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Algorithm-assisted personalized risk communication to encourage flu vaccination in the USA: three randomized field trials

Bronsoler, A., Doyle, J. J. & Van Reenen, J. M. The impact of healthcare it …
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/722657/ Algorithm-assisted personalized risk communication to encourage flu vaccination in the USA: three randomized field trials #BehavioralSciences #Communication #Éire #ExperimentalPsychology #general #Health #HealthCare #HealthServices #Healthcare #HumanBehaviour #IE #InfluenzaVirus #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #PreventiveMedicine

Contract incentives and behaviours of medical consultants in Ireland

Health expenditure. OECD https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-expenditure.htm (accessed 27 February 2024). Consultants and private practice. BMA https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support…
#Ireland #IE #Europe #Europa #EU #BehavioralSciences #economics #ExperimentalPsychology #general #ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityandSocialPsychology #SocialPolicy
https://www.europesays.com/3291295/

https://www.europesays.com/3291295/ Contract incentives and behaviours of medical consultants in Ireland #BehavioralSciences #economics #ExperimentalPsychology #general #ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #SocialPolicy

https://www.europesays.com/ie/706414/ Impacts of PM2.5 air pollution on high-skilled worker productivity in China #BehavioralSciences #economics #Éire #Environment #EnvironmentalEconomics #ExperimentalPsychology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #Science

Playing Chess With Oneself: How Humanity Became Tops And AI Can Help

Abstract: Human thought may owe much of its superiority not so much to irresistible logic but rather to an internal war of alternatives generating the former, in which competing interpretations confront one another until one proves more effective. Solo chess becomes a small experiment in this principle: the mind can artificially compartmentalize itself and generate adversarial reasoning. At the social and civilizational level, debate, opposition, and even conflict can similarly function as stress tests for competing models. AI potentially transforms this ancient process by generating deliberately divergent logics and perspectives, making the subconscious-like alternatives of thought externally inspectable. But genuine dialectical power requires independence: an AI merely reproducing the user’s premises is playing chess with itself while secretly controlling both sides.

War Of All Against All: Nobody wanted to play chess with me, but I wanted to play chess. No one is better served than by oneself, I wondered: would it be possible to play chess with oneself? After all, I hold the brain to be a multimind, with various parts doing their own thing and then convening. Could I experimentally compartimentalize? My brain deliberately at war with itself? After all, I had been very much multimind about many things…

So I gave it a try, opening the game with the whites. The key was not to think too many moves far ahead from any of the two sides, preventing strategizing against oneself. That’s easy to do by reacting quickly. Half an hour later, the whites won.

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I Beat Up Completely, Therefore I Think:

The brain of course does this sort of struggling against oneself naturally, perhaps most visibly in dreaming when parts of the brain plot and conspire against the ruling networks by uncovering perspectives different from those directing one’s daily consciousness. 

More generally in any society, the struggle of a part of society against the elite(s) is not just class warfare but, more fundamentally, considered at the civilizational scale, the establishment of potentially superior ways. Nowadays AI can do this on command, changing “bias” and “temperature” to bring logic itself to struggle against more sedate, or less aware, versions of itself. 

Thought is greatly the fruit of debate, not just observing apparent causality, or being instructed how to think. Debate, from 11th century Old French debatre—from de- and batre, “to beat”—originally meant to fight or beat thoroughly. Superior thoughts are what rules the mental battlefield after total combat. The etymological grounding of debate (de-batre = to beat thoroughly) highlights an evolutionary truth: logic is not static; it is forged through friction.and confrontation.

Ruling Networks Fighting Subconscious Alternatives├─► [Adversarial Friction] ──► [Superior Logic]

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Peace Of Mind Is Not A Sustainable Alternative:

If you want complete peace, just die!

Debate improves when an initially dominant logical-emotional interpretation is made to confront a sufficiently independent alternatives. Superior thinking comes from superior debate, and much of what appears at first sight, as deplorable infighting inside one’s mind, or society, is actually there to determine better (logical-emotional) outcomes. The later evolutive propensity to logical superiority turned humanity into the crown of biological creation. 

(That in turn forced human evolution into cooperation, language, cumulative culture, technology, and social learning which all result from and in turn cause logical superiority…) 

Solo chess, internal deliberation, political opposition, and AI-assisted critique can all instantiate this process—provided the alternative is not merely scripted by the original position. 

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Civilizational Scale: Political and even bellicose war between nation-states or ethnicities, let alone cultural friction isn’t merely destructive noise; it is the evolutionary mechanism by which a society tests, and stress-tests, structural alternative models before environmental conditions force catastrophic, and often terminal, failure.

