Christopher Chabris
@cfchabris.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, professor, author 'Nobody's Fool' (http://bit.ly/3Wm7rCa) & 'The Invisible Gorilla,' essayist, chess master, poker player, game lover
We're still open to new applications!
Christopher Chabris@cfchabris.bsky.social · 4w ago🚨POSTDOC HIRING! Our lab in the Dept of Bioethics & Decision Sciences in Geisinger's College of Health Sci. is hiring a Postdoc in the Behavioral Science of Health-Related Beliefs, Judgment & Decision-Making. Start date asap. Can be remote from anywhere in U.S. www.michellenmeyer.com/uploads/2/2/...
Star Special Military Operations, Episode IV: A New-to-you Hope
Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: "Reasonable Expectations"
🚨POSTDOC HIRING! Our lab in the Dept of Bioethics & Decision Sciences in Geisinger's College of Health Sci. is hiring a Postdoc in the Behavioral Science of Health-Related Beliefs, Judgment & Decision-Making. Start date asap. Can be remote from anywhere in U.S. www.michellenmeyer.com/uploads/2/2/...
Today I'm thrilled to welcome Paul Han to the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences in the @geisingercollege.bsky.social at @geisinger.bsky.social. A recent Fulbright Scholar who studies medical decision-making, uncertainty, and risk communication, Dr. Han joins us from NCI/NIH.
Thank you Wilma for reading and posting about our paper!
Florian Keppeler@flokeppeler.bsky.social · 3mo ago#Wilmasreview 🐶 Wilma sniffs spring flowers with great authority, certain she can tell every scent apart. Rhododendron? 🌸 Easy. Neighbour's tulip vs. this one? No problem. Is Wilma overconfident? 😏 Turns out, at least humans are. A new study by Heck, Benjamin, Simons & Chabris 1/🧵
🚨New paper from our Behavioral Insights Team🚨: we randomized patients without activated patient portals who had new lab results to receive one of two emails emphasizing a key portal feature—immediate access to results—or to no contact beyond usual system efforts to encourage enrollment.
🚨New paper! eConsent can promote cost-effectiveness & equity in research, but how does it compare to traditional consent w/r/t informedness? In this RCT, we tested the Sage Bionetworks eConsent developed by @megdoerr.bsky.social & @wilbanks.bsky.social, used by, eg NIH All of Us & Apple ResearchKit.
In time for the @pennchibe.bsky.social meeting, our paper about how the number of alternatives influences physician decision-making. #MedSky #BehaviouralScience jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Multiple Suggested Care Alternatives and Decision-Making of PCPs
This randomized clinical trial investigates whether providing primary care physicians (PCPs) with 1 vs 2 or more appropriate treatment alternatives in a choice set has an effect on the odds that they ...
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An important set of ideas to counter the growing burden of fraudulent scientific publications: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication. The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications ...
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Very happy that our paper is officially out at Management Science! Ever wondered if on-the-job experience can mitigate ubiquitous behavioral biases? Well, wonder no more... With amazing serial co-authors @cfchabris.bsky.social and @michellemeyer.bsky.social pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...
The Effect of On-the-Job Experience on Base-Rate Neglect: Evidence from Medical Professionals | Management Science
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Psychology research finds people are often overconfident. Open questions in that work that were addressed in a cool paper studying tournament chess players. My latest for @psychtoday.bsky.social with a shout-out to @cfchabris.bsky.social and Daniel Simons. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulte...
Using Chess to Study Overconfidence
A new study on chess players explored people's overconfidence in a domain with clear measures of performance and the opportunity for people to get feedback.
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Most people are overconfident even in the face of extensive, objective performance feedback: "Overconfidence persists in tournament chess, a real-world information environment that should be inhospitable to it." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40808249/
"The Creativity Choice," a new book by @z-i-pringle.bsky.social, should be a great read for anyone interested in putting creative impulses and ideas into practice! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dr-zo...
The Creativity Choice
A “groundbreaking” (Marc Brackett) correction to the myth that creativity is a trait that you’re born with—instead, a Yale scientist proves, creativi...
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I'm very happy that Pedram Heydari, @michellemeyer.bsky.social, and I have published our study on the internal inconsistencies in the choices that laypeople and medical clinicians make about rationing scarce treatments (such as ventilators and drugs during the Covid pandemic).
