Job alert! #environmentalpsychology #behaviouralscience #academicchatter

@defragovuk@bird.makeup
have two posts utilising #behaviouralinsights:

(Check eligibility, might have restrictions re UK citizens/residents??)

Role 1) Strategic Behavioural Insights Team Senior Analyst
Role 2) Resources and Waste Behavioural Insights Senior Analyst
Closing date = Monday 11 September

https://civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SID=cGFnZWNsYXNzPUpvYnMmb3duZXJ0eXBlPWZhaXImc2VhcmNoc29ydD1zY29yZSZwYWdlYWN0aW9uPXZpZXd2YWNieWpvYmxpc3Qmb3duZXI9NTA3MDAwMCZ1c2Vyc2VhcmNoY29udGV4dD00Njc3NjcwMCZzZWFyY2hwYWdlPTEmam9ibGlzdF92aWV3X3ZhYz0xODcyNDUyJnJlcXNpZz0xNjkyMzY0MjY5LWY2NTk5YjU3OGU2YWM1MDIyMDA4MzIxOGNlZmFjMGY3YWU2MDMwNmM=

#behaviouralscience
#behavioraleconomics

Fabricated data in research about honesty. You can't make this stuff up. Or, can you?

"But recently, questions have arisen about whether the data Ariely and Gino relied on in their famous paper about honesty were fabricated — whether their research into honesty was itself built on lies."

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-francesca-gino-harvard-dishonesty-fabricated-data

Join Dr. Kathleen Fuller for a lively discussion on Mentza.
Time: 20 Apr, 9:00 AM CDT
Link: https://on.mentza.com/circles/59509
#anthropology #behaviouralscience #mentza #dranthtalks

I had ChatGPT use Behavioural Science to create a gun safety & responsibility campaign. Using its suggestions for "Loss Aversion for Safety,
emphasizing the potential consequences of unsafe gun use to encourage
safe handling habits," I created this post.
#chatgpt #behaviouralscience #guns #safety

I asked ChatGPT to use Behavioural Science to create a gun safety and responsiblity campaign. Based on Chat's suggestions for "Social Proof for Responsibility, showcasing positive examples of responsible gun ownership to create a positive social norm around gun safety," I created this post.
#chatgpt #behaviouralscience #guns #safety

I asked ChatGPT to use Behavioural Science to create a gun safety and responsiblity campaign. Based on Chat's suggestions for 'Nudging for Safety", I created this post.
#chatgpt #behaviouralscience #guns #safety

Six synthetic reports - four by the #IEA and two by #SEAI - on behavioural change and energy use: potential impact, obstacles, the role of policy makers, and how to best communicate to citizens.

https://blog.experientia.com/behavioural-change-to-reduce-energy-use/

#Behaviouralscience #Behaviouralchange #Sustainability #NetZero

Please boost even if this isn't for you. On Mastodon, favoriting is not like 'liking' on the other site. All it does is it tell the writer you liked it, there is no algorithm.

Trying to reach #transit #transport #publictransit #publictransport people and #BehaviouralScience #scicomm people on Mastodon

Just finished "#Transport for Humans", a readable and fun application of behavioural science to #transit problems.

Highly recommended to anyone interested or involved in #PublicTransport. Nudges, counterintuitive ideas that work and more!

*Bus routes on the side of buses*
*Information and reassurance for delays*
*Doors that close when advertised (or later) not 2 mins before posted departure time*

Full disclosure
@rorysutherland is an old friend 🙂

@TransportAction @Transport_EU @TransportOnline @transportationalternatives @transenv @TransportLab
@transitmap @transit @transitdiagrams @TransitForMD

👇Great write up from @preeti_please@twitter.com on routes into behavioural science. https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2021/08/a-guide-to-career-paths-in-behavioral-science/ #behaviouralscience #behaviouralscience #behaviourchange #jobs

RT @BSPHNetwork
When was the last time that you spent a day networking & learning about the application of #behaviouralscience within health? Now is your opportunity- #bsphn23 conference is just over a month away, and we still have some early bird tickets left. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsphn-2023-conference-using-beh-social-science-to-create-healthy-futures-tickets-440500267157

We can sum up human behavioral problems as - being unaware of, Ignoring, and denying information at their own peril.