The Biological Cost: In biological brains, internal debate is computationally expensive and constrained by emotional preservation (the ego defending its existing model to avoid cognitive dissonance). About 20% of Homo Sapiens’ energy is spent by the brain, and this may have gone up to 30% with Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis, going a long way, according to the present author to explain the dilution of Neanderthal genes in the rising tide of more economical Sapien Sapiens… 

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The mental breathing between operative effective reality neural networks and putative alternatives is essential to the superiority of thinking. In a simplified version, it has been presented as the dichotomy between conscious and subconscious. 

Now all of this has become practical and experimental. By restricting the tokens of AI to the most probable choices, one can define a most likely logic. By varying temp and bias, one can create alternative logics, and thus alternative subconsciousness, when humans look at them, but now explicit subconsciousnesses are made, and subjected to conscious inspection…This does not mean that AI has consciousness, a psyche, repression, or unconscious conflict. It means that AI can be directed to simulate competing logics, emotional framings, and interpretive perspectives, making them available for human examination… Making psychoanalysis into an experimental science!. 

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The Potential Blindspot: The “Scripted Alternative” Threat

The condition: “…provided the alternative is not merely scripted by the original position.” is crucial. This is where current AI dialectics face their biggest risk in the present ethical environment:

1. Echo-Chamber Convergence: An LLM tuned simply to be helpful will often adopt the user’s implicit framing (sycophancy), effectively playing “solo chess” where White controls Black’s moves. Worse: plutocrats in the generalized sense of evil-doers, could well control the AI (all of them) to frame logical alternatives by restricting them to their service.
2. True Adversariality: To achieve true “Experimental Psychoanalysis,” the AI must be deliberately configured with genuine orthogonality and transversality—forcing it to operate on different objective functions or foundational axioms, rather than just playing devil’s advocate using the user’s own logic.

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The Verdict

AI is not just Artificial Intelligence but potentially Experimental Psychoanalysis And A Reality Engine…

Framing AI not as an “answer engine” or a “fake humanoid,” but as a controllable dialectical generator, a metanoia instigator, that externalizes the brain’s natural internal combat, is a profound and actionable model. It turns AI into a mirror that doesn’t just reflect who we are, or what is, but actively stress-tests who we could be, and what could be made to happen. It is not that conflict is intrinsically good, but that real independence between competing models is necessary for discovery about this nature to which we belong.

Patrice Ayme  

Reassurance through normalization inadvertently suppresses treatment

Kessel, N. Reassurance. Lancet 313, 1128–1133 (1979). Article  Google Scholar  Giroldi, E. et al. ‘No need to worry’:…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/853502/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/630748/ Reassurance through normalization inadvertently suppresses treatment #BehavioralSciences #Éire #ExperimentalPsychology #general #Health #HealthCare #Healthcare #HumanBehaviour #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology

Common and rare genetic variant associations with cognitive performance across development in British birth cohorts

This work complies with all relevant ethics regulations. The Cambridge South Research Ethics Committee (10…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/686546/

Genome-wide association studies of infant and toddler temperament in European and multi-ancestry populations

This study was preregistered on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/2yznd) on 18 January 2024. Deviations from the preregistration…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/669960/

Genome-wide association studies of infant and toddler temperament in European and multi-ancestry populations

This study was preregistered on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/2yznd) on 18 January 2024. Deviations from the preregistration…
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https://www.europesays.com/europe/84289/

Prevalence and severity of mental health problems in early-career researchers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Evans, T. M., Bira, L., Gastelum, J. B., Weiss, L. T. & Vanderford, N. L. Evidence for a…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1016325/ A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science #BehavioralSciences #ExperimentalPsychology #general #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #ResearchManagement #Science #software #TechnologyAndSociety #UK #UnitedKingdom

A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science

LMU Munich, Munich, Germany Stefan Feuerriegel, Kerstin Forster, Dominique Geissler, Abdurahman Maarouf, Sebastian Maier & Barbara Plank Munich Center for Machine Learni…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/au/725070/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/526077/ A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science #BehavioralSciences #Éire #ExperimentalPsychology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #ResearchManagement #Science #Software #TechnologyAndSociety

https://www.europesays.com/uk/994127/ The healing power of nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression #BehavioralSciences #ExperimentalPsychology #general #Health #HumanBehaviour #LifeSciences #MentalHealth #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #Psychology #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/ie/509431/ The healing power of nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression #BehavioralSciences #Éire #ExperimentalPsychology #general #Health #HumanBehaviour #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #MentalHealth #MentalHealth #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #psychology

