#AI Explainers or Visual Aids: which is better for improving tricky #health decisions? Compared to unassisted reflection, people corrected far more faulty intuitions about #healthcare if each re-appraisal included one round of help from a #chatbot, a #visualization, or both. 🧵

A recent #NIH change that — at first glance — I like.

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 7d ago

Letters of collaboration should be limited to stating the intent to collaborate or provide material support as described in the application and should not contain endorsements or additional information about or evaluations of the proposed project. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Yes. People still ask.

Why might some workers perform better? A thesis found reflective thinking predicted #job performance above and beyond #intelligence and conscientiousness: ir.library.illinoiss... Reflection even moderated the relationship between #IQ and performance! #IOPsych #Hiring #Work #AI

What appeared to reduce #anxiety disorders and symptoms most in a recent #MetaAnalysis? #ResistanceTraining It had better effects and certainty ratings than #CBT, treatment-as-usual, #aerobics, and several other common interventions. BMJ #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1136/bmjs...

Do people realize the latest evidence still suggests #exercise is about as effective as #psychotherapy and #antidepressants for treating #depression (and may result in fewer adverse events)? Recent review:: doi.org/10.1002/1465... Summary: www.psychologytoday.... #MentalHealth

Sobering: initial trials with huge effect, large follow-up trial showing no evidence for an effect. But practice is already locked in and criticism is defused by pointing to random effects meta-analyses which are necessarily dominated by the initial trials. polypharmacy.substack.com/p/we-should-...

We should stop running clinical trials that cannot change practice

The case of prazosin for PTSD nightmares and the PACT trial

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Glad to see #pragmatism advancing arguments and evidence about #intuition and #reflection. I've applied it to - #CogSci and #metaphilosophy broadly: doi.org/10.1111/meta... - #AI and #PhilMind: doi.org/10.48550/arX... A new paper extends it to #Sociology: doi.org/10.1111/jtsb...

“Is it a #Substack or is it a REAL #blog?” –A Colleague The implication immediately resonated, but perhaps I just started blogging on earlier platforms such as #Wordpress, #Blogger, etc. What is TRUE #blogging to you?

Why do events run out of #plantBased food and have leftover #meat? Cuz #vegan meals are often more appetizing! I don't blame omnivores who leave the meat and grab the lentils, quinoia, peppers, olives, greens, etc. It's time catering defaulted to vegan: https://qr.ae/pF4hae

Postdoc. in our dept., and from anywhere in the U.S. 👇

Michelle Meyer@michellemeyer.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨POSTDOC HIRING: Our lab in the Dept. of Bioethics & Decision Sciences in Geisinger's College of Health Sciences is hiring a Postdoct in the Behavioral Science of Health-Related Beliefs, Judgment & Decision-Making. Start date is asap. Can be remote from anywhere in U.S. tinyurl.com/MeyerChabris...

Are critical thinking and reflective thinking the same? Nope. I've argued that not all reflective thinking is critical: doi.org/10.5840/resp... And Nadurak argues that not all critical thinking is reflective (Type 2): doi.org/10.22329/il.... #cogSci #PhilMind #epistemology #AI

🤬 U.S. retirees don't get a fair share of #SocialSecurity, etc.—"for #Medicare [they get] TRIPLE what they paid in." Jessica Riedl adds, "the math doesn’t work": freakonomics.com/podcast/ten-... #USA spends more on retired welfare recipients of these programs than on any other federal budget item!

Opinion Today@opiniontoday.bsky.social · last mo.

The High-Stakes Effort to Repair the American Retirement System: Things look bleak for would-be retirees, especially the youngest workers. But policymakers are starting to pay attention. (Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ-unlocked) www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

Is #Amazon going to sunset #mTurk? As of July 30 2026, #AWS will no longer accept new customers (requestors). "Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal." docs.aws.amazon.com/... #cogSci #psychology #xPhi #AI #tech #news #crowdWork #gigWork #surveyResearch

Thanks to the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of #Religion for letting me remotely present to their conference in Czechia not-yet-published meta-analyses of studies of #atheism and reflection across languages. #IACESR iacesr.com/conferences

New paper out! 🎉 “Godlessness in the Land of Gods: Unravelling Atheism in a Hindu Context” We interviewed 75 Hindus across caste groups and two linguistic communities in India and found that atheism is far from uniform. 🔗: secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.... @aiyanakoka.bsky.social

“If AI replaces RAs, lab students, or the student side of joint production, then one thing that disappears is not just labor. It is a training environment.” I didn’t see a solution to this this grad. student training problem, but this post clearly explains the problem for various training models.