"What is the sixth mass extinction and what can we do about it?" https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what-is-the-sixth-mass-extinction-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

Change \ adapt is what we should do about it.

In the context of human-caused climate change, my assessment, after discussing the subject & observing humans (animals) over many years, is that there is something *profoundly* incorrect with many adult behaviors. They behave as if they don't care about their "nature" because they don't know what "nature" is and are focused on other things (e.g., money)

For example, they have issues perceiving themselves for what they truly are; animals.

Think about this. An object that, breathes air, eats food, drinks water, defecates, has hair, has skin, has bones, etc. But, doesn't perceive it's an animal (homo sapiens are the only species that can perceive its an animal. e.g., because we developed science that studies what animals are)

If more humans understood what they were, they'd be more secure and want to look after their natural environments. They'd understand how "I" is dependent on caring for ecology.

Human-caused climate change is *not* the symptom of many humans that are focused on sustaining ecology (quite the opposite). In fact, mention the word & the idea of sustaining "ecology" to many people & l, more often than not, hear some incoherent babbling & moral grandstanding ("blah blah blah"). They are "stuck" in ecologically degrading "ruts" ( their social norms & values).

A toot about human-caused climate change is far more probable to be ignored, compared to a toot that advertises a get-rich scheme. It's as if (on average) humanity wants to reject "nature" & be a techno-god - living in an artificially constructed concrete zoo. Where it has dominion over the natural world. Therefore, oxymorons are the norms, not the exception.

Observe a city. Skyscrapers filled with suit-wearing (apes) humans that are doing nothing but making money out of money (banking, hedge funds, etc). Making money by "investing" money into industries that degrade ecology. So, for example, power stations burn more fuel to power office buildings. Essentially, humanity has lost its way because it never found it. To reiterate, only humans have the (present) potential to realize what they are (biology) and what they exist within (ecology)

If l was to write that the reason l began to study the science of psychology, was because l realized something was "off" with the average human, many humans (average) would criticize me for expressing that, rather than consider the truth (denial).

In the culture where I live, if l challenge the average humans, for example, smoke polluting activities, they rant that l am the problem (their reaction to their ignorance being challenged is denial). Saying the truth to ignorance is fraught with ignorance-based responses. Saying the truth to a corrupt "power" is fraught with immoral responses.

For example, corrupt ecocidal governments would much rather suppress climate activists. Eco-degrading and insincere governments don't respond honestly or fair (quite the opposite) to the people that challenge their eco-degrading decision-making. And in eco-degrading cultures, many of the people are the government's pawns - who promote the eco-degrading agendas. And readily accept greenwash because that disinformation aligns with their eco-degrading personal agendas (lifestyles).

For instance, the truth is that air-polluting activities are a bad (unhealthy) idea. Too many children have developed asthma! (there are myriads of air pollution-related diseases) - because their parents have made ill-informed decisions. And the adults deny that they're the problem - even whilst they sit around campfires whilst on holiday (as one common example in the UK). The greenwashing wood fuel industries simply tell the consumers what they want to hear (guilt-free air-polluting activities)

They vehemently don't want to hear the facts. Ironically, their forms of optimism blind them from accommodating the medical evidence that would if acted on, make their present and future healthier (& our cultures more eco-sustainable)

What's right? about many Humans taking part, & in fact in many examples promoting & making excuses for, their air polluting activities? Or their plastic-polluting activities? where they can't even be bothered, for example, to use non-plastic alternatives such as solid soap, rather than bottled soap.

