#thinkaloud — Public Fediverse posts

Can thinking aloud accurately capture how we decide?

Nisbet & Wilson's 1977 paper famously suggested it can't.

But #NLP and #AI methods may indicate that it can:
- https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sb936m3
- https://openreview.net/forum?id=1Tny4KgGO2

#cogSci #psychology #philosophy #surveyMethods #thinkAloud #LLM

How do #pharmacists think about #prescription checking?

This #thinkAloud study recorded their thoughts as they checked!

The default strategy was pattern matching, with more reflective thinking in atypical situations.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2025.100569

#medicine #cogSci #metacognition

Can we think aloud without disrupting stream of #consciousness?

Two studies (Ns > 100) extended our results suggesting that we can — this time for DOZENS of aspects of thought!

Scientists are running out of good reasons to not use #thinkAloud protocols: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103815

What else can #psychology's #thinkAloud studies do? Design #AI!

Recording people think out loud inspired distinctions between three different types of questions: surface, testing, and deep.

So they made a series of modules (QASA) corresponding to each type: associative selection, rationale generation, and systematic composition.

The results? QASA "outperform[ed] the state-of-the-art #InstructGPT by a big margin."

https://openreview.net/forum?id=5ud0h8OXwD

#ML #LLM #processTracing #computerScience #cogSci

Hey #survey #methods colleagues,

What survey instrument or test would you be interested in testing/validating/calibrating using #thinkAloud protocols?

We can quickly and easily train people to read and think all of their (conscious) thoughts aloud and then record them take an #onlineSurvey (which automatically transcribes their speech into text).

This can reveal alot about the order, accessibility, and articulability of what they're thinking during our surveys (e.g., https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341131477_Tell_Us_What_You_Really_Think_A_think_aloud_protocol_analysis_of_the_verbal_cognitive_reflection_test).