OOOH, a pre-registration template aimed specifically for process tracing by the excellent @drnikkisullivan.bsky.social 👀 www.cos.io/blog/introdu...

Introducing the Eye Tracking Preregistration Template: Q&A with Libby Jenke and Nicolette Sullivan

Libby Jenke and Nicolette Sullivan created the Eye Tracking Preregistration Template, now available on the OSF, to guide researchers in decisions that precede data collection in eye tracking studies.

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The Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Behavioral Marketing. For more information and to apply: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05419 Applications will be accepted through September 8, 2026.

Assistant Professor – Behavioral Marketing – Haas School of Business

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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My friend is teaching to his Economics Ph.D. students and explaining why they should be interested in topics that are not in their subfield. The friend asked for statements about why learning from other fields is good. Here was my answer: " Five things:

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

Oil prices are most greatly affected by OPEC, inventory & geopolitics, but most consumers say gas prices affect their view of the economy. One reason is likely the way gas prices are displayed, on huge, neon signs. #UMich prof @scottianrick.bsky.social via @marketplace.org 🔗: https://myumi.ch/3RAgV

Today's SJDM Featured Paper is: Sun, C., Cryder, C., & Rick, S. (2025). A Co-Branding Conundrum: Consumers Underuse Co-Branded Credit Cards Outside of Their Featured Brands. SSRN. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=449...

It’s been described to me as ‘write something, so you have something to change’

Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s true. If I had learned this… I dunno, 35 years ago?… I’d have had a very different writing career.

Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI: gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...

Tversky Neural Networks

Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity

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After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers. Here is an example. (I will not share the identity of the paper)

Pasquale Minervini@neuralnoise.com · last yr.

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

✨New Working Paper!!✨ (w/ Cindy Cryder and @scottianrick.bsky.social) Using real credit card transactions and scenario experiments, we find people restrict their use of co-branded credit cards within featured brands, hurting both cardholders and card issuers. 🧵1/5 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

At the CredibilityLab (currently hosting Aspredicted and Researchbox) we have a new platform in the works, AsCollected, that will help with this. We welcome input from experienced parties. Signup for alpha or beta testing or announcement of release at AsCollected.Org

Really proud of this new work out @psychscience.bsky.social. Led by the amazing but bluesky-less Amanda Geiser and with @deborahsmall.bsky.social. We show that when comparing moral wrongs, people are (much) more willing to “scale up” than to “scale down” condemnation and punishment…

Why is that?

If you think you have a novel idea about Prospect Theory I invite you to check it against this 2,869 page bibliography personal.eur.nl/wakker/refs/...

Statement on academic freedom, diversity, equity and inclusion at the Journal of Consumer Research: consumerresearcher.com/academic-fre...

Academic Freedom, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Journal of Consumer Research - Journal of Consumer Research

The Journal of Consumer Research (JCR) is an independent academic journal that remains dedicated to improving academic freedom, diversity, equity,

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Also the way I accept free cookies in my seminar lunch box

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · last yr.

I accept cookies the way I accept fate: blindly and with mild concern.

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss

Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.

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Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta@obumbratta.com · 2y ago

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

In light of the latest plane crash news, this seems relevant again. www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

How odd is a cluster of plane crashes?

In the space of eight days, three passenger planes have been lost in mid-flight - how unusual is a cluster of this kind?

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A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last yr.

Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!

I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!

As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.

TIL Abraham Wald, who famously worked on selection bias in assessing aircraft damage, died in a plane crash :(

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

Just used Gemini Live to participate in a beh. experiment without even reading the instructions or speaking the language. LLMs acting as participants on platforms like Prolific could pollute data meant to study humans. With OpenAI’s operator model, this issue is growing. 🎥👇 youtu.be/NujyGZSA7Hg

Participating in a behavioral experiment with Gemini Live

YouTube video by Tobias Werner

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Karl: “Let me in, I don’t want to miss #Caturday!” Pippin: “You fool, it’s only Friday.”

That is quite a shift “The number of unsigned editorials has gone from three a day…to just one a week” www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times

The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.

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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

My ✨New Paper✨ (w/ Robyn LeBoeuf) is out in JEP: General! We find a robust discrepancy between people’s prediction and their own likelihood judgment. 1/n🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

All learning of statistics and econometrics is learning that we live in a house of sticks

Rafe Meager (they/them)@economeager.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sometimes you have to write “Truth and Probability” just because Margaret won’t fuck with you. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...

Our lack of good deep psychological measures of human creativity, reasoning, empathy, etc. is really a problem in AI right now. A lot of tests that were "good enough" for human research (RAT for creativity, Seeing the Mind in The Eyes for empathy) are not robust enough to be benchmarks for AI.