If the average was different; if the average person was motivated to breathe clean air - our cultures would be different. Human-caused climate change would not be a problem. Many humans would not be the problem. They'd be part of an ecologically sustainable planet. The planet's ecology is sustainable without humans being part of it. Can it be sustainable in the context of human activities (& their egos?) The planet's ecology can't adapt to support human ideologies. Therefore, humans need to adapt, to transition towards ecologically sustainable cultures. Or the inevitable will happen (physics).

Whilst humans may have a "fighting spirit", if we fight against ourselves and "nature", we will fail catastrophically. That would be extremely ignorant - considering that there is an alternative direction of travel.

Humans, on average, are degrading their environments because of themselves. The activities they do. The politicians they vote for - because they are similar to them. The greenwashing industries they promote because they sell them what they want and say, what they want to hear (e.g., guilt-free polluting)

Money-seeking politicians, industry "leaders", etc, are nothing special - the culture enables them.

For a culture to adapt to be ecologically sustainable, it will need to be intelligent (ecology) and care about sustaining its ecology. Do that! Anything less is really very stupid (considering). And let's be honest, people such as Putin et al. are *really* very stupid people (even if like-minded folk believe their cunning "leaders"). Some "leaders" are not in that position because their clever. They coerced their way to the "top" using deception (lies, etc)

In theory, we have the potential to do much better, in practice, in the culture l live in, most people are the opposite of prudent. They don't have a sense for breathing in clean air, but they do have a sense for ignoring & making excuses for their air-polluting activities (other culture's senses do vary)

Ironically, they don't want to perceive the truth, because the truth is - the problem is them (their ignorance, their apathy, their governments).

#science #ecology #biology #evolution #psychology #mainstream #BehaviouralScience #business #news #tv #politics #money #status #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis #human

We can sum up human behavioral problems as - being unaware of, Ignoring, and denying information at their own peril.

"What is the sixth mass extinction and what can we do about it?" https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what-is-the-sixth-mass-extinction-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

Change \ adapt is what we should do about it.

In the context of human-caused climate change, my assessment, after discussing the subject & observing humans (animals) over many years, is that there is something *profoundly* incorrect with many adult behaviors. They behave as if they don't care about their "nature" because they don't know what "nature" is and are focused on other things (e.g., money)

For example, they have issues perceiving themselves for what they truly are; animals.

Think about this. An object that, breathes air, eats food, drinks water, defecates, has hair, has skin, has bones, etc. But, doesn't perceive it's an animal (homo sapiens are the only species that can perceive its an animal. e.g., because we developed science that studies what animals are)

If more humans understood what they were, they'd be more secure and want to look after their natural environments. They'd understand how "I" is dependent on caring for ecology.

Human-caused climate change is *not* the symptom of many humans that are focused on sustaining ecology (quite the opposite). In fact, mention the word & the idea of sustaining "ecology" to many people & l, more often than not, hear some incoherent babbling & moral grandstanding ("blah blah blah"). They are "stuck" in ecologically degrading "ruts" ( their social norms & values).

A toot about human-caused climate change is far more probable to be ignored, compared to a toot that advertises a get-rich scheme. It's as if (on average) humanity wants to reject "nature" & be a techno-god - living in an artificially constructed concrete zoo. Where it has dominion over the natural world. Therefore, oxymorons are the norms, not the exception.

Observe a city. Skyscrapers filled with suit-wearing (apes) humans that are doing nothing but making money out of money (banking, hedge funds, etc). Making money by "investing" money into industries that degrade ecology. So, for example, power stations burn more fuel to power office buildings. Essentially, humanity has lost its way because it never found it. To reiterate, only humans have the (present) potential to realize what they are (biology) and what they exist within (ecology)

If l was to write that the reason l began to study the science of psychology, was because l realized something was "off" with the average human, many humans (average) would criticize me for expressing that, rather than consider the truth (denial).

In the culture where I live, if l challenge the average humans, for example, smoke polluting activities, they rant that l am the problem (their reaction to their ignorance being challenged is denial). Saying the truth to ignorance is fraught with ignorance-based responses. Saying the truth to a corrupt "power" is fraught with immoral responses.