The healing power of nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression

Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Thi…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/672899/

Ancient DNA evidence for the history of the Albanians https://www.byteseu.com/1989652/ #Albania #BehavioralSciences #ExperimentalPsychology #General #GeneticVariation #history #LifeSciences #microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology

https://www.europesays.com/uk/910132/ Economic burden of falls for 190 countries and territories from 2020 to 2050 based on health-augmented macroeconomic modelling #BehavioralSciences #Epidemiology #ExperimentalPsychology #general #Health #HealthCareEconomics #Healthcare #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/ie/446274/ Economic burden of falls for 190 countries and territories from 2020 to 2050 based on health-augmented macroeconomic modelling #BehavioralSciences #Éire #Epidemiology #ExperimentalPsychology #general #Health #HealthCare #HealthCareEconomics #Healthcare #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology

Economic burden of falls for 190 countries and territories from 2020 to 2050 based on health-augmented macroeconomic modelling

GBD 2021 Demographics Collaborators. Global age–sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 20…
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/790247/ Digital mental health needs a purpose-driven approach #BehavioralSciences #ExperimentalPsychology #general #Health #HealthPolicy #Healthcare #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #QualityOfLife #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/ie/357136/ Digital mental health needs a purpose-driven approach #BehavioralSciences #Éire #ExperimentalPsychology #general #Health #HealthCare #HealthPolicy #Healthcare #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #QualityOfLife

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin

Haas, J. The Anthropology of War (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990). Molloy, B., Bruyère, C. & Jovanović, D. in…
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/277562/ Ancient DNA and isotope data reflect social diversity in an Eastern Zhou cemetery #Archaeology #BehavioralSciences #BiologicalAnthropology #Éire #ExperimentalPsychology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #Science

https://www.europesays.com/ie/259448/ Measuring context sensitivity in artificial intelligence content moderation #BehavioralSciences #ComputerScience #Éire #ExperimentalPsychology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #Science #TechnologyAndSociety

https://www.europesays.com/ie/238803/ Higher-order interactions shape collective human behaviour #BehavioralSciences #ComplexNetworks #Éire #ExperimentalPsychology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #Technology

"By combing through newly unsealed materials from Festinger’s archives, UFO and occult magazines of the 1950s, later writings by group leader Dorothy Martin, he discovered crucial information that was omitted by the original book. Kelly detailed his startling findings in a paper published in the Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences titled Debunking “When Prophecy Fails.”"

#WhenProphecyFails #ExperimentalPsychology #BehavorialScience #ThomasKelly #LeonFestinger

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Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials

Ethics statement Approval for data collection protocols at Suaq was provided by the Indonesian State Ministry for Resea…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/283148/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/592745/ Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials #AnimalBehaviour #BehavioralSciences #BehaviouralEcology #BiologicalAnthropology #CulturalEvolution #ExperimentalPsychology #general #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom

The hidden role of waste pickers in climate resilience

Dias, S. M., Ogando, A. C., Broto, V. C., Cypriano, B. & Gonçalves, J. Climate-Change Impacts and Adaptation…
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/193075/ The hidden role of waste pickers in climate resilience #BehavioralSciences #DevelopmentStudies #Éire #Environment #EnvironmentalSocialSciences #ExperimentalPsychology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Microeconomics #Neurosciences #PersonalityAndSocialPsychology #Science

New paradigm for psychology just dropped

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/new-paradigm-for-psychology-just

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#mysticism #metaphysics #ExperimentalPsychology

this, wrt the significance of experimental mysticism research,
may be of interest for many

https://www.academia.edu/121270424/Mystik_im_Labor_Die_experimentelle_Psychedelika_Forschung_fordert_das_Verst%C3%A4ndnis_von_Mystik_heraus

After I presented the abovementioned results in the Atheism & Analytical Thinking session,

Tatsunori (Nori) Ishii presented "Analytic #atheism in #Japan: Examining the association between analytic thinking and #religious belief"

Among thousands of people from Japan (in two studies), Nori repeatedly found small analytic atheism correlations.

Follow Nori on #ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tatsunori-Ishii

#religion #cognitiveScience #decisionScience #psychology #experimentalPsychology #xPhi #culture

Posting on behalf of my colleagues on the editorial board of JEP:HPP.

