Francesca Gino is suing Harvard and DataColada for $25M, for defamation. I think her case is weak, and in this video, I break down why. Check it out!

#behaviouralscience #harvard #gino #lawsuit

I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia!

A thread 🧵👇

I'm not sure this was the frame of comparison the cruise ship's operators would have picked for their marketing materials......

Every field of professional education needs to be working on a paper like this right now

This one tests Code Interpreter’s ability to do data science (90% on exams, the field is “on the verge of a paradigm shift”)

Then it suggests how to change training. arxiv.org/pdf/2307.02792…