For example, corrupt ecocidal governments would much rather suppress climate activists. Eco-degrading and insincere governments don't respond honestly or fair (quite the opposite) to the people that challenge their eco-degrading decision-making. And in eco-degrading cultures, many of the people are the government's pawns - who promote the eco-degrading agendas. And readily accept greenwash because that disinformation aligns with their eco-degrading personal agendas.

For instance, the truth is that air-polluting activities are a bad (unhealthy) idea. Too many children have developed asthma! - because their parents have made ill-informed decisions. And the adults deny that they're the problem - even whilst they sit around campfires whilst on holiday (as one common example in the UK). The greenwashing wood fuel industries simply tell the consumers what they want to hear (guilt-free air-polluting activities)

They vehemently don't want to hear the facts. Ironically, their forms of optimism blind them from accommodating the medical evidence that would if acted on, make their present and future healthier (& our cultures more eco-sustainable)

What's right? about many Humans taking part, & in fact in many examples promoting & making excuses for, their air polluting activities? Or their plastic-polluting activities? where they can't even be bothered, for example, to use non-plastic alternatives such as solid soap, rather than bottled soap.

If the average was different if the average person was motivated to breathe clean air - our cultures would be different. Human-caused climate change would not be a problem. Many humans would not be the problem. They'd be part of an ecologically sustainable planet. The planet's ecology is sustainable without humans being part of it. Can it be sustainable in the context of human activities? The planet's ecology won't change to support human ideologies. Therefore, humans need to adapt, to transition towards ecologically sustainable cultures. Or the inevitable will happen (physics).

Whilst humans may have a "fighting spirit" if we fight against ourselves and "nature", we will fail catastrophically. That would be extremely ignorant - considering that there is an alternative direction of travel.

Humans, on average, are degrading their environments because of themselves. The activities they do. The politicians they vote for - because they are similar to them. The greenwashing industries they promote because they sell them what they want and say what they want to hear (e.g., guilt-free polluting)

Money-seeking politicians, industry "leaders", etc, are nothing special - the culture enables them.

For a culture to adapt to be ecologically sustainable, it will need to be intelligent (ecology) and care about sustaining its ecology. Do that! Anything less is really very stupid (considering). And let's be honest, people such as Putin et al. are *really* very stupid people (even like-minded folk believe their cunning "leaders"). Some "leaders" are not in that position because their clever. They coerced their way to the "top" using deception (lies, etc)

In theory, we have the potential to do much better, in practice, in the culture l live in, most people are the opposite of prudent. They don't have a sense for breathing in clean air, but they do have a sense for ignoring & making excuses for their air-polluting activities (other culture's senses do vary)

Ironically, they don't want to perceive the truth, because the truth is - the problem is them (their ignorance, their apathy, their governments).

#science #ecology #biology #evolution #psychology #mainstream #BehaviouralScience #business #news #tv #politics #money #status #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis #human

Ignoring information at their own peril.

In the context of human caused climate change, my assessment, after discussing the subject & observing human (animals) over many years, is that there is something *profoundly* incorrect with many adult's behaviours. For example, they have issues perceiving themselves for what they truly are; animals.

Human caused climate change is *not* the symptom of many humans that are focused on sustaining ecology (quite the opposite). In fact, mention the word & the idea of sustaining "ecology" to many people & l hear some incoherent babbling & moral grandstanding ("blah blah blah"). They are "stuck" in ecologically degrading "ruts" ( their social norms & values).

A toot about human caused climate change is far more probable to be ignored, compared to a toot that advertisers a get rich scheme. It's as if (on average) humanity wants to reject "nature" & be a techno-god living in a concrete zoo where it has dominion over the natural world. Therefore, oxymorons are the norms, not the exception.

Observe a city. Sky scrapers filled with suit wearing humans that are doing nothing but making money out of money (banking, hedge funds, etc). Making money by "investing" money into industries that degrade ecology. So that, for example, the power stations burn more fuel to power the office buildings.