Jason Fletcher@jasonmfletcher.bsky.social · last mo.

PhD student training in the age of AI: "Coach" vs "Lab" models open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...

I'm at #Duke to share methods and results from Socratic Reflection experiments to the Advances in Decision Analysis #conference: #2026ADA website: conferences.fuqua.du... Follow the URL below for our results and my posts about other talks or posters I see. #cogSci #xPhi #AI

Can 3-6 year-olds distinguish between reliable vs. unreliable informants? A study of 93 #kids found the children were sensitive to source reliability, with limited abilities to generalize across contexts. doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #devPsych #cogSci #epistemology #xPhi #parenting

Seven years ago, John Bickle made a prediction about how experimental philosophy would evolve: - Ever less revolutionary rhetoric about transforming all of philosophy - Ever more detailed technical work on specific questions Do you think he was right? [H/T @franzroman.bsky.social]

Do people process #ChatGPT recommendations lazily or reflectively? Three randomized experiments manipulated #AI output order, errors, and alleged reliability. Users showed a “first‑is‑best” #bias — less so when warned about the unreliability of #LLMs. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

What do you make of these #book titles? 👇 - Leave the Lights On: https://amzn.to/4uNEm3D - Eat Your Ice Cream: https://amzn.to/4xmVuiU - The Good Enough Job: https://amzn.to/4ojlmrQ What do they say about our era or culture? How might books about other topics adopt this frame?

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The Precision #PublicHealth Network held its #conference this week. The recordings are already available: www.precisionpublich... There are lots of sessions about #genomics, #cancer screening, and #populationHealth. Kudos to PPHN for accessible conferencing! #WFH #medicine

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Join the Precision Public Health Network at leading industry conferences. We share our latest research, showcase innovative programs like TIGER, and engage in global dialogue to bridge the gap between genomics and public health action.

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#Apple announced #iPhones will soon let women get “notifications when their cycle patterns are suggestive of #perimenopause [and] to log symptoms and read #education information, ‘so you can understand … and be better prepared to talk to your doctor.’”

Apple's Health app can now tell you if you're in perimenopause | TechCrunch

Cycle tracker will now notify women when their cycle patterns are suggestive of perimenopause.

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I'm at #Harvard for #BSPA2026 sharing new #bioethics results about identity, #law, and #medicine. I'll post more from BSPA on Bluesky. Our poster: Intuitions about a real #neurology case implied #PhineasGage effects may be more about point-of-view and physicality than morality.

PAPER OUT NOW! Zeb Jamrozik, George Heriot and I argue doctors should prescribe shorter courses of antibiotics: longer treatments usually offer no additional benefit while increasing harms to patients and public health. Read it in AJOB www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Similar to what we find in our Socratic reflection experiments (www.researchgate.net...), group discussion improved #fakeNews recognition but solitary reflection did not: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #edu #teaching #journalism #debate #news #socialMedia

Do logical visual aids (such as Venn diagrams) improve argument evaluation? Not in this study of 164 English speakers (with "normal or corrected-to-normal vision and no issues seeing color"). diglib.eg.org/handle... #logic #teaching #edu #visualization #CogSci #learningScience

The book title 'Thinking Fast and Slow' may make you expect more careful, rational responses to take longer. Yet another paper finds the reflective thinking is not necessarily slower (or even less efficient) — this time in a sample of over 60,000 choices: doi.org/10.3390/bs16...

What do people mean by 'critical thinking'? #English-speakers associated #criticalThinking with words like 'analysis', #logic and 'problem solving', but #French-speakers exhibited a "less pragmatic conception of CT (they barely mention problem solving)". doi.org/10.1111/theo...