#Behavioral

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

Our new @COVIDActionGrp open letter to President Elect @JoeBiden 7 Actions to start now: 1. Conduct daily national briefings with clear messaging on how citizens can stop transmission and be

Rays The Roof Network

RaysTheRoofTB

NEW PODCAST ALERT The 12th offseason podcast of Rays The Roof is here!! A big thanks to our special guest @MLB_Hannah for coming on and forwarding the conversation on mental

Wizzie 🇨🇦

eacanada

On Tuesday, 2/2, NH's House Education Committee has a public hearing on HB20 -- a bill to create the most expansive school voucher program in the country. Hey, #NHPolitics let's

Pat Savage

PatrickESavage

Why are sea shanties going viral on TikTok? A thread from the perspective of musicology / psychology / cultural evolution.TL;DR: it's a perfect example of music's power to create social

Moriarty 3.0

MoriartyProfJ3

Dear @SirGrahamBrady, as a consequence of the disastrous policies of this Government with regard to the health emergency, I have no option but to state that I have no confidence

Gad Saad

GadSaad

EVERY single day for the past four years, I have watched innumerable academics engage in the most insulting characterizations of @realDonaldTrump. I never sought to "altruistically punish" them by reporting

Mark Packard

mdpackard

What's different about the 'Austrian' school of economics? Perhaps the most fundamental difference is a belief in subjective, rather than objective, rationality. But what does this mean? [A thread] Homo

Deirdre Tobias, ScD

deirdre_tobias

The DPP: $Huge NIH-funded trial (N=3200) in the 1990s. Conclusion: randomized diet/lifestyle significantly reduced T2D more than metformin or placebo. Big 58% reduction. The diet? Reduce total fat as much

Martha Crawford

shrinkthinks

I think that the level of greed, ruthlessless, manipulativeness, deceit and dominance that has been in power has unconsciously normalized those impulses through the population, so that many who would

shira has OCD and ADHD

shiraisinspired

So many people don’t realize that they have OCD because actual obsessive compulsive disorder is rarely talked about openly. So here are the basics: (thread) I think that a lot

Alex Imas

alexoimas

I am not an epidemiologist or a virologist. But it terms of people adhering to public health measures, from a behavioral science perspective it seems *really* important that policy makers

Ari Schulman

AriSchulman

538's track record is statistically very good. The problem is with applying statistics at all. Odds help us make sense of similar, repeatable events. They do not bear much intelligible

Rada

WinterRada

Limbic Imprinting effects us all and why it is SO important how we bring children into the world. Evil people designed a system of birth that traumatizes us all, and

Paolo G. Piacquadio

pgpiacquadio

Normative economics developed around two approaches:- Choosing (C) identifies how society ought to choose for each situation in some domain;- Ranking (R) identifies how society ought to rank alternatives in

Eva Cantor, Water-Boiling Economist

PoRiverJamBand

Gonna chime in here as a behavioral economist and say this is ABSOLUTELY part of the design of these games. They are absolutely designing this as a core mechanic of

The Provider

med_conscience

Welcome to my first twitter thread!Today our topic is something that plagues all of us in our life in many different ways.Goal: share valuable information about four types of anxiety

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