If l was to write that the reason l began to study the science of psychology, was because l realised something was wrong with the average human, many humans would & have critized me for expressing that, rather than consider the truth (denial).

In the culture where live, if l challenge their, for example, smoke polluting activities, they rant that l am the problem. For challenging them. For daring to say the truth. For instance, " is burning wood are bad idea? Your children already have developed asthma!". They vemently don't want to hear. Ironically, their forms of optimism, blinds them from accomading the medical evidence that would, if acted on, make their present healthier.

What's right about many Humans taking part, & in fact in many examples promoting & making excuses for, their air polluting activities? Or their plastic polluting activities where they can't even be bothered, for example, to use non plastic alternatives such as solid soap, rather than bottled soap.

Humans, on average, are degrading their environments because of themselves. The activities they do. The politicians they vote for - because they are similar to them. The greenwashing industries they promote, because they sell them what they want and say what they want to hear (e.g., guilt free polluting)

Politicians, industry "leader's", etc, are nothing special, because the culture enables them.

For a culture to adapt to be ecologically sustainable, it will need to be intelligent (ecology) and to care about sustaining it's ecology. And do that! not merely make believe that (delusion, but not doing).

In theory, we have the potential to do much better, in practice, in the culture l live in, most of the people are the opposite of prudent. They don't have a sense for breathing in clean air, they do have a sense for ignoring & making excuses for their air polluting activities (other culture's senses do vary)

#science #psychology #mainstream #BehaviouralScience #business #news #tv #politics #money #status #AirPollution #ClimateCrisis #human

RT @BvLFoundation@twitter.com

#EarlyChildhoodMatters is out now!
Behavioural science takes our imperfections in account, offering evidence-based, empathetic solutions to many caregiving challenges

#ECM2022 looks at the field of #behaviouralscience, which could revolutionise caregiving
http://bit.ly/ECM-2022-full

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BvLFoundation/status/1600853852294500352

RT @BSPHNetwork
BSPHN have early bird tickets for their 2023 annual conference. Anyone can attend this year- you don't need to be a member. Great for students to improve knowledge on #behaviouralscience approaches. Register today! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsphn-2023-conference-using-beh-social-science-to-create-healthy-futures-tickets-440500267157

RT @ResearchGermany@twitter.com

📣 The @imprs_qbee@twitter.com at @MPI_animalbehav@twitter.com invites applications for 12 #PhD positions ❗ Check it out at 👉 http://ow.ly/aro250LS38m #BehaviouralScience #Biology #ComputerScience #Engineering #Mathematics #Neuroscience #Physics #Psychology

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ResearchGermany/status/1598697313463050240

What do we know about human behaviour?
So many studies, but can we really draw conclusions?

According to @Anisha, we can't assume that we can generalize conclusions from #BehaviouralScience studies in the #GlobalNorth to situations in the #GlobalSouth.
Her project asks behavioural science experts in #EastAfrica to predict whether a study is #generalizable to their context, building a database of predictions, to be compared to predictions from experts who don't know the East African context.
👇

#Introduction:

I'm a researcher and reader/associate professor in the overlap of #CognitivePsychology and #BehaviouralScience; based at City, University of London.

I’m interested in the processes and representations underlying decisions, and policy implications thereof. Expert contributor to the #FairnessFoundation, #Guardian masterclass giver, former #BBC scientific advisor. More teaching than researching right now but love both.

Other interests in music, playwriting, coding, tech, beer.

Testing whether this post is automatically copied onto @joinmastodon@twitter.com where I am @SusanMichie. Folks, if you are interested in #BehaviouralScience, recommend checking out UCL Centre for Behaviour Change https://www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/centre-behaviour-change

@annatirion
Every time I see #behaviouralscience in turbulent times, i must think of all "watched over by machines of loving grace" and "The century of self" from
Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s&list=PLG11ccwUKOVdIMKjVByB5nmTfgoi2xeG3