#Behavioral

How do you FEEL about the periodic table of the elements?How do you FEEL about gravity?How do you FEEL about magnets used to create/utilize electricity?How do you FEEL about the
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for the longest time now, psychology has had a chip on its shoulder about being a feminine-coded 'soft science' such that it became obsessed with only studying things that it
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1. Let's stop thinking of ourselves as alumni of this or that particular college. Let's regard ourselves as alumni of American higher education and reward and support outstanding programs in
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The new Psychotherapy Research Special Issue on Machine Learning begins with a primer by Jaime Delgadillo @iapt_prn on machine learning for psychotherapy researchers: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10503307.2020.1859638 https:
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In this time of preventable death, a sobering statistic I learned today. We are tracking a group of young men surveyed 10 years ago in Liberia. Mostly youth involved in
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With its 3D render revealed on the weekend, I am pleased to talk more about the paleobiology of Agate Spring’s most common ungulate. Menoceras, a unique mini rhinoceros, illustrates the
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#econtwitter, I have a story to tell you about misusing a behavioral econ commitment device to make classical threats. The year is 2011, and I'm running a university debate tournament
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THREAD:I've discovered something about billionaire oil investor and GOP donor Toby Neugebauer who funded and led the pro-Cruz Keep The Promise II PAC in 2015/16.He's also on the board of
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New Year's Resolutions are broken. They're arbitrary. They're unrealistic. They're impractical. Here is why you should be careful setting resolutions. Time for a thread 1/ First, let me confess.I
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"I ignore the behavior, not the child, because the child is attention-seeking" means "If I think the child is desperately seeking human connection, I refuse to cooperate." Here is an
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Why $HEC/Talkspace, the leading digital and virtual behavioral healthcare company, is a sleeping giant with massive upside potential!- Proprietary tech- Massive B2B opportunities - Heavy backers + top MGMT- Already
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Let's recap what's going on with the budget right now 2 weeks ago, Chairman Mendelson proposed (at 6PM the night before the vote) an advertising tax that raised about $18M
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In many circles in San Francisco, if you don't think President Trump is an absolute piece of shit, you lose status. And people think you are less than intelligent. And
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yes, algorithms carry values and those values can promote ignorance, intolerance, and, harm. consider a supervised learning algorithm where instances are people. if using empirical risk minimization, errors for individuals
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A follow up to yesterday's controversial thread on societal behavior, population immunity and Rt to specifically address issue of what fraction of the population in Florida, Texas and Arizona may
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This was a landmark piece of legislation, and yet it still falls short of providing true protections from discrimination
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