#behavioural-science — Public Fediverse posts

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LinkedIn wants me to start building my relationship with Erik by sending a message that essentially says I am so uninterested in him that I don’t even think it’s worth taking the time to formulate my own words.

As a behavioural scientist (a real one, not the “Surrounded by Idiots” variety), I can state with confidence that giving Erik the impression that I am uninterested in him is not the most effective strategy for building a relationship.

Don’t get me wrong; I love technology, automation, and clever, time-saving solutions. But it is nonetheless entirely counterproductive to use them in actual interpersonal communication.

At least if you want relationships with people, and not to treat them like trading cards.

You would think LinkedIn, of all places, would understand this.

#LinkedIn #Relationships #HumanCommunication
#BehaviouralScience #Automation #Digitalisation
#Authenticity #ProfessionalRelationships #WorkingLife

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#BehaviouralScience #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR #Prevention #PublicHealth
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The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

I wrote earlier in the year about the extent of malpractice within behavioural science, particularly in business schools. There’s an incredibly cutting article in the recent Atlantic going deeply into a crisis which is still very much in motion:

Business-school psychologists are scholars, but they aren’t shooting for a Nobel Prize. Their research doesn’t typically aim to solve a social problem; it won’t be curing anyone’s disease. It doesn’t even seem to have much influence on business practices, and it certainly hasn’t shaped the nation’s commerce. Still, its flashy findings come with clear rewards: consulting gigs and speakers’ fees, not to mention lavish academic incomes. Starting salaries at business schools can be $240,000 a year—double what they are at campus psychology departments, academics told me.

The research scandal that has engulfed this field goes far beyond the replication crisis that has plagued psychology and other disciplines in recent years. Long-standing flaws in how scientific work is done—including insufficient sample sizes and the sloppy application of statistics—have left large segments of the research literature in doubt. Many avenues of study once deemed promising turned out to be dead ends. But it’s one thing to understand that scientists have been cutting corners. It’s quite another to suspect that they’ve been creating their results from scratch.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/01/business-school-fraud-research/680669/

What happens when you introduce generative AI into this toxic situation? It provides potent new tools for research misconduct but also potent need tools for document forensics. We’re in for an interesting few years 🍿

#behaviouralScience #fraud #knowledgeSystem #malpractice #psychology #publishing

I’ve just submitted my final assessment for my Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience, and now I’m facing a dilemma on which master’s program to pursue. I’m passionate about neuroscience and mental health, and I want to explore how insights from neuroscience can inform trauma recovery, stress reduction, and mindful living. I’m torn between a Master of Applied Positive Psychology and other options like social science or behavioural science. One focuses on psychological well-being, while the others might offer more breadth for my research interests. Trying to find the right fit for my academic and career goals.

#neuroscience #mentalhealth #gradschool #mastersdilemma #positivepsychology #socialscience #behaviouralscience

Where are my goats?! See you @CVPR with an exciting program and hope to see many animal enthusiasts in Seattle #CVPR2024! https://cv4animals.com #animal #behaviouralscience #computervision #CV4Animals

New paper: The non-linear effects of increasing temperature on aggression in fish.

We explored the change in aggression with exposure to different temperatures in - the princess of Zambia (Neolamprologus pulcher).

These fish use aggression to maintain their complex social systems - they are co-operative breeders. We explored the effect of temperature on aggression across a large range of temperatures.

#fishsci
#asab
#animalbehaviour
#BehaviouralScience

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347223002634

Powerful analysis from @chrischirp (& colleagues) about the government's bad decisions in 2020.

"...the government did not trust us to do our part. Instead of enabling us to comply with measures, it meted out punishments and then sowed distrust when senior figures ignored the rules. I am left wondering how much of this distrust they had in us was rooted in the fact that so many of them had no intention of obeying the rules themselves."

https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-the-government-failed-on-behavioural

#covid #UK #BehaviouralScience

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A recent study found that Twitter/X has the biggest proportion of disinformation of six big social networks so our special focus topic for CSR couldn't be more timely!

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#misinformation #disinformation #magazine #security #behaviouralscience #psychology

Oh my, I'd missed that:

"Two behavioral scientists who study honesty accused of using falsified data"

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1190568472

Amazing :masto_lol:

#behavior #behaviouralScience #fraud #data #planetMoney #DanAriely #psychology #FrancescaGino #nudge #HarvardBusinessSchool #honesty #insurance #taxes #guatemala #dmv #DataColada

Do you work on #SocialGood projects, using #Marketing & other forms of #Communication to change #behaviour ?

Are you a practitioner rather than an #academic? Have you ever thought about being published for your work, but never gone down that path?

If so, you might be interested in this article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15245004231190987

(Of course, it's also relevant for academics!)

I'd love to hear your reactions to it!

#SocMar #SocialMarketing #BehaviourChange #BehaviorChange #BeSci #BehaviouralScience

What can #psychometrics offer for #CrossCultural research? Why is simply translating questionnaires rarely enough for international research efforts?

#SysReview published last week excellently illustrates the #interdisciplinary problems:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dar.13715 measuring #AlcoholUse

Two other examples I like a lot:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26319270/ in #Dementia
and
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1721166115 for broader #BehaviouralScience issues.

#TranslationIsNotEnough #HRQL #GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth

Scientists have put exercise wheels out in nature and they're very popular with wild, free mice.

#STEM #biology #behaviouralScience #mice #science

https://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2014/may/21/wild-mice-exercise-wheels-behaviour-stereotypy-neurosis

@psforscher looks like a brilliant resource for #BehaviouralScience folk - thank you for sharing!

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