Call for Papers: Perspectives on Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Important dates:
Letter of intent submission deadline: June 15, 2024

Invited manuscript submission deadline: Sept 15, 2024

Editor:
Jelena Ristic

Background:
In 2025, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance will celebrate its 50th birthday. This is a momentous occasion for the journal which continues to serve as a pillar of the field of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology/neuroscience. Indeed, some of the most important and pioneering findings have been published in JEP: HPP and have in many ways shaped how we think about cognition today.

To mark this occasion, in addition to invited updated reviews on several of the most cited JEP:HPP papers and perspectives of the editors, we are also inviting you, the readers, to send us your perspectives on JEP: HPP.

Details:
We are interested in receiving proposals for 1,000-word Perspective articles from JEP: HPP readers (who may also be authors) on the topic(s) of how an article, a series of articles, or general ideas published in JEP: HPPhave shaped/changed/influenced their research or academic development. We are also interested in receiving proposals on topics other than these, for instance concerning the various roles JEP: HPP can play for the next 50 years.

We aim to start publishing the Perspectives quarterly in 2025.

If you are interested in contributing a Perspective, let us know by June 15, 2024, by writing to the Associate Editor Jelena Ristic at [email protected] (with “Perspective proposal” in the subject line). Please include the proposed topic and a brief outline for your proposed article.

#psychology #perception #visual #auditory #motorcontrol #psychologicalscience #experimentalpsychology #neuroscience

And the replication crisis continues ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3tSG8h_O3A

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Proud paper moment alert! 📢 📰

A methods pre-print providing advice on creating PC control conditions for cognitive experiments in VR.

https://psyarxiv.com/unpc5

It is not a secret that methods papers are my fave :D

Such a great experience working and learning together! Excellent effort from our lab technician and then MSc students Rasmus and Anne.

It was also my first time in a supervisor role 😊

#VR #ExperimentalPsychology

A Subtle Selection Effect in Overconfidence Studies https://kevindorst.substack.com/p/a-subtle-selection-effect-in-overconfidence
The standard methods for studying #overconfidence might be overestimating it. In asking people for confidence intervals—the narrowest intervals that they’re confident contain the true value—we’re selecting for the intervals that are most likely to be overestimates.
#ExperimentalEcon #BoundedRationality #ExperimentalPsychology

🚨 New research alert! 🧠 Our study shows that task-irrelevant vibrotactile stimuli can disrupt short-term memory for visually-presented verbal items. The interference is produced by conflicting amodal serial-ordering processes.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20445911.2023.2198065

#MemoryResearch #CognitiveScience 🧐 #Neuroscience 🧬 #Psychology 🧑‍🔬 #ExperimentalPsychology 🔬

We are looking for a few more participants to help us complete our digital detectives study!

If you’re interested in websleuthing on social media or eyewitness memory take part here:

http://experiment.citizenforensics.org

Please boost @arosha
@tinafriedakeil

#forensic
#CognitivePsychology
#ExperimentalPsychology
#cognitive
#eyewitness
#bystander
#SocialMedia
#websleuting
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#DigitalDetective

Huh. The PsychoPy "tips" are getting weird...

#psychology #experiment #experimentalpsychology #research #psychopy #psych #psychoacoustics #hearingresearch

Belated intro but here it is!

This is ShuYun! A human-shaped crystallisation product of emotions and thoughts trapped in clouds☁️

I am currently a #PhD student in #experimentalpsychology (trying to work out what I am..) And my research interests are:

#Psychology #cogsci #causalcognition #folkpsychology

#linguistics #semantics

#philosophy #daoism #wangyangming #moral

Apart from research I also play #arknights !! and I watch #LEC 😍

Hello everyone, here's my not so original #introduction:

I'm Aurelio, I am a research fellow in #ExperimentalPsychology and #CognitiveNeuroscience @YorkPsychology.

My research is mainly focused on: #VisionScience, #VisualPerception, #VisualCognition, #TimePerception, #Metacognition and #IndividualDifferences.

Preferred #Methods: #Psychophysics, #MEG, #EEG #pupillometry and #Computational Modeling.

I am particularly interested in studying temporal deficits in #clinical populations.

@kaitclark Thanks for this useful resource! Would love to be added with keywords #memory #forgetting #neuroscience #ExperimentalPsychology

Good morning, #Mastodonian #experimentalpsychology friends ---

Note that @CJEP is not only by and for #Canadians..

Scientists outside #Canada are welcome to both read/cite our papers, and to submit great empirical and review articles to us (including #RegisteredReports).

Canadian Experimental Psychology, including @CJEP, strives to be global, inclusive, and a source of excellent science!