#Behavioral

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

this is partly prompted by Trump but also not really exclusive to him: people lack good mental models for adversaries that are neither totally stupid or omnipotent. and in particular

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

ruthbenghiat

Thread. Of the 14 essays I published in 2020 (along with #Strongmen), I highlight this June @CNN piece about Trump's efforts to make journalists political enemies. My greatest thanks to

Dear Pandemic

DearPandemic

1/ New series: Meet Those Nerdy Girls! First up, co-founder Dr. Alison Buttenheim. @abuttenheim is an Associate Professor at Penn School of Nursing, where she teaches & studies human behavior

dakkodas⭐⭐⭐

dakkodas

Know Thy Enemy, Cont...So...how is it that so many people "THE MASSES" get sucked in to BS from the corrupt elite? Time to "B WOKE" up so U can B

Voyageurs Wolf Project

VoyaWolfProject

Big news! Today we published the first-ever in-depth study of wolf ambushing behavior! By identifying 748 spots where wolves waited-in-ambush for beavers, we show how wolf choose ambushing locations that

FactsMan

BallenCBTech

#Orwell wrote b4 computers, but if he was writing today #BigBrother would just be an AI at the core of the #CCP's mass surveillance and social credit systems. You don't

Jock Cartier

JockCartier

I see the CFL on PPV loons have decided to start whipping themselves into a frenzy again. They seem to be convinced that PPV is the ticket to riches for

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

What reduces economic activity: (i) the virus leading people to choose to distance or (ii) government required distancing.Research on services in March/April has found it is much more (i) than

Neoliberal 🌐

ne0liberal

A quick thread about why I believe election models are better than betting markets:The simplest answer: political prediction markets are sometimes just bad, full stop. See research:http://bjll.org/index.php/jpm/article/view/1796 If you read

Deramin

otdderamin

Honestly, there's a lot of Critters who need to hear this, too, because they DEFINITELY participate in toxic stan culture & they're ruining fandom. You'd think they'd take the hint

Jonas R. Kunst

KunstJonas

For decades, post-viral physical symptoms have been trivialized as psychological. Based on shaky empirical grounds, people have been left with CBT as their only treatment option. Now it is COVID19

Brennan Schlagbaum, CPA

Budgetdog_

For the twenty years ending 12/31/2015...The S&P 500 Index averaged 9.85% a year.The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 5.19%. Why is that? A thread.

A Friend of a Friend

spctculrspcul8r

Great read that sheds light on the long term data strategy, and a few recent patents from $SPOT, written by Spotify engineers.https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/files/2020/10/Linking-Music-Listening-on-Spotify-and-Personality.pdf@howard

Dr. Thrasher, jouRNAlist

thrasherxy

A central problem of this moment is a lack of sociology education. Sociology helps us understand how ppl behave as we do—why we wanna hug & connect, why we dislike

Alessandro Gozzi

Gozzi_Ale

Out in @NPP_Journal our investigation of how cholinergic M1/M4 stimulation (as well as NMDAR antagonism) affect brain connectivity. Full texthttp://rdcu.be/ccO0r https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-00916-0Some "take-home&qu

NBC News

NBCNews

As the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic increases, it is leaving a growing path of children who have lost parents in its wake. https://nbcnews.to/3iFDkD3 #NBCNewsThreads (1/10) Some of these children

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