Medical rationing choices of laypeople and clinicians are often illogical and inconsistent with their own stated preferences
The sudden onset, rapid spread, and later surges of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in shortages of ventilators, pharmaceuticals, and other critical resources, leaving individual clinicians to make rat...
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At Geisinger we have created a new team to conduct and publish rigorous evaluations of important health system initiatives, programs, and interventions. I'm one of the faculty co-directors of this group and I'm happy to say we have two new positions open! (1/2)
Clay Shirky on the impact of generative AI on learning: "As with calculators, there will be many tasks where automation is more important than user comprehension, but for student work, a tool that improves the output but degrades the experience is a bad tradeoff." www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...
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Today is the day! The Creativity Choice is out! Starting to see pictures in the wild. Some book bites in my latest newsletter. That I hope get people wanting to come for more: open.substack.com/pub/creativi...
The Creativity Choice is OUT!
Today is publication day for a very long project; it translates the science of what comes between an idea and the finished product, to help you get from there to here.
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If you want to work with me and an amazing team of behavioral scientists and other colleagues on improving health decisions, please consider joining our group at Geisinger as a staff scientist!
Michelle Meyer@michellemeyer.bsky.social · last yr.We’re hiring! tinyurl.com/GeisingerBIT Geisinger’s Behavioral Insights Team is looking for a new Staff Scientist. We conduct large pragmatic trials of behavioral science-informed interventions to improve health outcomes, with work published/forthcoming in Nature Hum Behav, PNAS, JAMA Netw Open 1/2
I had a great time talking last week with fellow cognitive scientist and chess master @drcanchess.bsky.social, and you can watch the whole thing! (or listen on Can's "The Chess Cognition Podcast" on your favorite podcast platform)
Dr. Can's Chess Clinic@drcanchess.bsky.social · last yr.It was an honor to host world-renowned cognitive scientist and NM Prof. Chris Chabris @cfchabris.bsky.social to explore what cognitive science teaches us about chess thinking. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag8a...
A lot to reflect on in this must-read essay by Jason Zweig about the surprising (or not surprising) death of Daniel Kahneman.
Essay | The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions
Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice.
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An accurate description and perceptive lament of just one way needless academic paperwork keeps on piling up. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
Opinion | We’re Demanding Way Too Many Documents From Job Candidates
The humanities job market is broken, but there’s one thing we can easily fix.
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Rooting out scientific fraud and deception is one of the most important things scientists can do. Finally, an authoritative guide!
A fun 2020 paper by @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher found that many students who were given a data set to analyze, along with specific questions to answer about it, failed to notice that a scatterplot of the points formed an image of a gorilla. But can AI models spot the gorilla? ...
I've been waiting for the answer to this question for a long time, but if I could have just one wish, it would be for people to stop mixing their large mammal business metaphors by saying "that's the invisible gorilla in the room." www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGEH...
The Elephant in the Room vs The Invisible Gorilla. Who wins?
YouTube video by BVOLVR (Become. Evolve. Excel)
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Pleased to see that the Yale Peabody Museum has included the invisible gorilla (by @profsimons.bsky.social and me) in their new exhibit on perception, attention, and memory! Other museums that have exhibited our work: American Museum of Natural History, Exploratorium, Wellcome Collection, & MONA.
Peabody Museum opens new neuroscience exhibit
The exhibition, entitled “Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention and Memory,” explores the history of neuroscience and the wonders of human cognition.
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I'm thrilled that our paper on base-rate neglect (BRN) and on-the-job experience (w/ @cfchabris.bsky.social and @michellemeyer.bsky.social) was just accepted at Management Science! TLDR: on-the-job experience with base-rate type problems mitigates, but does not eliminate, base-rate neglect. 1/7
Our department at the Geisinger Research Institute is adding a group of great new faculty members!
Michelle Meyer@michellemeyer.bsky.social · 2y agoThrilled to welcome 3 new faculty members to Geisinger's Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences: Stephanie Kraft, @byrdnick.com & @katesaylor.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing them continue their great work. You can read more about the department here: www.geisinger.edu/gchs/researc....
