A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: Major tech firms like Google and Facebook are investing heavily in behavioral science, and compared with academia, they boast greater resources and face much less red tape. This begs the question does the future of social science lie in the private sector? (Harvard […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: Michael Graziano, who we featured in a Q&A this week, explains in Aeon how one might build a conscious brain. In an intriguing thought experiment, Graziano details his Attention Schema theory, which might make you rethink the way you think. (Aeon) Give a chimpanzee […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: The New York Times made public a 542-page report Friday detailing new revelations about the collusion of top APA representatives with CIA officials on their Bush-era program of enhanced interrogation. Following the report’s release, the APA issued an apology for their “organizational failures,” […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: The Behavioral Science and Policy Association released its first issue of the Behavioral Science and Policy Journal. Check out Volume 1 Issue 1. (Behavioral Science and Policy Association) Amazon announced a substantial increase in price for their Mechanical Turk research platform, set to […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: What are you feelings about the word “moist”? If you’re like a lot of people, you think it’s weirdly sexual and would like to see it stricken from the dictionary. Psychologists are getting closer to understanding why. (Nautilus) A classic case of maximizing. […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: How can you understand what it’s like to be someone you’re not? Many would suggest that you try to take the perspective of that person, that you walk a mile in their shoes. But as Paul Bloom points out, taking another’s perspective isn’t […]
